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Rubio may be worse than Pompeo and he definitely makes Tillerson look good. The harm Rubio has done to American foreign policy and to the US position in the world is astonishing.

Sources confirm that the Justice Dept tried, but failed to get a grand jury indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified against Trump at the House Jan 6 Select Committee Another Grand jury rejection

Their commitment to global authoritarianism remains intact

An essential short read from philosopher Cailin O'Connor.

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!

A far-right nationalist going to Argentina? Where have I heard this before?

JD Vance is friends with Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel

Judiciary Committee should have put a joke about the Cheesecake Factory in the document. Then maybe it would get more coverage.

A U.N.-backed inquiry is reporting that Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine by intentionally attacking energy infrastructure, which left millions of people without electricity and heat in freezing temperatures.

From @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social re USA v Floris:

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

This November, Mainers will decide the direction of this whole country. Is it for the billionaires and Trump, or everyday people like us?

“Violent settlers” barely begins to describe the extent of what is happening in the West Bank. When Israeli Jews engage in murder and mayhem against Palestinians, it is terrorism. @Jenrubin.bsky.social writes more:

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

They ignore the irony of the present FBI Director, “Poodle Room” Patel, regularly lying to Congress.

There are credible allegations of rape against the president, and evidence his administration has taken steps to cover up his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile. This story is being covered more aggressively by People Magazine than the NY Times, Wash Post, or Wall St Journal.

Just stupid and obtuse for Democrats to associate themselves, and therefore our party, with this shockjock bigot immediately before a linchpin election.

We're unable to measure our immune system status in the clinic. But that is about to change. Our @nature.com piece today. nature.com/articles/d41...

@sulliview.bsky.social "...I’ve written here, often, about the failures of the mainstream media, in fully making Americans aware of the dangerous moment we’re living in. One of the ways those failures make themselves obvious is in headlines and... margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/countdown-...

In Maryland, just 50 miles from DC, a sheriff has relentlessly targeted local immigrants for over 20 years. He is running for reelection next week in a county that went for Harris over Trump. Make sure to share story: boltsmag.org/frederick-co...

Flagrant, staggering bigotry from the highest offices in the land. Hell is not hot enough

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-...

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Would love to talk with editors from 1998 and ask them: If Congress dropped a 50-page report detailing, with witnesses on the record, that President Clinton raped women, would you put it on the front page?

One week from right now, polls will be open for Election Day. Whether the pro-democracy majority reclaims power comes down to the work we do over these next seven days. Here are three things you can do today to help. 🧵

New free link as.ft.com/r/7ee2398b-8...

The Classic Learning Test is trying to replace the SAT and ACT, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. She reports on why red states are adopting the CLT at an astonishing rate—and why the test may be lowering standards for students:

There is not one single thing better now than two years ago. #FlipCongressBlue

In 2020, Ken Paxton’s office spent more than 22,000 hours on voter fraud cases. The result was 16 prosecutions. “That’s 16 cases in a state of 17 million registered voters,” Marc Elias says. The rules for voting keep changing. Follow us so nothing catches you off guard.

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

And then he stiffed them!

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Trump’s DOJ sued Utah for every voter’s private data, then told the official who said no she was under investigation. A judge Trump picked threw it out. That’s 27 straight losses. 106 letters to 4,500. Make Congress shut it down: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

it feels truly insane that it’s not

The Secretary of Agriculture is too busy bribing voters with Russian diesel & cash for MAGA votes to protect American farmers from a potential pandemic, economic disaster, food insecurity/famine, & critical threat to national security. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-party-...

About this H5N1 mink farm in Utah. It is REALLY dangerous to let bird flu spread unchecked through mammals, esp minks. They have similar susceptibility & respiratory physiology as us. Flu can adapt to human hosts by adapting to mink respiratory tracts. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-party-...

The Trump administration is attempting to prosecute James Comey for what it calls a decade-old leak of classified information. Comey's lawyers immediately dismissed the effort as invalid and outside the time limit. n.pr/4yN4DRo

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Before publishing a tough book about Trump, Bob Woodward called Bezos to warn him. “Don’t worry, I have your back, Bob,” Bezos said. “I’ll always have your back.” Always turned out not to be as long as it used to be. Takeaways from Woodward's new memoir. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Lula wins 4th term! I love it that Lula’s win is terrible news for Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former criminal president who is serving a 27-year jail sentence for his botched power grab and hoping to be freed to be given a role in government had his son prevailed. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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.