VIDEOS: BUFFALO BILLS 33 - LAS VEGAS RAIDERS 30 & Josh Allen ties Jim Kelly's Bills TD pass record as Buffalo holds off Raiders 33-30 18OKT26 (thought I had posted this the week after the game, turns out I never hit publish...sorry)

 ANOTHER wild second half comeback win by the Bills on the road, but they pulled it off by being a team. I am so proud of them, I am proud to be a life long Buffalo Bills fan!!! WAY TO GO BUFFALO, YOU MAKE ME WANNA SHOUT!!!

Josh Allen ties Jim Kelly's Bills TD pass record as Buffalo holds off Raiders 33-30

LAS VEGAS -- — Jim Kelly set the standard for every Bills quarterback, but even the Hall of Famer likely wouldn't have made the type of play Josh Allen pulled off Sunday.

Allen passed for 255 yards and two touchdowns, using his improvisational brilliance to tie Kelly's franchise record for TD passes, and Buffalo held off the Las Vegas Raiders 33-30 on Sunday.

The Raiders (3-3), who have lost three in a row, rallied late to tie it at 23-all. James Cook rushed for a 3-yard touchdown with 4:43 left to put the Bills (5-1) ahead for good. Tyler Bass added a 38-yard field goal with 1:56 remaining for what turned out to be a crucial two-possession lead.

Allen equaled Kelly's franchise record of 258 TD passes in the third quarter, escaping almost a sure sack by shot-putting a 12-yard pass to Keon Coleman. Bills fans, who accounted for well more than half the crowd at Allegiant Stadium, chanted “M-V-P!”

“The last two weeks, the amount of fans we've had in both stadiums is pretty remarkable,” Allen said, referencing the friendly crowd at SoFi Stadium in a win over the Rams. “It feeds us, and we play better when we feel that energy and feel that juice.”

As for the toss to Coleman, Allen said he was “just doing what I got to do to help this team win a football game.”

Bills coach Joe Brady joked that “it was a great play call.”

“That's who he is,” Brady said. “I thought he was outstanding today.”

Allen's five-game streak of games with a rushing touchdown ended, one short of the Super Bowl-era record set four years ago by Chicago's Justin Fields.

Cook, making extra certain to secure the ball after fumbling twice Monday night against the Rams and losing one in overtime, was mistake-free in rushing for 95 yards. He also caught three passes for 58 yards, including a 26-yarder against a Raiders defense that went the other way, leaving him alone to set up his go-ahead score.

“They asked me in the (CBS) production (meeting) last night, ‘What are you going to do with James Cook?’ I was like, ‘Hand him the football,’” Brady said. “I didn't get to stand right here without James, and it's the confidence I have in him in not making it anything bigger than what it needs to be. I trust that he's going to correct it and clean it up, and he was outstanding today.”

The Bills had their first game without a turnover after committing nine over the previous three weeks.

Cousins has good numbers but Raiders struggle in red zone

Kirk Cousins threw for 313 yards and two touchdowns to Tre Tucker for the Raiders. The latter was a gorgeous 44-yarder with 1:32 left that brought Las Vegas within three points. Tucker finished with five catches for 97 yards.

Michael Mayer caught seven passes for a career-high 95 yards for Las Vegas, and fellow tight end Brock Bowers hauled in four receptions for 70 yards.

The Raiders had opportunities to put even more pressure on one of the league's best teams, but they scored touchdowns on two of five trips to the red zone.

“That’s unacceptable,” coach Klint Kubiak said. “And that starts with me.”

A critical missed chance for Las Vegas came early in the fourth quarter, when it had second-and-goal at the Bills 1-yard line while trailing by 10 points.

Ashton Jeanty was stuffed for a 3-yard loss when defensive lineman Greg Gaines blasted through the line of scrimmage. Then, Bills cornerback Davison Igbinosun broke up Cousins' third-down pass in the end zone to force a field goal.

“We got to come away with those four-point plays and get the touchdown,” Cousins said.

The Bills appeared to be in firm control when they took a 23-13 lead on Allen's sensational pass to Coleman, but the Raiders tied it on Cousins' 11-yard pass to Tucker with 8:07 left.

Bills safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson, who is playing for his sixth team in six seasons, was ejected late in the first half after spitting at a Raiders player.

Las Vegas had just picked up a first down on a defensive holding call, and the unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty on Gardner-Johnson advanced the ball to Buffalo's 14-yard line. That helped set up Matt Gay's 27-yard field goal as time expired to make it 13-13.

Injuries

Bills: WR DJ Moore (shoulder) and DL Ed Oliver (knee) did not play for the second week in a row. OLB Bradley Chubb (ribs) went out briefly in the second quarter before returning. TE Dalton Kincaid (ribs), playing in his hometown on his 27th birthday, was injured in the third quarter but returned.

Up next

Bills: After a bye, host Baltimore on Nov. 1.

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VIDEOS: DHS Targets USMC Veteran at Home For Alleged Anti-ICE Instagram Comment 1OKT26 & END DHS RACIAL PROFILING/US SENATE 3MAR26

On the left, a Jan. 10 post from the Department of Labor reading "One Homeland, One People, One Heritage." On the right, a Nazi propaganda poster translating to “One people, One realm, One leader.”

U.S. Department of Labor X account (left) and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (right)

DHS Targets USMC Veteran at Home For Alleged Anti-ICE Instagram Comment

Oct 2, 2026

https://www.revolutionarydirtbag.com/... DHS targeted a USMC vet at his home for an alleged anti-ICE comment in Highland, Indiana on Thursday the 1st of October. The vet humiliates the agents- entire video is well worth watching to see them try(and fail) to justify why they're there. Another poor attempt at fascist intimidation. Great work by the vet for standing up for his rights and shutting these brownshirts down.

Sen Richard Blumenthal D-CT documenting fascist dhs racial profiling and violations of American citizen's human rights and civil liberties in US Senate hearing 3MAR26.

Trump Erupted After Learning of Alina Habba’s $50 Million Deal 29OKT26

 

GREED, greed, greed, narcissism, sociopathy, psychopathy, corruption, grifting, self- righteousness, hypocrisy, these are the primary characteristics of the drumpf/trump-vance administration, the gop/greed over people-republican party and the maga cabal. This from the New York Times.....

Trump Erupted After Learning of Alina Habba’s $50 Million Deal

Angry about the scale of a contract signed by one of his former lawyers with the family of a wealthy pardon seeker, the president told allies he wanted some of the money to go to his future presidential library.

By Tyler Pager

Reporting from Washington

Oct. 29, 2026

President Trump erupted last week after he learned that one of his former lawyers, Alina Habba Mildon, secured a contract worth more than $50 million to work for a billionaire Venezuelan family.

Angered at the size of Mrs. Mildon’s deal, Mr. Trump has told aides and allies that she should donate a portion of that money to his future presidential library or another Trump-related entity, according to multiple people briefed on the conversations.

His fury came in response to reporting by The New York Times that Mrs. Mildon, while working as an adviser at the Justice Department, had signed on last year to serve as an extraordinarily well compensated general counsel for a company started by the daughter of Julio Herrera Velutini, who at the time was seeking a pardon from Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump told at least one ally that the Herrera family should not pay out the rest of the contract, a message that got back to them, the people said.

Mrs. Mildon, who had served earlier as a personal lawyer to Mr. Trump and then briefly as U.S. attorney in New Jersey, signed a four-year contract, and it is unclear whether the family could terminate it early. Mr. Trump also called Mrs. Mildon to discuss the contract, but it is not known whether he explicitly asked her to make a donation or only suggested it to others.

Mrs. Mildon did not respond to questions about her conversation with Mr. Trump or whether she had committed any money to the library or other Trump-related causes. The Herrera family also did not respond to requests for comment about whether they plan to make any changes to Mrs. Mildon’s employment.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about Mr. Trump’s calls.

The contract calls for the Herrera family to pay Mrs. Mildon $10 million a year for four years along with a variety of bonuses. In total, including bonuses, she was guaranteed more than $50 million over four years, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Times.

Mrs. Mildon formally began her work for the family on Jan. 1. Weeks later, Mr. Trump granted Mr. Herrera a full and unconditional pardon for his misdemeanor campaign finance violation. Mr. Herrera had faced felony bribery charges but struck an unusually lenient plea deal in 2025. Mrs. Mildon previously said she played no role in Mr. Herrera’s pardon.

The company that hired Mrs. Mildon, Concord Partners, has no public profile, and its business remains unclear even to some people associated with the Herrera business empire.

In calls with allies last week, Mr. Trump raged about the scale of the contract and said he wanted Mrs. Mildon to give a portion of the money to one of his causes.

Mr. Trump also spoke last week with Christopher M. Kise, one of his former lawyers, about The Times’s story and asked about Mrs. Mildon’s work for the Herrera family. Mr. Kise also served as Mr. Herrera’s lawyer and worked on his pardon case. Mr. Kise declined to comment on a private conversation.

Mr. Trump has, at times, chafed against the idea that his advisers are making money by selling their access to him — and has lashed out at aides when their hefty consulting fees become public.

Earlier this month, Mr. Trump distanced himself from two of his top advisers who are guiding the Republican Party’s midterm strategy after The Times reported that the men, James Blair and Chris LaCivita, were each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide counsel to Republika Srpska, a pro-Russian Balkan government.

After Mr. Trump’s public condemnation, Mr. Blair and Mr. LaCivita said they were donating the consulting fees they earned for advising the government to Mr. Trump’s presidential library fund.

Mr. Trump suggested to reporters that he did not explicitly ask the two to make the donations.

“They took the money and they gave it to essentially a charity,” he said, adding, “I think it was a very nice thing to do.”

Mr. Trump is looking to raise $1 billion for his presidential library, which is planned for Miami.

Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.

The Latest on the Trump Administration

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• Anger Over $50 Million Deal: President Trump erupted after he learned that one of his former lawyers, Alina Habba Mildon, secured a valuable contract to work for a billionaire Venezuelan family.

• Medicaid Work Requirements A federal judge told the Trump administration that it could not move forward with a plan that would make it harder for seriously ill Americans to obtain or stay on Medicaid after work requirements take effect in January.

• Homeland Security Leak: The department told employees that it was aware of a “potential breach” and working to address the situation, a day after an activist group that publishes leaks released data on more than 41,000 workers.

• California Ballots: A federal judge rejected the latest Trump administration attempt to intervene in the midterm elections, denying an effort to force California to immediately set aside 20,000 ballots from people the administration suspects are “likely noncitizens.”