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I've already seen some effort to bury this as "there's not a lot new here." As if, "What's one more rape victim?" is sound editorial judgment. Republicans kept the Benghazi story going for years on nothing new, but that didn't stop to press from covering every nothing burger they served up.

Not on the New York Times home page apparently, but it is on the People home page.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

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 👇

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

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).

Saw another sign on a lamp post offering cash for diabetic supplies. Assume this doesn't happen in Norway.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Here’s last night’s story about the rising prominence of extremist beliefs within the Republican Party, what it has to do with the upcoming elections, and why being 31 years old is one of the least cute ages you can possibly be. https://youtu.be/SnsBI4YxwIs

It's almost as if he's for once trying to tell a fundamental truth, but he can't name names.

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

“Working to paint Republicans as corrupt” is a much easier job than painting the reflecting pool.

He claims here that other states have a law saying "somebody with the same name can't run." That is false. In no state is that the law, and it would be unconstitutional. You can have rules about how the ballot is disambiguated, you can't say nobody else with a similar name is allowed to run at all.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

"Don't interrupt me when I'm making shit up."

HR 1: The Damnatio Memoriae Act of 2029 Everything Donald Trump did as President was illegitimate and is null and void unless re-authorized by a majority of Congress. Oh SCOTUS complains? Well 3 of you are fake, and 2 are being impeached for corruption.

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The idea that various hedge funds are paying $100k a month for early access to this amuses me to no end!

Reporters should ask him to name his kids. Bet he forgets a few and inadvertently reveals the existence of a few more.

If the Unabomber had Twitter.

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Correction to post 1, below. Alexandre Ramagem (the guy citing the Thiel-backed Polymarket) is no longer an official. Rather he is a former Brazilian spy chief who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for facilitating Jair Bolsonaro’s attempted coup in 2022. He fled to the US to avoid prison. 1/

Just to underline the point that the Trump administration is anti-democracy, they are promoting the textbook exemplar for democratic backsliding to lead the UN. Also, good time to point out that the US has not paid its UN dues, and now owes it more than $4 billion. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

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Mrs. Miller complains that Dems want to [checks her highlighted passage] prosecute those who committed federal crimes

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

IT’S SPELLED WITH A “B”

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

Devastating local ecologies, consuming huge amounts of energy and water, providing very few jobs, and diverting capacity away from essential infrastructures, to produce nothing of social or economic value. World eating technology that benefits so few. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Michigan, are you fired up and ready to vote? Watch to hear why you should elect @jocelynbenson.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, and Democrats across the ballot.

This seems like a big deal

Hand wringing over if Democrats will be too focused on punishing criminals is pretty funny in light of Trump immediately pardoning all of the insurrectionists.

MAGA shot itself in the foot playing around with the mail.

Hey Alaska, how does it feel to learn that Russia is going to be drilling for oil in your state in a $25 billion shady deal that appears to connect back to the Trumps? united24media.com/world/sancti...

Man of the people.

But my favorite part is where he talks about Biden and Obama and then says "But they don't have nuclear weapons" because he lost track of where he was in the run-on sentence. Of course technically, he was correct....

This is fucking lunacy. The only people getting robbed in D.C. restaurants were those prodigals patrons leaning too hard into the overpriced wine list.

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

Obama: "We've seen this movie before. I starred in it. I've got a long-form birth certification to prove it. This stuff didn't work on me. It's not going to work in Michigan on Abdul."

Give this a listen. It’s becoming par for the course. And Democratic candidates - especially female candidates - now get it from both sides of the political spectrum.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

They're making noises about mass pardons now because none of them want to bank on Trump making it to Jan 2029.