Pennsylvania Senate candidates John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz faced off in their one and only debate Tuesday night. After a rough start where Fetterman’s lack of experience in being a fast-talking fraud doctor was in contrast to his fast-talking hack doctor opponent, he began righting the ship. In a nice exchange where Mehmet Oz side-stepped a question about how most doctors consider Dr.

Back in August, Bloomberg carried a piece titled “welcome to Europe’s dark, cold winter.” It warned that even if countries were able to find gas to fill their storage facilities, it might not prevent a winter filled with blackouts, business closures,  and an economy in freefall. That’s because prices were soaring and “replenishing storage and reducing demand still may not be enough.

Day 15 of the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial featured defense attorneys making repeated implications that it was U.S. Capitol Police who invited rioters inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. 

This is a conspiracy theory long-debunked and easily disproven with the viewing of less than 20 minutes of closed-circuit security footage from the eastern rotunda door, for one. That footage is embedded below, courtesy of NBC News.

Beloved comedic actor Leslie Jordan died on Monday after reportedly suffering a medical emergency while driving his car. The New York Times reports that the 67-year-old crashed into the side of a building and was dead at the scene. The nature of the reported medical emergency that led to the crash is unclear.

Beltway journalists seem pretty convinced at this point that Republicans are resurgent in the closing weeks of the midterms while Democrats are in for a “shellacking.”

Much of that certainty seems to have been cemented by the New York Times/Siena college survey released early last week, which found Republicans leading Democrats by 3 points among likely voters in the generic ballot.

UPDATE: Tuesday, Oct 25, 2022 · 12:49:38 AM +00:00 · kos

Good points: 

And lastly – it’s really fucking depressing that some people have learnt nothing from history, nothing at all.— Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) October 24, 2022

She also notes:

These democrats want “a new European security arrangement acceptable to all parties that will allow for a sovereign and independent Ukraine”. This is the problem.

Sunday’s report from Ukraine’s southern command was … light, announcing just seven Russian troops killed in a single counter-battery radar system. Given that the usual number is in the dozens to low hundreds, it signaled that absolutely nothing happened on that front. This is likely the reason: 

Rain and cloud cover mean everything grinds to a halt.

As part of the Republican effort to demonize and isolate LGBTQ+ people (and allies), conservatives have homed in on the lives of trans youth and adults. As we approach midterm elections, for example, we’ve watched Republicans push anti-trans bills to bar trans girls and women from participating in girls’ sports teams and keep trans folks from accessing the appropriate bathrooms and locker rooms.

Republicans have always been a little on the fringes when it comes to things like logic and consensus reality and not burning down their own garden shed because their Virgin Mary bobblehead told them Hugo Chávez is smoking weed in there, but they’ve really gone off the deep end lately.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) consistently makes hell for detained immigrants and their lawyers. Federal immigration officials know as well as we do that when immigrants have access to legal help, they’re more likely to be able to stay in the U.S.

Their blockading is a pervasive problem.