Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Barack Obama: He’s clearly not focused on lowering prices for you. There is one thing he does seem to focus on, in addition to home renovation, and that is how to enrich himself and his family and his cronies.

James Talarico: We are running against the embodiment of this corrupt system. Ken Paxton doesn’t serve us, he serves himself. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans are struggling to afford one. It’s hard to get 15 homes in a game of Monopoly. I don’t know how Ken Paxton got 15 homes.

Walter Koenig ist gestern gestorben 😔

GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell is threatening to block Trump’s legislative agenda unless he stops bending the knee to Putin.

“Passing this agenda will require working with Republicans who know the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.

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Republicans against Trump (@Rp...

"[voters] look at a president, and he's building ballrooms, and he's launching crypto companies, and he's taking care of his cabinet members and his Mar-a-Lago crowd, and he's saying, 'I don't care if gas is more expensive.' Listen, the president's message speaks for itself.

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Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) o...

Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-maurene-comey-trump-be7de14f705def3bb6eeadafa7e60805?utm_source=app&utm_medium=android_share&utm_campaign=copy_link

UAV operators of Ukraine's 15th Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade "Black Forest" struck Russian logistics targets in Belgorod region. The brigade specializes in operating against targets in the enemy's rear. #Ukraine

Me: "[Real wages] are down five months running.

Former Trump adviser Steve Cortes: "Because of the war."

Me: "You've said 'because of the war' maybe seven times..."

Cortes: "Because it spiked prices..."

Me: "But you're treating the war like it's a natural disaster, like it's COVID, like it fell from the sky..."

Cortes: "No I'm not..."

Me: "...the war was started by your guy, deliberately, a war of choice."

My full @AJHeadtoHead interview with Trump ally and former adviser Steve Cortes at Georgetown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJVURhDcAQ

https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long

Growing up in Europe, I saw an American president telling the Soviet leader to “tear down this wall”. Because he wanted the people of East Germany to join the free world.

The current US president builds walls, and he wants East Ukraine to just give up and accept Russian rule.

On November 3, Americans have the chance to change course and relight the torch of the Statue of Liberty, to show the world that America stands for freedom.

It may be the last chance.

Make it count.

New in The Dispatch on Patreon:

"See No Evil: How Republicans Looked Away While Trump Cashed In, and What It's Costing You."

Trump reported at least $2.2 billion in income for 2025, more than triple the year before.

Two-thirds of Americans say he's using the presidency to enrich himself, per the Post-ABC-Ipsos poll.

So why did so little stand in the way?

Read it here:
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"It is absolutely a bridge too far for ordinary people who are seeing this. And I keep using the word repulsed and disgusted, but there’s something gut-level and emotional about people’s response to this that you can’t, like, MAGA your way out of."

https://trib.al/RBZxluf

Footage shows a Russian military position being demolished by a Ukrainian drone strike. The attack was carried out by the TIVAZ Artillery Division, a specialized unit of Ukraine's 148th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Air Assault Forces. #Ukraine

Election anxiety drives some Israelis to consider exit − for good https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/10/26/israel-election-future-of-benjamin-netanyahu/92439912007/

"US regulators have issued a warning to a nuclear project critical to Donald Trump’s efforts to revive the industry, after a contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped over during refueling."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/safety-concerns-cloud-americas-flagship-nuclear-restart/

“Intercept’s analysis of the rates of domestic abuse reported in Pentagon data found intimate partner violence among married military couples was at least four times higher than the civilian rate”

“the military’s hypermasculine culture and systematic mistreatment of women play a role in the increased risks of intimate partner violence”

Weak carceral* frame yet important

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/26/military-domestic-violence-murder-deaths-women/

*the dangerous men institutions of state violence produce are bullets fired from still-loaded guns

More than 500 American citizens — including children — have been targeted under Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation obsessions, according to an updated count.

It’s likely an _undercount_.

https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/over-500-us-citizens-have-been-targeted

🔥KULINSKI: “Who’s more responsible for your life being hell: trans people, Muslims, immigrants or billionaires? You know... 2 years of an anti-immigrant regime, is your life better? As @jamestalarico says the minority destroying 🇺🇸 are billionaires.” (H/T @marco.foster)