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Voting has begun in Israel's parliamentary elections, with polling stations opening across the country at 7 a.m. local time.
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El Sayed is trying to frame any attack against him as hateful and bigoted.
Instead of acknowledging people's very legitimate concerns (some of which are listed below), he is lashing out at anyone who dares acknowledge his record.
-- In 2012 signed a letter supporting Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi, urging him to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible” of dissenters.
-- Told Kristen Welker he and his family have no Muslim Brotherhood ties while his half-sister posted the opposite: the family “has long been MB,” and their mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (network designated a global terrorist org for funding bin Laden, Hamas, and the Taliban).
-- Called Iran and Israel equal threats to the U.S. Avoided commenting on Khamenei’s death because “a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad.”
-- After a car-ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue, said “hurt people hurt people” (later apologized).
-- Supports reinvestment in UNRWA (which had staff implicated in the 10/7 attacks) while opposing U.S. aid to Israel.
After CNN's Michael Smerconish frames the debate over Abdul El-Sayed as anti-Muslim, @LydiaMoynihan sets the record straight:
"I disagree with your characterization that Republicans are being anti-Muslim. They are being anti-El-Sayed, who has repeatedly refused to deny or distance himself from Muslim Brotherhood ties.
I want to highlight something that just came out. In 2012, he signed a letter in support of then-Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi and urged him to purge the media and the police force as quickly as possible of dissenters. He told Kristen Welker, no familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Well, we're learning that actually his mother was involved with an organization that did funnel money to Hamas and all kinds."
Later @ScottJenningsKY: "What do you think about [El-Sayed's] inability to answer the question, what's a bigger threat, Israel or Iran? What do you think about his answer to the question when that radical ran their truck into the synagogue, 'hurt people, hurt people'? The reason he's having to answer all of these questions is because he has made so many mistakes in his own positioning, in his own rhetoric in this campaign. And then when journalists, as Lydia points out, follow up with him, his sneering, condescending, defensive attitude leads to more questions. That is his problem!"
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Wow, Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun) called Republicans terrorists during his event with Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) tonight:
“I’m not even gonna bring up the Republicans because they are the most un-American force in this country. They’re terrorists.”
So the guy who said America deserved 9/11 believes Trump supporters are the actual terrorists.
Again, Hasan, Ilhan, and the Democrats hate you.
GOTV
Omar picked "Botox faces" as the insult. Sitting right next to her, Hasan Piker's drowning in a coat two sizes too big, manspread across two whole cushions.
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Hasan Piker just arrived in Minneapolis to his joint event Ilhan Omar & Omar Fateh.
The Escalade driving him backed into another car pulling up to the theater’s back door.
Top Minnesota Democrats Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Angie Craig, have condemned Piker and the event.
Comey's new Espionage Act charge is over a leak. The Oct. 5, 2016 New York Times story on Yahoo scanning email for U.S. intelligence included classified information never made public before, according to DOJ.
His own lawyers' filing quotes an FBI memo saying one of the story's two sources was James Baker, the FBI's general counsel. Baker told investigators Comey's chief of staff told him to give it to the Times, and he understood the order came from Comey.
DOJ filed the charge Oct. 5, 2026. Ten years to the day.
James Comey admitted under oath in 2017 he directed a friend to leak to a reporter, hoping to trigger a special counsel.
James Comey, the FBI director Trump fired in 2017, says he's "still innocent" after being charged a third time, this one for leaking national defense information to a reporter.
He already told the Senate under oath, back in 2017, that he directed a friend to hand his FBI memos to a New York Times reporter, hoping to force the appointment of a special counsel.
Moussa Diawara came to the U.S. on a tourist visa at 32 and overstayed it. He spent 25 years in Houston, got a work permit, drove Uber, raised two American kids.
A judge ordered him deported in 2012. The order blocked one country, Mali, where he said he'd be killed as a Christian convert. Everywhere else was fair game. He drove the next 13 years on a live removal order.
ICE picked him up July 11 finishing a night Uber shift. Three weeks in a Texas cell, no lawyer, no judge. On July 31 they flew him to Ghana, a country he'd never set foot in.
Within days Ghana put him on a plane to Mali, the one place his order ruled out. A U.S. court order binds the U.S., not the country we hand you off to.
DHS's top lawyer says the file tells a different story. The reason Diawara gave for fearing Mali, he says, was that he's gay. He's married to a woman, two kids.
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James Comey, the FBI director Trump fired in 2017, is now charged with a federal crime. Prosecutors say he had someone pass national defense information to a reporter on Oct. 5, 2016.
They filed the charge under seal on Oct. 5, 2026. Ten years to the day. The window to bring it runs exactly ten years, and DOJ used every day of it.
No grand jury indicted him. Prosecutors brought the charge themselves, before Judge Trevor McFadden in D.C.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal signed 175 House Democrats onto a letter demanding DOJ drop the criminal probe into Rep. Ilhan Omar.
A federal judge read the evidence and signed the warrant for this month's raid on Omar's DC home. .
Jayapal's fix if Democrats retake the House: legislation she says will "probably" cut off every dollar for the investigation.
The persecution of @Ilhan just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated.
I’m leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.
ALT Rep. Jayapal and Omar speak at a press conference together. Below, a headline from "THE NEW REPUBLIC" reads: "Trump’s Vile Persecution of Ilhan Omar Is About to Run Into a Wall." Smaller text reads, "If they retake the House, Democrats will have plenty of ways to act against Trump's corrupt prosecutions. Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin say they're going to use them."
Six "ordinary news consumers" sued Trump in federal court in New York Monday over the White House press bans. The roster: Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for three decades, Lawfare editor Benjamin Wittes, a Pulitzer-winning Yale historian, a media critic, a NYC high school teacher, a college-paper editor.
The plaintiffs aren't news outlets. They're readers and viewers. The Knight First Amendment Institute and a Yale law clinic argue the public has its own First Amendment right to the reporting. CNN, Politico and MS NOW already sued over their own banned reporters, but those suits only protect the three outlets that filed them, so this one claims the public's own right to win an injunction covering every outlet, now and in the future.
White House answer: "No person may demand access to the Oval Office."
Walter Koenig is dead at 90. His rep confirmed it Monday. He died at home in North Hollywood.
He played Pavel Chekov, the Russian navigator on the original "Star Trek." Not a Cold War statement. Gene Roddenberry added him in season 2 to pull in younger viewers, moptop wig and all, after the Monkees and Davy Jones were running up the ratings.
Koenig was the last actor brought aboard the main Enterprise crew. Now only two of them are left. William Shatner, 95, and George Takei, 89.
Takei, Monday: they "met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s." He called Koenig "a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend."
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Justice Department broke the law when it fired Maurene Comey, one of the lead prosecutors who put away Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and part of the Diddy trial team. The whole termination was a one-line email in July 2025, citing only "Article II of the United States Constitution." No cause. The interim U.S. Attorney told her only that "it came from Washington."
A career prosecutor can't be fired with no reason beyond the president's power to remove people, not under the Civil Service Reform Act.
The win's narrow. Back pay runs five months, to the day she took another job. She's not going back to run cases, her file just gets changed to say she resigned, and DOJ says it'll appeal.
House Judiciary Democrats dropped a 53-page report Monday calling Trump an "active participant" in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women in the 1990s. Eleven women. Five accuse him of rape or sexual assault around Epstein, including Beatrice Keul, who says Trump raped her at his 1993 pageant.
It also claims AG Todd Blanche told Ghislaine Maxwell three times not to bring up a survivor whose FBI account named Trump, and calls that possible obstruction.
No committee vote, no subpoena, no transcripts of the interviews it's built on. Democrats admit they can't name a special counsel and DOJ won't, so their only lever is winning the House eight days from now.
The White House says none of it is true and Trump is "totally exonerated."
Elvis's rights holders say they asked Claude to update his songs "for a modern audience." The lawsuit quotes Claude's reply: its versions "keep landing very close to the originals."
Authentic Brands Group, which owns the Presley catalog, sued Anthropic last week. 274 songs, $150,000 apiece, about $41 million.
Anthropic added guardrails after earlier music suits, and the complaint says Claude recreated the songs anyway. Same structures, same hooks, light rewording.
Anthropic: "We disagree with the claims and intend to defend this case fully."
Okinawa prosecutors indicted a US Marine Sunday for strangling Anna Yagi, 39, with a telephone cord in a Naha hotel and taking her backpack. Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, denies it.
Yagi was killed between 2:10 and 4:15 a.m. Japan already banned US troops from off-base bars 1 to 5 a.m., a rule updated in 2024 after a string of assaults on Okinawa.
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This is horrifying
Abdul El-Sayed is visiting mosques and rallying Muslims to vote for him during Midterms. This is the Islamic Takeover of America
“We have that opportunity, insha'Allah, on November 3rd — You can go in and vote tomorrow. Make sure you, your wife, your husband, if you're a sister in the back, your mother, your father, your children if they're voting age, your neighbors have made a plan to vote on or before November 3rd. I'm gonna say that date one more time. The 3rd day of November.
“We cannot miss the opportunity. Again, we have a responsibility to lift our voices, and we have that opportunity, insha'Allah, on November 3rd. I'm asking you to lift that voice of yours.
Fight for the kind of America you believe in, an America that provides all the basic needs of a dignified life to our own people and does not take it away from other people. JazakAllahu Khairan. Again, my name is Abdul El-Sayed and I'm grateful for your support.”
This should horrify every American. He’s using mosques for his political agenda
Politicians are not supposed to go into places of worship and ask for votes. If the place of workshop allows it, legally they should lose their tax exempt status
Where is the accountability!?
The rule is Internal Revenue Code §501(c)(3), specifically the political campaign prohibition known as the Johnson Amendment
Allowing a candidate to use the organization’s facilities or events to campaign without equal opportunity for other candidates and distributing or publishing materials that favor or oppose candidates results in loss of tax exempt status
Using organizational resources like money, property, staff, lists and more to support or oppose a candidate also results in loss of tax exempt status
Strip this mosque of tax exempt status