Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships  —  Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service members across multiple ships and even multiple branches.

Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch  —  Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.  —  Summary  —  Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources …

Woman arrested after second world war memorial in DC vandalized  —  Suspect faces two felony charges after memorial filled with bubbles and spray-paint reading ‘Clean hands Dirty $’  —  A woman was arrested on Friday morning in connection with the vandalization of the second world war memorial …

Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity  —  A failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light.  —  If corporations become more powerful than national governments, we are all in trouble.  The reason for this is straightforward: Corporations are not real objects.  They do not exist in nature.

Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud  —  Karoline Leavitt, that evil lying bitch, is leaving the White House.  —  Good.  —  The most repulsively mendacious, soul-insolvent Trump-era skank ever to plant herself behind that podium, open the festering sewage aperture of her foul mouth …

Mark Kelly on aircraft carrier catapult order: ‘Donald Trump knows nothing about this stuff’  —  Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering the U.S. Navy to revert to older catapult systems on its aircraft carriers, arguing the change would be costly …

How Trump's Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart  —  It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota's U.S. attorney's office, received an urgent email from Washington.  —  The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases …

Reform UK's Nigel Farage beats a slate of fringe candidates in election boycotted by major parties  —  Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce.

Massachusetts mayor accused of using a pandemic loan to fund election campaign and pay his taxes  —  A Massachusetts mayor was arrested Friday and charged with fraudulently obtaining a pandemic loan and using the money to fund his election campaign as well as pay off high-interest mortgages …

Rudy Giuliani: Young people struggling economically are “privileged little shits” who need “somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them”  —  Giuliani: “Well who cares if they're squeezing?  Their grandparents felt the Depression and were pro-American.  They don't have anything like the Depression.

A Green Light for Crooks  —  The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.  —  Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country.

Consumer sentiment dips, especially among Republicans  —  Public opinion about the economy appears to be souring further this month, per the preliminary release of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index. … - The index fell to 51, from 55.2 in July.

BBC seeks to subpoena Trump family members in defamation suit  —  The BBC is seeking to subpoena President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.

Fifth Circuit Cites A Ruling Calling Mail-In Ballots “Vital” To Falsely Claim They “Jeopardize Democracy Itself”  —  from the judicial-citation-laundering dept  —  You may have seen news of the recent Fifth Circuit decision, with an opinion written by Judge Andrew Oldham …

Drunk Trump Aide Busted Playing With Sex Toy in Bizarre Video  —  NOT SAFE FOR WORK  —  The longtime Trump aide was caught having a little too much fun.  —  A deputy assistant to President Donald Trump was caught on camera drunkenly playing around with a sex toy hours after attending a children's hospital benefit gala at Mar-a-Lago.

Little Thefts, Big Charges: Trump's Justice Dept. Targets Lesser Fraud  —  As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.

Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’  —  Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’  —  The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK …

Trump's attack on a think tank is an affront to the First Amendment  —  Think tanks help make America exceptional.  —  Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank and punish its corporate donors over research the White House didn't like …

The solar super PAC's next target  —  EXCLUSIVE: A clean energy group made waves by spending big to help oust Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) in last week's primary.  Now they've settled on their next line of attack.  —  The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, backed by solar executives and investors …

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction to continue  —  The president wants to the justices to act before a court ruling that would block construction goes into effect.

Trump dismisses families' concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions  —  The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea has been deployed for nearly nine months.  —  President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the concerns of military families about worsening conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln …

Trump stops short of endorsing Bibi as his campaign falters  —  When Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump met in the Oval Office two weeks ago, the president asked the Israeli prime minister how he was doing in the polls ahead of an Oct. 27 election.  — Netanyahu paused.

Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola Pushes Back Against Endorsement From Kamala Harris  —  The campaign of Mary Peltola said it was focused on issues important to Alaska and did not approve a message of support from Ms. Harris.  —  For former Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat …

DeSantis says he doesn't support embattled Florida Rep. Cory Mills  —  TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he's not supporting embattled Rep. Cory Mills in next week's Republican primary, adding a prominent name to the list of GOP officials who have rejected Mills' reelection bid.

Propaganda With Better Manners Is Still Propaganda  —  The new 60 Minutes will tip the scales for conservatives; ironically, many mainstream news outlets already do the same thing, less intentionally.  —  I doubt many readers of this newsletter hold high hopes for the coming season of 60 Minutes, with its new roster of contributors.

El-Sayed in the hot seat after ‘sickening’ animal control record goes viral on social media  —  'I actually really really don't want to believe this,' Jill Biden's former press secretary said on X  —  Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny over his tenure …

The unexpected issue dividing parties and midterms candidates … Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.  —  You can see it in candidates of both major parties trying …

It's not just young Democrats who like lefty candidates  —  I have published four long articles this week — and done approximately one trillion interviews about the primary polls in Wisconsin and elsewhere (and recording for NPR's Weekend Edition today) — and am quite tired.

Fascists Really Believe It … Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism's adherents really mean it.  That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.

AMLO's Son Says US Revoked Visa, Putting Sheinbaum in Bind  —  The son of Mexico's former president accused the US of revoking his visa for political reasons, increasing pressure on current leader Claudia Sheinbaum amid simmering tensions with Washington.  —  Andrés Manuel López …

‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor  —  In the days after December meeting, several agencies in attendance announced cuts or adverse actions against the state  —  In mid-December, an assistant to President Donald Trump summoned officials …

OLC's New Opinion on Executive Privilege Is a ‘Devious Tactic’ to Cover Up Trump Admin Corruption  —  The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) put out a new opinion earlier this week arguing that President Donald Trump can assert executive privilege over communications with advisors …