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The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

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691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Saudi civil defense: threat over in eastern region and Kharj governorate

1/ Holy shit, this woman who earns less than $50K is spending her nights and weekends finding furniture for NYC public housing residents, aka God's work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Republicans, they're not like us.

How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court rejected DOJ's extraordinary request to bypass the district court in its effort to bar California from counting the ballots of around 20,000 people the Trump administration alleges are “likely” noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I hear the discomfort in my Jewish circles about Abdul El-Sayed. So I wanted to address it directly. I have known @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for a long time. He is committed to fighting for working people + justice & making life more affordable for all. www.instagram.com/reel/De4kpU3...

Bears repeating: the house philosopher for half of Silicon Valley and JD Vance is a racist who hates democracy

Obama lives rent free in Trump’s head. Always has. Always will. Besides this being the ‘gayest midterms’ ever (according to Jesse), Trump saying ‘I don’t give a damn. We’re making a fortune’ when stock trading more in 1 day than Pelosi did in 12 years, is what voters are hearing from the President.

This shit is so pitiful because you know Bessent would never normally enter a chain restaurant

Remains possibly the worst spokesperson for anything, at any time

Every time I look at data like this I'm baffled all over again by the extreme Democratic underinvestment in CD3 relative to CD5. If anything can explain spending 5X the money to flip a district that after all that $$ is *still* twice as R-leaning as CD3 was four years ago, I have yet to hear it.

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

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Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof.bsky.social) is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. He was born in Kyiv in 1969. About the Ukraine war, readers have learned a great deal from him. In a podcast, I have put some key questions to him. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/ukraine-at...

In Iowa, the Republican gubernatorial candidate actually lives in Kansas and appears to be fully financially dependent on his wife's family (she's from the Koch Brothers family), while his lieutenant governor candidate is fully dependent on his parents, who are suing hm for $275,000 in unpaid rent.

The Trump administration's $25bn Polar LNG project on Alaska's North Slope will be turned over to a Kremlin proxy, the Financial Times and New York Times report, quoting former Exxon executives. For Alaska voters, this is the big October surprise as they head for the polls.

Uh…

The allegations against Donald Trump for sexual assault seem to have a common denominator: He is physically violent and intentionally inflicts pain on his victims. He likes to slam women and girls up against doors and walls as he roughly manhandles them. Donald Trump is a sick and twisted person.

🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay. The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power.

(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated ​his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and ‌saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee .. had not awarded him a Peace ​Prize. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Hope it was worth it @billmaher Trump also mocks Maher for forcing his audience to laugh at his bad jokes — guess Trump’s right about something after all🙃

The Cleveland Plain Dealer doesn't make political endorsements, but they're making an exception in the governor's race this year: "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

GOLDMAN: “.. we are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. .. the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth ..”

A report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein included new details from a young Swiss woman raped by Trump in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, whose meeting was arranged by Jeffrey Epstein. time.com/article/2026...

Simon & Shuster has responded to Jared Kushner's threats by accelerating the release of Matt Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early (today). Buy your copy immediately. www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

great context on the serbia news here -- gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Israel is just 2 days away from a critical election, and thousands of protesters are filling the streets of Tel Aviv demanding Netanyahu’s removal! They’re demanding accountability for October 7 security failures and an independent commission of inquiry.

Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

While you were so worried Socialism would take away your freedoms… Capitalism stole your pension, took your savings, sent your jobs overseas, robbed you of health care, dismantled the educational system, & put you in debt… Stop listening to a con man criminal fool, and things will get better. 😎🇺🇸✨

Another stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian students voted out their authoritarian leadership after months of protests against corruption, taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box and turning people power into political power.

House Judiciary Democrats have released a 50-page report examining Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, including accounts involving 11 women and a new rape allegation that the White House denies. With just 8 days until the midterms, the report is raising explosive new questions.

Elon Musk uses ties with other tech bro media monopolists and raw cash payments to successfully suppress distribution of Alex Gibney's explosive documentary "Musk." After TikTok Suspended Its Account for Two Days, the Elon Musk Documentary is Almost Gone From Theaters, and Musk

GURMAN: “.. iPhone Duo screen-cracking issue is real. .. the company is investigating. Several people have sent me images and stories of their new $2000 device breaking within hours.” @markgurman.bsky.social $AAPL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

South Carolina's former governors Jim Hodges, a Democrat, and David Beasley, a Republican, shoot a joint 60-second ad endorsing Annie Andrews for Senate. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ5...

Congratulations Brazil, you didn’t Trump yourselves. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

EL-SAYED: "I get that the President of the United States takes personal offense to my first name - he doesn't mind as much when it's a shared name from the Saudis that are funding his son in laws private equity. Mercado Media

As Trump boasts about how much money the fossil fuels industry is making from the war on Iran, his personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5–$81.6 million, up from $12.6–$46 million at the end of 2025. He's personally profiting from the war, just as he said in the campaign rally.

John Oliver: “It does feel that the Republican Party has been getting way too comfortable with some, at best, N*zi-adjacent sh*t.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...