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🇺🇸🗳️ With the 2026 midterms two weeks away, I felt this election deserved a better map. 🧵

Skeleton: hey barkeep git this here buckaroo a sasparilly a’fore he drops ah thirst

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

The Chicago Stars first signing of the Vlatko Andonovski era is here. Zambian forward Rachael Kundananji joins the side through 2027 in exchange for $700K in intraleague transfer funds. galpalsports.com/db/stars-acq...

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

Yes, puleeese let Lindsey’s sister have more mic time!! It’s like she’s the tee in Jack Smith’s ballgame, letting him stand there and smash out the big hits 😂 Um, ma’am, it’s not your *brother* who would destroy evidence and intimidate witnesses…we were referring to the, you know, president??

Nice one, Pete #cubs #petecrow-armstrong

If you live near Princeton, it might be a good idea to be at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal located at 100 College Rd East, Princeton NJ on 9/23 to speak out against the data center they are trying to build near you

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has DENIED Trump's bid to continue with his USPS vote by mail restrictions! HUGE WIN.

Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.

Gotta pay the piper for that inauguration invite…

Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth

Sickening that corporate media has been directed by their billionaire handlers to ask every Democrat about the DSA platform in an effort to divide the party, instead of the GOP platform of kidnapping, starvation, murder, and death.

Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

New: On a podcast yesterday, Tina Peters praised WH counsel David Warrington for "the work that he did to effectuate & work with" Gov. Jared Polis "for my release." Peters also claimed that DHS official Heather Honey “facilitated the meeting” she had with CISA. www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

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Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

Trump administration will pay German energy firm RWE $1.22 billion to abandon plans to build wind farms off the coasts of New York, California and Louisiana. Including this project, the government has so far spent roughly $3.9 billion to get companies to terminate 12 offshore wind leases

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

Donald Trump's former personal attorney is now the United States Attorney General.

Director Adam McKay on the gargantuan lie being peddled by the world's governments and corporations.

In an administration where everyone is pretending to be something they are not, reality will assert itself in inconvenient ways.

Not enough — the statements from FIFA seem only to acknowledge errors in “process” but not for coming up with that batshit crazy idea in the first place. It’s like, “Oh, I’m sorry you’re angry 🤷“

The BBC channeling strong dad energy here with the always-potent “a lack of preparation on *your* part…” lecture

every single day I am baffled by the fact that this man - this incredibly, astoundingly embarrassing man - is the one half the damn country built a cult of personality around

The correct thing to do. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mitch McConnell’s spokesperson says she “received a message” from him

if you're going at the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl in such a way that it gets you carded, please get in touch

I'm glad that media are talking about this now. It should've happened a long time ago (as these articles demonstrate, this has been going on since early in this administration), but it puts the clear point on the GOP cruelty. Death by bureaucracy and incompetence.

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And Spain wins it all, 3 - nil 🤓

Spain is a team of 11 midfielders, and Argentina is a team of 10 bastards and a genius — and it doesn’t make for great telly

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Love this. A New Jerseyan Greek chorus

Ok this is very good

omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

On this day in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It is best known for guaranteeing full citizenship and its protections to Black Americans. It also includes guidelines on disqualifying candidates who participated in insurrection or rebellion against the government.

The number of large branches (and half a tree) I could see down in Central Evanston this morning suggests there was something freaky in that 10pm storm last night… #ILWX

GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim http://theonion.com/gop-urges-democrats-to-tone-down-rhetoric-used-to-quote-president-verbatim/