PJ McIlvaine

#booksky Do you like a good murder? So long as you're not the victim. In my twisty, gritty, contemp adult psych thriller, bodies drop like flies. It's a heady mix of pop culture, elevated pulp fiction, & secrets galore. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CDB4SSQS/

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

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.

So far no sign of a response from Trump on Truth Social. Should be epic when it happens. 😜

Reuters: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S FIRING OF PROSECUTOR MAURENE COMEY WAS UNLAWFUL, JUDGE RULES

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

Reup: The non-answers Todd Blanche gave to Dana Bash and Margaret Brennan yesterday make total sense when you see how much he is pursuing the plot Jeffrey Clark planned on pursuing if HE had been made AG. Clark's plan anticipated political violence. emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...

Judge Jesse Furman orders Maurene Comey to be reinstated w/back pay. This will obviously be appealed, but it means Ms. Comey will be one of the key appeals. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#scriptsky #Monfirstpage Grief and greed bring a family to the brink in this gritty, brutal Western noir set in 1870 Nevada. 2 brothers. 1 woman. A cache of gold. ISAAC'S GOLD, inspired by the classic TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE by icon John Huston. MeeMaw will need her smelling salts.

#booksky Sex, murder, politics, pop culture, and mayhem in Manhattan and Montauk.

#scriptsky #drama They thought she was a demure Southern belle who knew her place in the kitchen and bedroom. But she didn't come to the Senate to serve lukewarm lemonade. A period drama screenplay about injustice, discrimination, lost loves, and The Monkees. THE SENATOR'S WIFE....

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Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

what a night

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

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For approximately the 94th time since 2008, Republicans are threatening civil war again. Must be about to lose another election.

Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

"[Donald Trump] has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." --Barack Obama

The Crimes Davey Hearn Claims Jeanine Pirro May Have Committed emptywheel.net/2026/10/24/t...

Happy first day of early voting, New York!

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

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Jan 2025: Trump shutters SDNY Epstein Probe Mar: 1000+ FBI agents are trained to mark Trump’s name for supervisory review May: Bondi tells Donald he’s in the files June: White House, DoJ, FBI conspire to create “case closed” memo July: Memo released Aug: Maxwell moved/sex offender status waived

BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Corey Lewandowski over accusations that he personally profited from his role as a top adviser to the Department of Homeland Security, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.

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Lowest approval since Truman is pretty fucking impressive. I think we can do better, though.

BREAKING: A federal judge just restricted Trump's Department of Homeland Security from election-related investigations in nine states — finding that error-prone government lists could sweep U.S. citizens into the effort.

In March I wrote that the longer Witkoff and Kushner are Trump's so-called negotiators, the more likely Putin would convince Trump to join his side in a World War. Witkoff's pathetic display today confirms that. emptywheel.net/2026/03/27/h...

BREAKING NYT: A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal. Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

Brooks met his match in Cassie, but a childhood tragedy threatens the life they've built on bone and blood. Murder, mayhem, sex, politics, pop culture run amok in Manhattan and Montauk. #booksky

On Fox 🤷🏼 ⛽️

“Donald Trump lost the war in Iran. As a narcissist, he needs scapegoats to blame for his own historic failure, and Russia’s dictator has scripted convenient scapegoats for him: Ukraine for attacking Russia’s diesel refineries, Europe, for failing to join Trump’s rudderless attack.”

The thing is, we are already so far past this point

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, nobody should support this kind of deception. They created a fake pamphlet to spark trans outrage and sent it to every home in Texas. Then their paid shills continued the outrage on social media. Politics is broken.

Up for book that featues murder and mayhem? #booksky

Watching Vance light his 2028 prospects on fire in real time is something

Lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar have accused federal authorities of ignoring key restrictions that a judge placed on the search of Omar's D.C. residence this week and demanded the immediate return of all property seized from the home.

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Eric Deters, the Republican donor who accused Kimberly Guilfoyle of asking him to wire her $100,000 to pay her AmEx bill, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Guilfoyle and her legal team.

Oh. Zampolli's out.

This is extremely entertaining:

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Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?