JQ Jacobs
@jqjacobs.bsky.social
Educator, archaeologist, gardener, potter, Peace Corps Peru. Writing and photography at jqjacobs.net.
President Donald Trump's promise to give out $5,000 "dividend" payments if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms could violate multiple federal criminal statutes that criminalize buying or coercing votes, write Bruce Swartz, Harry Seavey and Cara Barazia.
Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
The ‘grandmother’ cottonwood trees bulldozed for the border wall - High Country News
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
hcn.org
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate. But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic ...
NEW: In 2016, David Michael Levin served jail time for hacking election websites in Florida. Now, new records reveal Levin helped the Trump DOJ monitor the 2026 primaries in Maricopa County — a key target in Trump's bid to contest the 2020 vote.
DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.
Notice how the headline frames Cuba as the potential lawbreaker: a ship is “intercepted” while “smuggling” oil into the country. What the headline obscures is that the U.S. is the one violating international law by imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and hijacking oil shipments bound for the island.
12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Pope Leo XIV once asked his mother, a Black Creole librarian from Chicago, whether she wanted to be equal to men. “No, because we’re already better,” Mildred Prevost answered. Her family came north from New Orleans’ Seventh Ward around 1911.
The Black Creole Mother Who Made the Pope
Mildred Prevost died in 1990. In October, as Pope Leo XIV, her son told a Vatican synod what she had said in 1972 when he asked if women wanted equality with men, she responded “we’re already better.”
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Bolsonaro got 47% to Lula's 45% & now face a runoff in 3 weeks. What went wrong? - Concerns about Lula's age (80) & incumbency - Corporate media manufacturing scandals against him - Trump helping Bolsonaro. My look at how Lula could still win the runoff paydayreport.com/what-caused-...
What Caused Lula's Electoral Setback & How He Could Still Win the Runoff
Bolsonaro received 47%, while Lula received 45% in the first round.
paydayreport.com
If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
muellershewrote.com
A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social
While Senator Mike Lee won't have much say in the matter but I see nothing wrong with Jack Smith as our next AG. He did an exemplary job with his investigation into the Trump crimes surrounding the election of 2020. #USDemocracy
Thomas Young, who was the first person to explain & demonstrate the properties of light in terms of wave motion also was first to explain that supernumerary arcs are a consequence of waves interference.
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 3d ago🔭 Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey Credit & Copyright: John Entwistle ap261004
Trump has invited Putin to attend the G20 meeting in FL. "Putin directs a war of conquest, filled with atrocities. Democratic governments often have to deal with monsters such as Putin. But they do not have to invite these monsters to international gatherings." open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...
Putin Our Invitee
On President Trump’s invitation to the Russian dictator to attend the next G20.
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Sad news. I interacted with Doug, a dedicated scientist, online when editing and writing Wikipedia plus on archaeology listservers. His contributions are significant. www.ramtops.co.uk
Doug's Archaeology Site: Skeptical views of fringe archaeology
A skeptical archaeology site
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John Hoopes@jwhoopes2.bsky.social · 3d agoRest in peace, Doug Weller (1942 - 2026). For over 20 years, Doug was one of the principal editors of articles on #archaeology and #pseudoarchaeology on Wikipedia. Our collective knowledge is far greater for his valiant efforts. I hope others are inspired by them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_ta...
Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...
WOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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🟣 SUBSTACK 'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech is Influencing Brazil's Upcoming Election By Caroline Orr Bueno and PhD Read below. ↓
'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech is Influencing Brazil's Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on why Brazil is a testing ground for information warfare tactics as the country heads to the polls on Sunday 4 October
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Renee Nicole Good's family has now filed TWO lawsuits, alleging a conspiracy between Greg Bovino, Stephen Miller, & others to deprive people of their rights & killing Renee in furtherance of that conspiracy. Why discovery will bring accountability for Renee’s murder: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...
Trump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
The victims of ICE killings are not terrorists, despite the lies spread by this administration. @vanhollen.senate.gov lays out their clear pattern of abuse: kill an innocent person, then drag their name through the mud. Together we will hold them accountable.
So Americans pay more taxes in order to get AI centers in their backyards. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
nytimes.com
"The remarks of both Trump and Hegseth are appalling. They’re alarming. But they’re also instructive. In the Trump interview and the Hegseth speech, these enemies of liberty and law, of decency and democracy, reveal what they believe, and make clear who they are." www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...
Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
thebulwark.com
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
