Francis Wilkinson

Utah is my adopted home state — the state in which I spent most of my working life — and one thing I learned early on was to never underestimate the power of the state's women particularly its Mormon women. If they're on your side, they'll move mountains for you, if they're on the other side,

Kathy Hubris.

A party of performative morons disinterested in policy.

Cockroach cleantech endures @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

"Republicans’ small-dollar donor base has contracted in recent years, leaving the party more dependent on a tiny group of wealthy megadonors." James Talarico "has had roughly the same number of donors on ActBlue this cycle as all Republican candidates and committees combined had on WinRed."

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Before you can finish the “serial rapist” sequence you’re right back on the “pathological liar” circuit.

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

“Chaos tax” is pretty good

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

When Peter Thiel buys you a national political career and you may have skipped some of the introductory steps.

Stunning

Really well done.

The headline acknowledges (1) Trump is a racist demagogue and (2) the maga base is bigots. Those facts are true 365 days a year. But you can only say it on special occasions.

Portrait of a drone programmed for evil.

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

“That’s crazy. You’re talking about a depraved criminal and his violent cult as if he’s a depraved criminal and they’re a violent cult.”

Maybe his closing message of racism, fomenting violence, lying about voter fraud, and bragging about his medical team repeatedly asking him to take dementia tests is proving unpopular?

John Roberts said in writing, at great, comic length, that all the Trump crimes are good.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

What we learned is that former petrochemical lobbyists now inside the EPA are meeting with former clients and then moving to force career staff at the EPA to rollback public health protections. We found the actual documents detailing these moves. Smoking guns. (Redlines striking protections)

Sexual assaulter shows solidarity with other sexual assaulter

Maga was formed to be a violent authoritarian political movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

“Flockhart, 55, pleaded guilty to charges related to child endangerment and driving under the influence after authorities said she drove drunk with two of her children in the car in 2017.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

Give this a listen. It’s becoming par for the course. And Democratic candidates - especially female candidates - now get it from both sides of the political spectrum.

Lie-based political party.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk throttling Starlink: "I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression."

We could have cheap clean energy if we weren't ruled by idiots.

I find it hard to believe Ramaswamy did not focus group that ad and conclude that it helps him. He’s way too invested, paid media and free, not to have research backing him.

From my @slate.com piece on Alaska: slate.com/news-and-pol...

“Most of the Russian content so far, spread by bot networks around the world, has targeted Democratic candidates, especially in closely contested Senate races that could determine control of Congress in Mr. Trump’s remaining two years in office.”

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

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.

On one hand, he’s thinking about Repubs funneling more money to him. On the other, he’s thinking about a Dem Congress laying the basis for his prosecution.

Elon Musk just poured half a million dollars into this race to try to keep his puppet Mike Lawler in office, just like he did back in 2024. But the Hudson Valley can’t be bought. Mike Lawler has sold out to his trillionaire and corporate backers at our expense —

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

"All told, convicted criminals accounted for only 31% of all removals in the period covered by the new data, well below the average of 44% for fiscal years 2009-2021." @jamesgibney.bsky.social on the numbers pried out of the DHS vault. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“By giving him access to roughly $2 billion, regardless of how the money was used, MBZ and MBS were paying for his influence within the US government.” Extraordinary allegations in this piece yet each one must have been vetted by Condé Nast lawyers.

Another Republican official quoted out of context. cbs6albany.com/news/local/s...

Trump’s incoherence spreads a gossamer veil over the public declaration that the investigation will only proceed so long as he wishes it to.

He always performs so well in these situations.

This is DEFCON 2 talk.