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It's time to start calling them Nazi stooges. To their face. Everyday. Look down on them, for they are the lowest of the low.

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.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

All these so-called “independent” Republicans will go right back to voting for Johnson as speaker, confirm every Trump nominee, vote with Trump on everything, and continue doing zero oversight on his corrupt regime. A vote for any one of them is a vote to continue all of that.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's comms director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped (published Oct. 2025):

Ashley Hinson claims Josh Turek supports "allowing kids to change their gender at school and not tell the parents about it" (This literally has never happened! Not once!)

Daniel Pemberton and David Byrne wrote a song about Elon Musk for Alex Gibney's documentary. TikTok took it down and canceled the entire account for the film. So Pemberton encouraged those of us lucky enough to see him perform today to share it. youtu.be/WAvdN-JSUFU?...

Are still fighting for compensation from the US govt and recognition for the damages done to them and succeeding generations who still suffer the cancers and shortened lifespans for radioactive exposure 80 yrs ago. New documentary, here’s the trailer. www.firstwebombednewmexico.com/filmtrailer

This is just flat out racism. No other way to describe it, and if you see someone trying to do otherwise (looking at you NYT editors) then correct them.

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

Trump to crowd: “It’s amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clap.” Crowd: claps In the history of dumb fucking cults, MAGA is by far, the fucking dumbest.

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯

Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)

It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

At core, they do not believe democracy *should be allowed* if their side isn’t guaranteed to win. And that becomes the inescapable problem.

Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, who's running for Senate, says the Iran war "needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end." A messaging pivot: Hinson voted NO six times on House resolutions directing Trump to end the Iran war — including as recently as last week.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.

I’ll just leave this here…

Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.

Thank you for telling us it's 'very clean' unsolicited. Not suspect at all.

The law says he has to be dead now. I don’t make the (federal) rules, but sometimes I agree with them. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

The Department of Health and Human Services cited articles that were entirely made up. trib.al/myhNnO4

BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & @splcenter.org just sued FL to STOP H.B. 991, its 'SAVE' Act Miss one mailed notice & the state can purge you. The state is manufacturing a crisis & then billing voters for it Proud to represent @blackvotersmatterfund.org & @lulacorg.bsky.social👇 -TN

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As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

The plan here is to block *millions* of legal mail-in ballots via a series of schemes and policies that were hidden from voters, hidden from the press, and hidden from the courts. We only know of them via a whistleblower. And all of this was done *explicitly* under a Trump order.

I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.

what's wild is that i'm pretty sure if you're a CA elected, you could just decide on your own to get behind some worker-oriented film industry shit or even (wild idea!) propose your own without licking every-ass inch of this specific boot, and yet here we are

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.

1. Keith Sonderling, Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, traveled to China in 2015 to pitch investments in a Florida real estate project. During these events, Chinese nationals were promised green cards and access to “America’s Comprehensive Welfare”

B-roll of the Haitians of Springfield being rounded up because Vance decided his one big move as a vp candidate was to elevate a neo-Nazi lie about his own constituents.

Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

Sure it leaked to harm Jeffries. It could not have leaked, though, if Jeffries had just told Kushner to wait for the subpoena. Kushner embodies everything many decent people hate. Corrupt, self-dealing, arrogant, not doing anything for the country. And he is not exactly helping with Gaza.

I just donated to help SPIDER-MAN, who took on nazi scumbags trying to invade Minneapolis again. Arrested by our local cops (boooo) who were diligently defending their racist turd pals. Let’s help good ol’ Webhead with his defense! (PS I can vouch for the GoFundMe creator) gofund.me/6f36a1ac1

Glad my posts slamming Hakeem Jeffries for meeting with Jared Kushner were included in the article. Jeffries must explain why met with Kushner and were any deals made to protect Trump and Kushner when Dems take control of House?! www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Now that's a fucking headline. www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconn...