Interestingly, the lead three hits, with images, were all Yahoo, here, here and here.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Heather Cox Richardson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehn-DsZkyaQ
Trump going softer and softer on Russia, in its incursive aggression against Ukraine. Western Europe has a stake in things and Trump seems a problem to their interests into keeping Ukranian borders intact. Plus more.
The issues as she has described them should have an Internet presence readers can easily track down.
For now, this link is all that Crabgrass is posting on HCR's linked discussions.
This post is a 100% endorsement of the video. Watch it please.
UPDATE: William Kristol is not a left leaning pundit. Sarah Longwell got a shout-out from HCR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25bQ0MfhKs Stylistically different from HCR, but parallels can be found.
FURTHER: search = ukraine russia russian money trump energy truce
Try that, and see if you see Trump putting a thumb on the scale against Ukraine - Europe. Yes/no?
FURTHER: Try search = Medicare for All as an issue today 2026 election impact
Do you wonder why Michelle Toyfoya seems to recently have backslid on her Trump train ride? Cause and effect? Versus her ultimate likelihoods if she ever gets near to a U.S. Senate seat. Do you trust her Trump turn-away? One of conscience or convenience?
I do not credit that recent distancing very much. It is a subjective thing and opinions can range wide.
Superficial things and people do not impress me. I have Medicare and Social Security, they are not superficial, and I want to keep them. That factors into my voting. Not that anyone is directly pointing at me and saying "His Medicare and Social Security cost too much, so strip him." But feeling are feelings.
After listening to the MPR session with Peggy Flanagan, and Michelle Tafoya, there is the believability test that moves me more than much else.
Tafoya says she will not be a rubberstatmp for Trump. I don't believe that. She says it, I doubt it.
What I do know - in my heart - Peggy Flanagan will not be a rubberstamp for Trump.
What else?
Is there anything else? Besides Medicare for All. Which Flanagan supports, Tafoya opposes.
Which opposition looks a lot like a rubberstamp for Trump's opposing widespread healthcare in the nation.
And I have already voted. For Flanagan. I trust Peggy. End of story.
EmptyWheel has a new post about litigation involving Kash Patel and the sealed Jack Smith Report II over Trump's taking classified records to Mar-a-Lago and storing them wrongly.
I am still reading through Marcy Wheeler's post. It requires sharp attention to detail, so it is a slow read.
However, there is the appearance that this matter will grow legs. Should the blue wave happen, Congressional hearings may overelap matters Wheeler analyzes.
This is a shout out that while a complicated read, it is a ground floor possibility to understand things a Democratic majority Congress might investigate.
With Judge Cannon having embarged the Smith II item as secret, some detail might nonetheless emerge from this employment related litigation (wrongful FBI firings).
Bottom Line: It might avoid confusion later if interested readers check out:
https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/16/the-kash-patel-impeachment-referral-inside-the-employment-lawsuit/
The Crabgrass guess is the situation will grow post-election legs. How big the legs? We wait to see.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting in Azerbaijan that Israel should stop and reverse its “forced establishment” of West Bank settlements, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Wang told Herzog that China has consistently viewed the Palestinian question as the greatest historical injustice of this century, the ministry said in the statement on Friday.
The headline is running together the two opening paragraphs of AJ reporting.
It snuck up on me, tomorrow, Oct. 17, No KIngs will hold an "Early Voting" rally.
Guardian, where Crabgrass first saw this morning the story. Too Big to Rig.
The No Kings homepage: https://www.nokings.org/
Using the Guardian headline in the search = 'Too big to rig': No Kings movement heads to the polls to boost early voting
That is enough. From there active individuals can find their locale for expression.
And of course, those door knocking volunteers are doing a separate and more needed GOTV effort, so Crabgrass salutes both the door knockers and the rally goers. Early voting is a way to leave only a handful of voters lining up on election day, where the weather might be nasty and the ICE thugs present.
Vote Early. But, don't vote often.
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UPDATE: An example report, here, emphasizes that if a record turnout happens, spreading it out by early voting will help the election judges and other officials to get results out cleanly and quickly. And voters can plan and dodge the elements of early November wind and snow.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
A post here on process as well as substance, in Crabgrass doing a post now and then triggered by an occasional check of ZeroHedge content.
I like the site. Today, this:
Trump Admin Floats Unfreezing Russian Assets In Big Move To Restart Talks
President Trump appears to be busy rolling back years of entrenched Ukraine policy. Starting last week he announced the controversial diesel deal with Putin, and this week Ukraine's Zelensky is complaining that intelligence-sharing has been throttled, and possibly even cut off.
The possibility or even likelihood of this heading to another TACO moment aside, what's next? New reporting in the Financial Times gives an idea. The United States has floated a proposal that European countries unfreeze some of Russia's sovereign assets and deposit them in an entity controlled by Washington.
So, the original source given, but paywalled. The next obvious thing =
search = the zero headge headline - that is
search =Trump Admin Floats Unfreezing Russian Assets In Big Move To Restart Talks
popping up among other returns a mainstream vanilla Reuters item beginning
BRUSSELS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Billions of euros' worth of Russian assets frozen in Europe after the invasion of Ukraine should stay under the region's control, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday, after a report that the United States may seek supervision over some."Those are assets that are frozen in Europe and they should remain frozen in Europe. This is our business and we are deciding over it," Merz said in Brussels ahead of an EU summit.
From there the outline is apparent, and the story real and of interest, but largely spelled out already.
Trump suggests easing sanctions and Merz says, "No way." And the diesel play has already been kicked around the news, the upshot appearing to be Russis's no surplus and minisucle amounts do not matter.
But that is the quick Crabgrass way of seeing something, and deciding whether and what to post that might interest readers as it has been viewed to be of interest here.
This post being intended to help readers understand Crabgrass editorial simplicity, but with good intent.
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