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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Vivek Ramaswamy and his hair were on Fox & Friends this morning defending his vile attack ad

Mitch Mconnell to Trump in WSJ Op-Ed: “Ending the obeisance to Mr. Putin may be table stakes for the end-of-year legislation. The president should plan accordingly.”

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

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

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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calling trump “incompetent” alone would’ve been enough to trigger him, but “he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” is what will truly send him over the edge (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...)

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

NEW: We obtained doorbell video of Castle Rock Town Council candidate Chris Phelen stealing his opponent's campaign literature from a voter's porch Phelen, who is running on "conservative leadership" and "preserving Castle Rock's small-town character," admits he's done it before

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

👀 WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration sues to block Alaska Senate race certification if Republican loses, citing candidate name confusion.

festering piece of shit.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Don’t tarnish a person‘s reputation based on only one thing they did. Okay, sure, Amy Acton’s mother is a child-abusing pedophile protector. But that’s not all she is! She also kills kittens. So don’t be so quick to judge.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

hmmmm...not sure one person giving half a billion dollars to one party is a great sign of a healthy political system just not quite on board with that

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

i am reasonably sure this is first time in history someone has mentioned anti-correlation in polling data interview timestamps on a cable news program

They're doing this to churches. "The Homeland Security Department “surveils, covertly infiltrates and interrogates the staff of nonprofits and churches conducting voter engagement”... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

The issue that matters most.

Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

our semi-regular feature where we check in on the viewership of trump tv, the streaming service the trump administration said would be a revolutionary new way to interact with the presidency current viewership at 10:01am: 84.

'Hegseth breaks Eisenhower's globe' is a little too on-the-nose tbh

Imagine thinking you're a messenger for Jesus Christ and that his message was "do not help the weak and less fortunate"

This is exactly what vouchers are designed to do. Never forget- scratch a book banner, find a legislator who's working with the anti-public education dark money crowd. Bc it's hard to sell: I don't believe poor ppl deserve an education. But it's easy to sell: public schools are grooming your kids.

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

"I was doing my job," writes Andrew Feinberg, White House reporter for the Independent. Thta enraged Trump, and led his press shop to sling a revolting insult. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Deplorable.

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

DEEP DIVE is up! How the Star Tribune turned Republican “Somali gangs” rhetoric into an election-year crime narrative—and helped give demands for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement the authority of news.

Here we have state media (CBS, now under the direction of op-ed writer Bari Weiss and her patrons, Trump mega donors the Ellisons) reprinting the lie that Trump “created” a women’s health division at NIH that has existed since the 1990s.

Trump: "When we had the hurricane. We call it a watercane. There's never been a hurricane that anybody's seen that threw out more water than that."