Tell the DOJ: Investigate the Ohio GOP's voter purge scheme!

Florida residents warned "this is the 11th hour" as historic storm set to make landfall

Trump administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from full FBI investigation
A new investigation by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and the Senate Judiciary Committee has confirmed our suspicions that the Trump administration actively worked to squash the investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh before he was ultimately seated for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. They found that both the Trump White House and the FBI "misled the public and the Senate" about the scope of the investigation it conducted into the sexual assault allegations by falsely claiming that the bureau managed its investigation thoroughly and "by the book." The FBI’s limited supplemental background investigation involved only a "handful" of relevant witness interviews and ignored other potential sources, including Kavanaugh himself, his accuser Christine Blasey Ford, or others who had offered to give the FBI corroborating or otherwise relevant information. That's right — they didn't even bother to interview Ford herself. This paved the way for at least 8 GOP senators to point to the "lack of corroborating evidence" as justification for Kavanaugh's unconscionable confirmation. He has no business sitting on that court and issuing rulings that strip key freedoms away from millions of Americans.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump gets nightmare news from his OWN party
A new poll from one of the most trusted institutions in the game should have Trump's campaign in a full-blown panic.

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Gun violence holds our communities hostage with fear
Everytown for Gun Safety: This year, American families have suffered through 414 mass shootings — more than one every day. Many of those mass shootings were made so much more deadly by use of an assault weapon, a weapon invented for use on the battlefield, designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. A weapon that has absolutely NO business being in the hands of civilians. Sign the petition and tell Congress that we demand an assault weapons ban before we’re faced with yet another preventable tragedy!

Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
The billionaire tech bozo has decided to take a break from pushing neo-Nazi conspiracy theories about immigration and instead push neo-Nazi conspiracy theories about hurricanes, which are also apparently about immigration. Musk has helped spread bullshit accusations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency "actively blocked" donations to victims of Helene and is "seizing goods … and locking them away to state they are their own," that authorities in North Carolina had "taken control to stop people helping" stricken residents, that sheriffs were threatening to arrest FEMA staff "if they hinder rescue and aid work," and that disaster relief funds had been spent on illegal immigrants instead. "FEMA used up its budget ferrying illegals into the country instead of saving American lives. Treason," the alt-right ketamine enthusiast wrote, without providing any evidence for the ridiculous, baseless, and very dangerous claim. FEMA leaders complained that these conspiracy theories are causing problems for survivors, dissuading people from seeking help, and making it harder for FEMA to do its job. Time for Congress to do ITS job and hold this numbskull — who is also a major government contractor with high-level security clearances — accountable for these reprehensible lies.

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"You are going to die:" Tampa mayor warns against ignoring Milton evacuation orders
Hurricane Milton restrengthened to a Category 5 storm and continued barreling its way towards the west coast of Florida, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate and triggering very, very serious warnings from state officials. The National Hurricane Center warned Tuesday that Hurricane Milton "has the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west-central Florida." Turns out that Gov. Ron DeSantis deciding to delete the words "climate change" from every state law did not delete it from real life.

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Earth’s "vital signs" show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
A new report by leading climate experts shows that, uh, we are in big trouble if things don't change fast. Many of Earth’s "vital signs" have hit record extremes, indicating that "the future of humanity hangs in the balance," a group of the world’s most senior climate experts have said. More and more scientists are now looking into the possibility of societal collapse, says the report, which assessed 35 vital signs in 2023 and found that 25 were worse than ever recorded, including carbon dioxide levels and human population. The scientists identified 28 feedback loops, including increasing emissions from melting permafrost, which could help trigger multiple tipping points, such as the collapse of the massive Greenland icecap. "We're already in the midst of abrupt climate upheaval, which jeopardizes life on Earth like nothing humans have ever seen," said Dr. William Ripple, of Oregon State University. "Ecological overshoot — taking more than the Earth can safely give — has pushed the planet into climatic conditions more threatening than anything witnessed even by our prehistoric relatives." While wind and solar energy grew by 15% in 2023, the researchers said, coal, oil, and gas still dominated. They also said there was "stiff resistance from those benefiting financially from the current fossil-fuel based system." GEE, WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE?

US Supreme Court returns with guns, transgender rights on the docket
The US Supreme Court and its unhinged GOP extremist majority began its new term on Monday, all set to hand down infuriating, nonsensical, and deeply regressive decisions on such critical issues as untraceable "ghost" guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, and whether Mexico can sue US gunmakers for fueling cartel violence. The Supreme Court disposed of a number of important cases without comment as well, including a Biden administration appeal in a Texas abortion case that essentially made it legal for hospitals to let patients die rather than administer abortion care. They definitely have the people's best interests at heart!

Trump, Republicans caught pulling DISGUSTING stunt
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Ugh.

Netanyahu warns Lebanon of "destruction like Gaza"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to inflict the same wholesale slaughter and destruction on the people of Lebanon as he has on the people of Gaza unless they "throw out Hezbollah" — an impossible demand that civilians have no means to enact. His promise of widespread death and carnage was accompanied by the deployment of a fourth IDF division to Lebanon, raising the number of Israeli troops involved in the current invasion to 15,000. At least 36 people were killed and 150 more were wounded in IDF airstrikes on Beirut suburbs that Lebanese media said caused “massive destruction." At least 1,400 Lebanese people, including civilians, medics, and Hezbollah fighters, have been killed so far, and 1.2 million people — about a quarter of the total population — have been driven from their homes by the Israeli escalation even as Tuesday saw the death toll in Gaza surpass 42,000. The far-right, openly expansionist Israeli government is on the warpath with continued material backing of the United States.

Trump secretly gave Putin COVID test machines during extreme shortages, Bob Woodward book says
A new book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward claims that the MAGA cult leader secretly sent COVID-19 testing machines to Vladimir Putin in the early stages of the pandemic when such resources were in short supply. Which raises all manner of questions, including why the in the ever-loving f*ck would a journalist wait FOUR YEARS to tell the American people that?

North Carolina Republican debunks "Helene response myths" in searing memo that pushes back on MAGA conspiracies
Some of Donald Trump's staunchest enablers in Congress and state legislatures are finally pushing back against the avalanche of MAGA disinformation, specifically because the latest batch of deeply unpatriotic lies spewed by the convicted felon and his allies is colliding with actual reality on the ground in parts of the country still reeling from Hurricane Helene's catastrophic destruction. That some Republicans have recently found something resembling a spine is welcomed news, but it is also a stark reminder that a democratic republic cannot withstand withering institutional assault from the very people entrusted to run the show. The MAGA cult leader is a cancer on representative government, and every move made, every social media post thumb-smashed, every grievance screamed, every lie uttered is in service of advancing his own self-interest — to the detriment of literally everyone else in the country, even those who support him with tireless, religious conviction. We are currently subjecting both the foundations and guardrails of American democracy to stress tests of unfathomable consequence, and for the sake of all that is holy we must get it right and end this madness on November 5.

Trump’s $60 "God Bless the USA" Bibles were made in China
Of COURSE they were. Oh, also, hand-signed copies sell for $1,000 a pop. Seriously. Wonder what God's cut is from those proceeds... [RETWEET THAT!]