Elizabeth Mitchell 🌈🦄♋️😮💨🌊
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DC born and raised, former States Project and MAMA, missing Brooklyn and Montana always. CM DC Democratic State Committee, VP @stonewalldems51.bsky.social, Ward 3 Ed Net and a bunch of other stuff. #abc always be canvassing
I needed this today zeteo.com/p/matt-ygles...
Progressive vs Moderate: Mehdi Debates Centrist, Contrarian Pundit Matthew Yglesias on Gaza, El-Sayed, and More
Mehdi finally takes his long-running online feud with Yglesias off of Twitter and into the studio, challenging him on his defense of Israel’s attack on Gaza and his critiques of leftist Dems like AES.
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NEW: For years, tenants in properties run by Buwa Binitie's Faria Management have waged individual battles — reporting mold, rats, sewage leaks, and intimidation. Now, working together, they believe they finally have a shot at real change for renters across the city. Suzie Amanuel reports:
D.C. tenants say Buwa Binitie runs an empire of neglect. Now, they're fighting back.
Renters at Faria Management properties say they're battling mold, rats, sewage leaks, and intimidation. They believe a reckoning for unaccountable landlords is finally here.
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New: AI is making it so much easier for hackers to discover serious vulnerabilities. This applies both to people with little skill, and researchers with a lot of expertise. If you can't accept AI is exceptional at finding critical bugs, you're not living in reality www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...
AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next
'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.
404media.co
The Vivek ad is what happens when an amoral outsider must prove to a political movement centered on protecting abusers that he’s on their team:
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad Is Trumpism in a Nutshell
The Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate’s ad against Amy Acton is disqualifying. It’s also precisely what you would expect from a MAGA regime that protects abusers.
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No one trolls Trump as hard as the Iranians 😂 Yes, that is a living billboard of him in JAIL in the heart of Tehran 👏🇮🇷👏🇮🇷👏🇮🇷👏🇮🇷👏🇮🇷👏🇮🇷
ICYMI: Would a big blue wave help or hurt education reform? Democrats might flip the governors' mansions in Georgia, Ohio, and Iowa, and achieve trifectas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Arizona. What are the implications? schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/would-a-bi...
Would a big blue wave help or hurt education reform?
Plus, Grosed out by school vouchers, reactions to the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit regs, and a defense of Texas takeovers.
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com
Title I for Rich Kids - this is what I’ll be calling it rather than FSTC. Read Jon Valant’s incisive preregistered predictions here.
'Title I for rich kids' and other predictions for the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit | Brookings
Jon Valant predicts the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit will favor wealthy families and spur waste, scandal and backlash.
brookings.edu
If Teachers Are the Most Important Thing, Why Don’t States Act Like it? Read my latest piece @the74.bsky.social, featuring new research from @nctq.bsky.social --> www.the74million.org/article/if-t...
If Teachers Are the Most Important Thing, Why Don’t States Act Like it?
Aldeman: Fewer states are giving incentives for educators to work in hard-to-staff subjects and schools. But bonus pay can really help end shortages.
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If you buy this, I'm curious how you would explain the political economy of this situation. Is it simply because the public wants more teachers (and smaller class sizes) and fewer cops, so our politicians give the people what they want?
Warms my heart but not when I think of the fact that this is still a drop in the pond for them and even more so when you calculate the harms this company alone has caused www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/m...
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties related to Cambridge Analytica scandal in New Mexico.
cnbc.com
As climbing diesel prices continue to be a top issue in the midterm elections, local Iowa broadcast TV stations are largely failing to connect rising diesel prices to President Donald Trump’s actions, including the war in Iran. www.mediamatters.org/local-news/l...
Local Iowa broadcast stations largely failed to contextualize increasing diesel prices
As climbing diesel prices continue to be a top issue in the midterm elections, local Iowa broadcast TV stations are largely failing to connect rising diesel prices to President Donald Trump’s actions,...
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives ...
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Sarah Burnes@sarahburnes.bsky.social · yesterday“The whole project” of originalism, she added, “is kind of misconceived, and it’s not a very good match with the Constitution we have.” Yooooooooo @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
This is huge. New Zealand's ban on puberty blockers has been overturned by the high court. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
Puberty blocker restrictions for gender-diverse youth overturned by High Court
The High Court has ruled regulations banning new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria were unlawful.
rnz.co.nz
Armed federal agents “have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status — and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections”
Federal agents knock on doors to track down possible noncitizen voters ahead of midterms
Armed and in uniform, agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors to ask residents about their immigration status whether they're registered to vote.
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NRO obtained court records showing Acton did in fact face abuse and her mother and Vivek are just straight up lying www.nationalreview.com/news/amy-act...
Amy Acton’s Mom Claims Candidate Lied about Childhood in Attack Ad — Despite Extensive Record of Abuse | National Review
Legal documents obtained by NR provide evidence that Acton faced sexual abuse as a child while in her mother’s custody.
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If you are a member of the @stonewalldems51.bsky.social please check your inbox! We’re voting on SBOE!!!! Please vote for @aaronweso.bsky.social Lynn Jennings, Joshua Wiley and Ben Williams!
ICYMI, paleontologists are unearthing dinosaur fossils in an area near Moab they say points to a major scientific discovery — evidence of a mass extinction event. They’ve also found some new dinosaur species: www.fox13now.com/news/local-n... #utpol #Utah
"Researchers often compare it to Russian roulette: Any infection could be the one that leads to long Covid." Gift 🎁 link
How Bad Is Another Case of Covid? (Gift Article)
Repeated infections are “a fact of life” at this point, experts say. But they warn there is no such thing as a risk-free case.
nytimes.com
Happy to see this voter guide 51st.news/dc-general-e... One update @alexkoma.bsky.social looks like some independent groups are spending on Goulet. Ward 3 woke up to text messages from DCCS Action.
Everything you need to know ahead of D.C.’s general election
Where the competitive local races are, an unusual At-Large voting situation, the fate of foie gras, and more
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told this story before but the very best time I ever got my credit card declined was the day I bought my wedding suit and then went to the lego store and bought the lego death star set the store employees were cracking up as I called the bank to explain that, yes, both of those were me
The Onion@theonion.com · 3d ago‘I’ll Need A Gift Receipt,’ Lies Man Buying $270 ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Lego Set
Coloradans have always had a forward-looking vision for preserving the landscapes, rivers, and wildlife that define our state.
Salazar and Ritter: Honor Colorado’s conservation legacy by voting yes on Prop 137 (Opinion)
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See also: @drjeffmasters.bsky.social 30 flood datasets for every flavor of flood
30 great tools to determine your flood risk in the U.S. » Yale Climate Connections
The 30 tools include five new risk-rating agencies, FEMA flood maps, interactive sea level rise maps, ZIP-code-level flood insurance rate data, Army Corps levee and dam databases, and sea level rise f...
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Some real Friday night news you can use, thanks @drjeffmasters.bsky.social!
The More You Know Star Rainbow Streak
Alt: The More You Know Star Rainbow Streak
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Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 6d agoForget the sandbags, duct tape applied properly to an outside door does a better job of protecting against flooding! theconversation.com/duct-tape-ke...
First of the @stonewalldems51.bsky.social candidate forums with the SBOE candidates is up! youtu.be/xukj11HumKs?... Thank you Ben for joining us!
2026 Ward 1 State Board of Education Candidate Forum
YouTube video by Capital Stonewall Democrats
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Read @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social's new profile of Stephen Miller, "American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork." zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi...
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
washingtonpost.com
