In today’s Ohio section, a school superintendent named Marnisha Brown had to swear in a court filing that her elementary school’s boiler is broken and she can’t afford to fix it. That’s what it took to prove her kids were being shortchanged. Stories like hers are why I’m glad you’re in this with me. If someone you love still thinks this election doesn’t matter, send them a gift subscription, or go Founding Member and help us dig harder through November 3.
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Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico walked onto a CNN stage in Fort Worth Wednesday night and let Texas voters ask him anything for 90 minutes. Plenty of them weren’t on his side. Ken Paxton was invited too. He didn’t even respond. Talarico turned the race on the people really dividing the country: “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.” Hiding is a habit for Paxton. In 2022, a process server swore under oath that Paxton ran back into his house to dodge a subpoena. Now he’s dodging the voters he wants to represent. Talarico closed by going straight at him: “We have an opportunity in this race not just to defeat the most corrupt politician in Texas; we have an opportunity to defeat this entire corrupt system.” The choice, he said, is whether Texas sends a senator “who puts money in your pocket” or one “who puts money in their own.” Republicans know they have a real chance to lose in Texas. That’s why Republicans in Tarrant County, where Talarico stood Wednesday night, voted to close 92 Election Day polling places. That’s nearly a third of all of them across the entire county. Early voting starts tomorrow, and Texans have the opportunity to pick the candidate who actually shows up.
Katie Zacharia lasted five days as White House press secretary. Trump introduced her on Truth Social as “an attorney,” and she’d called herself a lawyer on TV for months. Then Judd Legum, one of the country’s best investigative reporters, checked. His newsletter, Popular Information, searched bar records in all 50 states and DC. Nothing. On the South Lawn, a reporter asked where she passed the bar. Trump turned and asked her, “Which state?” Her answer: “When I moved to China.” Americans can’t even take China’s bar, and nowhere in China can you take the US exam. A partner at Zhong Lun, the Chinese firm that employed her, said its foreign hires “are not practicing Chinese law at any time.” By Thursday, Zacharia admitted she never passed the bar, calling it “inconsequential.” In California, claiming to be a lawyer without a license is a crime that carries up to a year in jail. Last year, she shared a Fox story on LinkedIn headlined “Newsom is ‘yammering on’ and not working, says attorney.” The “attorney” was her. As of Friday, that page still calls her “General Counsel” of Fix California. WIRED uncovered what filled part of the gap in her résumé—selling Beachbody shakes for a company she now calls “sort of a pyramid scheme.” Funny how that works—she was hired to sell Trump’s scheme to deceive the American people from the White House podium. On Friday, Trump told reporters what he’d said to her: “Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider.” That same day, she was fired. It took one reader-funded newsletter less than a week to expose her. Good riddance.
Trump’s people spent the week dodging questions. In Ohio, the state had to answer for its voucher program in court. On Thursday, an Ohio appeals court ruled 3-0 that EdChoice, the program that hands tax money to private schools, violates the state constitution. Judge David Leland wrote the decision. It agreed with Franklin County Judge Jaiza Page, who ruled the program unconstitutional last year. More than 300 public school districts joined forces as Vouchers Hurt Ohio, the coalition behind this case. One Republican lawmaker even tried to punish them for it, with a bill to cut off state money to any district that sued. They didn’t back down. In 1999, Ohio’s Supreme Court warned that a bigger voucher program could someday damage public education. Leland said: “Today is that day.” The facts in the filings are brutal. In one year, Ohio handed voucher schools $677 million while shorting its own public schools about $700 million under the state’s funding formula. Under oath, a state official admitted a private school could collect voucher money for a child who never showed up once all year. Voucher schools can turn away a child with a disability. Public schools in Richmond Heights can’t fix a broken boiler. Trump’s Big Ugly Bill hands out federal tax breaks to bankroll private school tuition, and voucher backers have already vowed to take this loss to the Ohio Supreme Court. Let them. Public schools are 2-0.
Ohio’s kids and public schools got a win in state court. The people who fight our wildfires got one in federal court. Trump’s Agriculture Department (USDA) planned to rip the Forest Service’s headquarters out of Washington and ship it to Salt Lake City, close all nine regional offices, and shut 23 research facilities. More than 6,000 workers got letters warning of forced relocation. On Tuesday, US District Judge Vince Chhabria stopped all of it. Congress had rejected Trump’s proposed $6.7 billion cut and written a rule into the budget: no closing offices or moving workers without its approval. The regime did it anyway. USDA “has almost certainly been violating those restrictions,” Chhabria wrote, halting its reorganization spending, “full stop.” He found no sign USDA ever studied what the plan would do to fighting wildfires. Trump tried to do something like this in his first term, when he shipped two USDA research agencies to Kansas City. Instead of moving, more than half their staff left. That’s the whole point—make life so difficult for the experts it’s easier to just leave. The American Federation of Government Employees—led by Everett Kelley—joined cities, counties, and nonprofits to win this ruling. “These forced moves were never about efficiency,” Kelley said. “They were about pushing experienced people out the door.” The rule Chhabria enforced runs through December 11. Then Congress gets to decide, and our readers have already sent 33,636 letters telling them to protect the Forest Service. Every House seat is on the ballot in 16 days. Sixteen days. That’s all that stands between Trump and a Congress that answers to you instead of him. Sixteen days of knocking on doors, making calls, bringing a friend to the polls, and refusing to let a single lie slide. Trump’s people are hiding, lying, and losing in court. We’re showing up. We’ll keep digging into the Republicans running for Senate and push what we find to millions of people on Facebook, Bluesky, and everywhere else folks scroll, so the truth reaches them before the lies do. And we’ll keep amplifying candidates who need a louder voice in this fight. Trump’s side has billionaires and bottomless pits of money. We have you. Every new paid subscriber buys more of that before the midterms. Go paid today and you’ll also get my morning briefing starting on October 27, where I’ll review which races are closest and where we can still make the biggest difference. On election night, you’ll be with me in our war room when I go live at 8:30 PM Eastern. Join us for the final stretch:
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Thanks for the update on the Ohio voucher situation. I’ve been so worried my nieces’ and nephews’ kids would be affected by this scheme. I live in AZ now and this Republican legislature has decimated public education. So many of us are trying to claw it back, but what an uphill battle. Education is the foundation for everything else. And with the ignorance of so many in the magasphere, it’s never been more apparent.
Just got my mail in ballot yesterday. Filled out and going to drop it off today. Always enjoy your articles Scott. Thank you 👍🏻❤️🙏🏻👇🏻🗳️
It's so much easier and allows you time to research if there's a candidate you're unfamiliar with....MASSACHUSETTS has 9 BALLOT QUESTIONS that require time to investigate. Besides, it's VOTE IN YOUR PAJAMAS! It's SAFE AND SECURE! It also increases VOTER PARTICIPATION!
Both my parents were mired in drug and alcohol abuse throughout my childhood. Public school teachers gave me the life I have today. I owe them everything.
Re:public school teachers My high school years were some of the most difficult years of my life for reasons I won’t go into, but if you look up deeply dysfunctional family, my family’s picture is symbolically there. I didn’t make it to school all that much- I honestly don’t know why I wasn’t thrown out or my parents cited for truancy 🤷🏻♀️. My English class had a newer to the school teacher who had us journal for ten minutes each class day. (Note that my parents refused my request for counseling because “they didn’t want anyone to know our business”, so things like journaling were completely foreign to me.) I started writing things that didn’t actually say what was going on, but showed my viewpoint of the world at that time. Imagine my shock when the teacher, Ms. King selected journals to read anonymously and started with mine. I don’t recall how many of mine she read, but every class I attended, and I tried to consistently attend after that, she shared something I’d written. I was walking by the school office one day and heard a student saying she’d gotten early acceptance. No one in my family had gone to college, but I read a lot and suspected this was college acceptance. I met with Ms. King to clarify, then the principal. When I asked him if they would help me get into college early, they said they would. This is a time before Internet- a phone book, yellow page, college guide in the library era. So I researched colleges and called to ask for info & applications. I scheduled myself for GED exams. I drove myself to colleges that said they’d work with me. I figured out my financing in a away that’s a much longer story… End of story, instead of killing myself, thanks to Ms. King, a public high school principal, and other school staff, I completed my last 1 1/2 years of high school at college, away from my family. I just celebrated my 63rd birthday- and I also celebrated the public school system that helped keep me alive to do it. Thanks, Scott, for allowing me to share this memory. 💕💕💕
Aw, Ellyn, what a resourceful teen you were and guided by good teachers. This made me cry but also made me another layer of grateful. My parents were public school teachers who, of course, really valued education. I had many good teachers in my life. And I am so very happy you were able to change the trajectory of your life! Congratulations! I’m sure that resourceful, driven teen still lives inside you. Thanks for sharing your story. 💕
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” - Shakespeare
Who else is riding that “last three weeks before E day energy?!” Let’s go!
ME!
I resisted at the No Kings Get out the vote rally. A great bridge brigade in upstate NY. Thousands of honking supporters!
Yesterday, attended a No Kings Rally event, last night attended a stop oligarchy rally with our soon to be new Senator Angie Nixon (ousting Moody) with Bernie Sanders (EPIC), and now, on the way to a flag waving. We have 16 days and I will spend each one of them in motion! Thank you for reminding us every day that WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER to bring forth the change in Washington. Every Republican must go as they (more than trump) are the responsible party because they could have stopped all of it. ONWARD!
"Sixteen days. That’s all that stands between Trump and a Congress that answers to you instead of him."
Yes!! My husband and I did last week…100% blue! I was impressed by the number of people voting at that sight on only the 2nd day of Early Voting. Let’s be optimistic and think that people want to be sure there is a radical change and our country returns to what it is meant to be.🤞🏼
My freshman year English teacher taught me to write in simple declarative sentences. Her influence on my writing stayed with me through college, law school and my career as a judge. There were many other teachers who helped me develop critical thinking skills. Public education created the middle class.
I am thrilled to hear the so-called press secretary did not last in office very long. She sounded ridiculous. In a rather reverse way, the public school teacher who affected me most was being. in his homeroom where he was also my guidance teacher. He told me that I should forget about being a teacher because people of my religion and sex would not stand a chance of ever being hired as a public school teacher myself. Five years later, I had offers from three boards of education to teach and their municipalities. 30 years of successful,teaching, reaching the highest standards possible followed. I later learned that the offensive teacher who gave me that terrible information was removed from his position for practicing the spread of improper information. His union protected him from being fired outright, which should have happened. He also told me at one time when I took a test that was supposed to outline my personal strengths and weaknesses, that because I scored so high n mechanical abilities that I surely must've cheated. Yes, his influence on me was profound, I always strove to prove how wrong he was about everything. His school board at that time, also accused him of spreading communist propaganda. Hearing that he was removed from any personal contact with students until he retired warmed my heart.
Thank you for extra good news today! As a Texan all of my 79 years I’m proud to be voting in this election for Gina Hinojosa & James Taralico! I’m taking my mail-in ballot tomorrow & casting it in the early voting process to make sure it’s counted. I was going to drive it to the county office but this is better. I’m going to see & feel the excitement of early voting. Thank you Scott for all of your hard work you do everyday which has kept us going in Texas & the rest of the country. Yesterday I ate an amazing lunch with my daughter in her town nearby & I wouldn’t have spent the money because it was twice what I’d normally spend. We were celebrating the changes coming to our state & country. I’ve been telling everyone we’re going to have the greatest Thanksgiving this year because we’re defeating what’s left of the Republican Party. Life is going to change dramatically 11/3/26!
Can’t vote early in Bama. When our daughter was in first grade her teacher requested a meeting after the first six weeks. “your daughter is very sweet but she has a learning deficits. She will always have to work harder for good grades, harder than other students. Please get her tested asap so she can get the help she needs,” said her teacher with a PhD in Special Ed. She was right. We had never picked up on it before that meeting. We began immediately requesting that she be tested. Special Testing is expensive. If we had $1,000 to pay for it, it could be done immediately. We didn’t. It took 10 years to get the State of Alabama to provide the testing. Thank God it finally got done. Special Help stayed with her all through college, where she graduated with Honors. Thank God also for that first grade teacher!
I went to a No Kings rally yesterday, and my US Rep, Yassamin Ansari was there along with Senator Rueben Gallego. I hadn’t known they would be there so that was exciting! Especially since I brought a friend and her family. We marched to a ballot drop box in Phoenix and everyone voted. I got to introduce my friend to Yassamin as we marched. My friend, who is an immigrant from Japan and has been very frightened by this regime, ended up being so inspired! She texted me later saying she wanted to go to the next one! 🩵💙
Irene, I’m so sorry I missed that march. A friend shared on FB. So exciting! Glad your friend could join. And I love Yassamin’s updates on Instagram. She is amazing!
What I am concerned about is that the Supreme Court of Ohio, with six Republican justices and one Democratic justice, will reverse the Court of Appeals decision on the unconstitutionality of Ohio’s voucher system. People here are frustrated with tax increases and with the public schools districts having to hold supplementary levies, but they don’t see that the public schools have to hold the levies because they are not getting all of the tax money they are entitled to receive under Ohio’s constitution. They don’t see the connection between defunding schools and the voucher system. In addition, some years ago, the Supreme Court of Ohio declared Ohio’s public school funding system unconstitutional, but the Republican General Assembly and Senate have never seen fit to fix the problem.
Ohio seems baffling to me! After the RICO TRIAL (synopsis: The Ohio RICO energy trials involve former FirstEnergy executives accused of bribery and corruption related to House Bill 6, which aimed to bail out struggling coal and nuclear plants. The trials are part of the largest public corruption scandal in Ohio history, with significant implications for energy policy and regulation in the state. The former executives face serious felony charges, including bribery and conspiracy.) it would have seemed that VOTERS would scrutinize elected officials more closely.
In the wake of the EAST PALESTINE TRAIN CRASH: Ohio toxic train crash killed nearly 45,000 animals 23 February 2023 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64749041
OHIO FIRST RESPONDERS attended this site without PROTECTIVE GEAR! They were not informed of the toxic fumes and danger to which they were exposed.
If ANIMALS were killed, what of PEOPLE?
MASSACHUSETTS is not perfect, but DRILLS are conducted to train FIRST RESPONDERS how to appropriately protect themselves and return home SAFELY and HEALTHY. As boring as it is, TOXIC SITES are identified to protect personnel. Go Blue Poem No kings, no ballroom and no vanity Arch We will vote in November, but today we march No amount of Billionaire's money will save their jobs They have done nothing for us citizens, the lazy slobs The closer we get to November the more Republicans fear our wrath Our vote is our power to put us back on the righteous path We must take back our government and investigate the crimes Prosecute the guilty and claw back the stolen nickels and dimes Republicans take and take and then tell us our pain is not real Our votes can not be bought and the election they can't steal We are coming for Trump and his crime family Who have been profiting from the country's misery We have watched for two years all the corruption Trump profiting from our suffering is an abruption He breaks our laws and disrespects our neighbors and Allies He is losing his illegal war and and can no longer hide behind his lies Millions march to let Trump and his sycophants know what's coming Their lies and misdirection will not save them from the war drums' drumming We are coming for Hegseth's job first but the job will not be finished We will not let all his war crimes go unpunished Time is on our side, Time is on our side yes it is. Time, time, time, is on our side, yes it is, yes it is Elon Musk and the Billionaires will look to Trump to save them with Pardons They may keep them out of jail but they won't save their kingdoms Tod Blanche an Patel your heads will be next on the block You see our numbers and can read our signs, tick-tock, tick-tock Our numbers grow larger with each passing day The momentum is on our side there will be no delay Election day is coming, the time is drawing near No matter how loud Trump whines, all we see is his fear Tick-tock Donald, Tick-tock, tick-tock There is no stopping or slowing this clock
#1 YES, I will sure as Hell vote. I would crawl naked though barbed wire to get to the polls this year. Why? Beca!use the midterms are to a large degree a referendum on the sitting president and I DETEST TRUMP! #2 YES. This is not complimentary to the statre of Oklahoma. I hope things have changed. During WWII my dad was in the Army and stationed in Claremore, Oklahoma, so I went to third grade there. The state had allocated jusr enough money to public education to allow one teacher to teach SIXTY (that's right, 60) students, It would seem that the oil barons running the state had little use for educating the children of the parents who could not afford a private school. So, this poor woman spent a couple of weeks figuring out which of the 60 kids in her class had some interest in learning and which did not. She then divided her class, about 20 or so kids in the front rows, then a big gap of empty seats and the resst in the back . I was one of the chosen (front rows).
Hoping the Ohio Supreme Court rules to protect public schools from further corrupt funding theft.
I dropped off my ballot Friday! I wish I was more energetic about the election, but three weeks ago, school board announced it was shutting down 9 schools. The school I work at is one of them. It’s a lot to handle these days.
This is what I see. Trump, Putin, and Musk have just engineered a coup. The Lindsay Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passed the Senate 86-11, a bodacious bipartisan agreement. Trump has just paused it, nullifying the most ambitious Russia sanctions package Congress has ever passed before a single new penalty took hold. 2 days before it was to go into effect, 17 days before the midterm election, with Putin declaring he intends to make Ukrainian cities unlivable. . Trump and his advisors probably realize that the cost of this insult to the Senate is that his legislative agenda, specifically the SAVE Act, is DOA in the Senate. See, for example, Thom Tillis, who has stated how pissed off he is at Trump over the Russia diesel deal, and Don Bacon, who is retiring and has nothing further to lose; Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lisa Murkowski, who all urged Trump to rescind the Russian diesel deal. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats. They can't afford to lose more than 2. One possible explanation for Trump's insouciance toward his legislative agenda is that he does not care. If he does not care why would that be? A reason would be because he no longer intends to need Congress. He intends to declare an emergency and then invoke the Insurrection Act. He would then issue an order to mobilize the National Guard. The difficulties are numerous - the National Guard are housed in 50 states, the Constitution does not mention martial law. No act of Congress has ever defined it. The Supreme Court has addressed martial law 5 times and have not produced clarity. Every Democratic governor would balk, every AG would file, but the result is we would have chaos, and outrageous abuses of power, rioting in the streets, and I call it civil war. The Supreme Court is not likely to rule that the president has no authority to declare martial law. I see fire.
Excellent analysis, Martha, I hope Trump is stopped in time to prevent a conflagration.
Dropping our completed ballots 🗳 at an early voting site tomorrow. Blue all the way!
I was in school so very long ago that for the 1st 5 years, we had no married women as teachers (heaven forbid they get pregnant and the kids see that, tho of course they all had mothers). Only one had been married and she was a war widow, and male teachers were few and far between. But the elementary education we got was pretty good, and these women were able to maintain order in their classrooms as parents then supported the teachers no matter what and kids didn't get to run the schools. The only 'private' schools we had were parochial schools and of course the old line nuns ran them, not so different now that I think of it.
Just got our ballots in the mail yesterday in Oregon! Will be dropping them off at a secure drop box to make sure they arrive safely!
IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN? Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of. In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac! Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada). In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
Have you seen the MUSK DOCUMENTARY?
FROM PARNAS PERSPECTIVE, AARON PARNAS (video on link): And then there’s Elon Musk. The New York Times found that most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign in Texas traces back to him, $158 million and counting. I heard Musk fans are mad at me, so I’m interviewing Alex Gibney, the director of the new Musk documentary he wants you to never see. Musk can spend hundreds of millions trying to buy elections and drown out the truth, but he can’t buy this newsletter, and he can’t buy you. Musk Documentary Paints a Damning Portrait as His Money Props Up Ken Paxton in Texas
Alex Gibney’s new documentary “Musk” paints Elon Musk as a man who sees other people as characters in his own video game, according to a review in The New Republic. The film, from the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “Going Clear,” runs nearly four hours with an intermission. Musk refused to be interviewed and instead called Gibney a “douche” on X, so Gibney built a database of Musk’s recorded interviews and created a computer-generated Musk avatar that “answers” questions using things Musk has actually said. The device plays on Musk’s long-held belief that life is probably a simulation, and the film portrays him as the main character in a digital world where everyone else is a “non-player character.” Reviewer David Klion describes the portrait that emerges as one of “an empty, hateful, emotionally stunted man” whose two superpowers are shameless self-promotion and an ability to exploit weaknesses in government regulation. The central question of the film, Klion writes, is how someone like Musk gained such immense power and “what does it say about the rest of us that we allowed it to happen?” The documentary traces the damage Musk has done, from Tesla’s self-driving crashes to the dismantling of USAID, and includes his power over Ukraine’s battlefield through Starlink. Gibney interviews more than a dozen people, including Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, Musk’s ex-wife Justine, Ashley St. Clair, former USAID chief Samantha Power and members of Musk’s own family. The film highlights a Florida lawyer suing Tesla over its self-driving cars, which have been involved in at least 60 deaths. It also covers Musk’s gutting of the federal government through DOGE, and Power chokes up on camera describing the suffering caused to the world’s poorest people when USAID was dismantled. Gibney shows how Musk built ties with Trump, Argentina’s Javier Milei, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to expand businesses like Starlink, which lets him “sway the battlefields of Ukraine by denying or granting access.” St. Clair, the mother of one of his 14 known children, says on camera that she refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement she claims Musk has offered other women and details the harassment she has faced since speaking out.
Most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Texas Senate campaign can be traced to Musk, who gave $158 million to a super PAC that immediately sent the same amount to a pro-Paxton group, according to the New York Times. Campaign finance filings show Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $75 million on Sept. 9 and $83 million on Sept. 23. Each time, the very next day, the super PAC sent a check for the exact same amount to Texas PAC, a group it set up to support Paxton. Musk also gave $10 million to a separate pro-Paxton super PAC that started running TV ads in late August, and his midterm donations now total at least $276 million, making him the biggest known donor this cycle. Musk, who lives in Austin, has long been allied with Paxton, who as Texas attorney general regulates Musk’s businesses in the state. The money has kept Paxton competitive even though he has been vastly outraised by Democrat James Talarico, who has criticized billionaires like Musk on the campaign trail and has been the target of several recent attacks from Musk on X.
Musk settled the last two lawsuits over his $1 million voter giveaways from the 2024 election, ending a two-year legal fight, according to CNN. In the final stretch of the 2024 race, Musk’s America PAC gave away $1 million a day to registered voters in battleground states while Musk urged people to vote for Trump. Voters later filed proposed class-action fraud lawsuits claiming Musk tricked them into thinking they had a fair shot at the money, which required handing over their personal data to his political group. Musk had said the winners would be picked “randomly,” but his lawyers later admitted in court that winners were “not chosen by chance” and were instead picked based on whether they would make good spokespeople for the pro-Trump super PAC. The terms of the settlements were not disclosed, and Musk and America PAC deny wrongdoing. The Justice Department warned Musk in 2024 that the giveaways could violate federal vote-buying laws, and Wisconsin’s bipartisan election commission concluded this year that he likely broke state law with similar giveaways in a 2025 judicial race, though prosecutors declined to bring charges. L.D.Michaels’s Substack 2h IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
FROM ADAM PARKHOMENKO ALT MEDIA SAM YOUNGMAN: Note 17: Sexy Patriots, we implore you to never ever ever ever ever get into one of Elon’s flying cars. Also, don’t drink the green shit you keep under the sink. Pop Base @popbase.tv Elon Musk unveils flying car: the Tesla Roadster. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:29:39 GMT View on Bluesky Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of. In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac! Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada). In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people. Buying Texas Trump totally crashed out yesterday about the Texas Senate race, preemptively blaming John Cornyn and Karl Rove for Ken Paxton losing. So all those polls must be pretty accurate. The only thing working for Paxton right now is Elon Musk, who has given $158 million to super PACs to try and save the scumbag who put a pedophile back on the streets. Elon is basically the only donor to this PAC so it’s not an exaggeration to say that Elon is trying to buy a U.S. Senate seat. Let’s hope this goes like his foray into Wisconsin. More: CNN, Politico
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Thanks for the update on the Ohio voucher situation. I’ve been so worried my nieces’ and nephews’ kids would be affected by this scheme. I live in AZ now and this Republican legislature has decimated public education. So many of us are trying to claw it back, but what an uphill battle. Education is the foundation for everything else. And with the ignorance of so many in the magasphere, it’s never been more apparent.
Just got my mail in ballot yesterday. Filled out and going to drop it off today. Always enjoy your articles Scott. Thank you 👍🏻❤️🙏🏻👇🏻🗳️
It's so much easier and allows you time to research if there's a candidate you're unfamiliar with....MASSACHUSETTS has 9 BALLOT QUESTIONS that require time to investigate.
Besides, it's VOTE IN YOUR PAJAMAS!
It's SAFE AND SECURE!
It also increases VOTER PARTICIPATION!
Both my parents were mired in drug and alcohol abuse throughout my childhood. Public school teachers gave me the life I have today. I owe them everything.
Re:public school teachers
My high school years were some of the most difficult years of my life for reasons I won’t go into, but if you look up deeply dysfunctional family, my family’s picture is symbolically there.
I didn’t make it to school all that much- I honestly don’t know why I wasn’t thrown out or my parents cited for truancy 🤷🏻♀️.
My English class had a newer to the school teacher who had us journal for ten minutes each class day. (Note that my parents refused my request for counseling because “they didn’t want anyone to know our business”, so things like journaling were completely foreign to me.)
I started writing things that didn’t actually say what was going on, but showed my viewpoint of the world at that time. Imagine my shock when the teacher, Ms. King selected journals to read anonymously and started with mine. I don’t recall how many of mine she read, but every class I attended, and I tried to consistently attend after that, she shared something I’d written.
I was walking by the school office one day and heard a student saying she’d gotten early acceptance. No one in my family had gone to college, but I read a lot and suspected this was college acceptance. I met with Ms. King to clarify, then the principal. When I asked him if they would help me get into college early, they said they would.
This is a time before Internet- a phone book, yellow page, college guide in the library era. So I researched colleges and called to ask for info & applications. I scheduled myself for GED exams. I drove myself to colleges that said they’d work with me. I figured out my financing in a away that’s a much longer story…
End of story, instead of killing myself, thanks to Ms. King, a public high school principal, and other school staff, I completed my last 1 1/2 years of high school at college, away from my family. I just celebrated my 63rd birthday- and I also celebrated the public school system that helped keep me alive to do it.
Thanks, Scott, for allowing me to share this memory. 💕💕💕
Aw, Ellyn, what a resourceful teen you were and guided by good teachers. This made me cry but also made me another layer of grateful. My parents were public school teachers who, of course, really valued education. I had many good teachers in my life. And I am so very happy you were able to change the trajectory of your life! Congratulations! I’m sure that resourceful, driven teen still lives inside you. Thanks for sharing your story. 💕
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” - Shakespeare
Who else is riding that “last three weeks before E day energy?!”
Let’s go!
ME!
I resisted at the No Kings Get out the vote rally. A great bridge brigade in upstate NY. Thousands of honking supporters!
Yesterday, attended a No Kings Rally event, last night attended a stop oligarchy rally with our soon to be new Senator Angie Nixon (ousting Moody) with Bernie Sanders (EPIC), and now, on the way to a flag waving. We have 16 days and I will spend each one of them in motion! Thank you for reminding us every day that WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER to bring forth the change in Washington. Every Republican must go as they (more than trump) are the responsible party because they could have stopped all of it. ONWARD!
"Sixteen days. That’s all that stands between Trump and a Congress that answers to you instead of him."
Yes!! My husband and I did last week…100% blue!
I was impressed by the number of people voting at that sight on only the 2nd day of Early Voting. Let’s be optimistic and think that people want to be sure there is a radical change and our country returns to what it is meant to be.🤞🏼
My freshman year English teacher taught me to write in simple declarative sentences. Her influence on my writing stayed with me through college, law school and my career as a judge. There were many other teachers who helped me develop critical thinking skills. Public education created the middle class.
I am thrilled to hear the so-called press secretary did not last in office very long. She sounded ridiculous.
In a rather reverse way, the public school teacher who affected me most was being. in his homeroom where he was also my guidance teacher. He told me that I should forget about being a teacher because people of my religion and sex would not stand a chance of ever being hired as a public school teacher myself. Five years later, I had offers from three boards of education to teach and their municipalities. 30 years of successful,teaching, reaching the highest standards possible followed. I later learned that the offensive teacher who gave me that terrible information was removed from his position for practicing the spread of improper information. His union protected him from being fired outright, which should have happened. He also told me at one time when I took a test that was supposed to outline my personal strengths and weaknesses, that because I scored so high n mechanical abilities that I surely must've cheated. Yes, his influence on me was profound, I always strove to prove how wrong he was about everything. His school board at that time, also accused him of spreading communist propaganda. Hearing that he was removed from any personal contact with students until he retired warmed my heart.
Thank you for extra good news today! As a Texan all of my 79 years I’m proud to be voting in this election for Gina Hinojosa & James Taralico! I’m taking my mail-in ballot tomorrow & casting it in the early voting process to make sure it’s counted. I was going to drive it to the county office but this is better. I’m going to see & feel the excitement of early voting. Thank you Scott for all of your hard work you do everyday which has kept us going in Texas & the rest of the country. Yesterday I ate an amazing lunch with my daughter in her town nearby & I wouldn’t have spent the money because it was twice what I’d normally spend. We were celebrating the changes coming to our state & country. I’ve been telling everyone we’re going to have the greatest Thanksgiving this year because we’re defeating what’s left of the Republican Party. Life is going to change dramatically 11/3/26!
Can’t vote early in Bama.
When our daughter was in first grade her teacher requested a meeting after the first six weeks.
“your daughter is very sweet but she has a learning deficits. She will always have to work harder for good grades, harder than other students. Please get her tested asap so she can get the help she needs,” said her teacher with a PhD in Special Ed.
She was right. We had never picked up on it before that meeting.
We began immediately requesting that she be tested.
Special Testing is expensive. If we had $1,000 to pay for it, it could be done immediately. We didn’t. It took 10 years to get the State of Alabama to provide the testing. Thank God it finally got done.
Special Help stayed with her all through college, where she graduated with Honors.
Thank God also for that first grade teacher!
I went to a No Kings rally yesterday, and my US Rep, Yassamin Ansari was there along with Senator Rueben Gallego. I hadn’t known they would be there so that was exciting! Especially since I brought a friend and her family. We marched to a ballot drop box in Phoenix and everyone voted. I got to introduce my friend to Yassamin as we marched. My friend, who is an immigrant from Japan and has been very frightened by this regime, ended up being so inspired! She texted me later saying she wanted to go to the next one! 🩵💙
Irene, I’m so sorry I missed that march. A friend shared on FB. So exciting! Glad your friend could join. And I love Yassamin’s updates on Instagram. She is amazing!
What I am concerned about is that the Supreme Court of Ohio, with six Republican justices and one Democratic justice, will reverse the Court of Appeals decision on the unconstitutionality of Ohio’s voucher system. People here are frustrated with tax increases and with the public schools districts having to hold supplementary levies, but they don’t see that the public schools have to hold the levies because they are not getting all of the tax money they are entitled to receive under Ohio’s constitution. They don’t see the connection between defunding schools and the voucher system. In addition, some years ago, the Supreme Court of Ohio declared Ohio’s public school funding system unconstitutional, but the Republican General Assembly and Senate have never seen fit to fix the problem.
Ohio seems baffling to me!
After the RICO TRIAL
(synopsis: The Ohio RICO energy trials involve former FirstEnergy executives accused of bribery and corruption related to House Bill 6, which aimed to bail out struggling coal and nuclear plants. The trials are part of the largest public corruption scandal in Ohio history, with significant implications for energy policy and regulation in the state. The former executives face serious felony charges, including bribery and conspiracy.)
it would have seemed that VOTERS would scrutinize elected officials more closely.
In the wake of the EAST PALESTINE TRAIN CRASH:
Ohio toxic train crash killed nearly 45,000 animals
23 February 2023
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64749041
OHIO FIRST RESPONDERS attended this site without PROTECTIVE GEAR!
They were not informed of the toxic fumes and danger to which they were exposed.
If ANIMALS were killed, what of PEOPLE?
MASSACHUSETTS is not perfect, but DRILLS are conducted to train FIRST RESPONDERS
how to appropriately protect themselves and return home SAFELY and HEALTHY.
As boring as it is, TOXIC SITES are identified to protect personnel.
Go Blue Poem
No kings, no ballroom and no vanity Arch
We will vote in November, but today we march
No amount of Billionaire's money will save their jobs
They have done nothing for us citizens, the lazy slobs
The closer we get to November the more Republicans fear our wrath
Our vote is our power to put us back on the righteous path
We must take back our government and investigate the crimes
Prosecute the guilty and claw back the stolen nickels and dimes
Republicans take and take and then tell us our pain is not real
Our votes can not be bought and the election they can't steal
We are coming for Trump and his crime family
Who have been profiting from the country's misery
We have watched for two years all the corruption
Trump profiting from our suffering is an abruption
He breaks our laws and disrespects our neighbors and Allies
He is losing his illegal war and and can no longer hide behind his lies
Millions march to let Trump and his sycophants know what's coming
Their lies and misdirection will not save them from the war drums' drumming
We are coming for Hegseth's job first but the job will not be finished
We will not let all his war crimes go unpunished
Time is on our side, Time is on our side yes it is.
Time, time, time, is on our side, yes it is, yes it is
Elon Musk and the Billionaires will look to Trump to save them with Pardons
They may keep them out of jail but they won't save their kingdoms
Tod Blanche an Patel your heads will be next on the block
You see our numbers and can read our signs, tick-tock, tick-tock
Our numbers grow larger with each passing day
The momentum is on our side there will be no delay
Election day is coming, the time is drawing near
No matter how loud Trump whines, all we see is his fear
Tick-tock Donald, Tick-tock, tick-tock
There is no stopping or slowing this clock
#1 YES, I will sure as Hell vote. I would crawl naked though barbed wire to get to the polls this year. Why? Beca!use the midterms are to a large degree a referendum on the sitting president and I DETEST TRUMP!
#2 YES. This is not complimentary to the statre of Oklahoma. I hope things have changed.
During WWII my dad was in the Army and stationed in Claremore, Oklahoma, so I went to third grade there. The state had allocated jusr enough money to public education to allow one teacher to teach SIXTY (that's right, 60) students, It would seem that the oil barons running the state had little use for educating the children of the parents who could not afford a private school. So, this poor woman spent a couple of weeks figuring out which of the 60 kids in her class had some interest in learning and which did not. She then divided her class, about 20 or so kids in the front rows, then a big gap of empty seats and the resst in the back . I was one of the chosen (front rows).
Hoping the Ohio Supreme Court rules to protect public schools from further corrupt funding theft.
I dropped off my ballot Friday! I wish I was more energetic about the election, but three weeks ago, school board announced it was shutting down 9 schools. The school I work at is one of them. It’s a lot to handle these days.
This is what I see. Trump, Putin, and Musk have just engineered a coup.
The Lindsay Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passed the Senate 86-11, a bodacious bipartisan agreement. Trump has just paused it, nullifying the most ambitious Russia sanctions package Congress has ever passed before a single new penalty took hold. 2 days before it was to go into effect, 17 days before the midterm election, with Putin declaring he intends to make Ukrainian cities unlivable. .
Trump and his advisors probably realize that the cost of this insult to the Senate is that his legislative agenda, specifically the SAVE Act, is DOA in the Senate. See, for example, Thom Tillis, who has stated how pissed off he is at Trump over the Russia diesel deal, and Don Bacon, who is retiring and has nothing further to lose; Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lisa Murkowski, who all urged Trump to rescind the Russian diesel deal. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats. They can't afford to lose more than 2.
One possible explanation for Trump's insouciance toward his legislative agenda is that he does not care. If he does not care why would that be?
A reason would be because he no longer intends to need Congress. He intends to declare an emergency and then invoke the Insurrection Act. He would then issue an order to mobilize the National Guard.
The difficulties are numerous - the National Guard are housed in 50 states, the Constitution does not mention martial law. No act of Congress has ever defined it. The Supreme Court has addressed martial law 5 times and have not produced clarity. Every Democratic governor would balk, every AG would file, but the result is we would have chaos, and outrageous abuses of power, rioting in the streets, and I call it civil war. The Supreme Court is not likely to rule that the president has no authority to declare martial law. I see fire.
Excellent analysis, Martha, I hope Trump is stopped in time to prevent a conflagration.
Dropping our completed ballots 🗳 at an early voting site tomorrow. Blue all the way!
I was in school so very long ago that for the 1st 5 years, we had no married women as teachers (heaven forbid they get pregnant and the kids see that, tho of course they all had mothers). Only one had been married and she was a war widow, and male teachers were few and far between. But the elementary education we got was pretty good, and these women were able to maintain order in their classrooms as parents then supported the teachers no matter what and kids didn't get to run the schools.
The only 'private' schools we had were parochial schools and of course the old line nuns ran them, not so different now that I think of it.
Just got our ballots in the mail yesterday in Oregon! Will be dropping them off at a secure drop box to make sure they arrive safely!
Katie Zacharia is even worse than most of us thought: she has a history of posting loony conspiracy theories on social media. (And I thought she was just another Ivanka look-alike.) See Paul Farhi's story on MS NOW: https://www.ms.now/opinion/katie-zacharia-lawyer-controversy-social-media-posts
IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of.
In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac!
Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada).
In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
Have you seen the MUSK DOCUMENTARY?
FROM PARNAS PERSPECTIVE, AARON PARNAS (video on link):
And then there’s Elon Musk. The New York Times found that most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign in Texas traces back to him, $158 million and counting. I heard Musk fans are mad at me, so I’m interviewing Alex Gibney, the director of the new Musk documentary he wants you to never see. Musk can spend hundreds of millions trying to buy elections and drown out the truth, but he can’t buy this newsletter, and he can’t buy you.
Musk Documentary Paints a Damning Portrait as His Money Props Up Ken Paxton in Texas
Alex Gibney’s new documentary “Musk” paints Elon Musk as a man who sees other people as characters in his own video game, according to a review in The New Republic. The film, from the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “Going Clear,” runs nearly four hours with an intermission. Musk refused to be interviewed and instead called Gibney a “douche” on X, so Gibney built a database of Musk’s recorded interviews and created a computer-generated Musk avatar that “answers” questions using things Musk has actually said. The device plays on Musk’s long-held belief that life is probably a simulation, and the film portrays him as the main character in a digital world where everyone else is a “non-player character.” Reviewer David Klion describes the portrait that emerges as one of “an empty, hateful, emotionally stunted man” whose two superpowers are shameless self-promotion and an ability to exploit weaknesses in government regulation. The central question of the film, Klion writes, is how someone like Musk gained such immense power and “what does it say about the rest of us that we allowed it to happen?”
The documentary traces the damage Musk has done, from Tesla’s self-driving crashes to the dismantling of USAID, and includes his power over Ukraine’s battlefield through Starlink. Gibney interviews more than a dozen people, including Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, Musk’s ex-wife Justine, Ashley St. Clair, former USAID chief Samantha Power and members of Musk’s own family. The film highlights a Florida lawyer suing Tesla over its self-driving cars, which have been involved in at least 60 deaths. It also covers Musk’s gutting of the federal government through DOGE, and Power chokes up on camera describing the suffering caused to the world’s poorest people when USAID was dismantled. Gibney shows how Musk built ties with Trump, Argentina’s Javier Milei, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to expand businesses like Starlink, which lets him “sway the battlefields of Ukraine by denying or granting access.” St. Clair, the mother of one of his 14 known children, says on camera that she refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement she claims Musk has offered other women and details the harassment she has faced since speaking out.
Most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Texas Senate campaign can be traced to Musk, who gave $158 million to a super PAC that immediately sent the same amount to a pro-Paxton group, according to the New York Times. Campaign finance filings show Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $75 million on Sept. 9 and $83 million on Sept. 23. Each time, the very next day, the super PAC sent a check for the exact same amount to Texas PAC, a group it set up to support Paxton. Musk also gave $10 million to a separate pro-Paxton super PAC that started running TV ads in late August, and his midterm donations now total at least $276 million, making him the biggest known donor this cycle. Musk, who lives in Austin, has long been allied with Paxton, who as Texas attorney general regulates Musk’s businesses in the state. The money has kept Paxton competitive even though he has been vastly outraised by Democrat James Talarico, who has criticized billionaires like Musk on the campaign trail and has been the target of several recent attacks from Musk on X.
Musk settled the last two lawsuits over his $1 million voter giveaways from the 2024 election, ending a two-year legal fight, according to CNN. In the final stretch of the 2024 race, Musk’s America PAC gave away $1 million a day to registered voters in battleground states while Musk urged people to vote for Trump. Voters later filed proposed class-action fraud lawsuits claiming Musk tricked them into thinking they had a fair shot at the money, which required handing over their personal data to his political group. Musk had said the winners would be picked “randomly,” but his lawyers later admitted in court that winners were “not chosen by chance” and were instead picked based on whether they would make good spokespeople for the pro-Trump super PAC. The terms of the settlements were not disclosed, and Musk and America PAC deny wrongdoing. The Justice Department warned Musk in 2024 that the giveaways could violate federal vote-buying laws, and Wisconsin’s bipartisan election commission concluded this year that he likely broke state law with similar giveaways in a 2025 judicial race, though prosecutors declined to bring charges.
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IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
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Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of.
In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac!
Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada).
In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
Buying Texas
Trump totally crashed out yesterday about the Texas Senate race, preemptively blaming John Cornyn and Karl Rove for Ken Paxton losing. So all those polls must be pretty accurate. The only thing working for Paxton right now is Elon Musk, who has given $158 million to super PACs to try and save the scumbag who put a pedophile back on the streets. Elon is basically the only donor to this PAC so it’s not an exaggeration to say that Elon is trying to buy a U.S. Senate seat. Let’s hope this goes like his foray into Wisconsin.
More: CNN, Politico