*Sniff*

The mic was broken, the mediator was asking unfair questions, and Hillary was mean, and he was being so nice by not mentioning Bill's infidelities....

The good, the bad and the sad

The list of nakedly corrupt practices by Donald Trump is long, but not as fun as hitting Clinton.

Via Steve Bates, The Guardian keeps track (tries to keep up with) Trump's lies.

The story of the woman in the Brussels airport bombing.

Scientists ride in to the rescue of a bullied little girl who loves bugs.

Save the day

Untangling the mess

Newsweek lists Trump's financial network as a 'national security nightmare'.

We are all related

Armed toddlers must be annihilated!

The dangers of the TPP

Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns & Money:

I have written a lot about the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts that make up a central tenet of the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements. These extra-national courts effectively give corporations a new legal system to protect their interests that has no accountability to nations or peoples, no access for those peoples to defend themselves, and no system so that citizens can even know what is going on in them. Corporations can use them to protect their profits so that if a nation passes a law that could affect future profits, the companies can use the ISDS courts to sue for future profits lost. That could mean that minimum wage laws, anti-mining regulations, protections for forests, pollution regulations, etc., could be effectively overturned. And given the power dynamics involved in the world, it’s going to be western companies going after developing world nation laws more often than not. These courts have been around for a long time, but they are growing more powerful today. There are two recent pieces of journalism exploring the many problems with the ISDS courts.

It's called hate speech and we've seen it throughout history.

Will people and the press recognize it now?

Josh Marshall explains.