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Long-distance runner and long-time hater of Elon Musk. Top-10 North American Catholic. Youngest baby ever baptized. Matthew 25:31-46
Thomas Smith, a political unknown who raised almost no money for his campaign, defeated President Trump’s endorsed candidate in a Republican primary for a Michigan congressional seat, NBC News projects.
Candidate who dropped out beats Trump’s pick in a battleground GOP House primary
NBC News projects Thomas Smith, who raised very little money for his bid, won the Republican nomination in Michigan’s 8th District.
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Out today: Nearly 2,000 juniors across 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in a remedial math course. At some schools, as many as 70% of juniors were similarly demoted into less challenging classes. It wasn't due to poor performance ...
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
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On June 24, immigrants detained by ICE were shackled and placed aboard a plane back to Venezuela. The immigrants aboard Flight 164 were pursuing lives in the U.S. as ICE detained them. In Venezuela, they were held in a building that collapsed hours later. https://wapo.st/4fPI4UR
@pftompkins.bsky.social BBC Select show for you called Scotland’s Poshest Train w/ Alan Cumming. Seen it?
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social Kamala Harris has already sent out a fundraising email for El-Sayed, by the way. This morning.
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?"
Let’s call Trump’s approach to Iran what it is: kindergarten diplomacy | Moustafa Bayoumi
Let’s call Trump’s approach to Iran what it is: kindergarten diplomacy | Moustafa Bayoumi
Amid stop-and-start threats and with a divided staff, it’s clear Trump has no idea how to end a war that shouldn’t have begun
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Most Black Texas voters back James Talarico over Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, a poll finds, despite primary tensions. Fewer than one in 10 Black voters in Texas say they are less likely to vote in November due to U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s defeat in the Democratic primary. bit.ly/3TWvw6F
Senate poll: Black Texas voters stick with Talarico over Paxton
In the survey released Tuesday, just 7% of Black Texans who voted in recent elections said they are less likely to vote in November due to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Democratic primary loss.
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#MI07 candidate Bridget Brink congratulates William Lawrence on winning Dem primary: "Now we come together as one to take on Tom Barrett and work to elect a leader who will listen and fight for what matters most to our community here in mid-Michigan."
Patti Scialfa's cancer is in remission after 8 years, husband Bruce Springsteen announces
Patti Scialfa's cancer is in remission after 8 years, husband Bruce Springsteen announces
Bruce Springsteen announces his wife and E Street Band musician Patti Scialfa's blood cancer is in remission. Scialfa revealed her cancer battle two years ago.
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Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.
While we wait results meet some great candidates running in the battleground all across the country.....
Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 2d agoHave interviewed a series of top battleground candidates in recent days. Here's a quick thread - check 'em out, support who you can, and let's go win these midterms, together. First up, @troyjackson207.bsky.social, off to a strong early start in Maine 👇1/ www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/meet-troy-...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jocelyn Benson wins Democratic nomination for governor in Michigan.
MI UPDATE: Abdul El-Sayed is currently surpassing expectations across the board in the Michigan Democratic Senate Primary.
Decision Desk HQ projects Elaine Luria wins the VA US House 2 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 7:17 PM EDT
@vicmmic.bsky.social I loved Ponies and can’t stand that it’s over.
Expect her minions in DC media and Maine media to dutifully portray this as a bold move when it's the same old story if Thune needed her, he'd have her. See, for example, Brett Kavanaugh Any Hill reporters who uses "🚨 Breaking News" on an expected Collins vote is pretty much on her comms team
Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · yesterdaySusan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
End of an Age Vibes as the DC GOP Hegemony Begins to Buckle talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/end-o...
End of an Age Vibes as the DC GOP Hegemony Begins to Buckle
The 2006 midterm is often viewed today as the ur-wave election. Indeed,...
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NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
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The Missouri SoS dragged out his office's examination of the veto referendum (of the GOP gerrymander) for most of 2026 to ensure he can run out the clock; and finally declared today, on the deadline by which he had to act, that he thinks the veto referendum is entirely unconstitutional.
The Redistrict Network (mirror 🤖)@redistrictnet.bluesky.bot · yesterday#BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State Hoskins has deemed the Missouri Redistricting Referendum as insufficient due to it being unconstitutional.
The brilliant voices behind RogerEbert.com asked me to expand my thread on Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY as a pointed assessment of America as “empire at dusk” into a full essay, which I was honored to do. Please read/share—and thanks to @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @briantallerico.bsky.social for the invite!
RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · yesterday"Nolan’s film is not a misbegotten attempt to modernize a classic—it is a deft and purposeful reflection of America in this moment, seen through the glass of mythological metaphor." Jeff Yang writes about THE ODYSSEY and the “people from the sea.”
Shouldn’t we be given some idea of what he’s dealing with?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"
An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/sile... #Palestine #Israel
‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisis
An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza’s failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing...
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NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”
BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
DETROIT (AP) — Though there was no shortage of levity, a sense of urgency filled the Detroit meeting room as Abdul El-Sayed, a former gubernatorial candidate who is running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, began speaking about how his Muslim faith informs his progressive views.
As progressives seek to take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factor
DETROIT (AP) — Though there was no shortage of levity, a sense of urgency filled the Detroit meeting room as Abdul El-Sayed, a former gubernatorial candidate who is running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, began speaking about how his Muslim faith informs his progressive views.
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Can your tax preparer use AI without telling you? Some experts say IRS rules aren't clear
Can your tax preparer use AI without telling you? Some experts say IRS rules aren't clear
A debate is brewing among tax practitioners regarding whether using AI to prepare tax returns should require a disclosure to clients.
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NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.
Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth
For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained
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