"Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee released a 52-page report titled 'We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up.' Within the report are new details…"
At some point soon, this won’t even be a controversial view. The government’s relationship with SpaceX as it stands right now is untenable. www.thebulwark.com/p/nationaliz...
Democrats want an affordable America.
Republicans want to continue their economic nightmare of the past two years.
The different couldn’t be more stark.
Elon Musk is spending an unprecedented, absolutely disgusting amount of money to help Republicans. By some counts, it’s well north of $400 million in this cycle. Money matters, but Elon’s money comes with a political price. www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-elon-m...
This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.
Microsoft’s stock rose on the news that it’s getting rid of 1/4th its people. That’s nothing new. Disposing of human beings in favor of “productivity” has always been a favorite move for Wall Street.
However fires the last human gets to turn out the lights.
Any wagers on how long it will be before AI-heavy companies’ jaw-dropping voluntary buyouts are replaced with even larger involuntary layoffs without compensation?
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Good news from Serbia and Brazil, and from the early vote across the U.S. Elon freaks out at the idea of accountability, and MAGA thinks we’re not allowed to laugh about the Cheesecake Factory. An upbeat podcast!
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It really is too bad that more high-profile Dems didn't come to Elissa Slotkin's defense last week. A huge amount rids on whether the narrative we propound about the election is 1) Dems won to hold Trump accountable or 2) Dems won because prices are too high. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/wheres-the...
Trump tonight said people should never speak again to any Jews who vote for Abdul El-Sayed. Will Mike Rogers be forced to disavow Donald Trump now?
I won't hold my breath.
I just love these Trump supporters calling for the smelling salts over Obama's Cheescake factory quip saying he's mocking middle America. These are the very people who worship the man who vomits gilt gew gaws everywhere like he's Louis the XIV and brags about how much money he's making as president.
This is the bullshit that's going to ruin us. Nonsensical assumptions by media about what REAL AMERICANS think and care about, designed to make Dems act like humorless prigs.
This was not an insult to Liberace or his fans. He was in show business! It's ok for him! This is about the White House FFS
Trump-Putin scandal in Alaska.
"Joel Riddle, chief executive of the company, Polar LNG, until he resigned in September, said he had been misled...The true source of at least some of Polar LNG’s money was Novatek, a Russian energy giant under partial U.S. sanctions."
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
Weird and frankly disappointing video from Ezra & Leah.
They imply support for impeachment, but seem to deliberately avoid saying so explicitly.
They also create a false choice, implying impeachment is unrelated to the goal of holding other officials accountable. The opposite is true.
Put this under nature of the problem. From an axios piece by Jim Vendehei about the growing multiple risks of cascading crises. You’d say the same about Biden? Not politics? lol
there's been a worldwide campaign against trans people—nowhere has it been stronger (& less opposed) than the uk
latest podcast with @aendra.comwww.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/uk-media-trans
It's crazy how much of a cesspool Twitter is when I log back in. I think people on there are so deep in it they don't notice. My own feed is all just the worst Dem pundits barking at each other and trashing Dems, nobodies with check marks wrongly analyzing polls and early votes, and racist shit.
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
The blue area is part of what Ukraine liberated with Operation Vivaldi. The circled area is the focus of an active drive by Ukrainian forces. Just because Trump and Musk are trying to help Putin hasn’t stopped frontline troops.
a spectacle of fascism as Trump demands Ilhan Omar resign and says Democrats have conceded her seat, and the 20-something dude bros behind him leap up and start cheering
yes. and this is why people need to can it with the "we can't afford XYZ because of Trump" routine I hear on here sometimes. we could dial up the tax take by 10 points of GDP and not even be close to the Nordics
I also think this is a very powerful graph. Most people don't know it, but the US is a *very* low-tax country. We tax below average and we spend below average, among rich nations.
Fixing our fiscal situation entirely through taxes would still leave us *very* low tax.
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Trump’s Justice Department filed a preemptive lawsuit to block a possible Democratic win in Alaska’s Senate race.
It’s a dramatic escalation, which comes a month after Trump publicly directed AG Todd Blanche to pursue the matter.
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The deeper reason Trump, Vance, and Ramaswamy are backing the vile rape ad is they think MAGA politics—the cruelty, the depravity, the viciousness—is still ascendant.
They think doing this esesentially puts Trump on the ballot.
Me and @jimswift.bsky.social on this:
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If we discovered that Boeing could shut down Air Force One, or General Dynamics had a remote kill switch for Abrams tanks, it would be a huge scandal.
So why is everyone accepting how Elon Musk secretly retained control over the military’s supposedly secure command and control system? …
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
this is a key point. if rates go up by a third or something but you got an EV and heat pump and zeroed out your fossil fuel consumption at home, that is a fantastic deal for most
In other words, we desperately need to be investing in electricity infrastructure. That means spending a lot of money. It probably means electricity rates rising.
Those rates rising is fine & good *if* it means we're spending less on gasoline for transport, natural gas for heating, etc.
North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans.
He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!)
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The clear implication of this is that the U.S. military is also at the mercy of Musk’s whims. He cannot be allowed to keep control over Starlink. He has demonstrated that he can’t be trusted with this power.
More disappointing results from Donald Trump’s economy: rising unemployment and wages that can’t keep up with skyrocketing costs.
While Trump lines his own pockets, America’s working families continue to be left behind.
I’ve noticed in several debates that Republicans are quick to trot out “average tax savings” from the Big Ugly Bill. For example, Andy Barr keeps saying that the “average” Kentuckian saved $2,800. But that doesn’t tell you what MOST Kentuckians received. …
Dems play the expectations game by, e.g., saying private polls are closer than public ones. What they should say (because it's true) is that they're up against aggressive cheating by the richest, most powerful people in the world, and winning in spite of it. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
Ukrainian Civilians Died Because America Cut Off Intel and Satellite Links
Along with Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, these tactics represent an in-kind contribution to Putin’s war
By Jason Jay Smart
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ukrainian-civilians-died-because
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has spent the following seven months running the Navy’s carrier battle groups ragged and shooting off 30 years’ worth of stockpiles of precision-guided munitions and missile interceptors like a drunk with a pickup truck full of illegal fireworks."
The Trump-MAGA freakout over Senator Elissa Slotkin's call for real oversight of Trump is complete horseshit, and every Democrat and journalist should be loudly saying so.
This is how MAGA baits MSM into elevating propaganda into "controversy."
New from me:
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"So two weeks out, Democrats are in good shape.
Democrats have just one job over these final two weeks: To remind voters, over and over, that the only way to check Trump from driving the country further into a ditch is to vote blue." (Or at least not vote R.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/happy-birt...
Another one: Gov. Phil Scott has owned Democrats in Vermont for a decade. But he's nervous this year that his agenda of doing little to nothing might not pan out.
Amanda Janoo, a milliennial economist focused on a "wellbeing agenda," could really win.
Great report from Will Solomon.
Musk's businesses benefited from billions in taxpayer support. He's spent over $350 million helping Republicans. Now Democrats want answers.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Hrs after we ran this @jjsmart.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net, WSJ confirmed Musk n Trump coordinated the cap on speeds at which Ukrainian vehicles could connect w/ Starshield and intercept Putin's bombs. The duo has civilian Ukrainian blood on its hands
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🚨Trump teases creating a denouncement system like the Bolsheviks and the Nazis used to hunt down political opponents. Says “people will be able to make millions turning others in.”
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.
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Trump’s stated rationale for showering Putin with unearned gifts, in exchange for nothing, doesn’t make a lot of sense.
So naturally we have to turn to alternate explanations — including his former DNI’s concerns about what Putin might have on Trump.
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Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action.
This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.