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I don't think people fully appreciate what a sociopath JD Vance is. He's "disgusted" by R's distancing themselves from Amy Acton's mother. He's *not* disgusted by Acton's mother offering her children up to a pedophile. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-i...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

One of Texas’s top prosecutors used the first day of early voting in the state to threaten election officials. “He was also playing to an audience of one,” Marc Elias says. “A sad, pathetic man in the White House.” They want you tired and tuned out. Follow us to stay in the fight.

Professional Republicans are creeps who want to inspect your kids’ genitals. Never, ever vote for a Republican.

Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

Judge Reyes is on fire and Roger Parloff has the live tweet. Trump’s golf plan is in the rough.

A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling on Ukraine's battlefield communications: “When that Starshield goes down, the screen goes black. You don't know what's coming at you. You don't know where the things you've launched are going.” His warning: “People will die.”

2. Yesterday, the Washington Sun reported that the president had four golden chandeliers installed in the West Wing in celebration of his June birthday. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/d...

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of fraud investigation – reports

The Trump admin’s proposal to revive prize courts misunderstands the nature of modern naval warfare, write Annie Brett and Cory Evans. “A system designed for the naval warfare of two centuries ago is a poor fit for the geopolitical world today,” they write.

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Trump and Hegseth’s barbaric plan to livestream an execution made me think about past incidents in U.S. history, including the 1916 elephant hanging. A circus elephant named Mary went on a rampage in Erwin, TN, killing a man. Angry townspeople hanged the elephant as a crowd of thousands watched.

From the beginning of the war in Iran, I've warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home. History is full of leaders - from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hungary - who have used foreign wars and real or manufactured threats to expand their authority.

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

One teen told ICE officers he lived with his dad down the block, but that his dad was deaf. They didn’t try to contact the father before deeming the boy “unaccompanied” and detaining him. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

NEW: The U.S. added ONLY 29,000 jobs in September. (Under Biden, average monthly job growth in 2024 was 186,000 jobs!) The unemployment rate went up to 4.2%. Trump's economy creates more wealth for his oligarchs but no new jobs for the rest of us! Plus Gas and Diesel at record highs!

DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

Exclusive: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports.

“Ah, I get to do it again”— Republican candidate Brandon Herrera laughed and joined in with a rape joke exchange in 2023. Herrera is endorsed by Donald Trump and Mike Johnson.