We really are in the dumbest timeline right now..

I was told online Russian election interference was a hoax. 🤣

That’s not the only reason Mike Lawler is rattled. He’s terrified because he knows Cait Conley is going to take his seat

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 3d ago

Oh wow. Mike Lawler got so rattled when Cait Conley accurately called him out on his SALT deduction lie that he tried to get up and leave before being told by the forum moderator to sit down and calm down. Oh, and the crowd laughed at him, too. #NY17

23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?

🚨 Seven US senators from both parties say Trump broke the law by greenlighting Russian diesel imports, pointing to a 2022 ban meant to stop American $$ from bankrolling Russia's war & accusing regime of skipping Congress entirely. Russian blood diesel ship ETA in 3 hours at Wilmington, NC! 🧵

The US is threatening to block weapons supplies to Ukraine over its attacks on russian oil refineries. This includes the PURL initiative, which allows European countries to purchase American weapons for Ukraine, including Patriot interceptor missiles.1/2

Update on the ceasefire Trump announced this morning.

Trump’s rally in Syracuse was supposed to be a big show of Republican unity and enthusiasm. Instead, only 4 of 16 local Republican candidates and party leaders planned to show up. Even Mike Lawler skipped it. Oops.

In 2021, researchers used optogenetic therapy to partially restore sight in a blind man. They used light to turn nerve cells on & off. A clinical trial shows promise. It is the basis of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine. A breakthrough yrs in the making. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal

Optogenetic therapy, based on Nobel prize-winning science, involves turning nerve cells on and off using light

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Pray for Pope Leo The 71-year-old pontiff just announced he’ll undergo surgery early this week to remove a small nodule discovered in his lung. Doctors caught it at an early stage. He’s expected to spend about a week recovering in the hospital, before hitting the road again in early November.

Another MAGA “citizen journalist” hoax debunked. Next.

Feels like someone is out to get her. And I love that for her. The best is yet to come.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h ago

Another bad report for Kim Guilfoyle: According to an audio recording reviewed by WSJ, Guilfoyle boasted at Davos about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said they were bankrolling her high-rolling trips around the world.

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

LOL: Right wing media released a Jack Smith (Vol II) document showing he put a pen register on Susie Wiles' phone. He did that b/c Trump showed her a very highly classified document. Wonder if @knightcolumbia.org knows the White House violated Judge Cannon's order. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs

A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.

nytimes.com

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 21h ago

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

It’s genuinely sad to watch. The President is so weak and incapable of negotiating a real deal that he just posts fake ones on social media and hopes people believe him, until every party involved puts out a statement calling him a liar. We’ve never seen weakness like this in the Oval Office.

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h ago

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

1/ Imagine learning someone used your name to oppose a clean-air rule you never opposed. Now imagine that the campaign was funded by a business group receiving Chevron money, and regulators later changed how future rules get reviewed. California, 2026. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

You’re not going to be president now, Buddy.

CalMatters@calmatters.org · yesterday

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

1/ What if Alberta’s fight for independence isn’t really about giving ordinary people more control? American-connected interests are promoting private cities, courting separatists, and developing infrastructure. So who would actually gain power? #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Russia has not only provided intelligence support to Iran but, as it turns out, has also supplied missiles to the Iranians. (Bloomberg News) Americans were killed by Iranian attacks using these weapons. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg

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How dare Vladimir Zelensky fight for his country’s sovereignty and freedom.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

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