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Fire Susan Collins, #Maine! She has ZERO concern for you or for what the GOP enabling of Trump has done to your family budgets. Try Troy Jackson as your next Senator. Troy is one of you! He will take his work ethic & care for you and your state to DC. He will make a difference! #ProudBlue #Pinks
No matter what polls or what any other news feed tells you show up and vote! Make the below a reality! Too big to rig! We must end dictator Trumps rule by voting! #VoteBlue #VoteEarly #Blues
We sure do market ourselves as having democratic elections and fuck look at this. Each American or resident should be capped at $100. Zero dollars from outside the United States. Politicians can have a carwash for all I care.
Americans for Tax Fairness@4taxfairness.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: Elon Musk has dropped $276 MILLION into the midterm elections since July. His $158 MILLION check is one of the biggest political donations in American history. One trillionaire is buying your Congress. Right now.
There is no other explanation for something like this other than he’s compromised and working for an enemy state. Any other politician would have been removed from office and put in prison by now. But somehow treason is just a normal thing now.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last wk.Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.
Every time I learn about a newly competitive House race, it’s just this:
Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt
🚨 MASSIVE BREAKING: Vanity Fair reports that Dutch intelligence accessed Kushner’s hacked iPhone and uncovered alleged secret financial arrangements involving Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel… We’re talking about accounts reportedly holding BILLIONS. Are you actually SURPRISED?! Now, go VOTE!! 😎🇺🇸✨
JD Vance asks voters for patience as the Trump economy worsens: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" Alex Cole (@acnewsitics.com) responds: "JD Vance just compared the Trump economy to a ship famous for sinking. Democrats couldn't write better campaign material."
In appearances in Ohio, Kansas and North Carolina, Trump tells the crowd that he views the US Treasury as his campaign's bank account... and they cheer in response.
The EU may not be ready to entirely break ties yet, but they may never trust the US again.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 6d agoDonald Trump's embrace of Vladimir Putin has jolted and roiled Europe, driving a new wedge between transatlantic allies. But for all their outrage, Europeans are not yet willing to break away from the US and go their separate way. My analysis.
Trump "was never going to support Ukraine, and was going to take the Russian side; the signs were all there," former US General Ben Hodges tells @shonamurray.bsky.social. "What he has done to Ukraine was entirely predictable."
Trump is siding with Russia against Ukraine, US general tells Euronews
Former US Army lieutenant General Ben Hodges warns that Washington’s approach is weakening Ukraine’s defences, while former US ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker urges Europe to prepare for a future with ...
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Rob a bag in Paris & it's the downfall of Western Civilization according to the apparatchik US media but steal a few billion $'s in Washington & there's nothing to see here............
🚨🚨 #ElonMusk ordered #starlink slowdown that blindsided #ukraine. Nonethelese @wsj.com report clarifies that move was coordinated with the #trump administration. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.
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I’m no foreign policy expert but no one should have this much power. “Starlink provides a lifeline for Ukrainian forces on the front lines attacking Russian troops and defending themselves from strikes. With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict.”
Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.
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😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:
Interesting thread. More judges should be taking a stand to uphold policies and procedures, and then forcing attorneys to sign documents where they can be held accountable for any malfeasance.
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · last wk.At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.
"What's the point of writing about national security—or, for that matter, of having a national security apparatus at all—if the men in those jobs (it’s mostly men who fucked this up) can’t spot the most obvious domestic threat to U.S. national security since the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861?"
Hostile Takeover: The Trump-Russia Merger is Almost Complete
The President is a Kremlin asset. When will we start treating him as such?
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We need to ask ourselves: For all that Trump is giving Putin — the lifted sanctions, the Starlink disabling, the promise of a 3 way summit — what is he getting in return? The midterms loom, Trump is desperate, and Putin is a master of election interference. We can’t ignore the obvious.
Julie Cohen ❌👑@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · last wk.“After 10 years of Trump insisting that reports of his cooperation with Russia were a hoax, here we are, watching one profoundly unpopular man tear apart the global system under which we have lived for 80 years in order to climb into bed with Vladimir Putin.”
The AI attack-ad nightmare is coming true #Trump
The AI attack-ad nightmare is coming true
AI is producing reality-bending midterm ads about defaced Bibles, upscale dinners and a board game with a "Death to America" playing card. Why it matters: The warnings about deepfakes are coming true. Election laws haven't kept pace with a world where campaigns can put words in opponents' mouths and create realistic-looking scenes that didn't happen. The Wesleyan Media Project found $137 million had been spent on 220 AI-generated ads through Oct. 11, mostly from Republicans. Four states have laws prohibiting certain uses of AI-generated deepfakes in political ads, while 27 more require some form of disclosure about their use. No federal law specifically regulates AI-generated political ads. The big picture: An Axios analysis found numerous political ads partly or fully made by generative AI, sometimes undisclosed. Georgia Senate: Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republicans, has run a series of AI-generated deepfake ads depicting Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff getting beauty treatments. The ads mock Ossoff's reported campaign spending on hair and makeup , saying he "talks pretty" but has "an ugly record" and "a lot to cover up." Ossoff said in a C-SPAN interview : "It is deeply troubling to see ... deepfake videos used to fabricate political advertising. And it's a s lippery slope toward the destruction of truth in political debate, and the ad should come down immediately." The ads don't disclose AI use, which Georgia law doesn't require. Michigan Senate: A super PAC called Front Line Action used AI in an ad depicting Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a fabricated family photo with podcaster Hasan Piker and four women wearing niqabs. Another AI-generated scene has El-Sayed playing a Risk-style board game with his half-sister , Eman Abdelhadi, and Piker. It depicts cards bearing statements that include "Death to America," "Do not Celebrate Thanksgiving" and "Celebrate 9/11." The group has defended the ad, telling CNN it is "grounded in El-Sayed's own public statements and documented reporting and records concerning him and individuals associated with or supportive of his campaign." The ad features both a written and spoken disclosure that it was "created in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence." New York governor: Republican Bruce Blakeman's campaign and allied super PACs have repeatedly used generative AI in ads attacking Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, with varying degrees of disclosure. One AI-generated ad released by the Blakeman campaign depicts the Tooth Fairy struggling to come up with cash to give to children, saying she "just can't afford to be the Tooth Fairy in Kathy Hochul's New York." Another Blakesman spot says onscreen: "We asked AI what a truthful Kathy Hochul ad would look like." The ad features AI-generated scenes of Hochul attending an upscale dinner and standing outside a police precinct while a man asks her: "Want some crack?" Pennsylvania governor: A new ad from Republican candidate Stacy Garrity features an AI-generated version of Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro talking about taxes, abortion and data centers. The spot puts this quote in his mouth: "This ad was created with AI, thanks to big, beautiful data centers. Fact is, I was the one who fast-tracked data centers right here in PA, right after they handed me $5 million in political contributions." Shapiro spokesperson Manuel Bonder, in a statement to Axios, dismissed the ad as "cheap, dishonest AI bullshit." Texas Senate: Democratic candidate James Talarico has been a consistent target of AI-generated ads from both Republican Ken Paxton's campaign and outside super PACs. A Paxton campaign ad uses AI to depict Talarico defacing a Bible with crayon and saying, "In the beginning God was non-binary, and he wasn't a Christian. And God said, 'let there be six genders,' and there were." Talarico told NBC he "tried in the legislature to ban AI deepfake videos in political campaigns because they are misleading. They are lying about a candidate in this race." Kentucky's 6th District: No Going Back PAC, backed by President Trump's MAGA Inc., has run several ads using AI to boost Republican congressional candidate Ralph Alvarado. One ad features multiple AI-generated deepfakes of Democrat Zach Dembo, including one scene in which he stares into the camera. "I expected them to lie about my record, but I did not expect them to lie about my appearance," Dembo said in a statement to Axios, adding that "using AI to create fake or misleading images is the beginning of a very dangerous path for our democracy."
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