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I love Talarico and hope he wins. But heβs already raised $70M
On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. Iβve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to
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This one is solidly in Hanlon's Razor territory: don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
He's not a secret genius with a brilliant secret plan. The reason it looks like he's screwing up is because he's screwing up.
In constitutional democracy terms, the US is in really bad shape. Corruption, political purges, abuse of power, lawbreaking, secret police, rights violations, efforts at disenfranchisement.
But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well. Team Trump is bad at it, and failing.
As bad as America's democratic backsliding is, at least we didn't get smarter fascists.
Strategic move was throw money at the economy, especially supporters, while consolidating institutional power. Not what Trump did: foreign aggression that hurts the economy right before legislative elections.
β[C]ongressional investigations must include both the Trump administration and the corporations that have leveraged their money and connections to avoid federal enforcement and oversight.β @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
when you're optimizing your military for bullshit like this (or Trump-friendlier aesthetics for warships, or higher testosterone levels, or whatever), it presumably means you're not optimizing for things like efficiency or lethality
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The Guardian's review of my new book Betrayal. The headline asks: "Is Trump a Russian asset? My answer, broadly, is yes. (Most people seem to agree; the piece has generated 5K comments; typically "Duh"!) "If he were a Russian agent, what would he do differently?β www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Alaska U.S. Senate Primary (8/26, 12:23 AM ET drop)
π΅ Mary Peltola β 3,502 (64.8%)
π΄ Dan S. Sullivan β 1,482 (27.4%)
βͺ Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. β 201 (3.7%)
π΅ David Leslie β 26 (0.5%)
π΄ Gerald Heikes β 25 (0.5%)
An incredible story. The Iranian Christian woman who wrote βhelpβ on the glass on the hotel in Panama has finally found permanent safety; in Canada.
The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story π
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
IMO, lots of Trump 2024 voters were just mad their groceries got more expensive and couldn't understand two seismic events - COVID and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - were largely to blame. They didn't sign up for a domestic Gestapo combined with illegal wars (tariff and shooting)
Pete Hegseth is a
"disgrace" and a "clear and present danger" to our country and our servicemen and women who are fighting
Trump's war.
Ret. Major General Randy Manner
ICE and police are not distinct entities. Regardless of what local and state governments stipulate, police and sheriffs collaborate with ICE in both obvious and covert ways. All authoritarian institutions interlock.
Abolish ICE means abolish the police.
We have to conclude the work begun in 2020.
I always found βGinsberg and Scalia loved to go to the opera togetherβ stories repugnant (you should never be friends w someone who hated gay ppl w the ecstatic glee Scalia hated them w), but feel like Kennedy Center would be safer w them to uphold whatever stay Trumpβs SCOTUS lackeys will reverse.
The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.
USDA reported a nearly 500% jump in beef export sales before revising the figure down by 90% a βweek later. The error was the latest of a series of questionable USDA reports amid βconcerns about data quality after staffing losses during the Trump administration... www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Heβs been in U.S. 20+ years.
He has a work permit.
He does not have a criminal record.
And his son has been serving our country β deployed on an under-resourced, overburdened boat for 9+ months.
The Navy is weighing renaming an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor Doris Miller, a Black war hero, and potentially switching it to honor Trump
Tommy Tuberville is the past
A man who wants to help modern day robber barons build empires by erecting data centers, enriching themselves-and likely Tuberville-while the people pay for it with depleted and polluted water followed by increased electric bills
Support @dougjones.bsky.social instead
βData centers are the future.β
βTommy Tuberville
But whoβs paying for that future? One of Tubervilleβs largest campaign donors has a major financial stake in the data-center boom heβs pushing.
Governor Tuberville would protect data centers, not Alabamians.
#HoldTheCrooksAccountable
Doris Miller was raised on a farm outside Waco. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, as the military was still segregated, he was a mess attendant assigned to laundry duty. When the attack happened, without any gun training, he shot down Japanese planes and carried his commander to safety.
Theyβre playing in our faces.
We should all be asking this question: Why are so many people allowing Trump and his accomplices to get away with the corruption and grift?
#HoldTheCrooksAccountable
Texas has 5.1 Million people walking around without health insurance.
Thatβs more than the entire population of South Carolina. Itβs more people than in the city of Los Angeles.
For over a decade, the official position of Texas Republicans is βtoo bad.β
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In 2021, 76 members of the Texas House - the majority - signed onto a bill to implement Medicaid Expansion in Texas.
It never got a floor vote.
Never got a hearing.
Dan Patrick blocked it, because in Texas, having the votes has never been the same thing as having the power.
In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year
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