I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Another American surprise: the U.S. opposes using frozen Russian assets as collateral for a €140B EU-backed reparations loan to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. While the UK and Canada support the plan, both the U.S. and Japan are taking a cautious stance, slowing EU efforts to rally full G7 backing.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

This is worth a string of F bombs for how most of us feel. Meanwhile his gilded WH looks more like a brothel than the people's house. The symbolism is astounding.

He gave $40B to a foreign dictator, millions for Noem’s jets, he’s trashing the White House for a ballroom and we’re just trying to survive. There should’ve been more than 7 million in the streets on No Kings Day. Come at me but you know I’m right.

Prison Staff Gagged, Inmate Vanished After Leaking Info on Ghislaine Maxwell Coverup An ex-inmate turned federal prison consultant is blowing the whistle on a “massive coverup” involving Ghislaine Maxwell—he says the Bureau of Prisons is enforcing total silence, even punishing inmates who talk.

This is an Epstein shutdown.

You guys I’m really sorry but I am never going to forgive him for ripping a side off the White House and I am never going to forgive all the people who could have stopped him but just kept going along to get along.

“.. struggling to put together a $20 billion loan to Argentina without leaving themselves on the hook to the virtually bankrupt South American country ..” 🤡 @wsj.com $ARGT www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

Native America Calling: Alaska Native residents assess their future after record-breaking storm damage - Indianz.Com

You know shit's getting serious once they start using words you usually only hear over a boiling cauldron.

to put it more clearly: briefs due wed midnight on whether to rehear case en banc.

Dissenting Judge Graber, on 9th Cir, calls on public to "retain faith in judicial system" while she begs full court to overturn the panel ruling permitting federalization of National Guard in Portland. Full court asks for briefs on whether to rehear case en banc by Wed midnight

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

Seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we’re in

NEW: A federal appeals court panel has blessed Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Portland, while a dissenting judge pleads with her colleagues to reverse the ruling. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Jeff Bezos & Amazon also own the autonomous vehicle company Zoox and are currently lobbying the DC city council.

At the start the mandate, I called for a big bang in defence. Less than a year later, the financial big bang is here—€6.8T by 2035. Now we must turn this financial big bang into a production one. Keynote at the European Defence Industry Conference🇩🇰 ↓ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

🇩🇰 Great to be in Copenhagen for the European Defence Industry Conference of @eu2025dk.bsky.social Denmark knows what’s at stake - as Russia wages hybrid war against the country and the West, it stands as one of the leaders in #EUDefence 1/4

He didn’t want to serve the country. He wanted to serve Trump. Let that sink in.

Trump's assault "would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms." Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

My latest Rant! looks at how Russia and China are working together. #synergy open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks. I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nominee to be the Office of Special Counsel, ie., the guy federal employees must appeal to if they think they have been treated unfairly

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

The Trump admin has never heard of the social contract—that implicit agreement between the governed and the government. Or maybe it has, but Trump thinks it’s like every actual contract he’s signed, and he can ignore it.

The rest of the West needs to condemn the Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest in advance. Preferably, the non-US NATO members should call for its cancellation.

I have persistently argued that Trump is Putin's obedient servant and that all his objections about Putin have just been insubstantial statements to delude his base that he is not Putin's obedient servant. I am afraid that I have been right all along: Trump serves Putin.

One year ago: 🇺🇸 @economist.com

Whatever the outcome in Sunday's Argentina elections, incentives are for Milei to devalue the Peso right after. If he gets clobbered, he obviously devalues. If he does better than expected, this is the perfect opportunity to devalue a massively overvalued Peso and blame his political opponents...

‘The Citi US earnings revisions index has been losing momentum and is now in negative territory.‘ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.‘ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

‘A market correction of the same magnitude as the dotcom crash could wipe out over $20T in wealth for American households, equivalent to roughly 70% of American GDP in 2024. This is several times larger than the losses incurred during the crash of the early 2000s.‘ www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

“This is going to be one of the most impactful litigations of our lifetime. This is about large corporations targeting vulnerable populations – children – for profit. That’s what we saw with the tobacco cos; they were also trying to get them addicted while young.“ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pretty soon they’ll have the Bomb. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-wea...

Trump said the U.S. will end aid and impose new tariffs on Colombia after President Gustavo Petro accused American forces of killing a Colombian fisherman in a September boat strike. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The White House plans to give asylum to far-right anti-immigrant protesters from Europe. No. This is not a joke. It does put one in mind planned terrorism, however.

It’s so fucked up. substack.com/@logicallyjc...

Why in the world would reputable news outlets report on Santos’ “plans”? He’s lied about everything his whole life but we are supposed to care about his stated intentions? Ignore him.

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

Healy, Alaska on Saturday. Population 723.

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

Boston Scientific has been a driving force behind Minnesota’s leadership in medical technology, spurring innovation and employing more than 10,000 Minnesotans.   Today, we cut the ribbon on their new campus that will add hundreds of jobs and keep that innovation in Maple Grove.

Today marks the first day of early voting in Texas! For the November 4 election, the early voting window runs from October 20 to October 31. Make your voice heard, check your polling location, bring one of the approved photo IDs, and vote early.

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.” Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...