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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Small Businesses Despise Trump's Tariffs — For Good Reason  —  Mere hours after the Trump administration's latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses that had already defeated prior White House tariff shenanigans, most notably at the Supreme Court.

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 …

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.

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.

US Military Option for Cuba Fades as Trump Focuses on Sanctions  —  Can Cuba's Economy Survive Trump? Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 5.55% Playback Rate  — captions off, selected  — English  —  This is a modal window.  —  Unmute

Senior White House National Security Aide Andy Baker to Exit  —  White House deputy national security adviser Andy Baker plans to leave his post in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter, depriving the Trump administration of one of its foreign policy decision makers.

Exclusive / Democrats eye Republican-held Florida district  —  Democrats are hoping a potential blue wave will make a reddish Florida district competitive.  —  New polling from GQR shared first with Semafor shows retired Army Brigadier Gen. Leela Gray polling at 44% and incumbent Republican …

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 …

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 …

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in CEO's killing  —  Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.  —  Mangione, 28, entered the plea at a hastily scheduled hearing in Manhattan federal court …

Four Things State and Local Prosecutors Can Do to Combat Federal Corruption  —  On Monday, the president's former personal lawyer was sworn in as the country's top lawyer.  As the history books will note, by all appearances, Attorney General Todd Blanche got the job because of his fealty …