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I hear you.
But I just repeat the Pratchett Rule of EM:
"It may not be your fault, but it is now your responsibility."
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Last month, Trump’s DHS asked its cyber division to try and a hack voting machines.
BUT:
-They directed them to NOT alert voting machine companies if flaws were discovered. Violating policy.
-Order to only report directly to White House.
That’s NOT typical at all!!
ProPublica: Trump Appointees Wanted a Voting Machine Hacked
A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.
The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the findings so they could be given to the White House, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request.
propublica.org/article/cisa-…
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Trump is so angry that Ukrainians won’t surrender and die quietly so he and his friends can make money with Putin.
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🚨A MESSAGE FOR MAGA: You are only upset about and know details about what they want you to be upset and know details about. It’s time to wake up. You’re being controlled. We don’t have time for this back-and-forth crap anymore.
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Maureen Dowd’s column exposes how Natalie Harp used her access to knife Susie Wiles—showing Trump the Politico Playbook story about Wiles’s daughter profiting from lobbying for Republika Srpska (a pro-Russian Bosnian Serb territory).
But Wiles didn't panic; she let television do her dirty work. When Zacharia was tossed onto Hannity, assuming she was in friendly territory, Hannity ambushed her over her fake attorney claims and 14-minute disaster debut. Within 24 hours, Trump showed Zacharia the door, advising her to "reconsider" her job.
Dowd chronicles a single, breathtaking week of White House corruption and incompetence:
•Kimberly Guilfoyle getting fired as ambassador to Greece after shaking down a donor to pay her $100,000 AmEx bill.
•Ric Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon fighting over $5.6 million in misallocated Kennedy Center funds.
•Pete Hegseth getting shut down over his "nitwit plan" to livestream a military firing squad execution on Twitch.
•Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling out Trump's "sordid deal" with Vladimir Putin over Russian diesel while White House directives throttle Ukraine's Starshield connectivity.
“Instead of running the country and dealing with the world he has set on fire, Trump is focused on settling petty squabbles and a web of corruption in his incompetent—and dangerous—court.”
Trump’s bubble is getting smaller, more ingrown, and more fractious, leaving an exhausted public to watch an empire bicker over its own demise.
nytimes.com/2026/10/17/opini…
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So it looks like the Kennedy Center was being used as a slush fund for foreign bribes.
No wonder Trump installed Grennell there initially.
Alina Habba Mildon initially told Trump that the $17mn bank transfer at the heart of her spat with Grenell came from her husband. But when her lawyers later presented White House the wire receipt, the sender was redacted. The money actually came from the government of the DRC.
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Today in dystopia, the military-industrial complex is reassuring investors that the wars will indeed be endless.
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I have 4 kids in public school and the nurse has to call me for permission to give them tylenol
Theres a 0.0% chance of the principal performing a sex change on my child during study hall
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"Who's gonna stop him?"
In a republic, the answer is Congress, the courts, and the Constitution.
A system where the answer is "nobody" is called a dictatorship.
That's the world JD Vance is describing.
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Trump says he brought in “$21 trillion” of investment vs. “less than $1 trillion” under Biden.
Actual business investment: $14.5 trillion under Biden, $6.7 trillion so far under Trump.
My @Morning_Joe Chart
So correct me if this is wrong but:
Revoking Trump’s citizenship is on firm legal grounds vs. say, Ilhan Omar’s?
So it’s official: Reuters has confirmed that the White House gave the order to disrupt Starlink so Russia could attack Kyiv with no advanced warning. The US aided and abetted Putin’s killing of numerous civilians in Ukraine. Trump’s a traitor, a Russian asset who is using US military technology to help our enemy.
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Exactly one day after reports emerged that Ric Grenell allegedly failed to deposit $6 million in donations and the money remains unaccounted for.
President Trump invokes executive privilege to shield records in the legal fight over the Kennedy Center's closure. cbsn.ws/4B0gFJs
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Pete Hegseth has directed Pentagon officials to delay the release of its report on the attack on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran until after the U.S. midterms at the earliest out of fear it could further harm Congressional Republicans.
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Short version: Russia was never a hoax
Just to be clear about what happened here:
- Trump cut a deal with Putin that will route ~$4B of American dollars to Russia. That money will be used to fund the war.
- Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" that was probably Putin's idea, surprised the Ukrainians, is structured to benefit Russia, and was immediately broken by the Russian military.
- When Zelensky spoke candidly about these terrible deals, the US cut off Starlink access in ways that made it harder for Ukraine to intercept Russian drones, and seemingly withheld intel about ballistic missile attacks.
- Last week alone, Russia killed more than 150 civilians in Ukraine, including 33 in one strike on a bus stop.
Trump is de facto asking @ZelenskyyUa to surrender. Zelensky can throw on a suit, he can endure lectures from whiny little bitches like @JDVance, but he can't lay down and die just because Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize.
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This is such a good explanation for why conservatives who were at least hesitant about voting for Trump a decade ago are now celebrating the idea of a live-streamed execution.
El-Sayed: Trump’s neat trick is to become the subject of every conversation and to force people to take sides. And here’s the thing about it: once you take sides, he’s forcing you to double down on crazier and crazier stuff. And soon enough, you’re out here signing on to a bunch of things that, like three years ago, you’re like, “That’s insane.”
But here’s the problem: you don’t want to have to face down that one friend who’s going to tell you, “I told you so.”
And so what happens is that you keep doubling down on the craziest stuff. And you find yourself so far gone up that tree that there’s no way you can climb down. We’ve got to help those folks. Because guess what? They’re paying for $5 gas too. They’re paying insane diesel prices too. They can’t see a doctor either
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It should not surprise you that the state Attorney General has not intervened to ensure that these are processed before Monday.
That’s because the state AG is Ken Paxton and he very much wants election interference.
NYT: Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations in Texas as Early Voting Looms
A computer error caused a backlog of hundreds of thousands of voter registrations in Texas, sending election workers scrambling to process them before early voting starts on Monday, county election officials said.
nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/po…
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“We may have committed some light treason.” -Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg…probably
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Trump ordered Starshield to be shut off in Ukraine so Russia could launch its largest attack and kill civilians, and Elon Musk threw Trump under the bus because this is a war crime.
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This election ain't gonna rig itself.
❗️US FBI Director Patel unexpectedly arrived in Russia, – Russian media.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
FBI Director Kash Patel was in Lynchburg, Virginia attending a law enforcement event at Liberty University on Oct 14, not in Russia. Video, photos and statements from the FBI and outlets confirm this after an erroneous report was corrected.
foxnews.com/media/ms-now-i…
newsweek.com/photos-video-k…
justthenews.com/government/fed…