ICYMI: October 06, 2026

The majority of Californians do not like you, Don. You will see how much we dislike you come November when Creepy Steve Hilton goes down in flames and many GOPers lose their jobs!

Below, you will find some of the headlines we may have missed. Feel free to share any newsworthy articles, videos, interviews, or whatever you find interesting. Just make sure they come from credible sources and not some RW cesspit, including propaganda churned out by The People’s House or their minions; unless your intent is to point out their ignorance or Orwellian garbage.

Updates:

The Trumpstein Files:

🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-10-06T18:37:31.779Z

2026 Election:

Creepy:

Putin’s Puppet:

Amazing how quickly rank-and-file adopt Trump's pro-Putin talking points

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2026-10-06T17:07:53.517Z

The Worst People in the World:

Oh, He Needs LOTS of Help:

Disgraced Fundie Freak Jim Bakker Dead at 86:

With his wife, Tammy Faye, he presided over the multimillion-dollar PTL empire before his fall in the 1980s after sex and fraud scandals.

Jim Bakker, a televangelist who once led a multimillion-dollar religious empire with his wife, Tammy Faye, before a sex scandal tarnished his reputation and a conviction for fraud and conspiracy sent him to federal prison, died Oct. 5. He was 86.

His second wife, Lori, announced the death but did not cite a cause or say where he died. He had a stroke in 2020.

Mr. Bakker (pronounced “baker”) was a preacher and fundraiser on television for more than 20 years, developing a following that numbered in the millions. An ordained minister before being defrocked by his denomination, the Assemblies of God, he espoused a message that mixed wealth and success with salvation.

The Gestapo:

Woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol agent in Chicago sues government

Lawyers for Marimar Martinez filed the lawsuit on the anniversary of the shooting, saying the officer lied about her using her car as a weapon.

A woman shot by a Border Patrol agent five times in Chicago last year is suing the federal government, alleging the officer lied about her using her car as a weapon while intervening in an immigration operation.

In her lawsuit seeking unspecified damages, Martinez says Exum shot her while she was in her car and “presented no risk of harm to anyone”; that he failed to comply with use-of-force policies; and that he swerved his car into the path of hers, “thereby leaving her no time to react and causing a collision between the vehicles.”

The Worst and Most Corrupt President Ever:

notable — Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-06T16:40:25.752Z

How Low Can He Go?

There is a long history in this country of pandering to xenophobia, and treating immigrants as second class citizens; but Americans also have a history of rejecting such repulsive tendencies, as I discussed here.

— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) 2026-10-06T15:20:22.364Z

Craven Assholes:

Mike Johnson: "The Iranian are not trustworthy negotiating partners. They lie as part of their religion."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-06T18:32:44.117Z

RUHLE: Why are we blaming Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth, who you voted to confirm? All of this is happening at the president's directionTILLIS: Maybe some people aren't accustomed to hiring. Have you hired anybody before?

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-06T14:01:34.714Z
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