Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoSen. Thom Tillis says he expects there will be pressure on Mike Johnson to not seat the new Congress if Democrats win
VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.
Q: There was universal condemnation across Nebraska for your choice to import 300,000 tons of foreign beef. What's your message to ranchers struggling to make a profit? Trump: We brought some in from Argentina and Brazil because we have to get elected
Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it
You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.
Trying to convince NGO leaders and elected officials to take this seriously made me leave politics. Earned media is a hostile hellscape compared to where it was 20 years ago and there are very few people and orgs in positions of power trying to fix it.
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
This week Fox turns 30. MAGA now owns CNN and CBS News. Liberals have no interest in media investment. We’re fucked.
We really shouldn’t have to hunt for innocent interpretations when Trump speaks in apocalyptic terms to fire up his dwindling rally faithful.
Trump on Iran: "With the war, it's just artificial… It's a small price to pay... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2d ago“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight. HHS will never go back to what it was before.”
I promise you, there are Democrats in congress right now who still believe it is possible to go back to before Trump. It is not. Republicans are spending Trump’s term as Vought intended. They are intentionally breaking government in as many places as they can to make going back impossible.
Openly provoking a foreign adversary to kill millions of Americans is completely unhinged and reckless. Donald Trump is the most dangerous and corrupt president in our nation’s history. The stakes are too high to send him another yes vote from Minnesota.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
While I am glad to hear a suspect was arrested, be aware that Flock is in the midst of a massive PR pushback campaign and they are asking participating police departments to play up every possible positive angle. 🧐
FOX 9@fox9mn.bsky.social · 2d agoA child was killed after a driver struck two boys with a vehicle in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon.
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Election administrators often plan for natural disasters, bomb threats and other possible problems, but this year many are also thinking about possible disruptions driven by the federal government.
Anxiety is growing Trump may try to disrupt the midterm elections. States are prepping. • Minnesota Reformer
This story was originally published on NewsFromTheStates.com, part of States Newsroom.
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After seeing Ashish K Jha’s thread my post from earlier this year seems relevant.
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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...when the much more straightforward strategy is to go to those voters and say "The Republicans you keep voting for? They think you're stupid, they lied to you, they conned you, they screwed up everything, and you should be ENRAGED at them."
It turns out that if a party goes out and aggressively talks to people about the bad orange man its effective in creating disapproval. Crazy. Im sure the Democratic Party will change its long-term behavior with this knowledge
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump approval over last three months dropped ~5% (from ~ 45% to ~40%) in AK, IA, OH, & TX, states with Senate races with lots of paid and earned media. Nationally Trump approval dropped ~ 2-3 points then. Does more attention lead to more disapproval? Lesson going forward for KS, NE, SC etc.?
It's been months since Alex Pretti was killed. Across Minneapolis, however, it can feel as though little time has passed. buff.ly/UqwIjHr
Minneapolis activists used encrypted group chats to outmaneuver ICE. Now the feds want to prosecute them.
"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.
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the bulk majority of declines is happening- the markets are being manipulated in new ways- fuel tax suspensions, and arm twisting G7 into releasing strategic supplies of refined products, not exactly the most organic decline
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 5d agoElon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.
