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If any other sitting U.S. president was accused of something like this, it would be a front-page headline for weeks. For Trump, it’s just another day that ends in Y. We cannot allow this to become normalized.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Chemotherapy sucks. Tottenham Hotspur emphatically did not. Here are Spurs' player ratings for their win at Chelsea to the theme of the bossman's cancer treatment "power shirts." cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/community-pl...

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

I cannot believe that Eric Bauza has passed away, at age 46. We’d just talked about his life and his voices and his son. A shattering loss

"Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party"

Just saw the J-Dub injury and I sure wish I hadn't. Ughhh.

Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal, a TradWife gets to escape and cut her marriage short to instead pursue a career. Kickers, man.

I would genuinely be totally fine for men to be disenfranchised. The outcome of only women being allowed to vote would be an astronomically better world to the extent that it would totally outweigh the democratic outrage.

Alisha Palmowski is the #F1Academy Champion!! 🏆👏 A dominant season to date for Palmowski, who represents #RedBullRacing, as she secures the title with three races to go! #F1 #F1Academy

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

I am going to clip 3 rallies tonight -- Obama in Michigan, Trump in Georgia, and Bernie in Minnesota. If you appreciate my coverage on big political nights like tonight, please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. I think you'll enjoy PN and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thx

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once.

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Vivek Ramaswamy thinks childhood sexual abuse is a character flaw. Being a colossal asshole, apparently, is not.

Good morning. Here's the new sequel to our Life Surge investigation. It involves Tim Tebow, internal financial documents, and now Sage Steele: youtu.be/3PUGjIKtD00?...

There is a Trust The Process chant. I cannot remember the last time I heard that here. Never thought I would again!

Exactly

There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

NFL Players Association calls for full investigation into Jalen Hurts' blood-clot treatment. "Before conclusions are drawn about how this situation was handled, there must be a full investigation into what occurred."

The NFLPA is 100% correct. A full investigation needs to happen before the general public can possibly be convinced that the Eagles/NFL did nothing wrong here.

PSA: Sixers-Knicks, listed as a 7:00 p.m. tip-off on NBC, is actually scheduled to begin at 7:12 p.m. New York’s ring ceremony and banner raising begin at 6:41 p.m.

Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!

Trevor Zegras has three assists tonight. Quietly, he's cooking.

minnesota is consistently top in turnout and i’ve literally never waited in line here

Wow, you mean Neymar's a right wing shithead? I'm shocked! (I'm not that shocked)

My wife and I weren’t aware of these bra rules until we had to visit someone in prison several years ago. The guards in our instance were at least kind about it but it was still an awkward, embarrassing situation, having to adjust and negotiate our breasts in public. I will never forget it.

Updated, new and improved version, now with extra Sirianni obfuscation Bowen: Eagles org. reeling with Jalen Hurts out for season allphly.com/eagles/bowen...

🤍👋🏼 After long injuries, both James Maddison and now Dejan Kulusevski are back on the pitch for Spurs.

so happy for Dejan Kulusevski

"His health is more important" is a nice sentiment that is plainly contradicted by everything we know about NFL football

7th person dead in ICE custody this year in Texas alone: "His daughter said her dad had a heart condition, diabetes and high blood pressure. He had medicine with him when he was detained, but she said staff at the center wouldn’t 'give him his medications'...” www.texastribune.org/2026/10/18/m...

Someone had to stop him from playing.

"Arresting decline is a generational task" is both a dire warning and a grand opportunity. We need to envision a new status quo moving forward and not be afraid of opportunities for genuine reform to our democracy.

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Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the men whose 911 calls landed them there — the boyfriends or husbands who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation. “I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

One of the girls I coached in basketball last year is in the middle of a medical emergency, on a ventilator. A GoFundMe was setup to help her parents pay for treatment and the hospital stay; if you can donate, thank you, but sharing it is also appreciated. Katie J's a real sweetheart.