A Year After Deadly Flooding, Governor's Race Comes To Still-recovering Eastern Kentucky

Candace Fails screamed for someone in a Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Via the Texas Tribune: Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before. The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps.

While Fox News' Sean Hannity was glorifying Donald Trump walking up to a garbage truck for an idiotic photo-op, the old man almost didn't make it. As Hannity was talking, Fox News played footage of Trump gingerly moving towards the truck and then swaying side to side before reaching the door and holding on for dear life. "And today in Wisconsin, take a look at that," Hannity said as Trump barely made it into a garbage truck branded with his name.

Welcome to America's dystopian hellscape, brought to you by Donald J. Trump, who overturned Roe. We've all read the stories of women dying after being turned down for proper medical care. In this case, Amari Marsh, 23, was arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse last year after losing her pregnancy through a miscarriage.

Above, ABBA performs Money, Money, Money. It's been said that every billionaire represents a tax policy failure (Okay, it's been said by me), and the great Fran Lebowitz has said (paraphrasing) that no one earns a billion dollars, they steal it. They got the cash, but we have the power: VOTE. 404 Media says "The billionaire is the threat, not the solution." PMC Commentary comments on the 2010 Citizens United decision and the 2024 dark money tsunami. The Experiment opines that Kamala is winning, and it's not close. Annie Asks You Welcomes us to the post-Trump era. Bonus Track: Jen Sorensen presents The Last Firewall. Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.

Union members are working together to canvass and phone bank in a huge GOTV movement for Harris-Walz. And it's paying off: With less than a week to go until the election, unions say their collective campaigning is making a difference, even if the ground game remains challenging. Last week, the UAW released a poll of 800 UAW members and households in key swing states.

Puerto Ricans, veterans, Haitians, women, Detroit residents and on and on.. Donald Trump's all around outstanding at alienatingwell, everyone, eventually. But porn stars? That's right, a number of adult film stars are pissed about Project 2025, which would ban their profession. So they've joined together with a six-figure ad campaign on Pornhub in key swing states attacking Trump and warning viewers to vote against him, and for Kamala.