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This is legit wild. One of the Trumpiest GOP kooks we’ve had holding high office here in Texas makes an absolute spot-on, beautiful, non-partisan call for government transparency against the governor’s attempt to hide his emails with Elon Musk.

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.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Kalshi delenda est

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

It's Kalshi, so, I don't put a ton of stock. However. Woof.

Tough night for Jim Caviezel.

"Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts" youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

It is very important that everyone know that this is not okay. It's not okay in any way.

so we learned the russians and the dutch hacked jared kushners phone i am sure we have heard the end of this

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

I don't know what the policy is, but my hot take is that more political campaigns should use discord more than slack for volunteers. Feels less like "work."

Humans, now and forever.

Did they not call or whatever?

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

This is great because Megyn Kelly had Anna and the other Red Scare lady on her show and Megyn talked about her initial butting heads with Trump like an abused woman making excuses saying she was in the wrong and they both agreed with her.

just QTing this for easier location when people tell me Dems didn't run against Musk

It's great because this is just how TRON was because the people who wrote TRON didn't understand how computers work and I mean that in a positive way because TRON rules.

I have, at various times, gotten irrationally angry thinking about the 4th Crusade.

What will Darline do?

“Lula’s Workers’ Party alleges Meta blocked paid promotions and disabled its advertising account on Instagram and Facebook. *** Internal PT data shows Bolsonaro’s page averaged 2.96 times more engagement despite having 17.2% fewer followers than Lula’s.” Meta blames “technical issues” 10/12/26 …1/

The first day of Georgia in-person early voting easily topped 2022, giving an initial signal of a high turnout election to come. Hispanic turnout is up, too, doubling over 2022 (but not higher than 2024) michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/first-day-...

This debate isn't like old Mortal Kombat, nah, this is like the modern ones with the reeeeeaaaaalllly realistic X Ray moves and super Fatalities.

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

Ok, I just assigned myself the job of watching the SC Senate debate: www.c-span.org/program/camp...

It's great to have a sitting Senator who thinks the President can pick and choose what laws to follow. But that's Republicans in a nutshell.

Darline Graham on the devastating Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill: "Count me in. I'm all for it." #SCSen

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

It's funny, because this is her legacy now. She will forever be tied to whatever harm this does.

Redwall? It's been a long, long time since I've read those, so I'm not sure.

Baloo is gunna get a talking to.

I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.

I honestly don't imagine that this is too far off. This state is this state.

I never really blocked ads before, but as more and more of them are AI slop, I've gotten real liberal with the block button.

Prescription strength cheesecake

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

NEW @wired.com: Elon Musk's America PAC is focusing its war chest on key Senate races this cycle -- overall spending 3 times as much on digital ads and mailers hitting Dems as defending GOP candidates amid cratering support for Trump's record www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

One of the first things she says in this is that work for her, as a designer, has slowed down. She does talk about how AI is built on theft. However, at no point does she, nor the interviewer suggest that her work for her has slowed down due to AI, built on theft, being used for bad design work.

Man, it's a good thing Jared Polis pardoned this woman. She has absolutely learned her lesson.

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

If you’re a government employee or tech worker and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82

Based on what I have read, Digger is either a cunning bit of political satire, or just that last panel of that one Matt Bors comic.