Get your ass out and vote!

ArtIII.S3.C1.4 Aid and Comfort to the Enemy as Treason

Related: yes, he’s spending a ton of money (a fortune, in fact), but perhaps more relevant is that it’s a completely insignificant amount for him (not at all a fortune). It’s the equivalent of someone with a net worth of $500K spending $79. Yes, you read that right!

Elon Musk Pours a Fortune Into Saving Texas for Republicans

The world’s richest man donated $158 million to an effort backing state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

wsj.com

Caroline Wren's been very busy. In addition to ginning up the Talarico conspiracy theory, she's been shilling for the Republic of Srpska government to the tune of $800k. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

More Trump Allies Aided Pro-Russian Balkan Government (Gift Article)

The daughter of the president’s chief of staff joined an American businessman in Republika Srpska as he explored a gas pipeline. And six current and former campaign advisers recently traveled there fo...

nytimes.com

mrspanstreppon@jamiepeppard.bsky.social · 2d ago

Amanda Moore with all the details surrounding the Talarico conspiracy clusterfuck. Caroline Wren, to no one's surprise, I'm sure, played a leading role by promoting a fraudster with the handle, TickleTexts.

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

The January 6 Memory Project

A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

jan6memoryproject.org

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

4. In a barrage that included 39 ballistic missiles, the highest number in one attack since the invasion in 2022, the Times reported "some 600,000 people in Kyiv lost power, renewing concerns about access to heat during the upcoming winter." messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Power, pride, and purpose in motion! Watch these incredible women step up, make their voices heard, and lead the way forward. It’s #NoKingsDay. Your vote is your voice—make it count.  #StrollToThePolls

And it’s full of lies, by the way. Schools DO have a legal obligation to prevent rape. It’s in case law. It’s in Title IX regulation. Using ATIXA (or TNG) should be a massive liability to schools. This consulting firm flagrantly encourages them to break the law.

18. So yes, I think we are seeing the makings of another impeachment scenario involving Ukraine. I mean, there are a billion reasons to impeach Trump, but this one is a big one, as it's part of America's global role.

I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 3d ago

⚡️ "Give us Starlink, open it for us on Russian territory, and we will destroy his ballistic missile launchers," Zelenskyy stressed that stopping Russian ballistic launches would force Vladimir Putin to negotiate, rendering further energy strikes unnecessary.

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.

When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

theatlantic.com

Cornell protects rapists.

To use everyone's favorite phrase, I wrote about why the reported attempt to denaturalize Ilhan Omar is outrageous as an American and yes As A Jew for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8561...

Whatever you think of Ilhan Omar, these threats are unconscionable

American Jews should oppose the intimidation and denaturalization of the Minnesota Congresswoman

forward.com

Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.

i think we can come up with a better system than putting a drug addled, pedophile dipshit with no grip on reality in charge of defense satellites

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

After lying to voters, secretly recording debate negotiations, a fake phone call to me, and declining this original date, Zach Nunn finally agreed to a debate. I’m excited for Iowans to finally hear from their representative after 0 public town halls in 4 years in office. See you on October 27th.

New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3w ago

The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery." ~ Aeschylus #DavidHorsey

MS doesn't cause biting (or kicking police in the head and nurse in the chest). She bit someone 10 years ago before diagnosis.

The Trump administration has formally invoked presidential communications privilege to withhold documents and block testimony about the president’s involvement in the Kennedy Center’s management.

Trump Administration Formally Invokes Executive Privilege in Kennedy Center Lawsuit

The move comes as Rep. Joyce Beatty seeks more evidence in her legal fight over the Kennedy Center’s planned two-year closure.

washingtonsun.com

Case now goes to the OH Supreme Court but the ruling is a big deal. The fact that vouchers mostly fund kids already in private school could turn out to be a big legal liability because it’s what sets up a separate state system. www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

This is *exactly* how/why Hungary was finally motivated to throw out Orban. Let's go.

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 2d ago

Remarkable outcome in Fox News' latest poll: 88% of U.S. voters say they are extremely or very concerned about corruption in government, beating every other issue including inflation www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

“Kash Patel was paid $25,000 last year by a film company owned by a Russian national who also holds US citizenship and has produced programs promoting “deep state” conspiracy theories and anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, according to a financial disclosure form Patel submitted”

Greg Miller@gregpmiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

If Patel is confirmed, the agency responsible for defending against Russian espionage operations inside the United States would be led by someone who months earlier had taken money from a perceived ally of the Kremlin. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 3d ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

sorry, what?