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A vibrant original theatre scene exists in Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Egypt has one of the most vital theatre communities in the entire world. Cairo has held an experimental theatre festival every year since 1988.

In other words, even in this most public of creative arts, the Muslim world is just like the rest of the world (including religious fundamentalists sometimes getting performances canceled, which, you know, glass houses there, Bobby K.)

This is to het up the blood of his cretin brigades so they disrupt polling places. No one is ever getting a million bucks out of him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

This is an unexpectedly rational response when Trump was asked how it will work if he has a Democratic Congress: "It'll work because I'll be vetoing everything. And then they're going to call and say, how do we get something passed and we'll make a deal. So, we'll, you know, be able to do that."

And, no, I'm not handing it to him. It's just fascinating that every once in a while, a human being who seems to understand the way things works rears its rotund head.

A nation succeeding at developing an industry isn’t stealing anything. But what do I know? I’m not an expert like this pampered, corrupt dementia patient running a money-laundering operation while pretending to be a big, tough builder.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Look, if we had smart presidents, the Taiwan problem with China wouldn't exist. Nobody would care. They stole our chip business. All of it. 100 percent."

If that’s the case, can we redo Florida in 2000?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

This ad is pathetic, and it’s a more extreme position than even some Republicans have. To what end? You win no one. You lose a bunch of voters. And you look like a desperate, hateful douchebag.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

These devolved, greedy pricks have set this country back to the 1970s, at least. It's gonna take decades to unfuck everything they've fucked up. And some of it, like the climate crisis, will never be undone.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

The purpose of this is just to get a court to rule against them so they can eventually go to the Supreme Court where all bets are off when it comes to Trump, terrible argument or not.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

NEW: The DOJ sued to block certification of the results in Alaska's Senate race if a Democrat wins. Experts are already saying its argument "is one of the worst ones" seen — and that's saying a lot for a department that has gone 0-26 in its voter data effort. https://demdock.com/3WJRBXm

I feel like we should talk more about how utterly douchey his hair is.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”

I appreciate that Ramaswamy has said it's running that pathetic ad with Acton's estranged mother. Usually, such fuckery is done by some PAC to give a candidate plausible deniability and distance. But not Vivek. He's proudly saying, "I am that sleazy fucker."

Actively recruiting candidates to split the vote for an opposing party's nominee is a time-worn strategy. It sucks for both sides (although Republicans do it to fuck over Democrats far more often), but it's totally legal. It's just not often as funny as Alaska this year.

VoteHub@votehub.com

NEWS — The Trump administration sued Alaska over Dan J. Sullivan’s Senate candidacy, arguing voter confusion could affect the race between Sen. Dan S. Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola, per Courthouse News.

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Finally watched that heinous Ramaswamy ad where Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar. Lemme tell you: I have dealt with skeevy, toothless, backwards-ass fucks from the shit side of Youngstown, and they will sell you their kidney for a couple of bucks and some fentanyl. Just disgusting.

Anyone asking this question should be fired. Anyone ordering them to ask it should be arrested

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

State Department employees are being told they are ineligible for promotion unless they can prove they voted for Trump for president in 2016, 2020 and 2024. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

He really thinks a cognitive test is an IQ test. That's why he keeps saying he should be praised for passing it. And he really wants us to believe him without seeing any actual results.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

I continue to ask: Is it antisemitism if an American Jew says that Israeli officials are liars? These complex questions are so hard to figure out these days.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social

The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying. No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.

Please get this pig-fucking piece of shit out of public life.

Pam Spaulding@pamspaulding.bsky.social

“Politics is a tough business, & my message to my fellow elected Rs is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an ad & go win the race in 13 days." — amoral JD "eating the dogs/cats" Vance to Rs — go all in cuz the end justifies the means. 🧾 t2m.co/aQdAGUq

Finally watched that heinous Ramaswamy ad where Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar. Lemme tell you: I have dealt with skeevy, toothless, backwards-ass fucks from the shit side of Youngstown, and they will sell you their kidney for a couple of bucks and some fentanyl. Just disgusting.

The fact that he didn't immediately get fried to ash by lightning after saying this is proof that there is no God.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulent over access to the government than Donald J Trump"

So, in other words, we paid a ransom.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

The guy got in jail for living in an area of Ukraine that was occupied by Russia. To free that guy you removed sanctions? It’s like treating a headache with beheading.

If I criticize Israel for detaining a group of Jews for working in Palestine, am I being antisemitic? I need to know the rules.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

God, Putin must laugh his ass off at how easy it was to make these greedy, corrupt pukes grovel before him.

Caolan Robertson@caolanrob.bsky.social

Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff just told Putin he is a humanitarian. This is completely fucking insane.

Putin will be escalating everything big time because he knows that a Congress that actually acts like a coequal branch of government can fuck things up for him and for Trump.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Important new US intelligence assessment leaked to WSJ concludes—largely backing the Poles and Balts—that Putin personally ordered the commencement of a new large-scale sabotage and terrorism operation targeting the European members of NATO.