Monday, October 26, 2026

AJ: "Lula holds off far right with victory in Brazil presidential election Leftist president mounts stunning comeback after unexpected first-round loss galvanised supporters of Flavio Bolsonaro."

 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/26/lula-holds-off-far-right-with-victory-in-brazil-presidential-election beginning:

Shortly after 9:00pm Brasilia time on Sunday (00:00 GMT), Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court called the race for Lula, who had earned more than 51 percent of the vote. More than 64 million ballots were cast for the incumbent. 

Bolsonaro, meanwhile, netted 48 percent, or north of 59 million ballots. More than 4 million votes separated the two candidates, with the final votes still being counted.

With his victory, Lula has made history. No other politician in modern Brazilian history has lost the first round of a presidential election only to win the second round.

“A historic turning point for democracy,” Edinho Silva, the head of Lula’s Workers’ Party, posted on social media, along with a video of supporters chanting, “Ole, ole, ole, ole, ola! Lula, Lula!”

Left-wing leaders across the hemisphere also applauded the result. “Long live democracy, the people of Brazil have won,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote in the wake of the results. “Congratulations, President Lula!”

United States Senator Bernie Sanders likewise offered his felicitations, calling Lula’s re-election “extraordinary”.

Trump appears to have favored the Bolsonaro family, so call it a victory for the people, a loss for Trump. 

 

 

Sunday, October 25, 2026

It could be both! That sentence relates to a Crooks and Liars post about an aspect of Minnesota politics, at its opening paragraph.

 https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/clueless-michele-tafoya-blames-flanagan

Give me a break, Michelle and drop out of the race
— October 24, 2026

Republican Minnesota Senate candidate Michelle Tafoya is either stupid or lying when she blamed Lieut. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for allowing Medicaid and school meals to slip away from the state.

Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz did not gut these vital programs. Your lord and savior, Demented Donald, did it.

Trump's Big Ugly fucking bill to help billionaires, Minnesota is losing $500 million annually from Medicaid, over $100 million in enhanced tax credits for MNsure enrollees, and $244 million annually in food support."

This means tens of thousands of Minnesotans’ access to health care and nutrition would be compromised because of this bill.

Talking to 'wrong way' Kudlow, Tafoya made believe waste, fraud, and abuse (Trump's excuse to destroy everything he can that aids the working class) is responsible for every problem facing America.

TAFOYA: And my opponent is sitting here saying she's worried about access to Medicaid and to school meals.

Give me a break.

You were not concerned about this at all when you allowed these programs to be gutted.

An LT Governor cannot control the federal government, no matter how much Tafoya wants it to.

[highlighting added] Then the C&L author embeds a Bluesky item -: 

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mykz4qa6zu2v?ref_src=embed&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fcrooksandliars.com%252F2026%252F10%252Fclueless-michele-tafoya-blames-flanagan

Tafoya is a vapid lightweight running her campaign out of the equivalent of a P.O. Box

Strictly on the gamble that her low view of people's intelligence will prove true. 

She'll get whomped. 

UPDATE: C&L also does justice to the Vivek sicko ad that cuts against his cred and judgment:

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-vivek-and-paxton-panic-polls-crash

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/dewine-and-vance-only-one-republican-did 

C&L is one of the Blue America blogs. Digby's Hullabaloo is another, where a recent post merits attention: https://digbysblog.net/2026/10/24/collective-punishment-is-trending/ 

[Crabgrass was just checking frequently visited blogs, and the Tafoya post seemed to have earned a shout out, etc.]

 

Things, how can anyone believe. Like money plays a big role in why politics fucks the little people. How could anyone think that?

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/poll-voters-want-solutions-government-corruption 

This opening screen capture -

 

It is lengthy, proving the folk knowledge that politicians know and remember who puts money behind candidacies, and must show the due respect the highly paid consultants tell the politicians to show honoring money over principle. The consultants and the money offerors together corrupt the politicians who are nobody's babes in the woods. It is a market, more than a will to serve the better aims of nations.

The politicians are a captive audience to the money passing hither and yon past they eyeballs and brains.

You think?

 

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Amy Klobuchar is no progressive. She is pure vanilla Dem inner party, and has been. But Amy will not voucher public education down the toilet as Niska and Demuth would. Progressives are not dumb to where they'd not vote for Amy. She's what we've got, okay that way, but who are these dumb fucks in their dark minds thinking progressives are amenable to the influence of outside agitator bullshit to where they'd not know their own best interests? That is a most insulting view of progressives, unearned, and mean-spirited.

 With early voting Crabgrass' vote is already in for Klobuchar. This is a Bernie progressive who is not somebody's dumbfuck, as these outside agitators think me to be. No way.

Strib's paywall-published the lead report, which MSN has carried: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/an-elusive-group-targets-klobuchar-as-election-nears/ar-AA2fGgPm 

These outside creeps must be as dumb as Emmer if they think progressives in Minnesota are. That is a bottom line truth. The MSN non-paywalled item, headline and some quoting:

Story by Briana Bierschbach and Kim Hyatt, The Minnesota Star Tribune

 [image omitted - caption - The office and storage facility in Walker, Minnesota, where the Citizens for Public Safety Transparency, LLC lists its return address. © Kim Hyatt/Star Tribune/TNS]

MINNEAPOLIS — Mailers attacking Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar for not being left-wing enough are arriving in Minneapolis mailboxes weeks before the Nov. 3 general election for governor.

One of the mailers criticizes Klobuchar’s handling of deaths involving police as Hennepin County Attorney. [She never prosecuted bad cops] Another criticizes her support for arms to Israel and demands “justice for Palestine,” while a third mailer sent in recent days attacks her for not supporting a single-payer healthcare plan backed by progressives.

But the group behind them remains a mystery. Its return address points to a northern Minnesota property in Trump country, where the owner says the group has no office.

Whether the sender is a progressive group or someone posing as one remains unclear, but the mailers target sources of friction between Klobuchar and voters on the left. [...]

Klobuchar, a longtime supporter of Israel, voted in July 2025 to block certain arms sales, citing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. That marked a shift from her earlier position.

None of the mailers mentions the governor’s race. But the attacks come as Klobuchar works to turn out voters against Republican nominee Lisa Demuth. [...] The Star Tribune could not determine how widely the mailers have been distributed or how much has been spent on them.

A Klobuchar campaign spokesman called the mailings an “obvious attempt by Lisa Demuth’s backers to suppress the vote for Klobuchar with Democrats and Independents by evading Minnesota election law, and voters will not be fooled by these dirty tricks.”

At this point Crabgrass can guess this is not Demuth, herself, in action, but rather since the Strib article mentioned an attorney in Ohio as perp-related, Crabgrass sees JD's fingerprintis, rather than Demuth's. 

JD has been more on his own it seems, since Peter Thiel moved to Argentina. But that's circumstantial speculation, while Strib has reported all it's people could pin down as fact. MSN continues

[...] The sender is listed as Citizens for Public Safety Transparency, LLC. A Minnesota Star Tribune search found no online presence for the group, no registration with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board and no business filing with the Minnesota secretary of state’s office.

The company is listed as an LLC in Delaware, but multiple calls to a Delaware phone number associated with it went unanswered. The return address leads to an office and storage property in Walker, about three and a half hours north of the Twin Cities, that is listed for sale.

The property’s owner, Arnold Volker, said the group has no lease or office there.

[...] He showed a stack of the mailers that had been returned to sender when a reporter stopped by his business Monday. Volker said it’s confusing and concerning in politically heated times. He worried about people showing up unannounced, upset about the mailers.

Minutes later, one car pulled up to the building, then another. A man got out saying he was meeting someone behind the LLC.

Volker said that LLC is not located there, that someone used his address. The man later confirmed he was working on behalf of Klobuchar’s campaign and was trying to figure out who was behind the mailers.

[...] Outside groups have avoided disclosing their donors by framing mailers as issue advocacy rather than appeals to “vote for” or “vote against” a candidate. All of the mailers direct people to call Klobuchar’s U.S. Senate office.

Democrats tightened Minnesota’s law in 2023 to cover messages that unmistakably urge a candidate’s election or defeat, even without those words.

©2026 The Minnesota Star Tribune. Visit at startribune.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

[highlighting added] Klobuchar is who she's been, and has been repeatedly reelected to the Senate by decisive majorities.

That means inner party contact networking where house cleaning is needed, but that is separate from cutting off the nose to spite the face. 

What we've got is Klobuchar or Demuth. Demuth is tight with Harry Niska and his passion to voucher the school his spouse once served as board chair, which is some form of Jesus oriented, not Catholic, but possibly Lutheran, where the Niska children attend. 

Crabgrass regards vouchers as a cut worse than original sin, and to be opposed as open war against pubic funding for public education ONLY. Demuch and Niska are in the other camp on that key issue.

Klobuchar is no threat whatsoever to public education's survival and prospering. Hello. Get that. 

Progressives can wish for better, but that's not the choice. That's tomorrow's issue.

Amy or Lisa is the only choice now. Amy is a sounder career politician than Lisa. Amy has my vote already, and will win.

* * *  

Outside agitators are unwelcome in Minnesota, as ICE/Border Patrol has proven. These new political ones don't patrol and kill, but they remain a major public menace. Those behind the mischief should be shunned and punished in any manner and all manners the law permits.   

Generally Related, but not spekcific to the Klobuchar trolling: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/dark-money-network-spending-more-than-ever-in-2026-cycle/ 

________________UPDATE______________

Besides the mentioned Klobuchar trolling report, STRIB has published a separate item, and Crabgrass confused the two. The link given at the start is to the separate other item, which has stated:

Citizens for Public Safety Transparency, a nonprofit company, was incorporated in Delaware in March 2024 by Kimberly Land, according to a Delaware state filing. Land is an attorney for Columbus, Ohio-based Bailey Cavalieri.

Land declined to comment, citing attorney-client privilege. Robert Dunn, Bailey Cavalieri’s managing director, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Law firm linked to dark money in other states

Land and other lawyers from Bailey Cavalieri have incorporated companies serving as conduits for anonymous political donations in several states, according to regulatory complaints and media reports.

This Ohio shabby connection is what led Crabgrass to think JD. Surely finding a JD connection, if any, would be intentionally made difficult. But the "cats and dogs being eaten" lying guy is who he's been.

Columbus, Ohio, live in the shame of those within your borders, who shit it their hands and throw it it innocent people. Leave it there.Politics is not pretty.

FURTHER: Kimberly Land, in forming the hit agent LLC, likely was serving some client interest. Land herself, two links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-land-9abb287a

https://www.columbusjewishnews.com/features/special_sections/local_lawyers_super_attorneys/profiles/kimberly-land-focuses-on-managing-expectations-building-relationships/article_5499c1f4-6956-11ea-b35a-f7131fb9376d.html 

The guess, she's not the perp, but her firm represents the perp. Possibly, it includes the perp. At some senior level of operating. I still think JD and cats and dogs, that level of pure shit.

 

 

Friday, October 23, 2026

The Hill: "Bipartisan lawmakers press Hegseth to expand Ukraine’s access to Starshield."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6169094-lawmakers-press-trump-hegseth-starshield-ukraine/ 

How a problem happened often is dwarfed by "It Will Not Happen Again." That being the assurance Trump appears to be giving.

 

Omar responded to the president’s Truth Social post with a statement shared on the social platform X on Friday afternoon. “Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine,” she wrote. “So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar. Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.”

Yes. Trump has a job. No, he is not doing it, instead getting into needless weeds, against Ilhan Omar -- and her name. Claiming she used/uses/will use an alias.

That got the headline quote from TheHill, and deserves inventing an alias for Trump, so try, The Heinous Anus, or THA for short. The sound is there, the spelling differs, and it fits like a glove. 

UPDATE: Image from NYPost. 

 

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Crabgrass has been easier on the stupidity (or is it ol' boy gile) of the man than the man himself, in speaking.

among his peers

 This is an ignorant, shallow, posturing. walking, talking, humanoid misinformation machine.  

Liking the sound of his own voice over having a single well tempered or thoughtful thing to be saying. 

An Elon humanoid robot would score higher on an IQ test. (And seem less disingenuous because the robot would stoop less to simplistic name-calling.)

UPDATE: Can Emmer publicly talk without looking, as Trump also looks, as if he is talking down to people because he has little respect for them? It is either that, or he is limited. Either way, why cut him any slack? Doug Chapin is running against Emmer, and does not talk down to people. There is nothing bafoonish about Chapin. Chapin could do the job of hearing people say what they want, and seeing ways to provide it to them. It goes beyond a matter of style. It goes to seeing people on tenterhooks and saying that should not be, vs saying it's good for them because they don't get so uppity. 

Think it over. 

FURTHER: This is interesting - https://mediabias.news/politics/tom-emmer-calls-democratic-candidates-communists-on-abcs-this-week 

It appears those posting that site may have used AI summarization.