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the dozen or so spam text messages I’ve received from groups like “NextVote” and “OurBallot” containing my voting history + full name (and sometimes my entire street address!) are invasive and creepy. the “your voting record is public” rejoinder is not effective organizing or community building imo.

it’s nice that politico let you and your friends do a group project for school. some day you might be a real journalist 👍

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

the single most annoying thing i've ever seen on a football field. i know that makes me old.

Harrison Smith picks off Daniel Jones, that will end it

Keith Ellison: "This guy had the nerve to go on his social media thing and say he was gonna get 'reckoning and retribution against Minnesota.' Well I can't wait until November 3 so we can get reckoning and retribution on him."

The Abduction of Persephone, by Nicola Maria Rossi, early 18th c

Jay-Z has reportedly selected Jay-Z to serve as the halftime performer at Super Bowl LXI.

Once again, the coverup is always worse than the crime.

Remember when egg prices were $6 a dozen? It might not have been for the reasons you thought. In a new story from me and Steve Volk for @politico.com Magazine, we recount the alleged egg price-fixing conspiracy, the settlement with DOJ and what it means for our politics.

Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

Ossoff: "Foster kids don't have lobbyists or a super PAC. Neither do the women subjected to medical abuse in ICE detention. Neither do the female inmates sexually abused by the warden and the chaplain in their federal prison ... they deserve leaders who see them"

Michele Tafoya was a-okay with Operation Metro Surge. She blamed Renee Good for her own death. Now she wants to reinvent herself? Give me a break.

Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.

1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard

The media was so obsessed with Tim Walz saying he went to China in June 1989 when actually he went in August 1989 that they asked him *in the only VP debate* how americans can trust him because of that discrepancy

oh that R+3.1 is entirely too close for comfort for republicans. like “make room for jesus” close

Americans see this for what it is - President Trump is abusing his power to go after political opponents weeks before an election.

I've been watching football for 50 years. I've never seen an end-of-game failure like the one the Commanders committed. I thought the Fox bug was incorrect, and that Washington had a timeout. It's an immediately fireable offense by Dan Quinn.

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

At this moment in history, Texas A&M was a Top 10 team with a 13-2 record in its previous 15 games. From this point forward, they are 1-3, and the three losses are by an average of 20 points per game

Americans for Tax Fairness AF found that billionaire donations were up 5,200%. AfTF says billionaire spending is “up 53-fold” since the 2010 midterms. A 53-fold rise is the same as a 5,200% increase.

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

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

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

Video from the scene shows NYPD rush to a man who’s surrounded by ICE agents and carry him into an unmarked SUV. Video also shows ICE agent Brendan Cuni carrying a rifle and wearing a work vest. Witnesses say Cuni shot him. Cuni, who’s from NYC, is known for dragging a pregnant woman in MSP.

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Californians' lives are not expendable in Donald Trump's unhinged, reckless war in Iran. This is yet another callous comment from the tyrant in the White House who dragged the American people into a war that we do not want.

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

The Epstein Class sticks together

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

Beyond the fact that it’s incredibly illegal and corrupt to use taxpayer dollars to run political ads on television, there’s another problem with re-running old ads like this: the messaging only reminds everyone what a fraud you are.

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...

All serious like I’m making an actual point: when are democrats gonna go back to lip service and pablum instead of making concrete promises

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

Minnesota Republican Justin Eichorn has just been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison after messaging who he presumed to be a 17-year-old girl.

On the 8 month anniversary of Alex Pretti being shot ten times after he was disarmed by federal agents a Minnesota candidate for US senate blames local officials for the killing. My coverage of events in my city: chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...