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📌NOTE: White men are singularly responsible for the catastrophic mess we find ourselves in today. I just can’t believe what a bunch of selfish babies we are, I really can’t. We take absolutely no ownership of anything, because everything is everybody’s else’s fault.
I’m sick of us.
“He’s not even an American.”
“We have a problem in this country, it’s called Muslims.”
“He doesn’t have a birth certificate.”
“Perhaps it would be that where it says religion, it might have Muslim.”
Sound familiar to what Trump and Republicans are saying about Abdul El-Sayed right now?
📌I see the fascist DOJ is coming after James Comey again. This is anti-American, and wrong on every level, but morbidly ironic, because without him and his loaded, bullshit investigation into Hillary Clinton, there'd be no fascist DOJ.
Long way of saying: I'll never forgive the guy.
Republicans are being forced to fight for their survival.
And Jeffries isn’t just talking about taking back the House, he’s putting Republicans on notice: Their voter suppression playbook won’t save them from the electoral reckoning headed their way.
That’s how big this blue wave could get. 🔥
📌PRO TIP: If you are a Republican candidate in a blue or purple state and your party is busy shoring up Mississippi eight days out from an election, get a head start on your concession speech.
These numbers are telling.
CBS News projects Democrats at 229 House seats to Republicans’ 206. Look at what voters are saying:
• 65% say the economy is bad.
• 57% say Trump’s policies have hurt them financially.
• DON’T MISS THIS: 83% say government corruption is a major factor in their vote.
Voters are pissed and showing up!
Republicans thought they could redraw the maps, rig the odds, and coast to victory. Instead, they’re scrambling to save seats they thought were in the bag.
💝2 B*tches from Texas and Timothy Snyder agree that our purpose on this planet is to help each other get through life.
🎤Watch here or anywhere you get your podcasts:
youtu.be/QB_xYW4Ghic?...#2bitchesfromtexas#TimothySnyder
📌There's no way all this is just some damn coincidence:
1. Ukraine whacks Russia.
2. Lindsey Graham leads bipartisan efforts hitting Russia w/ more sanctions.
3. Graham suddenly drops dead. (Like so many of Putin's enemies.)
4. Trump immediately cancels sanctions, and buys Russian diesel.
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5. Trump Regime praises Putin as a "humanitarian."
6. Trump/Musk take away Starlink from Ukraine defenses.
7. Trump calls on Zelensky to surrender.
7. GOP leaks rumors anew that Graham was a pervert.
The art of the surreal.
Trump is a damn traitor.
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CONGRESS APPROVED THE MONEY — SO WHY ARE OUR TROOPS STILL LIVING LIKE THIS?
Pete Hegseth owes our troops & their families an explanation.
#SupportTheTroops
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My life has been a tapestry
Of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision
Of the ever-changing view
A wond’rous woven magic
In bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see
Impossible to hold…
📷 Jim McCrary
courtesy Lou Adler / Ode Records
Muslims didn’t storm the Capitol on January 6, try to steal an election, or overthrow our government.
White Christian nationalists, racist militia groups, and rabid Trump supporters did.
We need to stop pretending the biggest terrorist threat to this country is coming from somewhere else.
“The polling looks good for Democrats, but it’s consistent with a range of possibilities: from a very narrowly divided Senate that Republicans still control as well as Democrats winning it in a wave” @kabirkhanna.bsky.social breaks down scenarios of what can happen in the Senate in the midterms
MICHIGAN, BRING IT HOME! 🔥
Barack Obama reminds voters to vote Democrat all the way down the ballot. From the top of the ticket to the very last race.
No skipping races. No sitting this one out.
#BlueWaveIn10Days
SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny.
www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...
📌I saw Obama speak a couple of times in the lead up to the disastrous 2024 election. He was melancholy and clearly worried.
I left those speeches dragging that worry with me.
The Obama I saw today in Ohio was energized, optimistic and dealing fire.
I saw the finest political leader in my lifetime.
📌NOTE: If you have stubbornly avoided history, and are just flat stupid enough to allege that liberals "are the new racists" you have just admitted that up until these moronic allegations were leveled that YOU have been the racists all along ...
Well done, you bigoted assholes.
Hey friends, I just joined the nearly 24 million Americans who already voted!
My ballot is cast, but the work isn’t done. There are still voters to reach and 10 days to go. 🧵
#BlueWaveIn10Days
1. I am very tired of being asked to be stupid. I know that is not the most important thing right now. There are many more serious consequences to electing a criminal president who is burning up the economy.
🖊️FAMOUS PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES:
-KENNEDY: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
-FDR: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
-TRUMP: "I looked and I watched up and down. I looked at his ass."
Barack Obama just endorsed Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate!
She may not have the full backing of the Democratic establishment, but she’s building support from the biggest names in the party.
LFG! 🔥
📌Ramaswamy’s ad is revolting to be sure, and deeply degrading to Dr. Acton, women, and survivors of rape and incest, but do I really have to remind everybody that our president is a noxious, violent abuser who REPUBLICANS have chosen to be their standard-bearer the past three presidential elections?
The Republican Party is a cesspool. It is governed by hate and willing ignorance. It is a marketplace of evil ideas and destruction. It is racist, misogynistic, and anti-American.
📌That we’ve decided one revolting ad has gone too far, when “too far” left the stable at a gallop 10 years ago, is absurd.
This is who the Republicans are each and every day, and it would be about damn time everybody starting reckoning with this sickening fact.
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📌Ramaswamy’s ad is revolting to be sure, and deeply degrading to Dr. Acton, women, and survivors of rape and incest, but do I really have to remind everybody that our president is a noxious, violent abuser who REPUBLICANS have chosen to be their standard-bearer the past three presidential elections?
📌In what sound-proof closet were you locked in when Trump called professional women like Dr. Acton “fat pigs” “dogs” “slobs” “disgusting animals” “piggy” “ugly” “horse face” and “stupid?”
📌Ramaswamy’s ad is revolting to be sure, and deeply degrading to Dr. Acton, women, and survivors of rape and incest, but do I really have to remind everybody that our president is a noxious, violent abuser who REPUBLICANS have chosen to be their standard-bearer the past three presidential elections?
📌If you are a Republican who is trying to tell us that Ramaswamy’s venom went too far, then just where have you been while Trump has effortlessly called political adversaries names like, “scum” “vermin” “dogs” and “filth?”
📌How far has your head been willingly stuck up your rear end, when mimicking his hero, Adolph Hitler, Trump has portrayed Black people as monkeys and says immigrants from “shithole countries” are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
📌Ramaswamy’s ad is revolting to be sure, and deeply degrading to Dr. Acton, women, and survivors of rape and incest, but do I really have to remind everybody that our president is a noxious, violent abuser who REPUBLICANS have chosen to be their standard-bearer the past three presidential elections?
📌This really is insane.
The leader of this despicable party, the serial-lying, morally busted convicted felon, and American-attacking and woman-abusing Donald Trump, makes Ramaswamy look like a choir boy by comparison.
📌Frankly, the hand-wringing by too damn few in the Republican Party over this ad during yet another ugly political moment among thousands the past decade has my head spinning, it really does.
📌Early-voting is HEAVY in North Carolina.
How many have voted?
2026: 1,380,451
2022: 1,027,331
Who's voting?
D -- 41%
R -- 24%
U -- 34%
2022:
D -- 39%
R -- 31%
U -- 29%
NOTES
*Women are outvoting men: 769,526 to
610,925
*Black vote: 195,805 in '22 -- 315,925 in '26.
All great signs for Dems.
THE TRUMP DOJ IS ESCALATING ITS ATTACK ON CA’S ELECTIONS.
Yesterday, federal prosecutors sent threatening letters to election officials across California, giving them just 48 hours to respond to demands involving voters they suspect are noncitizens.
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THIS SHOULD BE GETTING MORE ATTENTION
Wedgewood Polls admitted that the vast majority of its election polls were based on fabricated data.
And these major news orgs fell for it: The New York Times, POLITICO, Newsweek, MS NOW, The Hill, The Daily Beast & Breitbart.
I’m voting tomorrow, in person! What’s your plan?
My sample ballot’s marked, so I know exactly how I’m voting, and it should be quick work!
This election, you should vote early too, either in person or by using an official, secure drop box.
Don’t wait until Election Day.
#VoteEarlyDay
🇺🇸 Finally got my lazy ass off the beach and did something productive down here, casting my first-ever vote in NC today ...
Voted for Roy Cooper, Don Davis, and Carolina Blue up and down the ballot.
Flip the Senate. Flip the Congress. Save Democracy. Vote BLUE.
✊🏼
📌"The Republican Party is a cesspool. That we’ve decided one revolting ad has gone too far, when “too far” left the stable at a gallop 10 years ago, is absurd.
This is who the Republicans are each and every day, and it would be about damn time everybody starting reckoning with this sickening fact."
DON’T BE AFRAID, BE PREPARED.
AG Todd Blanche was asked a simple question: Will the DOJ try to block states from certifying election results?
He couldn’t give a simple NO. Instead, he left the door open to hypothetical scenarios.
@marcelias.bsky.social
🕊️ There was never a time Tom Skerritt popped on the screen, and I was disappointed. He was always the perfect accompaniment, who held his own in every scene even if he wasn't always the main course.
He was an environmentalist, a class act and brought me happiness.
I will miss this very good man.
Trump wants to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse? Let’s follow HIS money.
🚩 $3.2 BIL: Gov business to companies tied to his sons’ investments
🚩 $2.3 BIL: Estimated Trump family crypto profits
🚩 $620 MIL: Pentagon loan to a company backed by Don Jr’s investment firm
#TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime
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📌Republicans are cheering Putin, a vaunted enemy of America, at their rallies. WHEN will their disdain for our country FINALLY become an issue?
Trump has surrendered to Putin, and lost the Cold War.
As a vet this is almost impossible to contemplate.
WHY ARE REPUBLICANS SO DAMN HAPPY ABOUT THIS???
1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most.
www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
📌I have seen people say this is the perfect metaphor for this drunken, reckless, incompetent, and blood-thirsty DoD and the catastrophic damage it is doing here and abroad.
I agree with these people.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
The Pentagon denied us access to take photos, but we obtained some anyway.
A story in global affairs:
wapo.st/3WF2YQo
A scoop from me: CBS-owned local stations' election coverage will be sponsored by DraftKings, a deal that has stirred concern inside the company. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...