YES ON PROP 40. NO ON 41 & 42 🇺🇸

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

If you are too young to really remember the Obama years, conservatives were like this every single day. He really did just break their brains.

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

Hacked VMS board spotted in Nashville on Korean Veterans Boulevard.

This is a significant story about a highly credible victim who allegedly was raped by Donald Trump. Where is the legacy media? The expanding evidence of his raping not as interesting as Hillary’s emails? www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...

This guy gets it

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

“SHOVE THAT BALLROOM UP YOUR FAT ASS!”

If you haven’t noticed Canada is building a massive global coalition. That will translate into a lot of good things. You’ll see.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 (WSJ) - The U.S. has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign after the U.S. midterm elections, people briefed on the conversations said. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

🚨BREAKING: Nearly 2,900 voters in one Georgia county have yet to receive the absentee ballots they recently applied for and are blaming their local officials’ hiring of an out-of-town vendor for the delays, they charge in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

COMING UP: Preliminary hearing before magistrate judge Faruqui in the criminal case of former FBI agents charged with false statements to Congress and obstruction. Things could get very interesting... I'm here in the media room for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along!

Another interesting thing that happened in Brazil and might be worth considering in the U.S.: a triumph of the liberal field was to detach Bolsonarism from the right. It wasn’t about left or right anymore; it was both left and right, liberals and centrists, fighting against far-right extremism.

99 percent chance she’s being sarcastic, and 1 percent chance she’s laying the predicate to annul their prenuptial agreement

The more that Trump is seen as siding with Russia over Ukraine, the more he finds himself on the wrong side of U.S. public opinion. A recent Economist-YouGov poll found that 66% of registered voters sympathize with Ukraine compared with only 3% who sympathize with Russia. wapo.st/4zQY9Si

[Philips P. Obrien-Substack]: Weekend Update #207: The US-Russia Alliance Is Signed--In Ukrainian Blood Ukraine Seems To Get It This Time; Ukraine Keeps Steadily Progressing In The Land War. October 17, 2026 phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up... #ukraine #russia #usa

Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously. (Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well) phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

The convicted felon Donald Trump ran for the presidency office to stay out of jail.

Brazil: Lula wins another term, beating Bolsonaro www.dw.com/en/brazilian...

That was one of the most nerve wracking days of my life. Holy shit. He did it.

Now fucking arrest Mark Zuckerberg

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

exchange between a right wing Brazilian congressman and a left wing congressman is pretty brutal for the former

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

🚨 BREAKING: A Russian drone directly targeted and struck a civilian minibus in Kherson, killing a 67-year-old man and injuring five others. Three women and two men sustained severe blast trauma and shrapnel wounds.

I wonder if her media income is laundered cash from daddy warbucks?

While Russian drones strike Ukraine, the daughter of a Russian drone executive lives her best life in Toronto. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️

all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

This made me laugh out loud— @theonion.com #theonion #mel