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NEW: In a powerful op-ed, Lana Pelletier, the longtime partner of Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson, breaks her silence after months of attacks on her family by Susan Collins and her allies. “If Susan Collins truly cared about my voice, she could have listened to it.”

VOTE BLUE THIS IS SCARY, VERY SCARY

BREAKING New York Governor Kathy Hochul has exercised her executive authority to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case involving men accused of raping a woman at a Cornell University fraternity house.

Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.

Goodnight 🌙

This has potential

I’ll believe this when I see it, and Massachusetts isn’t going to elect a pro-Trump Republican in 2026, but no rich guy should be able to spend a fraction of this much money on his own election. Overturning Citizens United wouldn’t solve this particular problem—Buckley v. Valeo has to go too

One more reason to wear that Patagonia fleece. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/c...

Adidas selects an IDF soldier who was part of an operation that killed 232 Palestinian civilians to be its spokesperson for its new campaign on amputees — meanwhile Gaza has the highest rate of amputees of any place in modern history due to IDF soldiers and genocide. Barbaric. Stop buying Adidas.

You know the United States is an unpleasant place when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would rather live in a country with newspapers and relatives that hate them.

Chief Justice John Roberts is reviewing the emergency application re White House ballroom project. •Chief Justice Roberts handles emergency requests from the D.C. Circuit in Washington, D.C. A Politico •Roberts ordered the opposing group, to submit their response by August 18, 2026

Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics

“.. Their faces covered in white masks, the men carried shields, drums and flags — some upside down, others Confederate — as they chanted, ‘Reclaim America!’” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Happy 250th to this country, whose constitution literally says no “presents” from foreigners!

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Since we’re apparently doing this: At 27, Barack Obama was starting Harvard Law after years as a community organizer. At 27, Donald Trump was sued by the DOJ for racial discrimination in housing. One was expanding civil rights; the other was violating them. We know who history will admire.

For comparison, here is the Obama Center opening ceremony. Obama had Stevie Wonder, Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend... Trump couldn't even pull off Vanilla Ice

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Jack White:

whats with @cambridgemass.bsky.social drafting a proposal we would have to wait 30 minutes for another beer, glass of wine or alcoholic drink after we receive the first at a bar or restaurant in Cambridge and didnt bother to inform bar or resto owners???

BREAKING: Federal judge grants injunction BLOCKING Trump’s slush fund. Visit All Rise News for more soon

A judge has indefinitely blocked the $1.8B slush fund until Blanche and the Treasure put it in writing that it's dead. Going LIVE now on Substack with @klasfeldreports.com who was a the hearing. muellershewrote.com

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? Demagoguery and corruption.

Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...

It’s just stunning. The White House trailer park.

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KEILAR: When I think of someone who is almost 80, I would think a little dozing off here or there to maybe be kind of normal. Is that not normal? DR REINER: It's unusual to be surrounded by people in the Oval Office and you fall asleep

Call to Activism -Joe Gallina 🚨WOW! Mayor Zohran Mamdani just MOCKED Ronald Reagan’s famous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.” BOOM.

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This is corruption on steroids.

Hassett lies his ass off: "Almost all of the job creation that happened under President Biden was the employment of illegal aliens"

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Iran’s next move in response? Shut the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea. Global economic meltdown. Trump’s strategy on Hormuz is the equivalent of outfoxing an armed robber by shooting yourself in the head.

A trio of @wsj.com headlines from this weekend — none of them good.

The spectacle of the sweaty Secretary of State and the abstracted elderly President attending a UFC fight while a young man, totally out of his depth, failed to negotiate an end to this disastrous adventure should, in a healthy democracy, be leading to the immediate end of this administration

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

This speaks for itself! 👇👇👇 #PeopleUnited

unable to find best description of trumps folly other than using a curse

New war crimes announcement from Epstein Palace.

The $191 billion ICE slush fund came at expense of Medicaid, food assistance, and support for veterans. Republicans chose warrantless searches and brutality over compassion for American families. Remember in November! #FundDHSFreezeICE

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room