Ohio voter: It's over. The big orange balloon that's been hovering over America, the air has finally popped out of it. You can only fake it for so long.

Within a single week, 3 people have lost their lives in ICE custody. These deadly detention conditions are unacceptable and do not represent American values.

A donor network tied to Vice President JD Vance is suspected of interfering in Brazil’s elections. trib.al/KfUlaBc

I’m not done with you Elon. The grand champion of government efficiency. The billionaire savant who was supposed to blast into Washington, expose all the waste, eliminate the rampant fraud, and show the rest of us incompetent peasants how it’s done. Well, I’ve been looking into how that little DOGE experiment turned out. And holy fucking shit. The Government Accountability Office, an independent federal watchdog, examined DOGE’s ridiculously massive savings claims. You know what they found? DOGE claimed $1.7 BILLION in savings from a Defense Department contract that hadn’t even been terminated. The contract was still there. The supposed savings? Zero. Zilch. A big egg. Of 264 federal leases DOGE listed for termination, 108 were already being phased out before DOGE even existed and Elon maneuvered his pineapple shaped upper half into the Capitol. And nearly TWO THOUSAND contracts they claimed to have terminated? Still weren’t terminated. Two fucking thousand. Auditors couldn’t adequately verify enormous portions of DOGE’s advertised savings either. In other words, straight lies. Possibly crimes. Imagine an ordinary federal employee claiming billions in savings that didn’t exist, then failing to explain the numbers when auditors came asking. Elon Musk and his little taint licking army of efficiency enthusiasts would be crying fraud from every corner of America. But when it’s their demiurge Elon? Silence. For a man who demands receipts from the entire federal government, Musky sure has an awfully difficult time producing his own, doesn’t he? And spare me the mythology of the self made megagenius personally fireman’s carrying humanity into the future while hopping between K holes and playing his boosted Diablo account. Thousands of workers do the work, but the billionaire becomes a god. That tracks. And while we’re discussing this “self made megagenius,” remember his companies have benefited from tens of billions in government contracts, loans, subsidies, tax incentives, and other public support. Some contracts paid for valuable services. Cool shit. But it wasn’t just him. Public institutions helped. Taxpayers helped. We the people helped. Scientists, engineers, factory workers helped. Then the richest man in the room gets treated like he personally invented our future. You know what really bothers me? The staggering double standard. A government employee makes an accounting error? Incompetent trash. An ordinary worker needs public assistance? Lazy parasite. We can hardly blow off an unpaid traffic ticket without a bench warrant. But a billionaire benefits from government support and oversees an initiative whose savings claims don’t withstand scrutiny? He’s a genius. A goddamn visionary. Saving civilization and cradling humanity itself. Are you people fucking serious? I don’t hate Elon Musk because he’s wealthy. I don’t hate anyone. And I don’t deny his companies have accomplished extraordinary things. They have. I object to the grotesque transformation of financial success into unquestionable moral and intellectual authority, to the erasure of the people whose labor makes those accomplishments possible, and to watching this asshole demand accountability from ordinary Americans and immigrants while his cult refuses to demand the same from him. You wanna celebrate technological progress? Wonderful. Celebrate the engineers. The scientists. The factory workers. The guys who sweep the floor at night. And if you celebrate the billionaire who helped finance and organize it, at least acknowledge the difference. The Earth doesn’t revolve around Elon Musk. Humanity’s future shouldn’t depend on whether he gets his ego stroked off. For fuck’s sake, stop worshipping billionaires. Stop kneeling. It’s pathetic. They’re people. Albeit shitty people. And even if they’re lizards they should be held to the same standards as the rest of us. No throne is beyond judgment. And where’s my fucking DOGE check.

🚨 Ohio Huge Move Amy Acton has announced her policy plan for data centers. She is calling for a moratorium on any data centers that don't meet the following criteria: - cover ALL their own gas, electric, and water costs - build with ONLY Union Labor - bring jobs back to former industrial areas - only use brownfields not farmland for data center buildouts - no operating behind non-disclosures and full transparency - meet standing Ohio environmental standards - mist support the needs of local communities This is hugely important to the future of our state and our children's futures. Vivek Ramaswamy has been touring around Ohio for a year meeting with business leaders making deals behind closed doors that hurt Ohioans, take jobs from the state, replace workers with H1Bs, harm our water and farmland, automate what jobs we do have, only to benefit himself and the rest the billionaire technocrats. Many of us have been waiting for this. I hope everyone understands the importance of this policy. People better start making decisions based on now, not five years ago. Different times, different priorities.

Texas Republican voter: We are going to vote for James Talarico... I’m not going to vote Republican in this election.

Frank LaRose’s message to Ohio voters is "don’t trust the mail." He pushed to shrink the grace period for mailed ballots, then backed scrapping it. Now 235,000 absentee ballots are still out and his advice is to drive yours to the board of elections. cleveland.com/open/2026/10/o…

You are some piece of work @FrankLaRose I wouldn't trust you to walk my dog!

“I’m actually surprised that it took this long to pursue these types of aggressive actions that smell of political retribution,” said attorney Mark Zaid, who has represented whistleblowers during Democratic and Republican administrations. thehill.com/homenews/analysi…

Every town, every rally, and every Wisconsinite we’ve met along the way have made the #LetsGetToWork bus tour so special! And we’re not done yet — find us in a town near you: CrowleyforWI.com/Events

A Brazilian judge has ordered an investigation into a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance, saying it may have aided right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election. trib.al/TQDdEHf

Count me in.

The Sullivan thing is such a dumb self-inflicted wound. It’s RCV in Alaska! This might’ve made a difference in Ohio if there were two Husteds but with RCV it will be so negligible that the backfire risk far outpaced the gamesmanship value. Stick with Fish Family Freedom

“It was never about illegal immigration. It’s about racism, corruption, turning America into a dictatorship. The people who claimed they wanted to stop America from looking like the Third World? They wanted to turn America into a Third World dictatorship.” open.substack.com/pub/thebul…

NEW VIDEO: Texas Republicans Announce “Pass on Paxton” Campaign

In addition to the districts MAGA Republicans (at Trump’s behest) gerrymandered that are set to backfire, there are also 20 districts MAGA dummymandered. (Districts that were once safe Rs, are now in play.) @LarrySabato @CookPolitical Lest anybody is still wondering how Trump managed to keep bankrupting casinos:

In an attempt to undermine the 2026 midterm election results, Trump's DOJ filed an unfounded lawsuit just weeks before Election Day to try to block California from counting over 20k+ ballots. We're taking legal action. Here's what to know. campaignlegal.org/update/ins…

RM @RepRaskin Investigates Trump’s tariff-exception grift: American families pay thousands each year so Trump can get richer selling special-interest carve-outs to his own tariffs.

Fox: “No matter what the issue was, voters said they trust Democrats more than Republicans by double-digit margins.” Yes, Fox!

Gas in Ohio is $4.49 a gallon and $6.70 for diesel