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AlterNet Black Agenda Report Common Dreams (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, October 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM EDT Video shows Black MAGA influencer kicked out of Ken Paxton rally A Black MAGA influencer has revealed that she was kicked out of a rally for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the weekend. What's more, Thelma Louise - who has a large TikTok account where she creates content advocating for President Donald Trump - caught the incident on video, in which she was quietly watching the rally before she was suddenly asked to leave. October 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM EDT Longtime feuding Supreme Court judges agree on a surprising issue Supreme Court judges don't always get along, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor illustrate that point. Appointed by Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama respectively, Gorsuch and Sotomayor sharply disagree on nearly all the most polarizing issues of the day, with Gorsuch being predictably conservative and Sotomayor just as reliably liberal-leaning. Gorsuch even controversially refused to wear a COVID mask during the pandemic despite Chief Justice John Roberts asking him to do so to accommodate Sotomayor (who has diabetes and is therefore at risk of COVID complications). Sotomayor wound up working from home. October 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM EDT Parks Service official destroys Trump claim about 'diseased' trees A National Park Service employee revealed on Monday that the administration lied when it claimed it had to remove hundreds of "falling, dangerous, disease-infested trees" at East Potomac Park's golf course. During the hearing before Judge Ana Reyes, Dr. Kevin Griess, the superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks, was asked about who made the decision to remove the trees. After some back and forth where Griess denied responsibility, he did say that he made the decision along with one other person. October 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM EDT A top GOP election official just slapped down Trump's big lie On Monday, the leading Republican state official in charge of Georgia's elections rejected false claims by President Donald Trump that aimed to sow doubt about the integrity of vote-counting in the state. With early voting in the midterms already in full swing, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger assured Bloomberg that the state's election results will be in by midnight on Election Day, declaring the process "free, fair and fast." Despite Trump's frequent attempts to cast aspersions on voting integrity, Raffensperger asserted, "We are very confident that at the end of the day you can trust the results." October 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM EDT 'Home health aide': Doctor shares new theory about Trump's closest aide The true nature of President Donald Trump's unusually close relationship with his young personal aide, Natalie Harp, has been the subject of much rampant speculation, and now, a doctor has shared a new theory about her role in Trump's life, related to his declining health. Adam James is a licensed physical therapist with years of experience working in the home healthcare sector, giving him extensive up-close knowledge of patients dealing with physical and cognitive decline. He is also a prolific online content creator, better known by the handle "Epistemic Crisis," who has used his professional insights to try to explain the issues that Trump is dealing with and suggest where his condition might be heading next. October 18, 2026 at 5:40 PM EDT Trump is helping airlines rip you off -- and it's a lot worse than you know President Donald Trump's Transportation Department, which is led by his fellow former reality TV star Sean Duffy, is making it easier for airlines to rip off their customers. "Last month, the Transportation Department announced that 10 types of flight disruptions would no longer be attributed to the air carrier," wrote The Hill reporter Addy Bink on Sunday. "Instead, the 10 disruptions, listed below, will be tracked in the new 'Section 511(b) category'" October 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM EDT Experts reveal a sure sign Republicans have been lighting money on fire For all the money they have been able to raise and spend over their Democratic opponents, Republicans appear to have been lighting their money on fire for all the good it has done them, with two political experts highlighting the clear evidence in recent data that proves this point. On Sunday, Pod Save America co-host and polling analyst Dan Pfeiffer interviewed Amy Walter, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report, one of the foremost election tracking and predicting firms in the U.S. Walter wrote earlier this month that the political environment for the GOP is as bad as it has been in the last 20 years, suggesting to Pfeiffer that they might both be getting flashbacks to 2006. October 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM EDT Ashamed former Trump fan reveals the precise moment she turned on him Former supporters of President Donald Trump "can all remember where we were when we finally admitted" that he is terrible, one ashamed former MAGA follower wrote for The Spectator, who further revealed the exact moment she knew she was done with him. Writing for the outlet on Sunday, Julie Burchill, the controversial author and columnist who until recently voiced support for conservative politics in the U.K., explained how Trump's recent social media post involving manipulated footage of a tragic tiger attack at a British zoo hit her as an "awful shock." October 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM EDT Trump 'doesn't understand' how badly he's botching global crisis: Ex-advisor President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, ex-UN Ambassador John Bolton, blasted his former boss on Sunday for failing to "understand" basic global politics, particularly when it comes to Ukraine. Referring to the infamous Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, Bolton told Times Radio that "he has called people like this useful idiots. Trump really doesn't understand what's at stake in Ukraine. And in the past several weeks, he has been focused not on geopolitics, but on domestic American politics. He's in deep trouble." October 18, 2026 at 1:42 PM EDT The 'cowardly' truth exposed as Republicans run and hide from critics A growing number of Republicans are declining to take part in debates against their midterm opponents, and as one campaign communications veteran wrote for MS NOW, there is a "cowardly" truth that they are actually hiding from. Symone Sanders-Townsend is an MS NOW host and contributor who also previously worked as a political strategist and national press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, as well as a White House spokesperson and senior advisor for former Vice President Kamala Harris. In a new piece published Sunday morning, she detailed the growing trend of Republicans ducking out of planned debates against their Democratic opponents. October 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM EDT Trump exposes his plot to destroy 'much-beloved' DC park landmark President Donald Trump's construction plans seem to take chunks out of East Potomac Park -- and online commentators are furious. "Trump's plan shrinks the course from 36 holes to 18 but impacts more than golfers," wrote The Washington Post's sports writer Rick Maese on X. "It eliminates Ohio Drive, historic mini golf and a grove of Japanese cherry trees -- reshaping space used by thousands of cyclists, runners, anglers, bird-watchers and picnickers." October 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM EDT Trump's warped reality is officially 'through the looking glass': legal scholars President Donald Trump and his administration are abusing and spinning the traditional language of political decency to launder their radical new goals, with two legal scholars explaining for The Hill how this warping of reality is almost literally "Through the Looking Glass." Writing for the outlet on Sunday, legal scholar David Wippman and historian Glenn C. Altschuler detailed the administration's last-minute spending of federal human rights funds on far-right pet causes "far removed" from anything that has ever been the purview of U.S. foreign policy. |
