SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS AIRLINES, BUT I'M DONE. I booked a flight for me, my wife, and our 6 year old. The ticket total was $612. At checkout it asked if we wanted to pick seats. If you skip it, they "assign seats at check in." Which means the three of us could end up in three different rows. Seat selection was $38 per person, each way. $38 x 3 people x 2 flights = $228. My final bill was $840. They're charging families extra just to NOT split up a 6 year old from his parents. THAT'S NOT A SEAT FEE. THAT'S A RANSOM.

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.

In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here. A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy. So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years. The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip. I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform. Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post. kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

NEW UPDATE! OUTRAGEOUS: A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT — IN HIS OWN WORDS AND THEIRS. The Telegraph reported on October 16, citing four sources, that Elon Musk pitched the Starshield slowdown to Donald Trump, and Trump AGREED. The Wall Street Journal then reported Musk PERSONALLY ordered it. Trump has denied knowing anything three separate times. Reuters says the order came from inside the White House. Somebody is lying — and it's not Ukraine. The slowdown hit at 1 a.m. on October 14, with no warning to Ukraine's defense forces. Starshield — the military system AMERICAN TAXPAYERS fund — was capped at 160 km/h. Ukraine's 7th Rapid Reaction Corps told Reuters units were FORCED TO CANCEL MISSIONS, with connections dropping mid-flight. Zelensky said that when the speed was reduced, "we were unable to intercept some of the jet-powered Shaheds" — drones flying 300 to 400 km/h at Ukrainian cities, against a 160 km/h cap. Zelensky added: "People were killed because [there were] not enough interceptors, including interceptors with Starlink, which didn't work." Since that night, the bombs never stopped. From Reuters and CNN reporting, AT LEAST 37 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in Russian strikes from October 14 to October 21: 6 in Lutsk, 3 in Kirovohrad, 11 in a single 24 hours by October 18, 6 in a Kharkiv park on October 19 (three of them CHILDREN), and 4 more the night of October 20. The United Nations says the first two weeks of October were among the deadliest for Ukrainian civilians IN YEARS. One unelected billionaire controls America's battlefield communications, holds billions in Pentagon contracts paid by YOU, and — by the reporting — personally slowed the system protecting Ukrainian civilians while Russia bombed them. Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick said it "costs human lives" and demanded witnesses be put UNDER OATH. Elon Musk is a national security threat. Donald Trump is his protection. And protection expires in 12 days. PUT THEM UNDER OATH. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.

Marco Rubio: For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)

CORRUPTIONLAND, a 35-minute documenatary starts streaming Tuesday, Oct 27 at 12:00 noon. Miles Taylor, former Dept of Homeland Security chief of staff turned Trump whistleblower, digs into the heart of the president’s “corruption industrial complex.” CORRUPTIONLAND.org

In 2020, Tommy Tuberville promised to donate “every dime” of his $174,000 Senate salary to Alabama veterans and their families. A June investigation found no evidence he followed through, a pledge now worth roughly $1 million. Tuesday night, after a reporter asked about it, Tuberville told staff to remove him. Then he called the media “socialists” and “communists.”