DSCC: “Abdul El-Sayed has run an energetic campaign that inspired thousands of Michiganders across the state, with a clear focus on lowering costs and standing up for working families." Michigan voters "will reject [Rogers] again in November and send Abdul El-Sayed to the United States Senate.”

Fat lady finally singing — AP calls Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed, dealing another blow to the Dem establishment and raising some critical questions: Can lefty Democrats translate grassroots enthusiasm into statewide wins? Does El-Sayed have enough time to consolidate support after a nasty primary?

adding insult to injury for Kansas Republicans — on Monday, a day before voters rejected switching to direct elections for the justices, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected a litany of abortion restrictions, including a requirement that providers give false medical information to abortion patients

New: Busy night — got a copy of the Politicians Not People lawsuit in response to Missouri SOS Denny Hoskins finding the petition to hold a referendum vote on Republicans' new gerrymander "insufficient." Suit says there are explicit exceptions to the referendum process, and this is not one of them

🚨 Kansas voters once again reject GOP efforts to trick them into losing abortion rights. The no vote prevails on an amendment that wouldve replaced the indy commission with direct (partisan) elections for Supreme Court justices — which the AG promised would "slowly & quietly" let GOP stock the court

New: Missouri Secretary of State Hoskins, who dragged out his certification of a petition challenge to the state's new gerrymander until the very last day, now says the challenge is "insufficient." Not because there aren't enough signatures — there clearly are — but because it's "unconstitutional"

The right now piling on Caitlin Clark for giving a nonanswer on the trans girls in sports question. "Coward," says Megyn Kelly. Matt Walsh says she's the "biggest coward in the history of sports" for not calling out the "anti-white racism" she's supposedly subjected to. Shut up and dribble indeed!

Something about that seat man – Edwards' predecessor was the scandal-ridden Madison Cawthorn. Texts that will make you physically uncomfortable, personalized Adam Sandler puzzles, "approximately 30" types of ice cream ahead (if you dare): talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-e...

Bizarre Texts, Gifted Guns, 30 Types of Ice Cream: Rep. Faces Censure Following Sexual Harassment Allegations

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Reading through the House Ethics cmte report on Rep Chuck Edwards 😬: He "wrote poems for Staffer 2, including one that he read at her going away party in the congressional office accompanied by a slideshow, during which he cried. Several staffers present testified that they felt uncomfortable..."

That didn’t take long (Cunningham + Riley Gaines from today’s game)

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Combine the narrative of a telegenic white player’s trials as a brave and lonely anti-trans crusader with easy-to-get footage of fans yelling at calculatedly young women advocating for the same cause. It’s a Fox News (Fever) dream talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sophie-...

1. Sophie Cunningham, Indiana Fever guard, tells ESPN: "young girls in sport" "shouldn't have to go against biological men" 2. an anti-trans rally is planned for the Fever's next game, and two teens holding signs thanking Sophie sit courtside (in seats allegedly paid for by "a generous donor")

Judge Ballou in WV — Biden appointee — rules that the 2023 REMS on mifepristone is arbitrary/capricious. Eg the restrictions FDA put on prescribing/dispensing the abortion drug are unscientific/ungrounded in the facts. FDA has long had a REMS on mifepristone despite abundant evidence of its safety

Tennessee's 9-0 Republican gerrymander cruises ahead (as SCOTUS intended) talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tenness...

Tennessee Gerrymandering Challenge Fails, Just as Supreme Court Intended

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had fun with @leahlitman.bsky.social chatting about brett 'girl dad' kavanaugh and sam 'pickled brain' alito www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUhE...

Sam Alito Has Gone Feral

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Check it out: @kateriga.bsky.social @talkingpointsmemo.com joined me for a conversation about this SCOTUS term - focusing more on WV v. BPJ (the trans sports ban case): www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUhE...

Sam Alito Has Gone Feral

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between high t Hegseth and JD Vance sharing impure thoughts about Joe Biden eating ice cream, admin serving up a lot of homoeroticism this week

Durbin came to talk to us after meeting w Todd Blanche - said Blanche said "I made a mistake" about the weaponization fund. Durbin asked for assurances that the admin won't interfere in the midterms — says Blanche said "we won't." Also seemed pretty sure that there aren't many swayable Republicans

I'm at the House approps committee hearing on SCOTUS' request to beef up its security budget. Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are here to represent the Court. Joyce warned members to stay on topic in his opening statement — we'll see if anyone tries to go rogue

finally got to write about the WNBA, ty to Republicans for being so dependably unhinged about Caitlin Clark 😘 talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Conspiracy Theories Around Lawmakers’ Health Are Going to Keep Spiraling

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phew, Platner framing the sexual assault allegations as establishment opposition to his grassroots candidacy: "We went toe to toe with one of the most entrenched political systems in the history of the world, and we won...And now, they are not going to let us have it. Not if it’s me."

@joshtpm.bsky.social and I recorded an emergency pod on the platner situation, should be up now

AOC staying out of the Platner race reflecting better and better on her political instincts

continues to just stun me that men with these kinds of skeletons in their closets insist on seeking public office. Jenny Racicot says she messaged Platner afterwards to let him know in no uncertain terms that the encounter was nonconsensual. He knew that was out there, at the very least

Wonder which dem backer will be the first to jump ship. Warren reportedly had asked Platner if there were gonna be any sexual assault allegations during the big meeting in DC last month

That’s curtains for platner. Details are completely sickening. anyone who sorely missed 2024, get ready for a redux in the course of a week

This Supreme Court is willing to make exceptions to its war on executive branch agencies and creation of an all-powerful presidency — they just happen to usually be in service of shielding U.S. capitalism from Trump-imposed turmoil.

The Supreme Court Let Trump Do Pretty Much Everything He Wanted — Except Mess with the Money

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you wouldn't know that the birthright citizenship was a hail mary lob from the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the right. Meltdowns ranked from gently airing our concerns over dinner to bring in the nice men in the white coats talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...

Republican Meltdowns over Birthright Citizenship Decision, Ranked in Order of Sanity

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New: Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. Roberts writes for majority, joined by Barrett and the libs. Kavanaugh concurs in part and dissents in part. Jackson writes concurrence joined partially by Sotomayor. Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas all dissent (+ Gorsuch also signs on to Thomas' dissent)

Supreme Court, predictably, lets red states force trans girls to play on boys' teams instead of girls'. Gorsuch takes pains to explain why this isn't like Bostock (in which he wrote for majority that discrimination against employees on basis of sexual orientation/gender identity violates Title VII)

New: In two new cases (Slaughter and Cook), SCOTUS eliminates long-standing precedent that protected independent agencies from at-will firing by a vengeful president — BUT also creates a Federal Reserve carveout. Some baby splitting here as Court protects Fed from Trump's whims. Roberts writes both