Trump’s Appearance in Ohio Underscores All the Reasons the GOP Is Unpopular – Mother Jones

Will the president’s steadfast support of data centers cost Ohio Republicans a victory?… 

“Just get out and vote,” Trump told a crowd that barely filled a high school gymnasium in the city of Vandalia. “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big. And we’re going to shove it up their ass.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/trumps-appearance-in-ohio-underscores-all-the-reasons-the-gop-is-unpopular/

Jon Ossoff is spot on, per usual!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jlNmF0OfX7k

 

Congress punts data centers to Michigan voters

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R3Awk5aImAE 

 

Trump STRUGGLING to get strong turnout at his rallies

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OwS2pxYGHto

 

Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell’s big college sports win won’t make an AI breakthrough easier - POLITICO

Cantwell is a longtime Democratic politician and former tech executive — so firm in her belief in strong federal AI guardrails it’s hard to imagine a path to consensus with Cruz, whom she has a history of publicly bashing when the two are divided on an issue. 

Cruz is a staunch conservative with a popular podcast and well-known desire to be president. He has sought to balance his concern that AI threats are “scary as hell” with his allegiance to the White House, which argues that heavy regulations on the industry would cede ground to China…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/cruz-cantwell-college-sports-ai-01106003 

No, Brazil’s fast vote counting is not proof of US election cheating, despite Trump’s claim – PolitiFact

Brazil has a nationally standardized system that uses the same machines, the same procedures and the same counting process across the whole country. It also does not offer voting by mail. 

In the U.S., each state sets its own election laws, including who can vote by mail and the deadline for certifying official results.

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/oct/05/donald-trump/no-brazils-fast-vote-counting-is-not-proof-of-us-election-cheating-despite-trumps-claim/

Democrats add 6 more targets, 2 in districts Trump carried by 20 points - POLITICO

The addition of these deep-red seats to the “Red to Blue” program means the Democratic Party will be lending extra resources — and potentially advertising dollars — to these races. 

 It’s the latest sign that Democrats are increasingly confident about the midterm environment, which has grown more fraught for Republicans as the war in Iran drags on and Americans continue to navigate the high cost of gas and other goods…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/house-dems-target-six-red-seats-trump-01106348

 

Missing justice scrambles Supreme Court oil liability fight - POLITICO

Alito’s recusal from the case has the potential to result in a tied ruling in a battle over oil companies’ liability to pay for climate impacts… 

 If the court can’t form a majority, dozens of climate cases across the country would continue forward with looming question marks about their legality. At least four justices expressed skepticism about the oil industry’s argument that the Clean Air Act explicitly prevents such lawsuits against polluters…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/supreme-court-deadlock-climate-case-01106662

 

Supreme Court's new term kicks off with blockbuster climate change case : NPR

"This case represents whether or not we believe as a society that corporations should be held to the same standards that all of us are, right?" Riday-White said. "If you know you are going to cause harm, and you don't tell someone, then you should help clean up that harm."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5970070/supreme-court-climate-change-boulder-county

 

Trump REVERSES course, tells Republicans to vote by mail now

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6rURAF2JEs

 

CNN rolls the tape after Trump flips sentiment on early voting

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7sRTDY_zbNY

Shortages of crucial HIV medicines due to aid cuts are a ‘warning’, say experts

More than half of organisations providing HIV care surveyed by International Planned Parenthood Federation said they had run out of stock at some point during past 12 months…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/05/shortages-of-crucial-hiv-medicines-due-to-aid-cuts-are-a-warning-say-experts 

Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000

Neighboring states are also reporting hundreds of cases, with over 3,800 recorded across the country

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/pennsylvania-measles-outbreak-hospitalizations-deaths

 

MAGA Thinks Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Too Woke - The Atlantic

They’re upset because the face of loafing in Sanders’s ad is a cheese-ball-snarfing couch potato named Brad who is a young white man. The “Pizzagate” influencer Jack Posobiec labels it “Antiwhite.” Sean Davis of The Federalist calls it part of decades-long, systematic discrimination against white men. The openly bigoted investor James Fishback, fresh off getting trounced in a GOP primary for governor of Florida, traveled to Little Rock this week to rail against the “false and disgraceful ad.”…

 https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/10/maga-sarah-huckabee-sanders-woke/688876/

 

Watching MAGA Get Everything They Voted For Is So SATISFYING

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXUd3KdEt3Y

Rural areas reap economic benefits from wind and solar projects, new Midwest study finds

Across the central U.S., more communities are passing ordinances to regulate renewable infrastructure development. A University of Missouri study examines the economic impact of renewable energy in rural areas…

 https://www.kcur.org/environment-agriculture/2026-10-05/wind-solar-energy-rural-economy-midwest

Trump approval ratings plummet to new low, polls show

President says ‘I’m doing great’ despite polls showing 32% approval rating and loss of support from 2024 voters…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/donald-trump-approval-ratings

 

GOP attorney general candidate attacks Democratic rival over sex work policy

The Democrat says he’s following research and guidelines set forth by groups like Human Rights Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union. 

Savit's office has prosecuted sex traffickers and supports charging buyers with misdemeanors when warranted…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-10-02/gop-attorney-general-candidate-attacks-democratic-rival-over-sex-work-policy

The Supreme Court faces another term jam-packed with controversy

Among others: St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton, Colo., wants the state funding guaranteed in the state's universal pre-k law. But it doesn't want to admit LGBTQ students or students with gay or trans parents. The parish maintains such admissions would violate church's right to the free exercise of religion. The state counters that funding the church school would violate the state's anti-discrimination law…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/03/nx-s1-5986341/supreme-court-term-religion-guns-environment-immigration

 

Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book | PBS News

"I know for a fact that there are others like me," Tillis writes, "Republicans who agreed to go along with the early demands of the Trump team no matter how ridiculous they were, believing that failing to do so would mean the end of their political career, and who now see that things have gone way too far."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-tillis-says-his-vote-for-hegseth-was-biggest-regret-of-my-career-in-new-book

 

Obama to campaign with El-Sayed and Benson in Michigan - POLITICO

.“It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @BarackObama is joining us on the trail in Detroit on Saturday, October 24,” El-Sayed wrote on social media. “Get. Ready.” 

The event comes 10 days before Election Day, with Democrats defending an open Senate seat and the governor’s office…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/obama-michigan-rally-el-sayed-01107087

 

10,000 NYC families stuck on child care voucher waitlist to receive assistance - POLITICO

The city is moving the families off the waitlist with funding provided by the state…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/10-000-nyc-families-stuck-on-child-care-voucher-waitlist-to-receive-assistance-01106597

Sarah Huckabee Sanders's ad depicting a white man on welfare has conservatives seething

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/18Km6nFuAt0 

 

The First Life on Earth: What Science Actually Knows (And What We Don’t)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxXxLyo2eqQ 

 

South Park DESTROYS Trump, MAGA, Billionaires and Data Centers in BRUTAL new episode

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YN1pYEietI

 

Trump’s recent statements on the economy are even more bonkers than usual

Our ‘genius’ president is revealing his ignorance of economics, fueling concerns about the threat he poses to the world…

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/05/trump-us-economy-comments

 

Trump plans executive order seeking to bring down high diesel costs - POLITICO

“When you’re not collecting taxes, you’re just kicking the can down the road, because you have to fix roads and stuff like that,” Cinquegrana said…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/trump-diesel-prices-executive-order-01106807

 

You Couldn't Fill a High School Gym, Donald 🏀 | Paula Poundstone #shorts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PfboekOIE0k 

 

Hegseth promised "no beardos, no weirdos," but has he seen who's heading the Meridian Project

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3w-QNUpz62s

 

‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown - POLITICO

“We don’t want to turn into a banana republic where you lose an election and it’s all about retribution,” said Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), a senior member of the Financial Services Committee. “A lot of the companies did things because Trump had a gun on their head. We’re going to have to be a little bit wise about when companies simply did something they had to do to survive this unprecedented level of corruption, compared to companies that actually got on board and profited more by being a partner in his corruption.”

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/democrats-oversight-companies-trump-01106235

 

RFK Is Gloating That His Changes to HHS Are Permanent – Mother Jones

Kennedy’s drive to damage U.S. vaccine infrastructure is broadly unpopular. Recent polling shows that six in 10 voters disapprove of his work as HHS secretary. Outside of parties with his friends, Kennedy has sought to downplay his vaccine agenda; as The New York Times disclosed earlier this year, in the lead-up to the midterms, he planned to deemphasize vaccines and spend more time talking about healthy eating. Since that reporting, in a rather queasy irony, the nation has been struck with a wave of serious food-borne illness—with part of the blame going to decreased FDA inspections under RFK Jr…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/rfk-hhs-permanent-changes/

 

Heaven's IT Guy - Meat on Friday #comedy #itguy

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IgKJC6Toiv8