This video was deleted yesterday from Twitter by Elon Musk. You know what to do ‼️‼️‼️

Now that @AbdulElSayed has been asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood because of his mother’s alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood before he was born, will we be asking Donald Trump to disavow the Ku Klux Klan because of his father’s alleged ties to the KKK in the 1920s? washingtonpost.com/history/2…

El-Sayed: When JFK ran for president, he was asked about whether or not his allegiance would be to the constitution or to the pope, because he would have been the first Catholic president. He had to remind people that he wasn't running to be the first Catholic president. He was running to be the next President of the United States. I'm not running to be the first anything. I'm running to be the next senator from my state.

Sadly Katie didn't even make it to Saturday so SNL couldn't parody her. But Canada did. And it's fantastic.

For Texan women. We all know men like Ken Paxton: a little too drunk at the cocktail hour; a little too loud on the tennis court and the golf course; a little too handsy at the office. We tolerate them because we’re raised to and because they, hopefully, aren’t our husbands. But, he was someone’s husband! He betrayed her. He cheated on her and publicly flaunted it in her face. In OUR faces! Let’s face facts. That’s who he is down deep. A cheater in the board room and the bed room. In three weeks, you will be asked to cast your vote for a man who will represent YOU in the Senate. If you want a true Christian, vote for James Talarico. But if you’re not ready to vote blue, consider leaving Ken Paxton off your ballot. No one will know. Except you. You can rest easy knowing that you stood with your fellow women and didn’t reward a liar and philanderer!

🚨 NEWS: Trump is backing out of a scheduled deposition with BBC lawyers THIS FRIDAY, citing “matters of national importance” after weeks of radio silence. His team now wants to delay his testimony until JANUARY 2027—after discovery closes—and the BBC is asking a judge to FORCE him to testify.

How MAGA hallucinations became real I pay for the data behind these myself and it take a lot of time and effort to analyze and create these graphics. If you want more of them, SUPPORT LINKS ARE IN BIO At 1:05 p.m. on Oct 11, Nick Sortor posted that an Ohio mental hospital “CONFIRMS” James Talarico was discharged. That evening the hospital said Talarico never received treatment there. Talarico says he's never even been to Ohio. Rhein Amacher, who made the recorded call, posted that he made up a verification code to get past the front desk. This story occurred over several days. Ken Paxton called Talarico “missing” on Oct 7. Sara Gonzales teased “unverified information” that would “END his campaign” on Oct 8. On Oct 9, Spencer Pratt said his sources put Talarico in a mental health facility, and a handful of accounts pasted near-identical “credible sources are leaking” posts. At 7:50 a.m. on the 11th, Sortor gave Talarico a deadline, “let us know by 1pm ET today.” The earlier pushes never fully took off, and acted more as a booster for the posts that came later. Pratt's post got 6.4 million views, but only about 60 accounts posted about the story in the hour after it. Caroline Wren's private-plane theory the next day drew about 40. Before the 11th, the story never topped 80 posts an hour. In the first hour after Sortor's post, 267 accounts posted about it, and by 3 p.m. it was running at almost 500 posts an hour. The first chart counts each account only once, at its first post about the story. Nothing they posted after that is counted, so it shows who started this and how far those first posts went. The first wave carried the whole thing. Sortor's post and the posts that followed in the next 12 minutes have 9 million views between them. The 55 accounts that joined in the first 20 minutes got 80% of the views in that lane. The other lines never came close. “He lied and covered it up,” the line Elon Musk and Richard Grenell pushed, got about 2 million views across 100 accounts. “He was in an Ohio mental hospital” got about 2 million across 132. The pushback grew the opposite way, the way a real response does. It started small and kept building all afternoon and evening, with 12 to 46 new accounts joining every hour from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Leave out the three biggest posts, which were the hospital's statement, Talarico's reply and Ed Krassenstein's own call to the hospital, and regular accounts pushing back still reached 6 million views. The claim had nearly 90% of its views by 2 p.m. and barely grew after that. By the end of the night, the pushback had more views than the claim, 13 million to 11.4 million. The second chart is the inorganic behavior, and it covers Oct 8 to 11, not just the day of the "exclusive". Sortor's headline was reposted word for word, or nearly, by 18 other accounts, half of them with under 1,000 followers. Caroline Wren's private-plane post was copied by 14. Four accounts posted the same Eric Daugherty post within 74 seconds of each other. Four more posted the same MAGAVoice line within 54 seconds, four hours after it first went up. Some accounts barely post anything of their own. One copied 21 of its 23 posts about Talarico from other accounts, another 11 of 11. And the spammers flooded the replies. One pasted the same reply 85 times in about two hours, another 15 times in 10 minutes. Views are each post's total as of early Oct 12. A copy means word for word or at least 90% the same as an earlier post. I pulled and analyzed about 14,000 posts for this. Sharing it helps more than anything, and if you want to chip in so I can keep doing this, the links are in my bio. It goes a long way.

I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.

.@KatieMiller is not going to do very well in a deposition.

So now the Trump administration is sending out one-time $500 checks to people who bought their health insurance through HealthCare.gov and paid the full price because they didn’t qualify for taxpayer subsidies. In other words, people who’s income is roughly 400% above poverty and could already afford to pay full price for their health insurance are getting a $500 check from the president. And guess when those checks started showing up? October 1. Weeks before the midterm election. The checks come with a letter from Trump lying about why you’re getting your $500. And here’s the really interesting part: this isn’t being distributed evenly across the country. Of the roughly $475 million being sent out, 71% of it, or $339 million, is going to people in just 13 states. Those 13 states happen to be major midterm battlegrounds. They contain eight of the nine Senate races and 10 of the 12 governors’ races that nonpartisan analysts consider the most competitive. Call it whatever you want. I’ll call it what it is: a bribe.

This is too good. 😂

SHAME on @googlemaps As a lake I don’t have much use for mapping apps except when I verify that Big Ass Lake really does exist. But I will now use a different one.

13 year-old Naiara Tamminga stood before the Grand Rapids city commission and voiced what so many adults wouldn’t. She confronted their inaction and hypocrisy following the killing of Patrick Loyoya. In that moment, a 13 year-old displayed more courage than the officials in power.

Dear @CNN Dana isn’t equipped to handle this type of unhinged abuse on air from this ball gargling liar. You know who is? Me. Call me. I’ve got enough shit on @RobertKennedyJr I’d love to say on national television to his lying, bloated, sculpted, self tanned, turkey basted face. I’ve even bring an immunologist or Dave Farina, who can come with me to explain how vaccines work to his lying ass.