a moveable beast…

“I never knew a man could tell so many lies He had a different story for every set of eyes How can he remember who he's talking to? 'Cause I know it ain't me, and I hope it isn't you…” – Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” (1974)

Today on Volts: there's a new super PAC spending millions of dollars to take out opponents of clean energy. They knocked Reps. Chip Roy, Andy Ogles, & Ralph Norman out in their primaries; now they're putting $15 million toward the midterms. I talk with CEO Tom Mattzie about strategy & what's next.

so like is Sundar Pichai an outright chud or what bsky.app/profile/theo...

It refuse to answer (in the US only) because there is "debate" about the results, but I wonder if that's true for the millions of other things Americans stupidly "debate" like "did we really land on the moon?" and "is the Earth actually flat?"

Think about how much time and resources Google had to waste to prevent its AI chatbot from accidentally saying something that injured the president's fragile ego. Corruption is truly a tax on capitalism www.mediaite.com/media/tech/g...

Student protests that started in Paris suburbs have spread to at least six countries. There’s no single cause, and that may be the point. @andrewohehir.bsky.social on a generation that says democracy hasn’t delivered.

Trump's family has made billions off the presidency while working families can't afford groceries. And Republicans in Congress? They've done nothing to stop it. Not one thing. Voters will not forget that at the ballot box.

Simon & Shuster has responded to Jared Kushner's threats by accelerating the release of Matt Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early (today). Buy your copy immediately. www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

the relief isn’t coming before election day. gas holding at $4.24/gal, diesel at $6.34/gal — Great Lakes spiking on a refinery issue, Hormuz at a fraction of normal traffic, and every policy lever has been pulled. weekly update is live!

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

In Serbia, MAGA influencers from the US were dispatched to Serbia to whip up enthusiasm for the hard-right Alexsandar Vucic who had held power for 12 years. They failed too and the students' movement won.

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

Elon Musk ordered restrictions on Ukraine’s military satellite communications, according to officials. The slowdown disrupted Ukrainian interceptor drones, Trump and Pentagon deny ordering it, while Ukrainian officials say restrictions remain in place.

DB: Penultimate weekend before the election... GOP set to lose ~40 House seats if history is any guide

"Delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ball...

Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

This is Canada’s path.

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

"The generalised miasma of Team Trump’s conflicts of interest and complex business deals has been there for a long time. Even if absolutely everything is within the letter of the law, many Americans decided they’d had enough of such self-enrichment long ago."

Trump is now directing the Justice Department to try and sow chaos in Alaska’s election. We must speak up to protect our free and fair elections.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC, Elias Law Group is fighting the Department of Justice’s sham lawsuit to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if anyone other than the Republican incumbent wins. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

#TXsen

JD Vance: "I've not seen a single shred of evidence that Donald Trump participates or sanctions in that corruption ... I've not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself"

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

We reviewed FBI documents that showed a sweeping pay-to-play investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins was in motion. Then Trump shut down the unit in charge. Had we found a road map to corruption in Congress? We decided to dig deeper.

When you really piss them off, they ban you (take it from me!) So, folks, are we all trying hard enough?

Trump-friendly oligarchs are buying up major media with the regime's help. They control CNN, CBS, Fox, TikTok, Meta, X and major local TV chains. Yet Mike Johnson is still claiming liberal bias. The real media conspiracy is the corporate consensus to normalize Johnson and other right-wing radicals.

While I still think people are best off avoiding X entirely if at all possible, it strikes me as a good sign that 99% of the comments on Ted Cruz's post here and the ridiculous Jan Crawford post about El Sayed's interaction with MAGA Tommy, were calling them out for misrepresenting what happened.

Ted Cruz is getting absolutely destroyed in the comments, but I'd like reporters to ask Ted Cruz if he's ever disavowed Christian terrorists like Eric Robert Rudolph, Robert Dear, Tim McVeigh.

🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank

Jan Crawford recently responded to my criticism of her by tagging my employer and lecturing me about objective journalism. lol

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

From the Financial Times: "Cracks are appearing in America’s debt-laden $10tn AI infrastructure boom as project delays, public backlash and shaky investor confidence bring a reckoning for the data centre build-out underpinning the US economy." IMO, what makes all these issues even ... 1 of 2

The use of AI in political ads is not evenly distributed: “More than 80 percent of the ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees” #midterms #AI #ads $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

She made the cardinal error of making her virulent MAGA bias too obvious. Now she is of less use to them since she is just Sean Hannity with a better wardrobe

if you can watch this video and think Tommy is the one who came out well, you shouldn’t be a reporter failure to understand who won this exchange and is just journalistic malpractice

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

"The masks have not just slipped but have come clean right off. Journalists should not be publicly taking political sides," a former CBS News senior staffer told me. "It goes against any journalistic standard and in this case it’s fuelled by israel bias."

Obviously, this tweet is sparking a lot of discussion among CBS staff, with some telling me it's akin to CBS endorsing anti-Muslim hate speech. Also, some have noted that Terry Moran was fired by ABC for something similar when he personally criticized Stephen Miller on Twitter.

Hearing from my sources that this "over the top" tweet from Jan Crawford is being discussed internally at CBS. At the same time, as those same sources noted, "Jan is protected by Bari" and has been a very vocal acolyte of Weiss. "She just can't help herself," one network insider said.