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Something to keep in mind for today and the days ahead!

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VAMPIRE SNAIL! 🧛🐌 You're going to need a silver ... salt-shaker! 'Cumia intertexta' is one of ~100 hematophagous species of snail in family Colubrariidae. They shoot out a long, extensible proboscis that anaesthetizes, blocks clotting & increases blood pressure to feed on BLOOD 🩸.

“It wasn’t just like [BlackRock CEO] Larry Fink abandoned all this [ESG] stuff, and then he got back into Texas. He had to play a political game. He had to do some lobbying. He had to kind of bend at the knee ... and show that Texas was really important to him.” Great work by @candicequestions.com!

Republican congressional candidate Brent Taylor asks voters to forgive past sexual advances as "youthful indiscretions."

Article I, Section 4 is about as clear as the Constitution gets: states run their elections Nowhere in that clause is there a role for Trump’s DOJ to play in California @democracydefendersfund.org & partners will keep defending a free & fair vote @ms.now👇 -TN

The US can now achieve a 2 for 1. Impeaching and imprisoning Donald Trump and deporting Flavio Bolsonaro to trial and imprisonment in Brazil. Get it done.

Turnout rate in the Israeli election was up to 74.3% in the latest update with still two hours to go. The record is 86.9% in the 1949 election. Even if turnout passes just 80% by polls closing, it would be the highest turnout rate in nearly 60 years.

We’re one week away from Election Day. Ohio, @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social and @amyactonoh.bsky.social are ready to bring about the change we need right now. So don’t wait – vote early or make a plan to vote on November 3rd. IWillVote.com/OH

Authorities release surveillance video showing an escaped Tennessee inmate allegedly stealing a truck. The inmate, Jacob Morely, remains on the loose as authorities launch a manhunt in search of him.

Bonus: JD Vance thinks that Alaskans can't read.

Vance is so phony that he says stuff like this to try to sound like he's one of the guys, and ends up just calling the people whose votes he's trying to win stupid.

🚨 Arizona: Today is the LAST DAY to mail back your ballot. If you can’t put it in the mail by today, you can drop it off at a dropbox or voting location until Election Day on November 3rd. Find your nearest voting location and make your plan at IWillVote.com/AZ.

Your daily reminder that progressive Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny is an American citizen and MAGA lunatic Nicki Minaj is not.

Justice Department believes are noncitizens and set aside any ballots they cast. The administration is making the claim. That does not mean the voters on the list are noncitizens.

Attn Washington voters: The Trump administration is targeting another Democratic-led state ahead of next week’s midterm elections. Acting U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd has asked Washington’s secretary of state to review a list of more than 400 registered voters the

Justin J Pearson’s republican opponent sent unsolicited dick pics to multiple recipients when he was as old as 53. He admits to it, but calls his behavior “youthful indiscretion” and a “distraction.” www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

House expansion by a plausible number would do very little to mitigate gerrymandering by itself. State legislatures with multiple times as many districts are still very gerrymandered. Expansion may have other benefits, but it needs pairing with redistricting reform or proportional representation

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

A local bakery is doing a collab with Kalshi for some reason

Great Texas Observer coverage here

This is ridiculous because Abbott literally pardoned convicted murderer Daniel Perry (who was also trying to meet 16 year old girls on Kik)

New from @edenshamy.bsky.social: AI is transforming the political landscape and contorting conventional ideas about truth, free speech, and fair elections. Experts say the law is failing to keep pace as candidates and consulting firms use the rapidly evolving technology to caricature the opposition.

NEW: In the golf course case, Judge Reyes will hold a hearing Friday or Monday, ordering Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to attend. In addition to the show-cause order raised in her Monday opinion, Reyes now wants answers regarding Trump's Truth social post issued later Monday as well.

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I guess he doesn’t disagree about the Saddam Hussein part?

The Atlanta Dream's playoff home, State Farm Arena, has an Atlanta Hawks game scheduled for Thursday night, resulting in the WNBA moving a potential championship-clinching game to Thursday morning.

The editorial board said using a survivor’s abuse against them crosses a line that should matter to every Ohioan, regardless of party. “We are better than this. We have a responsibility to show it.”

Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad targeting Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse backfired. It prompted Ohio’s largest newspaper, The Plain Dealer, to reverse its policy on political endorsements and endorse Acton for governor.

This is the same Chris Hilton who was ultimately forced out of the OAG amid sexual harassment allegations. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/28/j...

NEW: Transgender Texas Student Union has retained counsel in response to the Travis County filing related to the fake transgender mailers. It's Chris Hilton, who previously worked for Ken Paxton at the Texas Attorney General's office and left temporarily to defend Paxton in his impeachment trial.

“covert surveillance inside houses of worship… “interrogations of churches’ staff… “ICE agents hauled off a nun who was wearing her habit and walking down the sidewalk en route to Sunday Mass… “suing a Catholic diocese in New Mexico to seize 14 acres of their land…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Breaking: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 against the Trump administration's request to block California from counting mail ballots from people on ​a list of more than 20,000 registered voters the federal government alleges are likely noncitizens. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Pix of the Oval going back to Ike. Surprised that I like Poppy Bush's taste best. (Also the Cheesecake Factory photo being used here is before even more gold crap was added.) www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Why are state bar associations so quiet? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Some of my favorite films of all time. What are yours? Fanny and Alexander- 5 hr version Lawrence of Arabia 2001 Space odyssey The Godfather Brief Encounter Miracle in Milan The Bicycle Thief Brief Encounter Seven Samurai Citizen Kane Gone with the Wind Raging Bull One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Settler violence has long flared around the olive harvesting season. But this year’s harvest, which comes amid a critical election in Israel, has been marked by an alarming string of attacks and military activity.

And we know Trump is a stickler about proper handling of national security information…

Who does the ocean belong to? I asked Otto Spijkers of Leiden University to explain the law of the sea, from territorial waters and fishing rights to deep-sea resources and international disputes. We also built a glossary to make the key terms easy to follow. ⬇️🌊

Why is Trump's DOJ refusing to release ALL of the Epstein files or prosecute the abusers identified in those files? Is it because the files keep implicating Trump? We need a special prosecutor to get to the truth.

$7 Billion- open.substack.com/pub/projects...

Parrot is telling his dog friend the story of the day Original post

Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

This war in Iran is raising the cost of everything. There is help available for getting food, paying for heat, or weatherizing your home. Go to MaryPeltola.com/Help for a list of resources available to you. Stay safe, and look out for each other.

From Cortez to Pagosa to South Fork to Alamosa to Conejos County, there are extreme high waters, impacting communities, flooding homes and businesses, and doing harm. At this challenging time, I am thinking about these communities and how we support one another. www.denver7.com/news/local-n...