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Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
Intellectual bigotry is the worst kind in that it thinks about ways to seem high minded in order to make gutter hate seem respectable. Beneath contempt.
davidrlurie@davidrlurie.com · 4h agoDOJ nominee Candeub contends that "Muslim immigrants ... could overturn monogamy’s fragile basis" and induce men "[l]acking a deep connection to Christianity or Western values" to "succumb" to polygamy.
Republican leaders are growing increasingly worried that allegations against two GOP House lawmakers may end up costing them in the midterm elections, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday.
GOP leaders scramble as ‘national spectacle’ risks handing Dems major victories: report
Republican leaders are growing increasingly worried that allegations against two GOP House lawmakers may end up costing them in the midterm elections, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday.Those two House GOP lawmakers are Reps. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) and Max Miller (R-OH), both of whom have faced serious...
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This should be considered a crime against humanity.
Harms Committed@harmscommitted.com · 5h ago"A rare archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert was bulldozed by a Department of Homeland Security contractor involved in building the latest sections of Donald Trump's border wall." "There won't be any vegetation on it at all." #USA #Borders #Climate
🎥 NEW: The DOJ is now 0-20 in its voter roll cases. Marc Elias breaks down why federal judges have unanimously rejected the department's demands and why today's 90-day "quiet period" deadline may have shut the door on Trump's scheme just in time for the midterms👇
This Just Killed Trump's National Voter Database
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And beat 60mil in PAC and AIPAC funding against him. They smeared him, they contorted his resume and played racist anti Muslim games and they got nothing. We don’t want it anymore. We want justice, we want fairness ,and we want your money out of our political system. Get out.
Forbes@forbes.com · 7h agoAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20h agoFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
Apparently MI cannot be bought with $65M in outside $$ and establishment Dem endorsements. apple.news/AsE5i4SHbTqC...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, a big victory for the left in a key race — NBC News
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.
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On this day, in 1961. #ProudBlue #Obama #Midterms
Dangerous and unaccountable.
Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · yesterday1/ 🧵 A private company almost nobody has heard of just built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire across Mexico, and it is now wiring that camera and license plate data straight into Texas under a quiet border deal. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
From @jhollymc.bsky.social : “The Memphis (un)Safe Task Force shot and killed 4 men in two months, wounded another three. All the men killed have been Black. There’s been painfully little news coverage.” 🦗 🦗 tennesseelookout.com/2026/08/03/s...
From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social : Trump is buying stock in obscure companies that build the wildly unpopular data centers while easing regulations and pushing them into 🇺🇸 communities that don’t want them
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty. Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states. over alleged caregiving fraud www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #HHS #CMS #OMB #Blues
‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud
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🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
From a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1
Completely ludicrous plan. This is not a serious person.
Marty Taylor@realmartyt7.bsky.social · 2d agoTennessee state representative, candidate for governor plans to ban mosques, non-Christian religions if elected www.wsmv.com/2026/07/29/t... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Fritts promises to tear down all Mosques in Tennessee and ban the practice of any non Christian religion Monte Fritts is a damn fool
This is beyond degrading and insulting and frankly, insane. I cannot believe WA voters would put up with this BS.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
