Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
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Advocate, home improvement amateur, and fan of rural places. Paul Revere was an alarmist.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
This should be the biggest news of the week. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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🔥 Oh snap @warren.senate.gov: “James Carville has an opinion on everything… and I pay attention almost 1 out of 10.” (From TMZ D.C.)
El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party
The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
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Republicans are pedophile protectors, supporting the continued coverup of Trump's pedophilia.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
I live in Wisconsin. I always back the Dem nominees, including defending them. I dread the next 3 months if Hong is the nominee.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2d agoCNN’s Kaitlan Collins asks Francesca Hong, the leading candidate in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, whether she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Hong gives a response that will satisfy no one.
The scenes from Spokane are horrendous. A wildfire roared into a city, and hundreds of homes burned to the ground. Just days after Trump blocked emergency firefighting funding. He penalizes states that didn't vote for him. Vote out all Republicans. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have sent a letter to the federal agency expressing frustration with the decision.
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
An important warning from @meiselasb.bsky.social that the “sham document” Blanche’s advancement seems to rely upon showing the insurrectionist slush fund is *dead* is actually “unenforceable” @SenThomTillis @JohnCornyn
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden? $30 million. The amount special interests have spent against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social in the Michigan Senate race? $60 MILLION. Twice as much to try and buy one Senate seat. It’s the many vs. the money. Vote for Abdul.
If Rep Haley Stevens wins the nomination for Senate, I will do all I can to help her defeat Mike Rogers bc it's not about her--it's about control of the Senate. Would be great to see the pro-Stevens people make same pledge if Abdul El-Sayed wins
Israeli settlers in own words: "I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost. He added, "God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
To be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Susan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
What Susan Collins Just Did on Trump and ICE Should Worry All Dems
She voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding. But now she’s taking credit for a new bodycam commitment from ICE. Democrats can’t let her get away with this.
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Reposting to spread the excellent term "show trials."
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoNew, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
Crush ICE and prosecute ICE lawbreakers.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6d agoChicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
Israel keeps killing and persecuting Palestinians. That country has gone insane, and massively failed. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-07...
Six killed in Gaza – including two children – in IDF strikes, medics say
The Israeli strikes across Gaza wounded at least 34 others, and another person died of previous wounds. Medics in Gaza say Israel has killed 1,214 people since agreeing to the U.S.-brokered cease-fire in October, and wounded 3,977 others
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Don't let them send the pandemic down the memory hole.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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If you’re out protesting ICE, you’re risking arrest — or worse. The best thing you can do is be prepared. speakingoutofplace.com/2026/07/25/c...
Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
Especially Tom Tiffany, who is fine with covering all this up and not expelling this domestic abuser. Maybe @markpocan.bsky.social and @repgwenmoore.bsky.social and other @wisdems.org should push this issue, eh? @rossacrosswi.bsky.social
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.