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(Daniel Boris, @danboriscreates)
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(Michael de Adder, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Patrick Chappatte, Le Temps, Geneva, Switzerland)
(Garry Trudeau, gocomics.com)
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(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
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(Marian Kamensky, caglecartoons.com, Austria)
(Bill Day, caglecartoons.com)
(Paul Noth, The New Yorker)
Another Republican state government tells the Malignant Fascist to back off his election tampering:
The Republican-led state government in Alaska implored a federal judge on Saturday to permanently dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit seeking to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate race if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.
“The United States’ opposition provides no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any longer,” the filing said, adding that “the relief demanded is inappropriate and not even possible given Alaskan voters’ vital right to ballot secrecy.”
The filing from Alaska officials comes just three days before Election Day and as the judge is expected to rule on whether to dismiss the lawsuit or allow it to continue.
The Trump administration has claimed that Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign was involved in recruiting a retired teacher, Dan J. Sullivan, with the same name as Dan S. Sullivan to run in the race, creating confusion that it says will unfairly take away votes intended for the incumbent. Peltola has denied the allegations.
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit on Oct. 22 against local election officials, arguing that the results of the competitive Senate race should not be certified unless Dan S. Sullivan is declared the winner.
Alaska officials on Saturday criticized the Trump administration’s claim that it has standing to intervene in the election, as election certification is left up to the states.
The filing noted that the Alaska Supreme Court approved the second Sullivan’s name to be on the ballot months ago and that “state officials carefully designed the ballot to minimize voter confusion.”
Alaska officials also took aim at the Justice Department’s proposal for “segregating” ballots that rank Dan J. Sullivan, writing, “this unexplained idea makes no sense.”
“No matter how the ballots are physically stored, it will be easy to tell which ballots rank Daniel J.,” the filing said. “If the United States means something different — as it seems to — its ballot segregation proposal is both disturbing and impossible.”
The Alaska attorney general’s office asked the judge to “immediately dismiss this lawsuit with prejudice and allow state officials to conduct the general election — including ballot counting and certification — free from unwarranted federal interference.”
The Trump administration amended its complaint this week to cite a new story in The New York Times, which reported that Peltola’s campaign was involved in recruiting Dan J. Sullivan and that Peltola herself was aware of the situation. The Times story cited a former campaign manager who later attempted to retract her statements.
At a rally Friday night, Peltola told a crowd of her supporters that she was “so deeply offended by these accusations about having any involvement with anyone else’s candidacy.”
“I want fewer candidates in the primary. I’m not out soliciting more competition,” Peltola said, adding she did “not need any help” defeating Dan S. Sullivan... (our emphasis)
Alaskans are fiercely independent and, as the filing stresses, want to "conduct the general election — including ballot counting and certification — free from unwarranted federal interference.” In every election, it seems there's a 2020 Georgia, where Republican election officials stand up to the Malignant Fascist's election rigging / election de-legitimatizing. Looks like it's Alaska's turn this year -- maybe more to follow?
UPDATE: U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason threw out the MF's election stealing lawsuit. Appeal to follow.
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Heather Digby Parton, writing in Salon.com, looks at the impending defeat of the vindictive and unstable Malignant Fascist in Tuesday's mid-term elections, and considers the stakes involved:
"The election’s stakes are profound. America crossed the Rubicon in 2024 when it invited Trump back into power after he tried to overturn the election, was convicted of fraud, and was revealed to have possessed and leaked classified information after he was out of office. The media and the nation’s elites interpreted that victory as a sign that Trump was some sort of magical superhero, and that it was in all their interests to join with him and reap the rewards. The result has been nothing short of catastrophic, revealing gaping holes in our constitutional order, weaknesses in our democratic system and a void in our society where moral authority used to be. America has never been perfect, and it always falls short of its professed ideals, but this political era has stripped away the belief that we have any at all.
The corruption on display, coupled with a lack of concern for the lives of ordinary people, is breathtaking. And while it remains shocking that tens of millions of Americans still support this administration, it seems that a majority may have finally had the veil lifted from their eyes, allowing them to see the incompetence, grift and megalomania for what it is."
We'll see how many have had the veil lifted on Tuesday.
NBC News reports that a majority of voters are demanding a check on the corrupt and mentally ill Malignant Fascist, giving Dems a decided advantage going in to Tuesday's election:
"Democrats have a sizable advantage in the battle for control of Congress days ahead of the midterm elections, a new national NBC News poll finds, with voters clamoring for change and voicing all-time high disapproval of President Donald Trump.
Registered voters prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress by a 7-point margin, with Democrats leading Republicans 52%-45% — 2 points more than in last month’s poll. That includes a 21-point lead among independents.
Three percent of voters remained undecided as the poll was conducted from Oct. 28 to Oct. 30, and how they shift in the final days could tilt the outcome in dead-heat House and Senate races around the country. While the overall poll suggests that Democrats are poised to capitalize on a well of dissatisfaction with the president and his policies, there are findings that complicate the favorable picture."
The poll points to the unpopularity of both parties, with the Dem's unpopularity due to their inability to thwart the MF's most egregiously bad policies, and perceived weakness in the face of his demands.
With the election now two days away, we need to imagine that we're 5 points behind and get ourselves and everyone on board with us to the polls. Good if you've already voted by mail or early voting in person. We need to finish the job with the ballot.
It was a Halloween cold open last night on Saturday Night Live with the scariest pumpkin of all, the orange Malignant Fascist (James Austin Johnson), and his men's ass fetish. "Weekend Update" also had some quips on that oddity, and more good stuff.
“This Order addresses President Donald J. Trump’s second attempt to plead that Defendants … acted with actual malice when they published an article in the Wall Street Journal ('WSJ') linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ('Epstein') ... As with his first attempt, he has failed.” -- U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles, Southern District of Florida, dismissing a lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein's best friend and fellow rapist Malignant Fascist against the Wall Street Journal, et al. (pdf). The MF was suing over reporting on the MF's salacious birthday card and suggestive drawing for Epstein (click to enlarge):
The case was dismissed with prejudice.
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(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(David Horsey, The Seattle Times)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(John Branch, King Features)
(Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency)
(Pedro Molina, Tribune Content Agency)
(Robert Ariail, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, SC)
(Bruce Plante, caglecartoons.com)
(Matt Wuerker, Politico)
Operation Epic Quagmire: bombs away after mid-terms --
Trump to Resume Strikes On Iran Day After Midterms https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/30/trump-to-resume-strikes-on-iran-day-after-midterms/?ap=b
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire.com) October 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Michigan saboteur Haley Stevens won't go away, but she's toast --
haley stevens probably could have mounted a comeback in michigan politics had she just played ball but she's apparently too entitled and childish and so now it seems like she's on her way to being persona non grata
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) October 30, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Obviously Haley Stevens has decided not to seek higher office again, which is probably best for everyone.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Faux concern over the two Sullivans on the Alaska ballot. Our broken media stoking story --
In public statements, DOJ appears to concede that its actions in Alaska were directed by Trump and are designed to give the incumbent senator, Dan Sullivan, an unfair advantage. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) October 31, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Trump's federal lawsuit demanding that Alaska refuse to certify a Peltola win is bullshit. It's designed to create the *impression* of confusion, which he'll then use to pressure Gov not to certify her and press Senate Rs not to seat her. It will fail but do damage. newrepublic.com/article/2173...
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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The Malignant Fascist's election interference runs into a stumbling block--
An extraordinary order: DOJ “shall not threaten, intimidate or coerce state or local elections officials orworkers to demand that they halt processing the ballots of anyregistered voter solelyon the basis that the ballot” is someone DOJ says may not be a citizen www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
— Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Trump - Epstein files are resonating with voters. Light him up --
Epstein files corruption is resonating with voters in Iowa, Michigan & Nebraska. Republicans still refuse to sign Thomas Massie & my Epstein 2.0 discharge petition to allow state attorney generals to prosecute. This issue will be top of mind for swing voters on Tuesday.
— Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social) October 31, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Early voting turnout update --
Early Vote Report, 10/31/26, TargetEarly midnight update: - Overall turnout up 26% over 2022, very bad sign for the Rs - Dem share +10 over 2024, consistent with Dem generic ballot/Party ID gains - Important - Indies will be much more Dem this time - Youth, Black, Hispanic voter turnout is 🔥🔥🔥1/
— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) October 31, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Along with the Malignant Fascist, ICE is on the ballot --
I hope Americans turn out en masse and resoundingly put an end to this thoroughly unamerican terror.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) October 31, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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The organized crime boss always gets his percentage of the action --
Trump combines extraordinary corruption and personalism. His underlings who want to enjoy the corruption still have to pay tribute.
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Their love of Mother Russia is right out in the open --
It turns out that it was the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security who dressed his children like russians for the White House Halloween reception, complete with a russian tank forces patch and a Soviet army cap for his son, and a sarafan and kokoshnik for his daughter.
— Kristian Kiehling (@kristiankiehling.bsky.social) October 31, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Great message from James Talarico --
#VoteBlue
— Amy B (@abbarsha.bsky.social) October 31, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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LGM's Paul Campos has given us "merely a list of a few highlights" of corruption by the Trump Crime Family just in the past 2 years. This is merely a taste of what Campos compiled:
*Trump founded a cryptocurrency firm at the same moment he was deregulating the entire crypto industry. He then bought a separate firm that he used to buy his own cryptocurrency, while at the same time raising nearly one billion dollars from investors to buy that very same cryptocurrency.
*He launched a meme coin, aka, a lightly tarted up Ponzi scheme, that netted him hundreds of millions of dollars, even as the coin lost 97% of its value. Mandatory financial disclosures revealed eventually that investors had collectively lost $3.8 billion on this scheme, while Trump himself had netted $636 million, since he made money on every transaction, whether the value of the coin went up or down.
*Relatedly, he received the benefit of enormous crypto “investments” from foreign nationals, that were often barely disguised bribes. He pardoned one of these investors, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, wiping out a serious criminal conviction. Prior to Trump issuing this pardon, Binance had provided critical software and infrastructure to World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency start-up co-founded by Trump and his sons.
*His son-in-law Jared Kushner, a man with no experience in either high finance investment or international diplomacy, was given two billion dollars to manage by Saudi Arabia – this generated a $40 million investment fee per year for Kushner – and then was appointed by Trump to handle wartime negotiations with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s bitterest regional rival. In the midst of the negotiation, Kushner solicited five billion more dollars for his fund from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern governments.
*In the summer of 2025, the nation of Qatar gave Trump a $400 million luxury jumbo jet as a gift. This was a completely unambiguous violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause...
There are several more "highlights" that you may be familiar with, since the corruption has been out in the open for all to see and for the corporate, compromised media to largely ignore.
In a mid-term election season where one of the public's main concerns is "corruption in Washington," it helps to keep reminding everyone that we're living under the most corrupt regime, with the most irredeemably corrupt Grifter-in-Chief, that has ever taken power in our country.
And now is the time for the voters of this country to start doing something tangible about it.
BONUS: Want more? See --
The American Bar Association's report on the Trump regime's rampant pay-to-play corruption;
Oversight Dems' Trump digital grift wealth tracker;
American Oversight's "What we know about President Trump's Corruption"; and
The New Republic's "When it comes to Trump's corruption, you haven't seen it all."
A shower or bath afterwards is recommended.
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Dem Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (MI) won the Democratic primary in August after a rough and tumble campaign dominated by pro-Likudnik group AIPAC's well-funded, scurrilous campaign against him. Just days before the mid-term election, AIPAC's candidate Rep. Haley Stevens is now seeking to undermine El-Sayed by publicly demanding that he "apologize" for remarks about Israel's rapacious war in Gaza and violence on the West Bank. From Politico:
"After it seemed like former primary rivals Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens might finally appear together, they’re back to sniping at each other. And it could hardly come at a worse moment as Democrats look to unite behind El-Sayed and hold on to a pivotal Senate seat.
El-Sayed’s campaign is asking Stevens to stay away from all future campaign events in the closing days of the race, two people familiar with the decision, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive campaign dynamics, told POLITICO.
She should stay away 'as not to distract from the central issues of the campaign,' one of the people said."
Haley's fiancee, injury lawyer Jason Turkish -- nominally a Dem -- announced days ago that he would be supporting El-Sayed's opponent, Big Pharma MAGA man Mike Rogers in the election. The Michigan campaign by Rogers, "JV Dance," and the Malignant Fascist has been rife with vicious Islamophobia directed at El-Sayed and his family. Sore loser Stevens and her fiancee seem not to care about that.
Stevens' role as a wrecker will likely doom her political future as a Dem. If she switches parties, which is entirely possible, she'd get the financial backing needed from AIPAC. We'll open the door for her.
(photo: Attempted election wrecker Stevens. Francis Chung/POLITICO)
For Halloween, comedian Tom Delgado takes us to the most haunted house in New York City, the Merchant's House Museum (not the penthouse in Trump Tower?!). He's joined on this funny and interesting tour/adventure by the museum's historian Roland Pearman. Scary good!
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(David Rowe, Financial Review, Australia; RIP Sir Patrick Stewart)
(John Darkow, Columbia Missourian)
(Randy Bish, @bishtoon)
(Nick Anderson, Raw Story)
(Arend van Dam, caglecartoons.com, Netherlands)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Matt Wuerker, Politico)
(Ruben Bolling, gocomics.com)
(Rick McKee, caglecartoons.com)
(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)
(Ann Telnaes, anntelnaes.substack.com)
(Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, @mannequinonthemoon, Canada)
Jared Kushner, the greedy and amoral son-in-law of the corrupt and mentally ill Malignant Fascist is trying to strong-arm Ukraine into a capitulation that would benefit him and his real estate hustler Steve Witkoff. Neither have been approved by the Senate as U.S. representatives. From the Wall Street Journal:
"Ukraine’s military has paused its strikes against Russian oil refineries, people with knowledge of the operations said, after weeks of pressure from President Trump shook Kyiv’s confidence in U.S. support.
The unofficial pause, which is expected to last until after the U.S. midterm elections but potentially deeper into November, began early last week at the height of a crisis in U.S.-Ukrainian relations, the people said. Days earlier, Trump had called for the removal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX had limited Ukraine’s use of the Starlink satellite internet service.
Ukraine’s government hasn’t announced a pause in refinery strikes. Zelensky has said Ukraine wants more protection for its own energy infrastructure—which Russia has been systematically destroying with missile and drone attacks ahead of winter—in exchange for holding off. [snip]
U.S. envoy Jared Kushner repeated Trump’s demand to stop hitting Russian refineries at a meeting with Zelensky on Oct. 20 in Oslo, said two U.S. officials. One official described the conversation as 'very tough.'
Kushner, who joined the meeting remotely because of an illness, told Zelensky that he should pause the strikes because he and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff were dedicating a lot of time, energy, and jet fuel to mediating with Moscow, one of the U.S. officials said. A 30-day pause on refineries would be a way for Ukraine to show gratitude, that U.S. official said." (our emphasis)
"Show gratitude" for defending a fledgling democracy from a rapacious and evil Russian invasion? How far our foreign policy has been degraded under these Russian stooges. For years, Russian thug, former Soviet apparatchik, and war criminal Vladimir Putin has slammed the Western alliance and has pined for the days of the old Soviet Union, and has wanted to reconstitute the footprint of the Soviet Union, while maintaining its kleptocracy. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy -- and the Russian Federation has certainly declared itself to our decline -- is the Constitutional definition of treason.
It's past time to stand up to the monster Putin, and not kowtow like the MF is doing.
Operation Epic Quagmire / Trump's "we" making the money / quagmire resuming --
When Trump says “WE” are making a lot of money this is who he means
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Breaking Off Message exclu: Operatives aligned with the president spent months devising a plan to resume the war—only after ballots had been cast. Republicans have worked studiously to avoid tipping off voters. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Alaska "ballot stacking" nothingburger --
Folks in Alaska, tell me what's up, but I dont think voters give two shots about this fake desperate ballot controversy.
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The man who led a violent insurrection over an election he lost and should've been barred forever from running again according to the explicit language of the Fourteenth Amendment has thoughts on how other people shouldn't be allowed to run for doing nothing remotely illegal.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) October 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Saying the quiet part loud, cont. --
adding this one to the "things that should be a bigger scandal than the Alaska Dans Sullivan" pile: bsky.app/profile/leba...
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) October 29, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Ads --
Where I'm from, you don't buy wood from people who break their word, screw people over, and cheat. I wouldn't buy a cord of wood from Susan Collins. And I sure as hell wouldn't vote for her for U.S. Senate.
— Troy Jackson (@troyjackson207.bsky.social) October 29, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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— Shirley Cottle (@shirleycottle.bsky.social) October 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Make a Democratic victory "too big to rig"! --
In case there was any doubt, the regime’s behavior this week has made it very clear that Trump will try to sabotage the midterms. We need to make sure our win is too big to rig — and your one-on-one conversations with voters can make all the difference.
— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) October 30, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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🚨BREAKING: As the House battleground map has expanded, Democrats now have the potential to win their largest majority since 2009. Today, Cook Political moved a dozen more House races in Democrats' direction.
— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Our broken media, part infinity --
the president: accused of rape a few days ago the media:
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Trump pal Kim Jung-un's hackers at work; bet Trump gets his beak wet --
If all is confirmed, I believe this will simply be the biggest heist in recorded history.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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Arts & crafts president's $5 million redo melting, melting ... --
Trump's $5 million gold refurbishing is now melting off the horse statues in Washington, D.C.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) October 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Trump's gluteus maximus obsession (Happy Friday!) --
Trump’s Eyes Roll Back After Receiving Vision Of Muscular Asses That Have Not Yet Come To Pass
— The Onion (@theonion.com) October 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Juliette Jackson and her British indie rock band The Big Moon are out today with their fourth studio album, "Forever," and a great single, "You Remind Me That I'm Dying (And That It's Good To Be Alive)," that radiates energy, joy, and positivity. We'll take that going into the final weekend before the mid-terms. Hope you enjoy, too!
