"I'm from Missouri. You have got to show me." On the future: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-bellwe...
The Bellwether Battle
The midterms changed the battlefield, but not the war.
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Luci Baines Johnson came to celebrate last night. We just took back her dad’s Senate seat.
The DOD recently announced Project Meridian—an advisory committee led by Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey and consisting of over a dozen other defense contractors, posing conflicts of interest. The committee was created and is operating unlawfully. So we sued.
New lawsuit challenges Hegseth’s illegal "Future of Warfare" committee - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The DOD’s recently announced "Future of Warfare" advisory committee was created in violation of federal law.
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Let’s be really clear–corruption is theft. Trump & his cronies are stealing your tax dollars to enrich themselves. I will not apologize for fighting to get your money back.
“I Voted” stickers starting to accumulate at the Alex Pretti Memorial in Whittier, Minneapolis
Trump threatens us with a good time (From @atrupar.com )
The Trump administration is said to be scaling back workplace protections for women related to pregnancy and reproductive health. nyti.ms/3WmMMmT
Democrats have filed a lawsuit in Alaska accusing election officials of failing to properly operate at least 18 rural polling locations. The complaint warns that several thousand voters across predominantly Alaska Native communities face disenfranchisement. trib.al/w62mYIa
There are a lot of people who want to, rightly, talk about, and post about, Trump's other sins. But on Wednesday morning, it will be his lies that will be front and center. Our inability as a country to focus on his lying before Wednesday is going to weaken our ability to resist them now.
Donate to the “wrong” Dan Sullivan, get a visit from the FBI in your remote Alaska village. The Trump Administration isn’t subtle. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
FBI visits Dan J. Sullivan donor in candidate's hometown as Alaska Senate inquiry widens
An Anchorage-based FBI agent visited a boat dealership in Petersburg, a small fishing community accessible only by air or water where the candidate lives.
pbs.org
When Trump says “WE” are making a lot of money this is who he means
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Sarah Bloom Raskin’s important piece in the Atlantic makes the point that the next financial bailout will be an opportunity for more plunder and corruption in the Trump Administration. We need an economic policy for the American people—not the predatory power elite.
Can Democracy Survive the Next Financial Crash?
If the AI bubble bursts, Donald Trump will control a bailout apparatus with essentially limitless authority.
theatlantic.com
James Comey ratfucked Hillary Clinton so thouroughly in the last days of the 2016 election, with nonsense press releases about Benghazi and her Email server, that all of this abuse is well deserved, and I hope he burns
I have court documents from a Trump and Epstein mid-1990s child rape case in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, which was a bestseller. Folks pretending they just learned about this are full of it. They refused to pursue it and let victims suffer in silence, fearing no one cared to hear the truth.
NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.
A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There
Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
wired.com
yup.
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
thehandbasket.co
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 2w agoThis week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”
Ramaswamy may have pulled his horrible ad featuring Amy Acton's mother, but it doesn’t erase that he publicly punished Acton for the horrible cards she was dealt, which is parents who provided an unsafe, unstable home. His moral compass does not exist and he’s unfit to lead Ohio.