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Some of the most meaningful moments on the campaign trail have been spending time up in the Sault with the Bay Mills and Sault tribes. We must protect tribal sovereignty, protect our Great Lakes, and ensure everyone can get a good job and know that our basic rights and dignities are preserved.

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.

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

One of those moments I'll never forget.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

I'm asking my fellow Jews in Michigan to help elect the first Muslim American to the U.S. Senate—a devoted dad, a scholar, a visionary thinker, and a genuinely good dude. Let's be the people we hope others will be. Islamophobia and antisemitism feed the same beast. Let's starve that MFer.

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What this election comes down to is really very simple, don’t complicate it - What America has been doing the past 22 months - Is this what you want America to be? That’s all. The answer to that question should dictate your vote. This piece.👇 socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/is-this-wh...

Stay focused. And vote.👇

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

If these guys had had parents who loved them we’d be living in a different world.

For more than a year, President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has acted as one of the nation’s top diplomats, without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing a single financial disclosure. If you’re asking how that’s legal, it’s not. We sued.

One thing most people don’t know about disability is how unsafe you feel ALL the time. It’s terrifying not being able to trust your body to function properly. It’s scary to need to rely on others for basic survival. It’s frightening watching society label you expendable.

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Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

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

Perfectly happy to see Zacharia go. But it might be pointed out that if she had stayed, she would have done infinitely less damage to the nation than Hegseth, Kennedy, Blanche, Patel, Vought, et al. They should be as unacceptable as—more unacceptable than—Zacharia.

REMINDER: Today by 12 pm ET, Todd Blanche shall submit, in REDACTED form, to the Court for in camera review the FBI interview notes for the South Carolina woman who alleges she was 13 years old when she was sexually and physically abused by Donald Trump. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If Trump had done nothing but play golf these past 21 months - no tariffs, no war, no mass deportations- the economy would be humming along. But he’s a really bad person. And an idiot. And this is all on him.👇

#IStandWithUkraine💙💛💙

BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN

Midweek update. This is the week when trusting the USA was shown to be a catastrophe. The second part has a detailed primer on the Starlink/Starshield sabotage of Ukraine. This is US being a fully fledged Putin ally and will cause many Ukrainian deaths phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners just sued ICE over a nasty catch-22 ICE detains people, takes their IDs & work papers, releases them, keeps the papers. Now they can't work & risk getting picked up again for having no ID We're going to court to get it ALL back -TN

The image of a disabled man strapped to a chair and then being shot will end Americas standing and cement your reputation as a third country dictatorship. It matters not what this man did. Sure kill him if that is deemed his punishment but to livestream it is sick..

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Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.

He makes a good point.

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

We are facing a psychiatric emergency. We are facing a constitutional emergency. Anyone with eyes and ears who’s paying attention can see it. Our republic is teetering. The good news: We the people have the power to stop this accelerating descent before it’s too late.

Fact.

I voted.🇺🇸

This echoes in my brain.

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Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

“We humans have a natural impulse to adapt to reality. It has been essential for the survival of our species and the development of civil society. But now, that same normalizing impulse is putting us in serious danger…we are under attack from an enemy within.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

ICYMI: Ontario tourism officials will light up the Horseshoe Falls in red, white and blue tonight to say “thank you” to the Bills, fans and Visit Buffalo for singing the Canadian national anthem. A fireworks display in the same colors is also planned. buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

Overheard Trump's voice (as I clicked to make it go away) saying that where he goes to campaign they win and where he doesn't they don't, and I realized that's part of why he's campaigning in safe red districts. He wants credit for the wins and no blame for losses. It's about his ego, not the party.