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GOP opens door to new ‘culture of corruption’ allegations in sequel to scandalous Bush era Corruption and ethics allegations dogged the GOP the last time a Republican president was in his second term. In 2025, conditions appear ripe for a revisit.

The last time a Republican president was in his fifth year, working with a GOP-led Congress, the party struggled with “culture of corruption” allegations.

Twenty years later, conditions appear ripe for a sequel. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Without sustained massive resistance, all of the rallies that we saw this weekend will have been for nothing beyond theater that achieves nothing in the real world.

#NOKINGS

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Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2008 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...

Since @jkbjournalist.bsky.social hasn't posted this here yet:
"Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with, a former top Florida prosecutor who worked on his sweetheart plea deal, new docs show." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

The reality is if we build the systems needed for prolonged massive resistance to fascism we are also building alternatives to the current extraction consumer capital model we have been forced to live under for generations.

Just saying.

Watergate every day

Atlantans Sound Alarm Over Federal Cuts, Misinformation, Deadly CDC Shooting A week after a deadly shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rattled the nation, Atlanta residents flooded the streets again Saturday morning to protest against the Trump…

“Constant cutting of good science is eventually just gonna erode all of the progress that we made in terms of disease treatments and interventions and public health,” Dr. Irene Yang, a registered nurse and health researcher, said.

(Published August)
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So, all the Republican "Youth" guys in that leaked chat are in their late 20s to mid 30s.

Dismissing them as "dumb kids" illustrates a fundamental truth that white male supremacy fundamentally infantilizes men. All those dudes are stuck in a permanent state of immature chudhood.

Major constitutional changes are required to stop MAGA from returning to power and to cement liberal democracy. There's just no way around it now.

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’ Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

This is basically what a [Brett] Kavanaugh Stop looks like: Cops roll up on brown person, demand papers, penalize them for not having them. This became the law of the land in that shadow docket decision.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

Opposing a power mad despot is literally the most American thing an American can do. These guys got a lot wrong but they nailed that one. It is fundamental to the core of this country.

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

The policing of "tone" and "civility" and "incitement" is always completely one-sided.

/2 But here's what people like Charlie Kirk know:
It doesn't matter who the shooter actually was. It doesn't matter what their motives actually were. They can lie about it, propagandize it, deny it, and their audience will eat it up. And the legacy media will both-sides it in response.

More Signs of Distress in Trump Economy as Inflation, Jobless Claims Rise | Common Dreams New economic data shows US inflation rising to 2.9% in August, with food prices spiking. Jobless claims also on the rise, signaling economic stress.

Every time you go to the grocery store, remember that you are paying the price for Trump’s corruption and recklessness.

did I hallucinate the cold-blooded murder of a husband and wife legislator in their homes by somebody pretending to be a cop? was that a figment of my imagination?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Your favorite brands are funding anti-abortion legal campaigns Big-name companies are donating to a powerful political group using the legal system to expand abortion restrictions nationwide.

USE DOORDASH & GRUBHUB? YOU SUPPORT RAGA.

Republicans work tirelessly to restrict abortion access across the states. Leading these efforts is the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA).

Your favorite brands are funding anti-abortion legal campaigns
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+1 to canning "crushed" tomatoes. Can come back to them all year for all your tomatoey needs.

Rep. Al Green, whose district would be eliminated by the new maps, now addressing protesters. Says maps would make “segregationists proud,” and that the Voting Rights Act was not written in ink, but blood.

Very excited.

A tree creature known as a Clacker holding an Axe. Text: The Creep Rises from the Mulch, warping all life. The Blight encircles all, its strangling touch devouring life as it presses inward. We are in the middle, among the Snarl, fighting annihilation. Clinging to our precious verdant pillars, fueling our struggle with the sap that is our lifeblood. Art by Luis J. Figueredo.

2 fantasy beetle people, accompanied by text: The Snarl, a vibrant gnarled twist on the fantasy genre from Eclipse Phase creators Posthuman Studios. Unique PC species: telepathic symbiotes, carnivorous plants, living trees with resurrected minds, and other strange creatures. Zero humans. Surreal Sylvan Setting: a woodland landscape of kilometer-high trees, abundant and deadly. Zone-based combat: dynamic & tactical - every action has an impact! Mystic Sap: magic abilities tied to a collectible resource. Join the playtest, set down roots

At Gen Con we announced our upcoming weird fantasy RPG: The Snarl! Check out the flyers and keep an eye on snarlrpg.com/playtest for the Open Playtest we'll be running this Fall!

“One can draw a straight line from White's alleged fears to Kennedy's past comments. Kennedy is one of the most prolific spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation in the US and has spent years sowing doubt and fear about lifesaving immunizations.”

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret

Democrats are pushing back hard against the Republican gerrymandering scheme.

Why?

To stop Trump from stealing the election.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee recently re-shared a video falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. They continue to murder journalists for telling the truth.

Photo of a young, handsome smiling man with dark hair wearing a PRESS vest

Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo • Translated by Grok Relentless bombardment... For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City. [video of an missile exploding in the darkness]

@AnasAlSharifo A To Whom It May Concern, The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza. For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air. Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded. If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people's voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop. Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza.

A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.

He was reporting until the moment of his death.

The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:

“Silence is complicity.”

Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic

Excellent op-ed from @jamellebouie.net on the end of the Fourth American Republic and what we have lost - which is enormous and substantial. A pluralistic democracy was an amazing, tentative, incomplete achievement. Now being ripped away by John Roberts, Trump, and MAGA.