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C'Kellyanne Conway C''"Cuts You Up For Not Eating Mashed Potatoes Up For Not Eating Mashed Potatoes: Bessent Blows Off Question About ICE Prison Boondoggl"

Courtney Winfree — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:02:18 +0000

It being Halloween, it seems only right to conjure up a good goth artist. Let’s go with Peter Murphy.

He’d never fronted a band before his old school friend Daniel Ash recruited him for the band that became Bauhaus, but considering how he looked and moved, Murphy couldn’t have picked a better genre than sexy, brooding vampire music.

After Bauhaus met its death, Peter Murphy rose again with a solo career that’s lasted nearly 40 years, with a few Bauhaus resurrections along the way.

If there was ever any question about his vampire credentials, Murphy put them to rest in 1983 when he appeared in the opening scene of The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. He performs “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” from behind a cage while Deneuve and Bowie stalk their prey through a nightclub. (Pick me!)

“Cuts You Up” may not be as dark and mysterious, but it’s seductive enough to make you invite him in.

Trick or treat indeed.

C'Kellyanne Conway C''"Cuts You Up For Not Eating Mashed Potatoes Up For Not Eating Mashed Potatoes: Bessent Blows Off Question About ICE Prison Boondoggl"

Heather — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:49:03 +0000

Scott Bessent doesn't want the peasants asking him any pesky questions about their $495.6 million ICE prison boondoggle during a presser where he was pretending this administration cares whatsoever about fraud, abuse, and wasteful spending.

From KARE 11 in Minnesota: KARE 11 Investigates: Private prison was on sale for $75 million; ICE paid $495 million:

New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota, offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.

One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.

The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.

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Records filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show CoreCivic sold it to the federal government for nearly half a billion dollars ($495,639,588.00).

That amount was more than six times the price CoreCivic was offering to sell the same prison to the State of Minnesota a year earlier, according to records obtained by KARE 11 through an open records request.
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C'Kellyanne Conway C''"Cuts You Up For Not Eating Mashed Potatoes Up For Not Eating Mashed Potatoes: Bessent Blows Off Question About ICE Prison Boondoggl""

Heather — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:51:10 +0000

Kellyanne Conway wins the award for one of the dumbest things said on Fox this week, which is hard to do given the competition.

During a discussion on this Friday's The Five -- where most of the propagandists on there defended Trump's obnoxious attack on a reporter who dared to ask him why he was going to skip a rally for Roger Marshall, and pretending there was anything normal about someone who looks like Trump telling someone else to "put yourself in shape" -- Trump's former SpokesLiar Conway spouted this nonsense about why the attack was justified.

Here's the back and forth after her co-host Jessica Tarlov noted that Trump ought to be discussing real issues voters care about in Kansas instead of attacking the press and talking about men's asses.

TARLOV: I'll tell you right now, the race is at best tied That's what Donald Trump should be talking about.

CONWAY: He's going there Sunday.

TARLOV: To call reporters fat, to talk about John Husted's butt.

GUTFELD: That's what Trump does while doing the job.

TARLOV: A job that he is failing (crosstalk)...
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Trump Claimed He Won Iran War 8 Months Before He Started It

NewsHound Ellen — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:17:43 +0000

On October 6th, the 80-year-old Trump undercut his own justification for his prolonged, unnecessary, and unpopular war with Iran.

TRUMP: They say, "Oh, we're in for six months into Iran." Yeah, Iran's bigger, but we really ended it as soon as the B2 bombers hit because that was the end of their nuclear, and that was 95 percent of the reason we did it. Maybe 100 percent.

Clearly, Trump couldn’t be bothered to think through his own stupid defense of his own stupid war. The New Republic did think it through. TNR pointed out that Trump was referring to the “bunker buster” bombings on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025, eight months before the now-ongoing war began in March 2026.

If Trump believes he ended Iran’s nuclear program during those strikes, then he is also admitting there was no need to start the war he predicted would only last a few weeks, now in its eighth month and with no end in sight.

That also means, as TNR pointed out, that 22 U.S. service members died and hundreds more were injured for no good reason. Ditto for the hundreds of Iranian civilians and schoolchildren who should be alive today. According to Trump’s own logic, the Pentagon needlessly wasted military weapons as well as more than $45 billion of taxpayer dollars.

Pope Leo Becomes First Pope To Vote In U.S. Elections

NewsHound Ellen — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:03:09 +0000

Pope Leo XIV took time out of his undoubtedly busy schedule to fill out an absentee ballot and return it to his hometown in Illinois. The BBC noted that the 71-year-old pope recently had a portion of his right lung removed after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He also plans to travel to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in early November.

"The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes," the Holy See Press Office said, according to the BBC.

The first American citizen to become pontiff, Pope Leo is also the first pope to vote in a United States election.

However, this is far from the first time Pope Leo has voted in or out of the country. The BBC also reported that the press office said he "has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so," which includes his years in Peru.

Given that Donald Trump and his lackeys have assailed and even spied on the pope for preaching peace, it’s probably a safe bet Pope Leo voted at least partially blue.

If you have any voting questions or problems, you can find answers and help at 866OurVote.

'Way Out Of Shape!': Trump Attacks Reporter's Weight In Bizarre Tarmac Meltdown

John Amato — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:22:54 +0000

Donald Trump berated a Reuters reporter for asking him pertinent questions during his midterm rally push.

Trump did one of his annoying tarmac gaggles, and body-shamed the reporter while claiming Reuters is a terrible news organization, while refusing to take his own flabby body into account.

REUTERS: So, you not going to Kansas has nothing to do with you being sick of travel?

TRUMP: Oh, you're sick to ask that question. You are sick. Who you with?

REUTERS: I'm with Reuters, sir.

TRUMP: You are a sick guy. Reuters is terrible, by the way. Can you imagine?

REUTERS:Well, we just want to make sure you're doing well.

TRUMP: Look at this guy. He's way out of shape. Look at how badly... He comes to me.

REUTERS: Sir, you're not going to go to Kansas.

TRUMP: I'm not going to Kansas because he's doing very well. I'm going to do a tele-rounding. Tomorrow, I'm doing Florida. He said, what's the reason? After doing, what, 28? He says, what's the reason for this?

Sir, that you're not going to Kansas. You know what the reason is? I don't feel I have to go to Kansas. I'm going to Florida tomorrow, and I'll do...If something else comes up.

But he said, you're not going to Kansas, sir. Are you feeling well? You've been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect.

You are disgusting.

Put yourself in shape.

You look like hell.

How's that hand doing? Still rotting away?

Get on a scale, Donald.

Chaos Ensues As Trump Cancels, Resurrects Rallies In Iowa & Kansas

Ed Scarce — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:46:17 +0000

You know things are bad when Trump is being sent out there to stop the hemorrhaging in multiple red states all at the same time.

Source: Washington Sun

President Donald Trump will attend midterm rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, resurrecting the events just hours after the White House announced it was canceling them.

“President Trump loves his supporters, and in addition to nearly 20 tele-rallies, he will hold back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday,” a source familiar with the situation told The Washington Sun, saying that the rallies were “rearranged for scheduling purposes” so that the president could attend more tele-rallies over the weekend.

“No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump!” the source said.

Trump had been scheduled to attend a Saturday rally in Kansas with Sen. Roger Marshall and a rally in Iowa on Sunday with Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson.

All of which was news to Roger Marshall in Kansas yesterday.

NEWS: First public reaction from Sen. Roger Marshall to the news that President Trump cancelled the in-person rally planned for Salina, KS, on Saturday. Trump will host a tele-rally instead. https://t.co/wDbGEcuiuZ
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Thune Admits That Trump's War Is Bad For GOP's Election Prospects

Chris capper Liebenthal — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:19:05 +0000

During an interview on Fox News, Senate Majority Leader John Thune admitted that Trump's war with Iran was hurting Republicans in the midterm elections, but still tried to defend it with same old same old:

FOX HOST: Um, this idea about the war, however, has a lot of branches to it. And we're gonna be examining this late on Tuesday night, depending on the results here. And you just wonder now, when the president campaigned on no more wars, is that the equivalent of, like, George Bush 41 saying, you know, "Read my lips, no new taxes." And i- is- is that gonna be the deciding factor as to whether or not you return as Senate majority leader, do you think, in January?

THUNE: Well, I mean, I think it, there's no question, Bill, that that's having an effect, and certainly gas prices are the most immediate. But this, this thing will come to an end, and when it does, gas prices will come down.

The longer-term question is, is my neighborhood safe? Is my community safe? Is my country safe? And that's ultimately what a president is responsible for. And so when the president takes actions that are gonna prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon and being able to use that to threaten the entire planet, um, that's an important issue.

Someone needs to tell Thune that no one is buying that crap anymore, especially not after Trump and kin have been raking in the money hand over fist in what turns out to be a deadly but huge grifting operation.

JD Vance's Solution To Hospital Language Barriers? 'Speak English'

John Amato — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:44:56 +0000

JD Vance took a question about US identity and immigration relating to France during Jesse Watters phony town hall and let his racist flag fly high.

An audience member asked Vance how "we can protect American identity."

He never said what American identity is, but in this case he used a dog whistle to describe it as revolving around white Christian nationalism.

Vance loved that question because, to him and Trump, the only good migrant is a simulated one into our language and their religious beliefs that denies their own heritage.

"If you want to become an American, then become an American," Vance said "Learn our language, learn our culture, learn our values assimilate into American culture."

He continued, "That is the bare minimum that we expect of a newcomer into the United States of America."

JD Vance told his own version of a "sir" story, which exposed his racism profoundly.

VANCE: I was having this conversation with with Usha a couple years ago where you know, we had a one of our kids had a problem We took him to the emergency room It was like totally fine.

It was young parents being panicky, as young parents sometimes are.

And I'm sitting there in the emergency room, and there are like nine different translators for nine different languages while I'm worried about a medical problem that my son has and I'm just thinking to myself, how about if everybody spoke English and we could hire more doctors and less translators in our country.
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New York Times Hands Trump A Hit Job On Mary Peltola

Oliver Willis — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:24:03 +0000

Republicans are worried about losing the Senate race in Alaska, a state President Donald Trump easily won by 13 percentage points in the 2024 election, so they are clinging to a shoddy story published in The New York Times.

On Tuesday, the Times ran a story about the effort to place on Alaska’s ballot a Senate candidate named “Dan Sullivan,” a name that matches that of the state’s Republican senator who is running for reelection this year. The theory here is that voters may be confused and vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan, thus benefitting Democratic nominee Mary Peltola.

Promoting the story on his Truth Social account, Trump wrote, “It has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan to run against our distinguished Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, in order to defraud, confuse, and obfuscate the Election, thereby taking votes away from the REAL Senator, Dan Sullivan.”

Trump’s solution, as usual, is to upend the democratic process and remove Sen. Dan Sullivan’s competitors, thereby giving Trump a solid GOP vote in the Senate.

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Tengrain — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:51:21 +0000

Above, Bobby Pickett performs, The Monster Mash. Happy Halloween, fellow Crooks and Liars. Today we look at the up-coming election. Now THAT is scary! Boo!

Balloon Juice is seeking Jackals from around the country to do some election night live blogging. Do you got what it takes?

Election Law Blog asserts that even in Alaska, three things can be true at once.

Diane Ravitch reminds us that every time someone says, "Texas is turning Blue," then every pollster adds four points to the Republican margins.

Futurism tells us that a man in Kentucky was given a religious exemption against using AI at work. I love using Y’all Qaeda’s strategies against them!

Bonus Track: Crazy Eddie's Motie News shares some deep Halloween lore you probably didn't know!

Elon Musk Betrays America And Democracy—AGAIN

Cliff Schecter — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:51:17 +0000

This week’s World War NEXT opens on the images Olga Lautman can’t shake: a Russian strike on a train station in Dnipro that killed 14 people waiting for a train to Zaporizhzhia, and a father in Chernihiv finding his daughter after a drone attack killed two teenagers. And why? Withheld warnings, throttled Starlink, two international criminals--Trump & Musk--who see other people as lint to wipe off a sweater.

Olga and Cliff Schecter go into details on Elon Musk—his security clearance, his reported calls with Putin, and why Cliff explains why no one should have $500 billion and the ability to answer to no one--no individual, no elected body, no country, and not the international community.

Friday Night Funnies: Des Bishop - Italians Vs Irish

John Amato — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:06:01 +0000

Des Bishop lived in Fresh Meadows, Queens, before moving to Ireland.

I'd never heard of him before, but I stumbled upon this and laughed, since I'm Italian and have many Irish friends in Queens.

Open thread.

Ted Cruz: If Iran War Lasts Until Midterms, 'We've Done Something Wildly Wrong'

John Amato — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:51:57 +0000

Back in March, one month after Trump employed a much larger U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran on February 28, 2026, Sen. Ted Cruz gave a prediction that is coming true.

Trump first attacked Iran in June of 2025, but continued the conflict in 2026.

"I don't believe that what is happening in Iran will be front and center on November," Sen. Cruz said. "If it extends that long, we've done something wildly wrong."

Did Cruz believe the words that came out of Demented Donald's mouth when he bragged over and over again that the Iran war was just about over, and that they've been decimated? Trump personally briefed Cruz before the February attacks took place.

Cancun Cruz is eating his words now.

Ted Cruz: We could lose every single statewide race in Texas

— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-10-30T15:03:09.901601934Z
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'Please Don't Leave!': Texas Republican Begs Crowd Not To Abandon Paxton Event

Conover Kennard — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:57:49 +0000

A Texas Republican had an embarrassing request for attendees at a Ken Paxton event: "Please don't leave!"

In a moment of remarkable desperation, the speaker pleaded with the audience to stick around, saying he didn't want the media reporting that people didn't like Paxton. Apparently, the biggest concern wasn't an empty room or an unpopular politician. It was making sure nobody noticed.

"Do me a favor, please don't leave." Ray Callas said. "And the reason why that is is because I don't want the media to turn it in saying that people don't like Ken Paxton."

"Well, it's not our fault that we have jobs we've got to do in the morning," he added. "I'm sorry. "But let's stay here, show our support for our attorney general, our next U.S. senator."

Callas is himself a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, which makes his request even sadder.

Then the desperation escalated when Paxton's bus finally approached, and Callas tried to get the crowd excited.

"I want you to stand up, I want you to scream your head off," he said. "Get ready for Ken Paxton."

Most of those at the sparsely attended event remained seated. That's when Callas said, "Stand up!"

This is "Please Clap" mixed with a crackhead begging you to let him blow you for a vial.
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Adam Mockler Turns The Tables On Fox Red-Baiting Socialism Segment

Heather — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:55:22 +0000

Host Trace Gallagher and his guest were unprepared for MeidasTouch podcaster Adam Mockler, who brought the receipts on which party has someone actively buying stakes in private companies. Mockler made an appearance on this Tuesday's Fox News @ Night, and let's say that things didn't go too well for Gallagher and his other guest, the New York Post's Lydia Moynihan, and their lame attempt at more red-baiting over socialism, which we watch the network do constantly.

Here's the exchange which Gallagher repeatedly tried to cut off after Mockler brought their hypocrisy on Trump into the conversation.

GALLAGHER: The first topic is socialism versus capitalism: free markets versus economic equality. Adam, tell us why socialism is so great.

MOCKLER: I'm actually not a socialist. I'm a firm liberal capitalist, but I don't think the two things you listed are mutually exclusive. America is the richest and best country in the world.

Economic equality, or the ability for people to have health care and a good education, should not be mutually exclusive with entrepreneurialism, small businesses, and the ability to have free markets.

These two things aren't mutually exclusive, and I reject this idea that Democrats are socialists now. Out of the 259 sitting Democrats in Congress, two of them are DSA. There are about three or four incoming, but the party by and large supports free markets.

GALLAGHER: Lydia.
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El-Sayed Offers To Walk Through Metal Detector If Trump Takes Lie Detector Test

Conover Kennard — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:10:25 +0000

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan responded to Donald J. Trump by offering to walk through a metal detector daily if Trump agrees to take a single lie detector test. Just a hunch: Only one of them will pass, and it won't be Trump.

El-Sayed just walked into that rally and handed Trump a challenge he wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.

"And then, here's the thing, I don't know if you saw this," El-Sayed said. "Just recently he said, he said that I should have to go through a metal detector."

"That's alright, man. He took that Wolverine thing seriously; he knows I got claws," he continued. "But here's the deal, Donald, listen, I'll go through a metal detector if you'll sit for a lie detector."

"Simple, I got nothing to hide; you've got so much to hide," he said. "My first question, Epstein. Second question, did you win the 2020 election?"

"So that's the deal," he added. "I'll go through a metal detector every day; you sit through a lie detector one time. That's the deal."

How will Trump respond to that? Call him un-American, a terrorist, a plant from a rival country? Nah, Donald will cry into his MyPillow in a fetal position in the corner.

The way he fights back against the slander
Makes me damn proud to be a Michigander!

Our next Senator-
Dr. Abdul el-Sayed! ?????
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Flávio Bolsonaro Flees Brazil For Miami, Faces Criminal Charges Back Home

RedStateRachel — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:50:20 +0000

After losing the Brazilian election, Trump-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for Miami, Florida. He left secretly after officials ordered him to hand over his passport in a money-laundering case. The Miami Herald reported the Brazilian Senator faces criminal investigations. Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami Wednesday, days after the election.

Flávio, the oldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, lost Sunday’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won about 52% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 48%. His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election to Lula da Silva.

A source told The New York Times that the U.S. State Department issued visas to Bolsonaro and his family. The report said Bolsonaro arrived at a private airport near Miami with his family on Wednesday. The group quickly got into a vehicle after leaving the airport, hidden under umbrellas.

So it appears immigrants from South America are bad and need to be put into concentration camps…unless they are friends of the Trump administration? Did I get that right?

Americans Not Named Trump Are Angry

Trump Shows His Lily White Supremacist Ass

Chris capper Liebenthal — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:13:45 +0000

Trump was in South Carolina, stumping for the other Old Lady Graham, when he started talking about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the senatorial candidate in Michigan:

If you're Black, or if you're Jewish, and if you vote for Abdul, you're crazy. You're crazy. You're crazy anyway.

Well, that's not going to help very much with his reputation for being a racist.

If Trump thinks that someone in South Carolina can vote for a Michigan candidate, it's not the voter who is crazy.

The best part is that both El-Sayed and Barack Obama are living rent-free in Trump's head to the point that the rallies he is going to stop being about helping the candidate and start being about his own personal obsessions with them. Is it any wonder why candidates don't want him coming to their states anymore? They're having enough problems without his "help."

TRUMP: If you're Black, or if you're Jewish, and you vote for Abdul, you're crazy. You're crazy anyway. https://t.co/crsDl2ns3c

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2026

'Say Pedophiles!': Ramaswamy Got BIG MAD After Selfie Taker Brutally Trolled Him

Andrea Thompson — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:48:22 +0000

With midterms officially closing in on the Republican Party's head, Donald Trump made a pit stop at the Shoemaker Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he attempted to rally for scandal-plagued MAGA gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Mr. Greatest-Ass-Of-All-Time, Senator Jon Husted, in a last-ditch, desperate attempt to hopefully circumvent the ass-whooping they're all about to receive next week.

In the midst of the rally festivities, Ramaswamy was attempting to hobnob with supporters outside when he was approached by a man who asked for a selfie with him -- only for the man to troll Vivek straight to his face as he held up the camera, smiled, and said, "Say, ‘Pedophiles!'"

The man has been identified on TikTok as @la_sparrow, and he posted a clip of the hilarious exchange to his own account Thursday morning, with text reading, "Vote Amy Acton."

A quick scroll through his account shows that this is far from the first time @la_sparrow has confronted Ramaswamy.

Amy Acton's communications staffer, Ethan Lynne, picked up the clip and posted it on X with the caption, "Looks like Vivek Ramaswamy had quite a warm welcome at his rally last night," complete with a sarcastic thumbs-up emoji.

Looks like @VivekGRamaswamy had quite a warm welcome at his rally last night 👍 https://t.co/rR4IZPsder
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Trump's Latest Election Rant Is A California-Sized Whopper

John Amato — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:47:26 +0000

Donald Trump's election fraud delusions continue to expand into the state of California, where he said if elections were honest, he would've won the state by a lot.

Stop laughing, I didn't say it; he did.

TRUMP: We found 20,000, but there are hundreds of thousands of bad ballots, bad votes in California.

Millions, in my opinion, millions. It's a corrupt state and very, very corrupt elections.

If California were honest, if they had honest vote count, I would have won it by a lot.

Trump did not find 20K, hundreds of thousands, or millions of bad ballots or votes in California.

Trump's henchman running the DOJ, Todd Blanche is accusing California of "failing to review a list of alleged noncitizens that the Trump administration claimed were sent mail-in ballots for next month's midterm election."

A judge rejected this election interference ploy by Demented Donald and wrote, "This request violates longstanding constitutional principles mandating that states have control over their elections. If Plaintiff's last-minute request for relief were granted, either party could create chaos for their own political purposes to disrupt the election process. Over 20,000 registered Californians would potentially lose the right that generations of Americans have fought to preserve."

JD Vance Said He's 'Jealous' That Trump Doesn't Admire His Ass Like He Does Husted's

Andrea Thompson — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:01:48 +0000

In this line of work, some things happen that you couldn't make up if you wanted to.

This is one of them.

President Trump has spent weeks now on a full-fledged kick over Ohio Republican Jon Husted's ass, repeatedly commenting on the senator's physical appearance and referring to his backside as a "pile of muscle" after learning that Husted was apparently a rather talented football player in his college days.

Earlier this week, the president invoked Husted's body yet again when he turned his attention to his favorite bullying victim, Texas AG and Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who, for whatever reason, Trump really loves to pick on. During that rally, Donald threatened to give Paxton the same thirsty treatment he gives Husted and his rock-hard ass, before adding, "I'm not sure your body is gonna qualify."

Seriously, the whole thing is getting super weird.

Weird enough, in fact, that Fox News' Jesse Watters seemingly couldn't resist asking the VP about it when JD Vance appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime.

Trump Superfan Indicted On Alleged Possession Of Child Sexual Abuse Material

John Amato — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:51:00 +0000

One of Donald Trump's "Front Row Joes," a superfan, was arrested Wednesday and indicted on 10 felony counts of allegedly possessing dozens of files containing child sexual abuse material.

News 5 in Cleveland reports, "Brook Park restaurant owner Adam Radogna, 37 was arrested for possessing a multitude of child sexual abuse material.

The charges include:

Two counts of illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material or performance, both second-degree felonies.

Seven counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor or impaired person, all second-degree felonies.

One count of possessing criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony.

"Front Row Joes" are a group of super fans who travel across the country to attend Trump's political rallies and have been known to camp out days in advance to secure front-row seats.

Is he an Epstein Files super fan as well?

Hegseth Purges Another Top Military Planner At The Pentagon

Heather — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:22:31 +0000

Yet another top general has been purged by Whiskey Pete.

Hegseth fires Pentagon's top military planner over what official says were leaks to media:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's top military planner, several sources confirmed to CBS News late Wednesday.

A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was accused of misconduct for allegedly leaking classified information related to the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war.

Sylvia failed three polygraph tests about sharing classified information with the press, the official said, adding that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice.

Two other Pentagon sources confirmed to CBS News that the firing was related to the polygraph tests, but said those accusations are not true.

Hegseth has made rooting out leakers at the Pentagon a priority, with sources telling CBS News last month that high-ranking military officials were subject to polygraph tests.
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One Of The Cornell 7 Is Trying To Have Letitia James Removed From Rape Investigation

Andrea Thompson — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:17:09 +0000

It seems that at least a couple of the members of the infamous so-called Cornell 7 are less than eager to go toe-to-toe with the eminent Letitia James.

As we're all well aware by now, a Cornell University student known only as "Jane Doe" has filed a lawsuit, accusing seven former members of the Chi Phi fraternity house of drugging and gang-raping her. The incident was reported to campus police, and the seven men received offensively light punishments, including writing essays. At the time, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten declined to bring criminal charges against the men, citing a lack of evidence of a prosecutable crime.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul ultimately appointed NY Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the Cornell case via an executive order, saying she has "lost faith" in the Tompkins County DA.

Three days before her appointment as special prosecutor in this highly publicized case, AG James had taken to her official X account and posted, "What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I’m holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her, and to all survivors: you’re not alone. We stand with you."