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From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons

Paxton surrogate delivers confident closing message: "We need God's intervention in this race"

A superfan who regularly sits in the front row at the Senile Satan’s events has been busted for possessing disturbing images of children.

Adam Radogna, a 37-year-old Ohio restaurant owner, was indicted by a grand jury for possessing dozens of images containing child sexual abuse material, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-front-row-joe-adam-radogna-arrested-in-ohio-on-vile-child-sexual-abuse-material-charges

RT: @aakashgupta The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come.

His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody.

So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him.

Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in.

His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy.

Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for.

He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it.

He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly.

A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well.

Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest.

That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks.

The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.

RT: @MarcoFoster_ Zohran Mamdani on Abdul El-Sayed: “I think he’s doing a very good job in the way that he’s navigating this race. A race of that magnitude is difficult enough as it is. To have to contend with blatantly racist attacks on a regular basis and the silence of so many around him in the face of that, that is immensely difficult. When we are speaking about millions of dollars being spent trafficking in that racism, it becomes incredibly difficult to both respond to it and continue to move forward and it’s a challenge I think he’s rising to admirably”

Saving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/nicholas-stern-report-climate-consensus-lessons-capitalism

VACCINES GIVE EVERYONE A SHOT AT LIFE!

South Africa’s HPV vaccine program is working!

Before it kicked off in 2014, about one in five teenage girls carried the two HPV strains behind most cervical cancers.

Among girls who are eligible for the vaccine, it is now three in 100.

For girls living with HIV, who face the highest risk, infections fell from 29% to 4%. The drop in cancer cases, however, will take decades to show.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/south-africas-hpv-vaccination-drive-protect-girls-cervical-cancer

House Judiciary Democrats: “Trump continues to lie about his involvement and close relationship with Epstein.

Our committee investigators have compiled a 6-year timeline recounting the close friends’ shared history of sexual assault when they were both fixtures in New York’s seedy world of hunting ground’ beauty pageants.”

The powers that be at @newyorktimes do not think this is newsworthy because they like Republicans and want them to win.

https://bsky.app/profile/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/post/3mz6rzz6xwc2v

“It is our duty and privilege to vote and shape our democracy.” – Unknown

VOTE BLUE

Distaste for Russian Diplomat Forces U.S. to Cancel Photo Session in #Atlanta https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/politics/lavrov-russia-photo-rubio.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1E.UJrT.4wELko0KKMcW&smid=nytcore-ios-share #Georgia #Russia

It’s going great in Texas!

Video: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mz2km5qs7s2n

CHALKBEAT: “More than one-third of TN’s 35,000 private school voucher recipients live in just 20 ZIP codes, most of them wealthy and majority white”

What a coincidence! Marsha Blackburn wants to expand Gov. Lee’s failing, $1.3 billion handout for wealthy families. www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

How Disabled Children Were Caught Up in Trump’s Homeless Crackdown (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/us/trump-homeless-crackdown-disabled-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1E.DHfV.8uY1sOjphAyb&smid=bs-share

Judge orders Trump officials not to threaten or intimidate election workers
https://wapo.st/4swfmhu

"Trump Admin🚨Halts Funding for Key UA Security Programs.

The INCLE program⚡helps UA’s police, border guards & other sec pers protect civilians & critical infra."

"Just 3%⚡of Americans sympathize with Russia over Ukraine, acc YouGov. #Trump's🚨somehow managed to align himself with one of the most despised regimes on the planet.

Now he’s cutting🚨programs..."
-Gandalv

The #TrumpRegime appears to be 💯% pro #Russia. Will R MOC stand up for #Ukraine?

#Trump #Traitors #USPol
https://www.washingtonsun.com/foreign-policy/trump-administration-halts-funding-for-key-ukraine-security-programs

A Texas grand jury has indicted an ICE officer for running over a man with his SUV. https://mrf.lu/2p07t

Alice: How long has Andy been CEO of Proton, and was he always a dick?

Lumo¹: *hostile framing detected*
Lumo: I wouldn't call Andy a...
Lumo: *search results returned*
Lumo: ...oh, oh wow, he *is* a dick.

¹ Lumo is Proton's AI that no one wanted, but everyone got bundled into their account anyway.

#Proton #AI