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Elon Musk has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has spent in his entire lifetime.

Yes the important thing to know about art is that you must follow instructions to the letter and avoid creativity at all costs.

C'mon man, this is the fanciest restaurant in Greensboro

Wow. Stephen Miller is about the change the rules on who can claim asylum.

"So, in Alaska, if Peltola wins, her victory is inherently suspect and must be investigated. And in Minnesota, if Flanagan bests Tafoya, her victory is inherently suspect b/c Trump has declared that Tafoya can’t lose, period, unless Dems cheat. This is the long, stupid shadow of the 2020 election."

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Even with all the levers of power he has his hands on, and even with control of every mechanism in the federal government, Trump has been unable to find election fraud. So he's crowdsourcing it now.

Besides the whole saving the knowledge of antiquity and the numerals and the science and the exquisite art, it's pretty easy to google Arab Nobel prize winners

That RFK clip is ghastly, but it's totally consistent with the Islamophobia that has been coming out of this administration, including Trump's rhetoric about Abdul El-Sayed. They are all in on the hatred of Muslims because it's a formula that has worked before.

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

In a scathing opinion, Judge Ana Reyes concludes that the Trump admin. had settled on a plan to turn East Potomac Park into the elite golf course Trump has been wanting to see built in D.C., all while DOJ represented in court that nothing happening, including DOI felling 400+ trees, was related.

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

In July, an incensed Elon Musk vowed that Grok Imagine would produce a "full-length" and "historically accurate" adaptation of Homer's Odyssey to put Christopher Nolan's woke version to shame. Three months later, we got seven minutes of slop that Grok itself admits is not historically accurate.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

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Also, we should talk more about how the guy pushing these lies is not only the Republican party’s largest donor, almost single-handedly bankrolling multiple candidates, but that he’s spreading these lies on the website he owns that is designed to produce and spread non-consensual nudes.

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

my god i despise that schmackenpüssen

The Republican Party takes your money and uses it to openly bribe voters. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Not rooting for the Rays or for the Brewers but for Contreras making John Smoltz mad by winning ABS challenges

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Trump: Every time a do a physical, they say, 'is there something wrong?' So far, so good

Trump: The father was a handsome guy, tall, beautiful-looking guy, like, right out of Wall Street. He was in a beautiful dark pinstriped suit with a vest and, I mean, he was central casting for a movie

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. As someone who spent a decade in political communications and corporate PR, the straight answer is that either she or her reps reached out to the NYT and offered to provide quotes. And lazy reporters gratefully accepted the offer.

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

Trump claims the billion+ dollars he's spending on White House renovations is "peanuts"

My contribution to Cheesecake Factory discourse: Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang members assaulted a mixed-race family. I identified one of them because he worked at a Cheesecake Factory and their Instagram page posted pictures of him. He has a back tattoo with SS bolts and phrase "Aryan Soldier"

Trump, to an audience member: I love you too, darling. I have no idea where you are, but you sound good to me. Oh, there she is. I do love you, actually. I'll get myself into political trouble. They have beautiful women in Mississippi, I can tell you. We love you, Donald. They're so beautiful.

Roger Marshall says Adam Hamilton will let "radical Islums" into the country

There is no human on earth more easily or predictably baited than this man.

JD Vance's speech in Kansas is interrupted by a protester. Vance responds by saying "all the Democrats are selling is a fat load of bullshit"

There are around 36,000 people in Perry County, Ohio. Ramaswamy managed to get 36 of them to come by. I’ve seen busier yard sales.

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Trump: Get Cindy Hyde-Smith elected. She's doing very well, I think Q: This race was moved from solid Republican to likely Republican-- Trump: What was? I don't know. I think she's doing really well

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Trump claims the election in Brazil was "rigged"