This piece reads like a report from a parody future in a 1970s sci-fi dystopia. But it is, alas, real.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h agoso deeply sad talkingpointsmemo.com/news/preside...
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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h agoThis man needs to give lessons to all the Democratic bedwetters out there trying to temporize on this issue. I can't wait to call him Senator.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 12h agoYesterday, in a hostile 60 Minutes interview with a Bari Weiss acolyte who once called trans kids a “social contagion,” El-Sayed refused to budge on trans rights. “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own.” Subscribe to support our journalism.
Please, God, let all these polls be right. If these numbers hold, this would be seven seats flipped (including North Carolina). A massive wave could sweep along Nebraska, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Democrats Show Strength in Final Days of Race for the Senate, New Polls Find (Gift Article)
Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
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In this environment, the best thing this evil clown can do to convince her former supporters to vote for the Democratic candidate is to embrace the Republican one.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago🚨 MASK OFF: Just 48 hours before the midterm elections, Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens is now appearing alongside REPUBLICAN Senate nominee Mike Rogers at a church in Detroit.
This is what we've come to: federal judges have to protect state election workers from Hair Furor's minions so they can do their jobs as mandated by the Constitution and count the vote.
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A poll just posted showing Annie Andrews with a 5-point lead over Lindsey Graham’s jackass sister for a Senate seat in So. Carolina. Even more surprising, one of the first polls in Louisiana showed a dead heat between the Republican and the Democratic candidate for the open Senate seat there.
The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵
The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness
MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms.
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Billionaires in California would rather set their money on fire than see it fund affordable housing or healthcare for the state's citizens. Eat the fucking rich.
Billionaires shatter spending record to fight California wealth tax
It’s a striking and historic show of unity from a notoriously hard-to-organize donor class, a POLITICO analysis shows.
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An independent who has promised to caucus with the Democrats has a 7-point lead over the incumbent Republican Senator in Nebraska, and a Democrat is leading in the governor’s race there.
President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336
Best way to fight back? Vote. Minnesota: You can vote now or cast your ballot by November 3.
This needs to be said openly: This is what happens when the government is led by someone who attempted a coup d’etat, and his agencies are run by his stooges.
Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.
Vance Defends Ramaswamy Ad Featuring Acton’s Mother Despite Backlash
The vice president backed an advertisement featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s mother, who has been estranged from Dr. Acton since her stepfather was charged with child rape.
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A previous generation of professional ratfuckers might not have balked at this on *moral* grounds, but they’d at least have recognized that normal people would find it repugnant. The current crop are so divorced from humanity they’ve lost even the ability to imagine how decent people think.
#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2w agoVivek Ramaswamy's team saw his ugly attack ad as a 'stroke of genius': report #RawStory
And as I say every year, the worst part is knowing there is no game tomorrow. As much as I shit talk them being a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers has been the honor of my life
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
This is incitement. Racist incitement.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
Here are the polls posted today to the Real Clear Politics website. Not a bad one for Democrats, and if that Economist poll showing a generic ballot preference of 15 points in their favor is close to accurate, we're looking at a once-in-a-decade blue tsunami.
Put Big Balls in a vice. He’ll squeal like a little piggy.
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · last mo.In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
When the Democrats take the House in November, they're going to have a rich target field for impeachments. I'd start with the guy who looks like an old catcher's mitt and sounds like a dying bullfrog.
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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This is ethnic cleansing, à la Stephen Miller. He needs to face justice for this.
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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A bunch of guys in hard hats standing around and he's raving and gesturing mutely. This us pure comedy gold. Every attempt at revenge against his enemies just involves this stupid loser stepping on his own dick.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2mo ago“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.