From the halls of Mar-a-Lago to the ruins of Ukrainian hospitals, the toxic bond between Trump, Putin, and Epstein may have reshaped the world and cost the lives of countless children… "Russia unleashed a massive combined attack on Kyiv" last night, The Guardian reports. "Five people were hospitalised, including one man in critical condition and a pregnant woman, after a series of powerful explosions sounded in the city and air defenses were activated. … "Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings." The child victims of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes are apparently not the only ones who've paid the price for Donald Trump's long relationship with that notorious pedophile.

Trump's white supremacist loyalists are rewriting history, erasing Black heroes, and purging diversity, and the politicians who stay silent are complicit in that treason… The American media refuses to call them out, so I guess the job falls to me: you can cut the racism with a knife, it's so thick. With the Trump administration, the Confederacy is actively rising again, using the Lost Cause mythology/lie as its basis. Trump has now, apparently just in time for Veterans Day this week, erased tributes to Black U.S. soldiers who died fighting fascism — removing displays and plaques honoring African American liberators in Europe and removing similar memorial content at home — not merely to rewrite history but to say that only white men's stories matter.

The $2,000 “dividend” plan may be the boldest attempt yet to turn democracy into a cash-for-votes transaction… Before I get into today’s story, last night was an absolute effing disaster. Eight Democratic-caucus senators sold us out by voting with the Republicans: Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Angus King (I-ME), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), John Fetterman (D-PA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Tim Kaine (D-VA). And you know none of this could’ve happened without Chuck Schumer agreeing to it. The Vice-Chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressman Ro Khanna (a regular on my program) was blunt, saying Schumer “is no longer effective and should be replaced.”

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Donald Trump calls our concern over the cost of living a "con," but the real con is being foisted on working Americans by the billionaires and corporate monopolies that bankroll him. — Consumer confidence collapses in the face of Trump's incoherent economic and tariff policies that seem driven more by threats he can use to get bribes from foreign dictators than what's best for America and American citizens. — Nothing, it seems, gives "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth a bigger hard-on than threatening war and bloodshed (and sharing it with friends and family on an insecure Signal chat). Unless, of course, it's beating up a woman, as his former sister-in-law alleged in a sworn affidavit. — The election was bigger than we thought: we even won school boards in Texas! — Health insurance prices are exploding: where is all that money going? — ICE agents dragged off a Portland green-card holder — a legal resident of the US — in front of his wife and three children, ignoring his screams that he had documentation and was in the country legally. He's still missing in their byzantine prison system weeks later. — How New York City is quietly preparing for a possibly violent Trump takeover. — U.S. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson published a scathing dissent after six bought-off right-wingers on the Court issued a ruling trashing trans rights.