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Blue Soul in a red state. Recovering newspaper editor. Editing is my superpower. Foo Fighters fan. Not 20 and not done.
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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.
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Anthropic's Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
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Major news this morning. Louise Lucas, a chief antagonist of Trump and Virginia Republicans (and one of the most vocal proponents of gerrymandering the state earlier this year) is criminally charged by the feds over her marijuana business:
Awww, but he said he wants to be Trump's favorite governor. What happened?
Stuart Stevens was absolutely on the money on @themomentwithkaty.bsky.social about how MAGA voters don't want to be called racists but racism is not a dealbreaker for them. But it seemed as if Katy Tur was working really hard to make excuses for rthe racists?
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THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)
Republican lawmakers are incensed about Trump's dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him. That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address Trump’s decision to purchase Russian diesel, waive sanctions on Moscow, and potentially stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
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"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
@chrislhayes.bsky.social You used a word that perfectly sums up Republicans as they try to cling to power: feral.
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if Zohran Mamdani used the word "Shylock" the ADL would have called in a nuclear strike on New York City by now
The ADL finally chimes in… with one very short post: "The term 'Shylock' is rooted in a longstanding antisemitic stereotype. Regardless of intent, its use can reinforce harmful tropes about Jews and normalize language that has long been used to target the Jewish community."
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This is a great point - we need more outrage about what Trump is doing to Rep. Ilhan Omar! Read more here: https://bit.ly/47vhDzW #ResistTrump
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Georgia deserves a Governor who stands up for them and not the special interests. I know that @keishaforga.bsky.social will deliver for the people of Georgia by safeguarding voting rights, expanding health care, funding public education and lowering your cost of living. Vote for Keisha Bottoms!
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Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
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The whole reason the video went viral was explicitly because it was not even remotely "heated" and Abdul immediately provided a calm lesson on the Constitution and the problems of bigotry. And this is how CNN frames it? WTF?
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, during a heated exchange at a town hall. https://cnn.it/4s7r1TL
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Videos show North Carolina A&T students marching about 45 minutes to vote after losing their campus early-voting site. Ahead of the March primaries, A&T students made a similar walk. Texas Southern students did, too. More on HBCU students’ push for voting access, including a permanent site at A&T.
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CDC reports 4,410 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4inWGgq
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“ …she was summoned to the offices of Hillels of Georgia, where the group’s CEO told her she was being fired because she was in a close personal relationship with a person who disparages Israel.” Solidarity with Rabbi Golomb. And labor protections forever.
“It offered a lesson for Democrats: In such an era, it is politically risky for a candidate, even one too ill to campaign, to disappear for nine days.” Are they serious with this? Does the New York Times even have editors?
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It shouldn't be quiet. It should be the loudest story every damn day.
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk, the world’s only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/elon...
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Republicans spent four months in court trying to stop Gwinnett County voters from handing a completed ballot to a sworn election worker. Judge Warren Davis threw the case out. Their own lawyer had to admit they added a word that is not in the statute.
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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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No one elected this man. No majority consented to his influence. No democracy should permit any individual to wield this much power.
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
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I have a crazy idea… CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/...
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📬 ICYMI: Republicans are pressing ahead with their effort to block a pro-voting policy in Georgia — just days before early voting begins. The RNC wants to restrict how voters turn in their mail-in ballots. And they want to do it in a county that is a major Democratic stronghold ⬇️
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this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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!"
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