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from people magazine Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam By Greta Bjornson | Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown By Bailey Richards Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Latest U.S. Military Boat Strike in Caribbean Sea Kills 3, Pete Hegseth Says The strike, carried out on Saturday, was the 15th announced by the administration in its campaign against vessels it claims are smuggling drugs.

The U.S. military killed at least three people in another strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on social media on Saturday. He said that the vessel was being used to smuggle drugs without providing evidence to support the claim.

A reminder here that these men and women have jobs, lives, and families they’re away from.

A long-deranged and deeply depraved man with a pronouncedly and acceleratingly deteriorating mind announces that he intends to play with the large arsenal of nuclear weapons he controls.

But it's okay, because he's not seeking a third term.

“He was using the modeling company as a cover in part for the sex trafficking… They would send the youngest girls down to Epstein’s place in Palm Beach… When Epstein formed that company, he said to her, I want it to be set up just like Donald Trump’s modeling agency.”
Julie K Brown

@meidastouch.com

Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. on.ft.com/3WYgkUI

Russia sentences 21-year-old admin of 'Melitopol is Ukraine' Telegram channel to 14 years in prison Yana Suvorova was held in detention center №2 in Russia's Taganrog, which is known for the use of torture against prisoners.

⚡️ Russia sentences 21-year-old admin of 'Melitopol is Ukraine' Telegram channel to 14 years in prison.

Yana Suvorova was held in detention center №2 in Russia's Taganrog, which is known for the use of torture against prisoners.

BREAKING: Video shows Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino personally throwing two canisters of tear gas at protesters in Little Village in Chicago earlier this morning. Video via Yani Sotelo on Facebook. (Warning: Strong language)

BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza by Israeli attacks since the ceasefire came into effect less than two weeks ago, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z1q2d3

Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it.

As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Trump’s escalating attacks on vaccines shock public health leaders Trump promoted long-debunked claims that vaccines can cause autism as he called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule sought by anti-vaccine activists.

“That was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history.”

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh

The real emergency is that Trump is destroying economic growth with tariffs at about the same rate that he’s chasing foreign-born workers out of the country.

The reason unemployment isn’t getting bigger is that the economy is getting smaller. trib.al/MCMIujY

Headlines matter.
Framing matters.
AP: it’s about democracy
NYT: it’s about a political fight

This coverage also finally moves past claims of “unprecedented” — NONE of this is unprecedented. The only way to see it as such is to ignore the rest of the world, much less history.

Kamala Harris to Trump during the debate:

Why don’t you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with Putin who would eat you for lunch

Dems target Eli Crane for flip-flopping on Epstein file disclosure | Arizona Mirror Eli Crane Epstein files Democrats ads target Arizona Republican who reversed transparency promise after Trump card

“If House Republicans can’t even stand up for the victims and survivors of a notorious sexual predator, if they won’t even call out the president for a blatant government coverup, then how can their voters trust them?”

story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

If the Trump administration continues its campaign against government officials with multiple primary residence mortgages, records show there’s another place it could look: Trump’s own Cabinet.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Let me get this straight. 19-year-old Big Balls got himself beat up, so they brought in federal troops, which are now helping ICE, which the 26-year-old Fish and Wildlife lady is the new deputy of?

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Breaking News: Trump Refers to Alaska As Russia—Confirming the Kremlin Claim to the State—Saying That He Is "Going to Russia" to Meet Putin, When He Is In Fact Going to a U.S. State

The Economics of Smoot Hawley 2.0, Part II This trade war is really a class war

Krugman: Tariffs can raise real wages only if they lead to an expansion in labor-intensive manufacturing. And America has barely any labor-intensive manufacturing left. High as they are, Trump tariffs won’t bring any significant amount of that manufacturing back open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Reactionary centrists: people form political identities based largely on linear algebraic syntheses of issue position comparisons between themselves and public figures

How people actually form political identities: why nice radio lady not call now

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 79 Palestinians, including 41 aid seekers, since the early hours of this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

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Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Texas has had seven major gun massacres in recent years. But now—even after the slaughter of school kids, teachers, shoppers, and churchgoers—Republican leaders have prohibited a law that keeps guns away from unhinged people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... (📸: Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-News)

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...