Stan Mack, formerly of the Village Voice, writes first ever comic strip letter to the editor of NYT

Acosta describes crowd reaction: He looked at me and ran his thumb across his throat.

Cutting Social Security - Was ALWAYS The GOP Plan.

"Potus tonight applauded the assault on an American journalist who works for the Guardian"

Trump on Gianforte assaulting reporter Jacobs: "Never wrestle him. You understand that. Never. Any guy that can do a bodyslam, he's my kind of" -- crowd cheers -- "he's my guy. I shouldn't say this."

"I had heard that he bodyslammed a reporter. And he was way up...and I said...I said oh this is terrible he's gonna lose...then I said wait a minute, I know Montana pretty well, I think it might help him. And it did."

A cartoon from Canada:

Fugelsang: Saudis say they didn't do it and they can prove that because it's not on their calendar.

@SenatorCollins

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi as described by the Turkish press is an atrocity. We must get to the bottom of this, and if the Saudis killed Mr. Khashoggi, those responsible must be held accountable.

"House Of Sawed"

Spot On: If these are friends, do we need enemies?

John Harwood: "The US President is collaborating on cover-up of a murder"

The Trump administration and the Saudi royal family are searching for a mutually agreeable explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — one that will avoid implicating Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is among the president’s closest foreign allies, according to analysts and officials in multiple countries.

But it will be difficult for the young ruler to escape scrutiny, as mounting evidence points not only to the Saudi government’s knowledge of Khashoggi’s fate, but also to a connection by Mohammed to his disappearance.


https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1052730718491676672
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/17/1805223/-John-Harwood-poses-real-possibility-the-US-President-is-collaborating-on-cover-up-of-a-murder?utm_campaign=trending
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

On a 73-year old finally motivated to vote bc of Donald Trump.