I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Peter Mason
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Unsolicited advice is always encouraged.
Wesley Bell easily defeats anti-AIPAC challenge from Cori Bush Missouri House Democratic incumbent from faced a left-wing challenge from Bush Bush is an awful candidate and was an awful rep. Bell is a good candidate and has been a good rep. Great result www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...
Live results: Wesley Bell defeats anti-AIPAC challenge from Cori Bush
The House Democratic incumbent from Missouri faced a left-wing challenge from Bush, who lost the seat in 2024 after AIPAC poured millions into the race.
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Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
racket is five years old!!! i find that fact very hard to swallow and yet it’s true. here’s our fifth annual report to prove it. i feel very, very lucky that this is my job and my life!!!
Racket’s Year in Review: August 2025-July 2026 - Racket
Let’s dig into the facts and figures from Racket’s fifth year of operation.
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El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."
anyone running for Alder and Mayor in Chicago… this should be required listening a sensible easy to digest commentary about geometry, efficiency, and why urban space does not work well with a car focused hierarchy we need Politicians that want to learn not sway with the prevailing winds
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · yesterdayNew episode up! We talk with transit planner Jarrett Walker, author of the recently reissued classic Human Transit, about why buses are so great, how we can make them better, & how advocates should fight for public transit in a hostile federal funding environment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Now I can come out and say it: it is fucking crazy to me that this man is 70 years old in this photo.
noted this in morning piece. like any winning candidate in a rough primary, AES needs to coalesce Ds behind him. Involves outreach, etc. But one of the best ways to consolidate Democrats is to land punches against Republicans. Not just going on the attack but showing that your punches are landing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoEl-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
this was my thought. this result allows Stevens and her backers to hold their heads a bit higher, not to be humiliated etc. and shld ward off triumphalism from his.
Class act by Stephens. Important that she got it out so quickly right after such a close raise. (Close race always leaves the #2 in "What if???" territory, but for "healing the party" purposes far preferable to a blowout that would leavee one side more embittered and embarrassed.)
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5h agoA gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
American political spending is even more inefficient than its infrastructure spending, which is saying something.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 13h agoUnfathomable
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
5 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Bella Rubin, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 19 July 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together white her mother Marta and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
Former DFL chair Cynthia Martin gets 364 days in jail for felony vehicular homicide after leaving a deadly 2024 Itasca County crash.
Former DFL chair gets jail time for deadly Itasca County crash
Former DFL chair Cynthia Martin gets 364 days in jail for felony vehicular homicide after leaving a deadly 2024 Itasca County crash.
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you have made my day, @sepinwall.bsky.social - you know what they say, “every time someone plugs the middleman, an ida gets her snark!”
Alan Sepinwall@sepinwall.bsky.social · 18h agoThe TV show The Middleman would do things like randomly have a shirtless Mark Dacascos fight dozens of Luchadors and use something called the Wu-Han Thumb of Death on their leader. We used to be a proper country.
A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Rep. Wesley Bell defeats former Rep. Cori Bush in a Missouri Democratic primary rematch Bell won, NBC News projects, with ad support from a pro-Israel super PAC, while Bush had backing from prominent progressives. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Rep. Wesley Bell defeats former Rep. Cori Bush in a Missouri Democratic primary rematch
Bell won, NBC News projects, with ad support from a pro-Israel super PAC, while Bush had backing from prominent progressives.
nbcnews.com
Rep. Wesley Bell defeats progressive Cori Bush for second time
Rep. Wesley Bell defeats progressive Cori Bush for second time
It’s a significant win for the pro-Israel lobby, which spent millions to boost Bell in Missouri’s 1st District.
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They're going to argue with me and @tonydamiano.bsky.social and @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about whether you can believe this (if you squint real hard), and whether house prices are a good measure of what happened (GTFOH).
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
@humantransit.bsky.social is one of the most rational thinkers/practitioners working in transit. I've learned from him to follow the math. EPISODE 178: Human Transit with Jarrett Walker – The War on Cars share.google/0qF6l9ZA8sfE...
EPISODE 178: Human Transit with Jarrett Walker – The War on Cars
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