Along for the ride 🌮🐷

My favorite political ad of all time and it's not even close

Well played

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. As someone who spent a decade in political communications and corporate PR, the straight answer is that either she or her reps reached out to the NYT and offered to provide quotes. And lazy reporters gratefully accepted the offer.

"Many contemporary Christian culture wars have revolved around the idea of being ‘biblical’ rather than being radically loving." sojo.net/articles/opi...

SpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of Thing Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/spacex-whines-about-space-collisions-after-gutting-regulators-that-oversee-that-sort-of-thing/

A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is coming together to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that it says is being ignored by the Trump DOJ. "The rule of law is on life support, but it's all of our responsibility to make sure it doesn't die."

And we know Trump is a stickler about proper handling of national security information…

Republicans, they're not like us.

Donald Trump and his administration are telling you that you’re on your own during a hurricane, tornado, fire, or flood. Know that Illinois will keep fighting to make sure you’re protected when disaster strikes.

This may be the most important and necessary work yet by John Oliver and his staff.

No. This is dooming for nothing. Lula *did* end up cruising to re-election, it was called an hour after polls closed. The fact that he managed to pull that off when everything was pointing to a Bolsanaro win is not terrifying, it's inspiring. Stop looking at things through the worst possible lens.

Trump has only allowed the transfer of 24 patriot missiles to Ukraine over the last 3 months. That is only 2 interceptors a week. Rather than ending patriot deliveries, Trump is sending a tiny amount so people can't complain he stopped while 95% of Russia's missiles still get to hit their targets.

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

Walter Koenig's Pavel Chekov was one of Gene Roddenberry's biggest swings with the original series. For season 2, he put a Russian on the bridge of the Enterprise, on prime time network television, just 5 short years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and during the height of the Cold War. 🥺

So when you’re paying hundreds more for gas per month, remember: The President doesn’t give a damn.

Maurene Comey was illegally fired as federal prosecutor, judge rules www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE kept people locked up after judges ordered them freed. When Minnesota judges spoke about it, DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against them. Now 174 bipartisan former judges are urging the Eighth Circuit to dismiss it, and we’re proud to stand with them. Read the letter:

Trump currently holds up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks. His stocks have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025.

Reddit's win over SerpAPI and Perplexity sets a dangerous precident, and will embolden gatekeepers to make the web less open.

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@marcelias.bsky.social : “Mr. Blanche... we have beaten you and your team in court like a drum. So I hope you don't do what you are threatening or insinuating you might do. But if you do, I will see you in those courtrooms. I will win. And then I will dance on your head for those victories.”

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

Every time I check news after doing work, there's another rape story. Absolutely horrific. My heart is with everyone who has had to be brave about their private trauma in public, and for everyone who has to sit with their own memories stirring every time this happens.

Love this paragraph in particular

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro rips into JD Vance in a new interview. “The only smart thing it seems like [Trump] did was not endorsing Vance. That guy is just a profoundly and PATHETICALLY WEAK human being who wants to preach morality every day.”

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

My second essay on how under Trump we’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable to us just years ago. Today: The corruption of the Justice Dept and *EIGHT* scandals on par with Watergate: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

Oh no 😭 One of the last members of the USS Enterprise has left. RIP Walter Marvin Koenig (1936-2026) Star Trek, Babylon 5, Moontrap, The Starlost, The Questor Tapes, Futurama... What a career in sci-fi. I will miss Pavel Chekov. Again 😞

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Find someone who looks at you like Mike Rogers looks at Donald Trump.

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Trump’s team urged him not to celebrate higher oil prices ahead of the midterms. He ignored them — again. The guy seems convinced that consumers will celebrate Big Oil cashing in, even as they suffer at the pump. This probably isn’t what Republicans want voters to hear. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

To all you seniors on fixed incomes who disproportionately voted for Trump thinking he’d protect your healthcare interests. I will not lie to you about your chances of surviving his negligent abandonment but, you have my sympathies.

One of the many things I wish Elon Musk would be prosecuted for is his criminally negligent homicide in convincing people that Teslas are "Self Driving".

Looking at this 2019 article with hindsight is wild. It’s a great reminder that despite Zelenskyy taking a milder stance toward russia than Poroshenko, Putin still launched a full-scale invasion regardless. Appeasement to russia dosent work.

"There is no evidence the French protests have anything to do with immigration. There has been Islamist violence over the years...That’s not what’s happening and no desperate eagerness by Republicans to hijack protests for their flailing campaigns can change that." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-l...

Texas Latino turnout is beating 2024 PRESIDENTIAL levels. Trump's Senate pick admits he's down 7. The White House is drafting MASS PARDONS. Russia secretly running a Trump-linked Alaska gas deal. And more. Your Saturday update:

New from me on the Starlink/shield fiasco. To paraphrase Talleyrand, it is worse than a crime; it is a mistake. The long term blowback on the United States will be immense. www.csis.org/analysis/thr...