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3 days ago
Hi – this is Stephen. I posted this because I learned that mail ballots are counted AFTER in-person votes. What’s your plan for voting in the mid-terms?
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Oct 2, 2026 #Kimmel
It’s our last night in Brooklyn, Trump will be traveling every day over the next month to try to help Republicans win the midterms, at least a dozen Republican candidates have removed references to Trump from their websites, Trump visited a factory in Texas to throw his support behind Republican candidate Ken Paxton, there’s a controversy brewing at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and Jimmy talks to one of New York’s “Urban Scavengers” (Jon Stewart) looking for gold and valuables underground.
other news from NYT this morning
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html?smid=url-share
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.
By Anton Troianovski and Eric Lipton
Reporting from Washington
Oct. 3, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET
The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
The deal, which is contingent on approval from the U.S. government and the Kremlin, is for a sprawling set of oil fields, refineries and gas stations around the world owned by Lukoil, one of Russia’s biggest energy companies.
The leading group seeking the deal includes an American investor, Todd Boehly, who has donated $2 million to President Trump’s political causes; two Middle Eastern groups that have done business with Mr. Kushner or Mr. Witkoff’s family; and an arm of the U.S. government itself.
The monthslong negotiations, which were described by eight people familiar with them, shed new light on Mr. Trump’s latest approach to settling a four-year war that has killed hundreds of thousands. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.
There is no indication that Mr. Kushner or Mr. Witkoff themselves stand to profit. But the pending deal represents a striking intermingling of personal business ties with geopolitics, even for an administration that has regularly dismissed concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia brought up the deal when he met with Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner at the Kremlin on Sept. 5, according to three people familiar with the meeting. Mr. Putin proposed it get done as a way of showing Russians that they can do business with the United States, according to one of the people.
The Americans responded that they would work on it, the person said, seeing it as a way to build good will with the Kremlin while also lowering global energy prices. But the deal is also a lucrative one for the buyers: U.S. approval for the sale would release the assets from American sanctions, instantly increasing their value.
In Moscow, the decision on the deal is widely seen as Mr. Putin’s to make, even though Lukoil is technically a private company. The upshot is that the giant transaction, involving assets as varied as oil fields in Cameroon, refineries in Europe and gas stations in New Jersey, comes down to Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump has been promoting the promise of business deals with Russia since early last year, describing the country as a “tremendous opportunity.” The deal again brings Mr. Trump’s World Liberty Financial cryptocurrency company — co-founded by Mr. Witkoff — into focus. One of the investors in the Lukoil deal is a part owner of World Liberty.
Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner, who have traveled repeatedly to Russia for meetings with Mr. Putin, have argued that the potential to rebuild economic ties with the West could convince the Russian president to compromise in Ukraine. The administration has recently signaled it is open to deals with Russia even before the war ends, as a way of showing it is serious about resetting the United States’ relationship with Moscow.
The Lukoil sale, people familiar with the matter say, is one of those deals.
In a statement, a senior administration official confirmed that Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner played a direct role in helping negotiate the financial terms of the investment by the federal government in the deal to ensure that it included “a substantial upfront payment and profits interest for the United States.”
A spokeswoman for Mr. Witkoff said that he “takes no salary and travels the world on his own plane, at his own expense, working on behalf of President Trump to negotiate peace and bring hostages home to their families.” She added that Mr. Witkoff “has no conflict of interest and no financial stake in this matter.”
A Stalled Bid, and a New Contender
Numerous potential bidders expressed interest in at least part of Lukoil’s international holdings when the assets went on the market last fall, including U.S. energy giants like Chevron.
The Washington private equity firm Carlyle reached a tentative agreement in January to buy a large share of the assets, after making the pitch that bringing Lukoil’s international portfolio under U.S. ownership would further the Trump administration’s goal of “energy dominance.”
But in recent months, as U.S. approval for Carlyle’s bid stalled, a different group emerged as the leading bidder: one led by Mr. Boehly, a billionaire supporter of Mr. Trump’s, alongside well-connected figures in the Middle East and the U.S. government itself. The members of the partnership were reported last week by The Financial Times.
Mr. Boehly is a co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and donated $1 million to MAGA Inc., the Trump-aligned political committee, in December 2025. He gave another $1 million through his investment firm, Eldridge Industries, to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
The U.S. government is taking a stake in the deal through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, an agency that invests in and lends to projects overseas. A D.F.C. official said in a statement that the potential Lukoil deal “would advance the Trump administration’s commitment to strengthen U.S. economic security, advance U.S. foreign policy and lower energy prices for everyday Americans.”
But it would not be an all-American purchase.
A major equity holder would be the Qatar-based conglomerate controlled by Moutaz Al-Khayyat and his brother Ramez Al-Khayyat, both of whom attended Mr. Trump’s inauguration in 2025 and have since formed a partnership with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, one of Mr. Trump’s daughters, to help finance a multibillion-dollar luxury hotel resort project in southern Albania.
Another major stakeholder would be an Abu Dhabi-based investment fund controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’s top national security adviser, who controls another fund that purchased a large stake in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company, World Liberty, run in part by Mr. Witkoff’s son.
Steve Witkoff was a co-founder of World Liberty, and Mr. Trump’s sons are also involved in the company, which generated $799 million for Mr. Trump last year, in part because of an additional cryptocurrency purchase worth $2 billion that Sheikh Tahnoon’s affiliate made in 2025. Mr. Witkoff himself has sold off his stake in World Liberty, a person close to him said.
Sheikh Tahnoon also helps oversee an Abu Dhabi investment fund called Lunate, which is among the largest stakeholders in the private equity firm Mr. Kushner set up after he left the White House at the end of Mr. Trump’s first term. This means Sheikh Tahnoon is effectively a business partner of Mr. Kushner’s as well.
An ‘Alarming’ Set of Entanglements
Hui Chen, a former Justice Department prosecutor and a white collar crime and ethics adviser who served until the start of Mr. Trump’s first term, said the connections between Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner to players in the Lukoil deal illustrated why friends and family members of Mr. Trump’s should not be top foreign policy advisers.
“This is an alarming and very concerning set of entanglements,” said Ms. Chen, who has also worked as a corporate compliance lawyer. “And it means you have to question how the Trump administration is evaluating the different bidders involved here. Are the personal interests involved going to wrongly influence the outcome?”
Lukoil’s international division, which is based in Austria, hired its own Washington-based consultant who is close to Mr. Trump, Bryan Lanza, who served as a senior adviser to Mr. Trump’s 2024 election campaign and now works at Mercury Public Affairs. He is no longer working for Lukoil, a person familiar with the matter said.
The deal is not yet final, and would need to be approved by the Treasury Department, which oversees sanctions enforcement.
But in the case of Lukoil, people involved said, the key decisions are being made at the White House. Asked about its approach to the Lukoil decision, a Treasury Department spokeswoman said that the agency’s Office of Foreign Assets Control “implements foreign policy as determined by the White House.”
The Sept. 5 meeting with Mr. Putin was the first time that Lukoil came up in the Russian president’s conversations with Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner, one person familiar with the matter said.
But Kirill Dmitriev, Mr. Putin’s economic envoy, has been closely involved, people familiar with the sale process said. He traveled to New York and Washington for meetings last month, and told reporters that “dialogue” with the United States was “continuing across many areas, including energy.”
Lukoil’s refineries in the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Romania play an important role. They produce diesel and jet fuel, which have been in short supply since the start of the Iran war, which has driven up prices and given Mr. Trump an incentive to support a deal that could provide more access to energy.
Lukoil valued its international assets at $20 billion earlier this year, but the price and structure of the proposed deal are not clear.
An official with the D.F.C., the U.S. agency investing in the deal, described participation in the purchase as a way to strengthen the energy security of U.S. allies. The official also said the deal would produce significant profits for the American taxpayer and keep strategic infrastructure away from adversaries.
Scramble for Assets
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Lukoil a year ago, describing the move as new pressure on Mr. Putin to “stop the killing.” It also created a lucrative opportunity: Lukoil was forced to sell off its sprawling portfolio of international holdings.
Investors around the world scrambled to bid on the assets, but the U.S. government held veto power because it controlled how to enforce its sanctions. Because of Russia’s autocratic system, Mr. Putin was seen as the final decision maker in Moscow .
The bidding frenzy accelerated last November, when the Treasury Department rejected an initial offer by Gunvor, a Swiss-based energy trading company with past ties to Russia, which had moved to buy Lukoil’s foreign assets. The Treasury Department said in a statement that “as long as Putin continues the senseless killings, the Kremlin’s puppet, Gunvor, will never get a license to operation and profit.”
Carlyle secured a “nonexclusive” agreement in January with Lukoil to sell its international assets. It was up to the Treasury Department to then sign off on the deal. As months passed with no final deal, other bidders intensified their efforts to step in.
Mr. Boehly has little experience in the oil and gas industry. He has made most of his money through investment firms such as Guggenheim Partners and Eldridge Industries, as well as sports team and entertainment industry investments, including Bruce Springsteen’s music catalog.
But over the last several years, the billionaire Khayyat brothers, who were born in Syria before moving to Qatar during the Syrian civil war, have begun to amass a collection of oil industry assets and planned projects in Syria, Libya and Iraq.
Even while the Lukoil negotiations were underway, the Khayyats were continuing to work with Mr. Kushner and Ivanka Trump over plans to build the luxury resort in Albania, an effort that included a meeting involving Ramez Al-Khayyat and Ms. Trump earlier this year in Albania, The Times reported.
The decision over Lukoil’s fate has taken so long that the Treasury Department has had to repeatedly issue extensions to its sanctions action, so that Lukoil gas stations in the United States and other businesses around the world could continue to engage with other financial partners. The most recent extension lasts until Oct. 29.
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Weak jobs report. Stocks go up. And billionaires wonder why voters are angry?
That needed explaining before the coffee kicked in. Today’s FIRST CUP, with the midterms one month away. ☕
WHERE IS MY CAMERA BUTTON ➡️
Host literally cannot figure out how to put himself on the screen. Co-host exercises supreme power.
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Schumer just did a saturation buy for this ad…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/gut-punch-ohio-nearly-1-040301412.html
At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.
The layoffs — occurring just three days before Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
Asked how many times he voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist.
*Couldn’t identify the problem until it was his problem.
Also, truckers are allegedly headed to DC in protest. How can they afford to drive there?
BlueD, I trimmed our bloated sidebar to reduce clutter at the bottom in mobile devices. Shoot me email an email when you experience those other issues and explain what happens. I can probably fix them.
Firing Generals snd Admirals. Installing the likes of MuskRat, Gingrich, snd “Beardo” to do the battle plans…and Dumbass has been going to GROK for next steps like it’s a Magic 8 Ball.
Midterms, schmidterms.
Ha! Great ad! That may be a real phone number Team Talarico has set up, too.
Craig – It’s still happening, but no worries. If I linger too long before I post, it kicks me out.
For instance, I will screenshot this before I try to post, because I will probably get knocked off. Then I just copy and paste it from the screenshot.
I cleared everything, powered down, and logged in fresh.
One thing is better; the screen doesn’t jump around when I read or type now.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-us-send-one-045116568.html
Trump says US to send one-time $90 payment to 20 million seniors enrolled in Medicare
*Literally trying to buy votes.
Trump said on social media late on Friday the payments will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which he said was given $2 billion by Congress to improve the Medicare fee-for-service program.
The White House released some details of Trump’s plan on its website, saying most eligible seniors will receive the payment in the form of a direct deposit of $90 in early October.
The Trump administration is also separately sending $500 payments to nearly 1 million Americans in a move that strategists say could potentially influence some election races.
The White House says those payments were a refund for what it describes as excessive fees charged to people who purchased health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/russia-warns-nato-possible-nuclear-165314789.html
Russia has warned NATO that it would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad should any members of the military bloc try to cut off its western exclave from the rest of the country.
The warning sent to NATO echoed statements issued by several Russian embassies in Europe this week which said that Moscow has “information that NATO is preparing (an) air and naval blockade of Kaliningrad and Kaliningrad region.”
The embassies in the U.K. and Ireland posted their statements on their Telegram channels, and the embassy in Belgium released it to the Tass news agency.
The Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad is surrounded by NATO members Poland and Lithuania. It is home to Russia’s main Baltic navy base and other military assets. Nuclear-capable Iskander missiles are deployed there.
Western military officers have said that key military installations in Kaliningrad would be a likely first target should Russia ever launch an attack on any NATO ally.
NATO allies have conducted a series of military exercises in the Baltic Sea region in recent months. More are planned in October. It launched Operation Baltic Sentry there last year to protect communication cables and pipelines.
Issued on Tuesday, 29th September, the letter opens with an eight-page claim that Iran has won the conflict, largely arguing that the U.S. has “failed” in its objectives under Operation Epic Fury, such as removing the country’s nuclear program.
In addition to details on American military losses, the note also uses religious justification to underpin the claimed Iranian victory.
***
The letter:
https://img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09/29/0/173138753.pdf
“In light of what has been said, it should be fairly obvious that the phrase ‘Death to America,’ which Iranians have been chanting since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, does not in any way express any ill will toward the American people, who have themselves suffered from the same oppression,” the IRGC adds.
The letter then moves on to a political argument, urging voters in the forthcoming midterm elections to “wake up” and “wrestle control back from corrupt politicians.”
“Now is the time, as the American political system is at its weakest,” the IRGC said.
Prof. John Broich
Because Stalin
BlueD, i’d like to narrow this down: When it knocks you off, do you have to enter your username and password again, does an error message appear, or does the page simply reload and erase your comment? And roughly how many minutes before it happens?
Anyone else having these problems? if so, tell me what browser and device you are using.
today’s meme…
Craig – My main machine is a win11 pro, Firefox, and it occasionally is logged out. I cannot tell what is doing it because I get logged out on other programs too.
there is a plug-in to fix that called persistent login that I used on the old server, was hoping we wouldn’t need it on the new one because I try to keep plugging clutter to a minimum, but I will investigate bringing it back
BB, Does it ever happen while you’re writing a comment, or do you simply discover you’re logged out when you return to Trail Mix?
americans aren’t hypnotized by trump, they’re hypnotized by social media
was hoping the fad would run its course but now it’s ingrained
How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington
More at link with images
ok the letter that came with my $500 trump electioneering check is disgusting, i’d post it but it has my name on it
Not hard to accomplish.
meme #2…
Today in the Diner…
Donald Trump Taxpayer Ad Grift & Ken Paxton
Donald Trump redirected $20M in Customs and Border Patrol funds to run ads praising himself. Plus, Ken Paxton gets roasted in Texas and Ohio votes.
The grift is out in the open. Donald Trump personally directed OMB head Russ Vought to siphon millions away from Customs and Border Patrol to fund his own taxpayer-funded campaign ads. Meanwhile, his Alabama rally at the Mitchell Center had plenty of empty seats in the balcony, and the campaign trail is getting weird.
Over in Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton is the star of a hilarious new corruption hotline attack ad. Up in Ohio, Secretary of State Frank LaRose is dealing with early voting while voters get blasted with annoying data center noise complaints on television. Even Marcy Kaptur is running ads claiming she works with Trump, which is certainly a choice.
We also check the early voting numbers out of Maine and Minnesota, discuss why Byron Donalds is struggling with his own base in Florida, and take a look at Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich leading the bizarre Project Meridian. Grab a booth, the diner is serving the hard truths today.
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00:00 Intro
02:15 Trump Medicare 90 Dollar Scam
06:40 Russ Vought Taxpayer Ad Grift
11:05 Denmark Greenland Security Deal
13:00 Mitchell Center Alabama Protests
15:45 Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline
17:40 Ohio Data Center Noise Ad
22:45 Maine and Minnesota Early Voting
26:00 Frank LaRose Ohio Voting Rules
33:15 David Jolly and Byron Donalds
36:00 Angie Nixon Florida Governor
40:30 Marcy Kaptur Ohio Trump Ad
46:50 Elon Musk Project Meridian
49:00 Eric Trump Meme Coin Scam
1:01:40 Leonard Bernstein Outro
— Human directed and edited. Machine drafted (Gemini Pro).
Folks in Oklahoma do not sound like the actors in Oklahoma!
“A Girl Who Cain’t Say No” was written by a man.
Anon – Like Professor said, hypnotism was a myth.
There’s a guy popping up who seems to be trying to rehabilitate Nixon’s ghost?
Why? Only thing I can figure out is he’s trying to fend off the impeachment and conviction of Dumbass, by calling Nixon’s comeuppance a “coup.”
Here is a chart that helps explain the anger at the system by young men.
From Economist Justin Wolfer’s Substack Platypus Economics.
(He is an Aussie/American)
Anther chart from the same source, that helps explain the first chart.
platypus, job growth
Not sure why one chart is visible and the second shows up as a link. But click on the link to see the chart.
Jack
https://nwlc.org/press-release/july-jobs-report-women-accounted-for-100-percent-of-the-labor-force-decline/
Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.
Jack, I think we’re talking about different things; job sectors v actual humans.
The GOP’s Culture-War Hail Mary
The Atlantic: “Republicans’ closing strategy is obvious: They’re going all-in on trans. Partly, this is because Republicans don’t have much else to say.” — TRAIL MIX FREE LINK
Women are more of the population, too.
If men need to be angry about work life, or any part of life, women are not the problem. They need to look at the parasitic Epstein class.
told ya what the strat would be and maybe two people, talarico and mcbride have made any attempt at messaging
if dems win it won’t be because they made good appeals
didn’t take a psychic to be fair
Yes, I’m talking about actual humans, young disaffected men and rather than blowing off their anger as many liberals seem to like to do. I’m pointing out there is a real reason for it and we need to understand the problem because it is real. They deserve having their problem solved just as much as your favorite group does.
You on the other hand are concentrating on what could be statistical noise. One month is not a trend and given the noise in the month to month employment number may not even be real.
What is real is a 2 year trend where women see job growth of 711,000 and men see 65,000. The continuous trend line filters out the month to month statistical noise.
That is a bit of social science statistics 101.
Jack
Brought up the 2005 Air Force Academy religious scandal on live. Here is the background and how it relates to the Hegseth created religious department plus a link to the original report.
the 2004–2005 Air Force Academy religious-climate scandal.
The core issue was not simply that many cadets were evangelical Christians. It was that some chaplains, faculty, coaches, and senior personnel were accused of using positions of authority to promote evangelical Christianity in ways that made Jewish, non-Christian, and nonreligious cadets feel pressured or marginalized. A Yale Divinity School team that observed the Academy during basic training in 2004 reported unusually aggressive proselytizing, including cadets being encouraged to evangelize classmates. PBS
Some of the reported incidents were striking. Football coach Fisher DeBerry displayed a “Team Jesus Christ” banner; instructors reportedly distributed religious tracts; and complaints included pressure on cadets to attend Christian activities and derogatory treatment of non-Christians. Some individual allegations were disputed, but the broader concern was serious enough that the Air Force ordered a formal investigation. The Christian Century
The official Air Force review, released June 22, 2005, reached a rather carefully balanced conclusion. It did not find systematic or overt religious discrimination, but it did find failures to accommodate minority beliefs adequately, inappropriate religious expression by people in authority, and widespread uncertainty about the boundary between protected religious exercise and improper government endorsement. The review involved more than 300 interviews with cadets, faculty, and staff. Air Force
Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. John Rosa was actually blunter than the formal report. In June 2005 he publicly acknowledged that the Academy had significant problems involving religious bias and said they existed among cadets, staff, and faculty and would take years to correct. The Christian Century
And your Hegseth association is not entirely accidental historically. Just yesterday, October 2, 2026, Hegseth announced a new Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs, reporting directly to him. The Pentagon describes it as strengthening religious support and protecting free exercise. Critics, including church-state separation groups, argue that given Hegseth’s own highly public Christian observances and other recent changes to military religious policy, it could instead privilege a particular form of Christianity. Those are competing interpretations at this stage, rather than an established outcome.
The Report of the
Headquarters Review Group
Concerning the
Religious Climate
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U. S. Air Force Academy
ive heard Justin Bowman trying to rehab Nixon a few times
Then There is The Music Man – Sadder But Wiser Girl also written by a man
then why do you have such a hard time with climate change graphs
that notwithstanding, yes libdems are now the woman party and maga is the man party, which is bad politics by dems, i agree
they don’t know how to message to 1000 different subfactions, not that such a task would be easy
it’s the social media, you can’t beat the algorithm
will feed anyone all the bullshit they desire
we’re all politics junkies but if you don’t want politics the algorithm feeds you anything else but
i saw that sydney sweeney ad and at the end she says something like “this app is all sports no politics”
our screams go unheard
I don’t, but I did take a few classes on geography so I tend to understand the complexity of the subject. That being, I get very tired of simplistic climate claims especially those that confuse a weather phenomenon with climate. Also, anybody who’s favorite debate tactic in any discussion of climate is to point a finger and scream “denier, denier, denier”
Jack
they don’t call it the ‘anthropocene’ for nothing
that “truthseeker climate skeptic” shit is just a psyop by big energy promulgated on conservative media through lobbyist captured gop congressional reps from the early ‘90s through the Bush era until the Obama era when they adopted the “benghazi benghazi” strategy primarily instead
we all watched it happen, you were there
someone dumb repeating something true doesn’t make it false
there are still gop scum saying “green new scam” even though no Dem has referenced that objective in 4 years
it was always just a corporate sponsored talking point, and it worked!
Jack,
This in the webpage for Katherine Hayhoe my favorite climate scientist. Straight forward, practical, and things everyone can do to help.
https://www.lawcommentary.com/articles/lsu-football-player-rape-title-ix-suspension
LSU found a football player responsible for sexual assault and forcible rape through its Title IX process, then reduced his one-year suspension on appeal to two years of probation without restrictions, allowing him back on the team. The finding remained in place, and the case is now under criminal investigation.
LSU student Kendall Francis said she was sexually assaulted on Oct. 18, 2025, after going to a campus dorm to visit a football player she had met through social media. LSU Police responded after the encounter and transported her to a hospital, where she underwent a sexual assault examination.
The university said the football player initially reported the incident to campus police. An initial police report classified the response as a mental health call, and LSU’s Title IX office did not receive the report until Dec. 9, nearly two months later.
Francis filed a formal Title IX complaint in January 2026. After investigating her allegations and the player’s account, the university found him responsible for sexual assault and forcible rape.
LSU initially imposed a one-year suspension. The player appealed, and the university upheld the sexual misconduct finding but reversed the suspension, replacing it with two years of “disciplinary probation without restrictions.” The change allowed him to return to football.
Francis has said the player admitted during the Title IX proceedings that he raped her. His account maintained that the encounter was consensual, and his statements from the proceeding have not been publicly released.
Francis said she believed the university’s finding would lead to criminal action. The Title IX report also records the player’s allegation that Francis accepted $1,000 from a family member in exchange for not pursuing criminal charges. Francis has publicly described the payment as an attempt to discourage her from doing so.
Francis went public with her allegations in September. A criminal complaint was later filed, and the matter was brought to East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore’s office for review on Sept. 22, 2026. Moore requested reports, interviews, evidence, and other relevant records from LSU, campus police, Baton Rouge police, the parish coroner’s office, and other agencies with information about the case.
LSU President Wade Rousse has said the university strictly followed its policies, procedures and Title IX process and is cooperating with law enforcement.
Campus sexual assault procedures have drawn renewed attention as universities face questions over how reports are investigated, what discipline follows and how campus findings intersect with the criminal justice system.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-unveils-new-look-passports-what-changed-12505346
LET THEM EAT CRYPTO ➡️
The Trump crime family made their own meme celebrating their staggering corruption.
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just because i said you should bring the argument to youtube doesn’t mean i ever will
what a minefield lol
would have to assume at least some of them are trollbots by now eh
users have remarked how sophisticated that tech is
we know ppl like zuck will use any means to boost engagement
MSNOW Power to the people live
A new New York Times/Siena likely-voter series confirms that five Republican-held seats are genuinely competitive—and puts Democrats ahead in three.
One high-quality poll does not settle five races, but the pattern reinforces existing evidence rather than standing alone. Peltola’s seven-point Alaska lead is significant; Kansas remains tied just as Republicans divert millions there; and Talarico still leads despite the unprecedented pro-Paxton spending barrage. Iowa, however, looks like a true toss-up—not the eight-point Democratic advantage suggested by Marist.
Maine: Susan Collins 49%–46% over Troy Jackson
But it was conducted September 15–22, before the bribery allegations became public, so it does not measure their impact.
AOC Bernie The Strokes
A Republican super PAC has redirected its financial resources from North Carolina to Kansas, reflecting the changing dynamics of the U.S. Senate races in these states. The shift comes as Democrats gain traction in polling, with North Carolina’s Democrat Roy Cooper leading Republican Michael Whatley in recent surveys. Meanwhile, Kansas Democrat Adam Hamilton is closing the gap with Republican incumbent Roger Marshall.
Uninvited
How did workers who felt secure enough to vote Republican become the Reagan Democrats? This Trail Mix conversation revisits a political shift that still echoes today.
ok i have at least 6 monarchs in the garden right now among a host of other species, butterfly sanctuary successful
Anon that is great news. Monarchs are the only kings we really need!
Did somebody say KINGS??? Don’t forget to find your local event.
this is the reward for not using pesticides and letting the veg take some damage
and damage did it take
but butterflies!
they make that bottle of Sevin look like it’s environmentally friendly but it’s not, is synthesized poison
it’s funny how biologically sterile the other lots are, i deserve a gov’t incentive or rebate
not in this society though
i’ll pretend my trump bribe is that
and still vote blue no matter who
and not cuz i want to
BECAUSE I HAVE TO
Ohio Trump rally just started…
MS Now concert much too good to ruin my Saturday with Trump
Peeked. Look at all those empty seats.
if you don’t pay attention, he’ll announce some major policy shift off the top of his head to wrestle control of the news cycle back
Vivek on now
https://www.newsbreak.com/prime-timer-378674882/4918663697415-i-am-jane-doe-trends-online-after-michael-tracey-threatens-to-expose-and-doxx-cornell-7-victim
“I Am Jane Doe” trends online after Michael Tracey threatens to expose and doxx Cornell 7 victim
i wonder with what justification that weirdo michael tracey used in attempting to doxx the victim
he’s allegedly some sort of leftist, so were taibbi and greenwald tho
who have been alleged to have been recruited by Putin, these headline items make us so vulnerable to chaos actors
just sayin if i wanted to suppress turnout of young straight males disaffected by trump i’d start a gender war
and behold
correct me if I’m wrong, but this story was just pulled out of court filings eh
victim wasn’t trying to make it international news
Very weird that the tRUMP regime is running these ads with bombs, fire, planes, and a voiceover from Hegseth warning the world about how badass the US is, so don’t come at us…during the evening news. Is it supposed to drive enlistment?
Most of the creeps on the group text didn’t even know who Jane Doe was.
At least not this particular Jane Doe.
Sturg – Svengoolie is showing Wizard of Oz.
Guess I’m watching a second time into days.
lol you hoping this is all a hallucination?
me too
*insert dark side here*
Nathaniel Ratliff and Joan Baez on now wth Foo Fighters and Bruce coming up.
Written by Woody Guthrie. Nothing has changed.
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
(also known as “Deportee”)
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman
Contact Publisher – TRO-Essex Music Group
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott’ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They’re flying ’em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be “deportees”
My father’s own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract’s out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died ‘neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, “They are just deportees”
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except “deportees
Dumbass is on stage
“I’m asking you to just pretend I’m running, because if we do we’re gonna win big”
“We’re gonna win big, and we’ve gonna shove it up their ass”
“Even if you hate Jon Husted, even if you hate Vivek Ramaswamy, you’re gonna go out, you’re gonna vote”
Craig,
For some reason I just wrote a post that disappeared. Are we pushing a limit?
They’re selling gold during the speech
Jamie, there is nothing of yours in spam or pending folder. what was the missing comment about?
He is out of his mind and those pulling the strings don’t give a damn who they injure.
Nothing important just noting Reported was was written in 1948 and there were less than 3 billion people on the planet. We are way overdue for a correction.
Auto correct is changing name of song. Grrrrr
Drop kick Murphies dedicating First Class Loser to Trump.
everything about your trump posts and that rally is fucked-up
and it’s because congressional republicans allow it
even if you hate dems
you gotta vote blue no matter who
he’s still talking
CALL KEN PAXTON’S HOTLINE ➡️
Talarico runs a brutal attack ad roasting Attorney General Ken Paxton for corruption, complete with a hilariously real 1-844 tipline.
🍽️ From today’s Digital Diner menu
Hope Katie & her mom had fun
Here’s our Voting PSA aimed at Reagan Democrats. Pass it on…
Are you better off? Reagan’s question still echoes. Gas, groceries, war, ICE. Watch the short and make your voice count:
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