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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 17h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

lol

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h ago

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 15h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

We're thrilled to welcome our new bargaining unit at ABC News after employees of ABCNews.com and ABC News’ social media platforms voted unanimously to unionize with the WGAE!

An excellent profile of one of our foremost artists:

Colson Whitehead’s Big Score

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

newyorker.com

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 14h ago

“I’m a really lazy bitch, but I have a punitive superego. The two go together.” — Colson Whitehead

The technological solution to racist policing being abused by the police until it becomes publicly untenable is a particular type of dark irony.

404 Media@404media.co · 16h ago

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

Dude riding the dorkiest imaginable vehicle, emerging from the dorkiest imaginable movie... ...is a real-life superhero.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h ago

from the video (on FB) bro got off his electric unicycle (lol) when he heard cries for help and just kind of maneuvered to give the woman a chance to get away. he didn't even end up having to fight the guy. peak performance www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...

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NBC News@nbcnews.com · 14h ago

Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, has founded a national policy group that will launch with a push to promote a new school choice program.

Republican primary voters are so racist that a guy named Tom Smith who DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE is going to defeat Trump’s endorsed candidate because his name is Amir Hassan.

This is why no Dem should ever waste a breath on these people. They're all brain stem, zero critical thinking ability. Tens of millions of disenfranchised Progressive votes out there for the taking and the DNC is spending $10000000000 a year courting people with the minds of racist goldfish.

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 20h ago

Families of sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are raising urgent concerns about deteriorating conditions on the aircraft carrier, which has now spent nine months at sea and five consecutive months in combat operations.

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

If you're wondering where the fuck they get these weirdos, "Amanda holds a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge." This is the chattering class. This is the ruling elite. This is how their rotted brains work.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h ago

If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

Data centers (and detention camps!) — big box buildings on the edge of life —are THE ISSUE because they tangibly encapsulate every other issue—environment, corruption, accountability, social (media) fracturing, and a politics of impunity that drops disaster on locals, then claims to know 🚫 about it

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h ago

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

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.'"

Without getting into sourcing, this article is off-base. Some of New York's biggest power players are talking to Mamdani *all the time*. I met with one just the other day who said he's had 10 meetings with Mamdani since he won the primary.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

fuck Live Nation every way imaginable

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 17h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

This is the way. This is ALSO what "Vote blue no matter who" means.

at what point is there soul searching about how throwing dozens of millions and racist smears around is not working out for democrats the way it has for republicans

A day of remembrance and celebration Happy Fade In The Water day

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

the Michigan primary was close enough that you can pretty plausibly say it was the weird voice that lost it for Haley Stevens

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · yesterday

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s slugfest of a Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, clinching the nomination over Rep. Haley Stevens and establishing a Midwest beachhead for a progressive left on the march this midterm cycle.

Voters in Kansas saw through a blatant political power grab and sent a message — our courts are not for sale.

Tom Perriello was the original progressive winning in a swing seat. He voted for the ACA with no regrets and lost in 2010, but so did all the middle-of-the-road Rahm recruits

CNN@cnn.com · yesterday

Former Rep. Tom Perriello will win the Democratic primary in Virginia's 5th Congressional District, CNN's Decision Desk projects. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4wbZT6y

In 2022 Haley Stevens moved pretty aggressively to the right on Israel to defeat a progressive Jewish member of Congress after redistricting made her old district more Republican. Tonight, the bill came due.

The brilliant voices behind RogerEbert.com asked me to expand my thread on Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY as a pointed assessment of America as “empire at dusk” into a full essay, which I was honored to do. Please read/share—and thanks to @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @briantallerico.bsky.social for the invite!

RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Nolan’s film is not a misbegotten attempt to modernize a classic—it is a deft and purposeful reflection of America in this moment, seen through the glass of mythological metaphor." Jeff Yang writes about THE ODYSSEY and the “people from the sea.”