Deborah Mendelsohn

Please follow @ericlipton.nytimes.com and read and share. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

🇺🇸🇺🇦 NYT: Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have told top White House officials they will block President Trump’s nominees pending on Capitol Hill until the administration ensures the restoration of critical satellite communications capabilities used by Ukraine’s military.

A Ukrainian boy comforts mom,Svitlana,during a Russian drone attack:"Mom,listen to the sounds of nature instead of all this horror.Just listen to what the trees are telling u” "My heart is breaking.I'm supposed to be the one comforting him,but he's stronger than I’m”Svitlana wrote 📹chykanova_coach

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

- Donations dried up - Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do - Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out

Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, hard-earned money into something they believed in - for a year-and-a-half, and it was treated like a game.

Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down. To be extremely clear, Michigan Democrats are locked in to beat Mike Rogers. We WILL send @abdulelsayed.bsky.social to the US Senate.

But between crap like this, endless fundraising texts that drive supporters away with spammy fake deadlines and trash "match" claims, scam PACs run rampant for firms to grift without actually supporting candidates,

undisclosed content creators pushing content out either misrepresenting themselves as residents of states they don't live in or hiding whether they were paid and by who so they could make a buck, and the tidal wave of dark money ads --

I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms. Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.

And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not. If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS. LOCK IN. SIGN UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign made an ad starring Amy Acton’s mother calling her a liar, and he’s putting $4 million behind it. Amy says her mother’s husband sexually abused her from age 9 to 12, and by her mother’s own account, she stood by him in court, then left town with him. youtu.be/tTzeT_9OvQ0

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

Wow — 🔥 Neil Bush: “I voted for @jamestalarico.bsky.social… Trump and those who have enabled him have done enormous damage to the Republican Party… Character matters more than party affiliation.”

@jamellebouie.net check in? Barking over?

Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.

Sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. Watch research reporter @amierjeski.bsky.social explain how ProPublica figured out a Russian oligarch bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding.

So the president claims not to know who did something that should only be doable, if at all, with the president’s knowledge, if not by the president himself.

The legacy news media keeps insisting that what matters most to us is “affordability.”Anybody else sick and tired of being told that? Please tell your members of Congress OFTEN what you care most about. Keep those phones ringing!

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

I dropped my son off at school this morning knowing there would be extra security on campus because of what happened yesterday in Bend, Oregon. And I’m also angry. I’m exhausted. Nothing gets done! Our children deserve better. Fuck your thoughts & prays. Do something! Video by Andy Neal

Tell Lindsay "CONGRATULATIONS!!"

@sketchyrepublic.bsky.social

Read his article here: buff.ly/W4Hlw8Q

Please read. Very important. www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...

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This post kind of blew up yesterday. I think Americans really want to know about little things they can do it help people while our government is doing violence to our values, interests, and allies. So I will try to help provide guidance that might be useful for people who want such direction.

For the non-Americans who wonder how Americans can get into deep medical debt despite having medical insurance:

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Unilaterally Ends American Sanctions on Russian Energy Products and Announces That America Will Now Help Finance the Genocide Against Europeans in Ukraine; Russia and America Now Co-Rogue States, with America Funding Two Genocides and Russia One

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

As it gets harder and harder to keep up with everyday expenses, DJT has given us a little gift that we can use to support the our favorite candidates for office right now. Do it!

Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.

"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule

Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

Stocks surge on news of terrible jobs report.

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.