Jared Rizzi

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You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Election officials in Alaska are asking a federal judge to "immediately" dismiss the Trump DOJ's lawsuit seeking to block the Senate results, claiming it has "no legal basis." "[T]he United States lacks authority to intervene in state elections at all, much less in support of a favored candidate."

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

four hours of dead silence. two men staring at each other for so long and with such intensity they merge souls. eventually the interview is terminated when a muted cough from a publicist startles everybody

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.

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

Vivek might not just have lost the election, but any political future.

i wrote about the GORP

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

Your continued insistence that it is a bad idea for Democrats to challenge Trump on issues where he is "strong" in polling because of "salience" cashes out to "Don't bother if public opinion isn't already on your side."

We all complain about headlines too much, but if your headline ends with "the White House said" or "Trump said" you are probably just giving the most valuable words in your article over to propaganda

"big guys, great asses, tears in their eyes "sir...sir" they pleaded "please take this cognitive test again sir" and what am i going to do refuse have u seen their asses"

Corey Lewandowski is under investigating for not giving Trump a taste

This is why JD Vance follows his attacks on Acton by calling her a drunk. The inference is that all child rape victims are drunk, drugged up adults who should be ignored.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

I've been screaming for months for Democrats to do this. I can't tell you how happy this ad made me.

Truly INSANE for them to all double down on this but speaks to their male fragility and their need to circle the wagons to protect pedophiles

oligarch media all the way down and the democrats wont invest in any. we're fucked. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

The Vivek ad is what happens when an amoral outsider must prove to a political movement centered on protecting abusers that he’s on their team:

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

"I suppose every generation thinks the next has lost its way, but there’s so little artistry to it anymore. We used to spend months figuring out how to make racism look like a perfectly legitimate concern about municipal governance." buff.ly/bEdtrJN

Dark days

Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

“I think America is big enough for all of us. [JD Vance’s] view of America is small. It's small like him.” A lot of money quotes in this @gregsargent.bsky.social interview with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, but this is the best one in my view.

He’s refusing to participate in the lawsuit he filed because of the war he started

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

The Columbus Dispatch has just endorsed Acton over Ramaswamy, citing the vile attack ad, and this piece will run in 20 newspapers across the state www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Vance says he is "a little bit disgusted" with Republicans complaining about the widely condemned Vivek ad on Amy Acton's estranged mother.

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

If you aren't connecting Cornell, Acton's mother, the Shane Gillis monologue, and the household vote movement, the rage you encounter when discussing any of these might knock you down

Tough call for JD Vance, who is supposed to be campaigning in Ohio today: Will he court the GOP's anti-Indian racists by shivving Vivek Ramaswamy over the Acton ad, or appeal to its psycho misogynists by vouching for its contents?

You’d think the mediocre whites and their AAPI allies would be happy. They “won” on affirmative action and black student enrollment has plummeted. But they’re not happy. As long as there’s *one* Black person in school they’ll still run to SCOTUS Their next target is 5th graders Me in @thenation.com

It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

The moment City Council gets it right and passed the ordinance calling for the removal of ICE and the National Guard out of Memphis!

According to Brad Lander, he has been detained by the IDF in the West Bank alongside rabbis and volunteers who were helping Palestinians with the olive harvest. This is an American citizen, a future member of Congress and a member of the Jewish diaspora www.instagram.com/p/DewMih2xoK...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Winner has been selected but goddamn what a thread. Thanks for posting some of these, many of which I hadn't seen before.

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