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Very sketchy procedures at a Bronx polling site

This is Mike Rogers’ lifestyle. How about yours?

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“A Popular Information analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the [Ramaswamy] ad was funded, in part, with contributions from the PACs and executives of major American corporations, including Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger, and Nationwide.” popular.info/p/the-corpor...

New: Couple of guys from Kentucky just put out a new way to track money in politics. Been playing around with it—very impressed.

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

Virginia is for (research) lovers! 300+ Virginians at Haleon in Richmond are working on critical research for over-the-counter products, from Tums to Emergen-C. I’ll keep doing all I can on the Senate’s health committee to promote research and domestic drug manufacturing.

Free Press' @attorneynora.bsky.social and @jindia.bsky.social release a groundbreaking report examining how the administration is using NSPM-7 to crack down on all forms of political opposition during the midterms and beyond. Learn more: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...

Here's a quick overview of the Baltimore City ballot questions. Read more: buff.ly/QVqyYot

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

8pm EDT Sun 18th Oct: NHC is monitoring a non-tropical low pressure area developing off the SE U.S. coast. This system now has a medium chance (🟠40%) of becoming a subtropical cyclone, primarily during the 2nd half of this week. Regardless ... https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/2112002133188821297

No corporation is gonna silence our message! ❌👑 Keep helping us amplify #NoKings today so we can drive HISTORIC early vote turnout, and overcome Trump’s election sabotage.

Damn this lady cooked these Lynchburg City Council members. When you’ve finally had enough, you show up and spit cold hard facts. WOW!!

Android pals: SOURCE! app is in beta, and I need your help. It's an indie news reader with no algorithm. 2 minutes: 1. Join: groups.google.com/g/sourcebeta 2. Then: play.google.com/apps/testing/com.newsfor38yearolds.source 3. Tap Become a tester, install, open once Pls stay opted in for 2 weeks.

New nap spot

Ribbons and pearls 🎀 Ribbons of gas & dust wrap around the pearly centre of the galaxy NGC 1398.  NGC 1398’s spiral arms do not begin at its very middle, but stem from a straight bar instead. How many spiral galaxies share this feature? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1801a/ 🔭

As Joseph Bland’s dreams come to fruition, something stalks the men and women at Lonely Creek. Available this evening, 10.7.26, for subscribers in the Holler. www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/theholler Live tomorrow, 10.8.26, for the whole family.

Holy shit.

Michael Tomasky’s Three-Point Plan for Refuting the GOP’s Anti-Trans Strategy:

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VICTORY: a unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to stay sanctions on Trump & Co. over his $1.8B slush fund He sued his own govt & his own DOJ agreed to the payout. The court wasn't buying it! @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are proud to rep the 35 frm fed judges who blew the whistle 👇 -TN

Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.

How it started/how it’s going

While foreign influence has become a constant concern for U.S. elections, there’s still no evidence that any cyberattack has ever altered vote counts, impacted vote-counting systems, or otherwise affected the accuracy of elections. bit.ly/4AzddFy

This training will cover best practices to keep participants safe & brave at a variety of event types. Whether you want to be prepared for common medical incidents or looking to brush up on deescalation skills, we’ll make sure you’re supported in making a plan.

1/ They sanctioned a sitting president's wife and son. They pardoned a man serving 45 years for drug trafficking two days before an election. They put $40B on the table, on camera, tied to a vote. Six countries. One toolkit. Here's how it works. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"

Now let’s resume talking about Epstein.

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Her assignment is over. Time to move on.

Habeas cases are meant to be resolved quickly because a person’s liberty is at stake. But in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana, judges have typically taken 3 months or more to resolve them. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the median time to close a case has been 11 days.

When your dad’s a billionaire, but a Russian mobster pays for your wedding.

Incredible headline here (among other things)

Great conversation with @thomaszimmer.bsky.social about fighting the far-right in Germany, the rest of the Europe and the United States. newrepublic.com/article/2152...

Postal workers are on the front line of the fight for democracy. They are telling their own bosses to stop attacking vote-by-mail. Will you join us sending a message to @ambermcreynolds.bsky.social & the USPS Governors, who have the power to stop this? usmailnotforsale.org/take-action?...

Signed! Our 🇪🇺🇬🇱🇩🇰 Joint Declaration. It reflects a clear choice by Greenland to strengthen ties with the EU. In order to protect its values, freedom and interests. Europe is making a choice too. To be more present and more engaged in Greenland and in the Arctic.

👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣