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Fuck russia.

No. Zelenskyy doesn't have a regime, Ukraine has a government. Lavrov can fuck right off.

The News You Need, Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Lesley Stahl Hits One Out of the Park for 60 Minutes • NYC Rescues Trans Youth Healthcare • A Betrayal Worse Than Neville Chamberlain's • Bloomberg Spends Big for Democrats

Gift link - FOIA ftw U.S. Begins Disclosing C.I.A. Interview Reports From Scrutiny of Post-9/11 Torture The rolling release of long-secret files could add detail to the history of a legally disputed Bush-era counterterrorism program. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Elon Musk needs to feel the squeeze of universal jurisdiction.

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

Wait, so doge didn't fix it? I thought they fixed it. 🤔

It's not Muslims who want to turn their religion into US law. It's right wing GOP Christians. It's not Muslims who waged the Jan 6 terrorist attack. It was right wing GOP Christians. Yet these same right wing GOP Christians accuse Muslims of doing what they have done and what they are plotting!

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

"The small boys came early to the hanging."

Great list of q's.

Buying the midterms.

Grassley sucking from the government teat since forfuckingever needs to just stop.

One thing educators need to learn from Trump is that America is shamefully ignorant of the rest of the world. Our politicians can’t even find countries on a map. Our “diplomats” must be addressed in English; they know no second language. We need a vast influx of foreign students to civilize us.

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This and the boat murders may be Trump's truest innovations in crimes against humanity. Death sentences masquerading as deportations.

Trump's EPA literally handed the maker of Roundup a menu behind closed doors and let them pick their own toxic pesticide rules. The buried slide they tried to hide from the public just leaked. See the exact documents: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pick...

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social is a smart podcast.

Great show

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Is an openly bigoted criminal who uses his resources to boost neo-Nazis in Germany, stoke race riots in the UK, and advance Russian propaganda—among other things—a reliable defense contractor for the United States? And isn’t it weird how little this question comes up in government or discourse?

“Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy for Mr. Putin who handles informal negotiations with the White House” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w... Dmitriev’s press notices have come a long way from ‘some Russian guy who had a beer with Erik Prince when they both happened to be in the Seychelles.’

When you rely on your faithful ex to say all the right things even though you dumped him for the asshole.

He doesn't know any legal scholars. Not one.

I didn't expect trump to bother with a new press sec, but now that the Maria lady has nothing to do....

Highly recommend Companion. HBO and hulu, I think.

@bencollins.bsky.social That Eric headline.💥

You can now search which businesses in your area are collaborating with ICE, thanks to a new project from @theappeal.org 🔗 theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...

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🇺🇸‼️ CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow today aboard a US Air Force C-17 for meetings, - CBS News The Kremlin said it had "no information" about the visit. No details on who Ratcliffe met or the agenda.

Remember when the New York Times made Claudine Gay resign over a plagarism smear campaign by Chris Rufo that found no real examples of plagarism? I do.

If the Justice Department won't investigate corruption, who will? Four things state and local prosecutors can do to combat federal corruption, from Protect Democracy's Alison Hirsh and Justin Florence:

Remember when law enforcement was trying to get everyone to agree to link their Ring cameras and everyone said “Fuck NO” so the local governments that “can’t afford” anything that benefits citizens in need entered into taxpayer funded contracts to put Flock cameras up everywhere overnight?

NSPM-7 Watch: federal agents sent an undercover informant to a Sunrise Movement meeting, obtained years of financial records for labor unions, and spied on churches during and after Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-spi...

Does Trump really need a ballroom when we can just hide him in an airline catering truck?

Today marks one year of the occupation of DC by federal forces, which has resulted in injury and trauma for DC residents, countless families separated by ICE, and the killing by federal law enforcement of Julian Bailey and Nolberto Meza, for which there has been no transparency or accountability...

Reminder that Emil Bove's seat on the 3rd Circuit should have gone to Adeel Mangi, President Biden's incredible nominee who would have been the first Muslim federal appellate court judge in the nation. A vicious, anti-Muslim smear campaign tore him down. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/before-emi...

We have computers. We've seen all of her.

2016 and 2020 Trump campaign.

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social The United States of America is NOT supposed to engage in this. A RECKONING WILL HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER.

Trump: "They're coming from Africa, they're coming from South America, they're coming from different parts of Asia, and they're invading Europe. They're invading Europe! It's an invasion. And the UK is a prime suspect."

Really? Why? They provide very few jobs, steal electricity, raise the cost of electricity, pollute water, steal water, make horrible noise pollution, de-value homes and are ugly eyesores. Build one next to Mar-a-Lago.