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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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Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

Republicans held a hearing on Medicaid fraud today, so I asked a top health expert: what bill delivered the largest cuts to Medicaid in American history?   Yep. Trump's Big Ugly Bill.   Seems to me like the biggest Medicaid theft actually happened last year in Congress.

Today is one of those days that I feel helpless and so angry at the West. Russia is escalating its deadly missile attacks while Ukraine has barely any Patriot interceptors. Meanwhile it was just reported that NK is preparing to send a missile unit to Russia. WTF

As Russian Missiles Devastate Kyiv, North Korea Is Preparing to Send More

Yesterday, Russia launched another one of its massive and deadly attacks on Kyiv, firing 28 missiles, including 24 ballistic missiles and 4 Zircon cruise missiles, along with more than 100 drones.

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This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

Trump AI slop post showing him on the battlefield in a general's uniform flanked by bad AI versions of Patton and MacArthur

The Trump regime is so far away from a solution to its illegal war with Iran that it isn't even focused on the nuclear issue that supposedly led to hostilities in the first place. Instead, the regime is focused on the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn't even an issue until Trump started the war.

When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.

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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

1/5 Putin cannot win on the front lines, so he has engineered a terrifying new theory of victory. Ukraine’s allies are pathetic cowards and Putin knows it. With his army stalling, he is betting everything on raining ballistic missiles onto Ukrainian cities while the West watches

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4/5 To prevent a massive humanitarian catastrophe, Europe must immediately shift to a war footing. We need massive orders for SAMP/T NG batteries and Aster interceptors, immediate air defense transfers to Kyiv, and stronger pressure on South Korea to sell air defense

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3/5 The failure of Western allies to place large, long-term orders for ballistic missile defense after years of full-scale war is disgraceful. By treating this conflict as a series of short-term crises, we constantly signal to the Kremlin that Russia can simply outlast us

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This is why this is not just about Max Miller. It’s about “devout Christian” House Republican leadership who is standing with this guy because they crave power above all else. It’s the culture of MAGA and it comes straight from Trump. Vote them out.

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This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.