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Calling all amateur bakers in the DMV 🥧🍰🍞 There are still a few slots to enter your Bread, Cake or Pie in Great Arlington Bakeoff! https://library.arlingtonva.us/2026/09/09/enter-the-great-arlington-bakeoff-by-nov-6/

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

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

PORTLAND: Looking for #Thorns fans who were at the 10/23 game and seated near the XX-XY folks for the Mercury — hit me up if you want to chat on or off the record.

If Amy Acton was a good daughter, she would have teamed up with her mother to get rich off an Alzheimer’s drug they knew wouldn’t work. by Vivek and Geetha Ramaswamy

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.

Come to the Oct. 26 "NextEra’s Proposed Buyout of Dominion Energy: Learn, Ask, Engage" webinar! Arlington & @alexandriavagov.bsky.social will present the joint testimony, provide a merger status update & moderate questions. Register & submit questions today! alexandriava.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Republicans have long made a major issue that George Soros has been a donor to Democrats, spinning insane lies about him to make that a bad thing Elon Musk is a *much* bigger donor to Republicans and there's no need to invent lies about him. Just tell the truth about the evil shit he says and does

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

Imagine how much different this statement would look if Abdul El-Sayed had said it instead of Trump.

We finally found the paid protesters Trump keeps talking about

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David Axelrod and David Brooks clutching their pearls because El-Sayed didn’t roll over for a racist is such a perfect example of America’s white guy politics that it would sound made up if you put it in a novel

@washingtonsun.com quoting Third Way?!? I would be considered Evelyn Normielib and I want heads on spikes. So maybe not get polling from an organization that thinks oatmeal is too spicy.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

@people.com has been doing really good political reporting and I really enjoyed this interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social people.com/james-talari...

quick question, mike if the public polling is so biased against you surely you’ve got internal polling that looks better you could release *puts finger to ear* “apocalyptic” you say?

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest." ~ Abraham Lincoln @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

Video: While @bethmacy.bsky.social Meets VA06 Voters, MAGA Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA06) Dines in $800-a-Night Napa Valley Winery Resort with AI and Data Center Lobbyists (You really can't make this sh** up!) bluevirginia.us/2026/10/vide...

Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne

@washingtonspirit.com my husband will be very sad. Gift is his favorite player on the squad washingtonspirit.com/blog/2026/10...

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.

Dominion customers: the SCC wants your input on the proposed $67B Dominion Energy–NextEra merger. In-person hearing in Fairfax Oct. 9, 6 – 8 p.m. Fairfax County Government Center Can't attend? Submit written comments by Nov. 9 at scc.virginia.gov (Case PUR-2026-00112)

nice. Nice!

And the issue with that is?!?!

Someone needs to create a meme of Collins as Marie Antoinette saying “let them eat road salt”

👏👏👏 to @people.com for the excellent and truthful title. people.com/dennis-haste...

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

Just because Ken Paxton is a scumbag doesn't mean the wife he cheated on and who's divorcing him isn't a scumbag, too.

Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.

Restaurants are warning that the tariffs Ken Paxton supports could end free chips and salsa.

🎶 Oh, what a beautiful moron… 🎶 ALL NEW! “Dummy with the Wig on Top” 🌽🤠 #DummyWithTheWigOnTop #RandyRainbow

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

Time to make the #caturday biscuits