For people whining abt Dems and investigations, this is interesting. Dems in both the House and the Senate HAVE been demanding records from lawsuits that did not get sued by Trump, including top GOP lawfirm K&E. This could set up an interesting confrontation next year.
The “Tommy” shown in this viral video from Abdul El-Sayed is a former staffer for Sen. Josh Hawley and the son of a GOP strategist. For nearly five minutes, El-Sayed questioned the man about his understanding of the Constitution and the religious freedom it affords all Americans. Simply brilliant.
Elon Musk emerges as virtually the sole-source funder for the Texas GOP, particularly Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
Frédéric Schwilden wrote that, in the same world where Maja Göpel and Marcel Fratzscher are professors, there are also masked individuals whom he referred to as "violence experience tourists," who are students. #Gesellschaft #Bildung #Gewalt (translated)
Retiring Nevada Republican Rep. Mark Amodei said he won't vote for the Trump-endorsed GOP candidate vying to replace him amid a string of stolen valor and other accusations — and warned that the once-safe Republican seat Trump won by 14 points is at risk of flipping blue on Election Day.
The tech bros are all making a very big bet on Trump and the GOP.
Joaquin Teixeira Eterno stated that, for four years, people wearing the national team jersey were called fascists, but that, a week before the election, they started wearing yellow. He also said that there was a coup underway and added that anyone who wanted to could believe that. #Fascismo #Eleições2022 #Brasil (translated)
🚨The Senate map is turning into a GOP nightmare. Democrats now lead in ALL 10 of these key races in Nate Silver’s averages: NC +9.2 GA +9.0 NH +7.3 OH +3.8 MI +3.4 AK +2.8 ME +2.7 TX +2.6 IA +1.2 KS +1.0 Texas. Alaska. Iowa. Kansas. This isn’t just a blue wave. The map is blowing wide open.
I’m conspiratorial enough to wonder whether the gop freakouts are an attempt to manage expectations so that anything short of a blowout is a disappointment www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I posted this the day BEFORE Stephen Miller started trying to scapegoat people (like Susie Wiles) when everyone knows that if the GOP loses Texas, he is primarily to blame. emptywheel.net/2026/10/14/s...
Attempted terrorist attack on a Hindu temple in Illinois. Thankfully failed. Bricks broke windows at a Hindu temple in Ohio earlier this month. Hard not to see a connection with the recent rise in racism against South Asians spurred by a GOP politician denouncing brown-skinned Texas football fans.
Trump is becoming a Democratic turnout machine. He keeps telling voters in ruby-red districts to “pretend I’m on the ballot” to save failing Republican candidates. Instead, he’s firing up Democrats more than Republicans. The GOP chained itself to Trump’s sinking ship—now it’s going down with him.
We have many good officiating teams in Germany, this one today does not belong to that group. Besides their obvious lack of quality, especially for such a top match, it is mainly their arrogant, spoiled attitude that drives a player to white heat. They already officiated against us in Göppingen. They did not present a good image there either. I feel they already tried to take points away from us there. Wolff, who was awarded the Fair Play Prize of German Sports in 2023, commented to the Kieler Nachrichten about the referees after the match: "We have many good officiating teams in Germany, this one today does not belong to that group. Besides their obvious lack of quality, especially for such a top match, it is mainly their arrogant, spoiled attitude that drives a player to white heat. They already officiated against us in Göppingen. They did not present a good image there either. I feel they already tried to take points away from us there." #Handball #Schiedsrichter #AndreasWolff (translated)
The publication stated that police brutality against students protesting in Madrid against Ayuso's educational cuts continued, describing her as right-wing. https://t.co/gOPciLLhtK #BrutalidadPolicial #ProtestasEstudiantiles #Madrid #ES (translated)
it's over for the GA GOP
"The packaging has changed, but the contents have remained the same," concluded Senate member Gaby Perin-Gopie of Volt. #asielwetgeving #BartvandenBrink #immigratiebeleid (translated)
CNN’s Harry Enten: “Polls show this could be the first time this century Democrats win the statewide House vote in Texas due to a big Latino vote swing. Thus, the Texas redistricting may result in no net seat pickup for the GOP! Bad trend for the GOP in a state that's tops for population growth.”
Joaquin Teixeira Eterno stated that individual microentrepreneurs (MEIs) had been humiliated for four years and criticized a measure presented on the eve of the election. He predicted that if its authors won, microentrepreneurs would be strongly affected starting in 2027. He also called the situation a coup and said that anyone who wanted to would fall into it. #MEI #Eleições2024 #Política (translated)
Among the major sources of polling that show the GOP getting absolutely crushed are the GOP's internals. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Marats Kasems wrote that the first instance court of Latvia has sentenced Sergejs Ņikitins, a citizen of Russia and Germany, to seven years in prison. According to Kasems, Ņikitins explained that the night vision devices and binoculars brought to Russia were intended for animal shelters, but the court did not accept this explanation. Kasems claimed that after the verdict was announced, Ņikitins accused Latvia and court officials of fascism, Nazism, and Russophobia. He also wrote that Ņikitins was comforted by Aleksandrs Giļmans and Alla Berezovska and that Ņikitins repeated allegations of hatred against Russians in Latvia, as well as appealed to the Kremlin for help in rescuing him. Kasems claimed that Ņikitins had already served a sentence in Germany for killing his wife while intoxicated and pointed out what he considered a characteristic prison tattoo of thieves on Ņikitins' finger. He asked whether Ņikitins would appeal the verdict and whether the realization that such people are not needed in Russia would come to him at the beginning or closer to the end of his sentence. #vatņiki #LatvijasTiesa #spriedumi #ņikitins #cietums #LatvijasTiesa #spriedumi #cietums (translated)
