NEW: GOP Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference after repeatedly refusing to answer questions about his relationship with his son-in-law who has promoted White nationalist ideology/Nazi-era content. www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/p...

GOP Senate nominee ends press conference after questions on ties to White nationalist influencer | CNN Politics

Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference Thursday after repeatedly declining to answer questions about his relationship with a son-in-law who promoted White nationalist ideolo...

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what party would he run with?

“Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference Thursday after repeatedly declining to answer questions about his relationship with a son-in-law who promoted White nationalist ideology and circulated antisemitic content online, as first revealed by CNN’s @kfile.bsky.social .”

GOP Senate nominee ends press conference after questions on ties to White nationalist influencer | CNN Politics

Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference Thursday after repeatedly declining to answer questions about his relationship with a son-in-law who promoted White nationalist ideolo...

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personally enjoyed how much we've learned about bridges this michigan primary

Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.

GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

I would do anything to have Beans here. I ran two Boston Marathons, and I would run one every day if it could bring us closer to a cure. Now I ride the PMC each year because ending this disease has become the cause of my life. For Francesca. For every baby still fighting. profile.pmc.org/AK0302

NEW: Senate candidate Mike Collins son-in-law—featured in campaign photos, registered to vote at a Collins-owned property and appearing to do work for his company— is a white nationalist influence who has promoted Nazi imagery and called for clearing America of minorities www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/p...

A legendary pull by @kfile.bsky.social: a 2014 photo of future New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani with a Shenna Bellows for Senate laptop sticker. Shenna Bellows, the incumbent Secretary of State of Maine, is one of the major candidates who could replace Graham Platner on the ballot this fall.

When a fellow millennial recognizes my BuzzFeed hat

NEWS: Gregg Phillips, the third-ranking FEMA official in charge of disaster response - who claimed he teleported to a Waffle House - has been ousted from the agency. www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/p...

FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say | CNN Politics

A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.

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For years, Trump, Rubio and Vance argued the kind of Iran deal they just signed was a "desperate" capitulation that would strengthen Iran, fund terrorism and give away leverage. They're backing an agreement that commits to exactly this. www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...

Trump’s Iran agreement embraces sanctions relief, a policy he and his team once denounced | CNN Politics

For years, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance argued against deals that provided financial concessions to Iran, saying that giving the regime money fuel...

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Dude, you got the new bid contract for the reflecting pool is straight out of central casting

A 2021 video uncovered by CNN shows Dem-backed Senate candidate Dan Osborn — who has harshly criticized ICE under Trump — urging ICE to investigate allegations that undocumented workers were replacing strikers during a labor dispute he led. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...

As union leader, Democrat-backed Senate candidate Dan Osborn helped alert ICE to claims of undocumented workers | CNN Politics

Dan Osborn, the Democratic Party–backed independent running for Senate in Nebraska, has spent part of his campaign courting voters critical of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforce...

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NEW on CNN: Dan Osborn, the Dem-backed candidate in Nebraska's Senate race, has criticized Trump's ICE. But in a 2021 video, Osborn said the union he led had contacted ICE over allegations undocumented workers were replacing strikers urged them to investigate. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...

As union leader, Democrat-backed Senate candidate Dan Osborn helped alert ICE to claims of undocumented workers | CNN Politics

Dan Osborn, the Democratic Party–backed independent running for Senate in Nebraska, has spent part of his campaign courting voters critical of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforce...

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i don't doubt mcmorrow is in third, but this poll clearly had a *lot* of issues and it's not hard to see why the campaign objected or the paper declined to run it. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Michigan pollster accuses McMorrow campaign of killing unfavorable Senate poll

The independent poll shows her trailing with 6 percent support among likely Democratic primary voters.

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NEW: The health official who led the public response to the Hantavirus outbreak has little background in public health and previously was a penile implant specialist who hosted a podcast where he questioned the 2020 election and compared the Biden administration to Nazis. www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

Trump's nominee for Surgeon General deleted posts before her nomination saying the administration was delaying announcing that measles was spreading again in the U.S. until after the midterms, attacking Trump personally, and lambasting Trump's Tylenol/Autism comments. www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/p...

Exclusive: Deleted tweets reveal new surgeon general pick criticized Trump and RFK Jr. health policies | CNN Politics

Just two months before she was selected as President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier suggested the administration was hiding that measles was spreading widely enough in ...

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NEW: Mallory McMorrow quietly deleted thousands of old tweets after launching her Senate campaign. The posts took jabs at the rural Midwest, lamented ever leaving California, and said she continued to vote there after she said she’d moved permanently to Michigan. www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/p...

‘Make me miss California’: In deleted tweets, Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow disparaged Middle America | CNN Politics

As Democrats brace for a bruising primary in Michigan’s US Senate race, Mallory McMorrow, one of the party’s top contenders, has quietly deleted thousands of old tweets — including posts in which she ...

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Gregg Phillips, the high-ranking FEMA official who said he teleported to a Waffle House has a history of making supernatural claims we found in his podcasts: a dead girlfriend who lifted his car off the road to avoid a crash, Satan encountering him on a hike, etc. www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/p...

A top FEMA official is doubling down on his claims that he teleported to a Waffle House.

Important update from the New York Times

🚨NEW: Gregg Phillips, who holds one of the most consequential jobs at FEMA overseeing disaster response, is doubling down on claims he teleported to a Waffle House and a church — writing "haters gonna hate" on Truth Social and citing biblical accounts on teleportation. www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/p...

‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported | CNN Politics

The top official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he’s experienced “teleportation” – an experience he insists was real...

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🚨NEW: Gregg Phillips, who holds one of the most consequential jobs at FEMA overseeing disaster response, is doubling down on claims he teleported to a Waffle House and a church — writing "haters gonna hate" on Truth Social and citing biblical accounts on teleportation. www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/p...

‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported | CNN Politics

The top official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he’s experienced “teleportation” – an experience he insists was real...

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I'm being accused of being Mossad for my Graham Platner story

NEW: CNN found a Nebraska Democratic Senate candidate attended a GOP training event just months before filing for Senate. The Dem state party calls him a GOP plant to "trick voters" — he tells me he's a "free thinker," but admits voting for Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/p...

The first Emerson College Polling survey of the Maine has Graham Platner leading Janet Mills in the Democratic Primary election, 55% to 28%. Thirteen percent are undecided.

Mark Robinson admits he lied about CNN's @kfile.bsky.social investigation that he sued the network over to protect those around him including Trump www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

Mark Robinson admits ‘I lied’ about CNN story | CNN Politics

Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson admitted he lied about a bombshell CNN KFile investigation during the final months of his 2024 gubernatorial campaign, uncovering his extensive history of ...

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NEW: Gregg Phillips, a top FEMA official overseeing disaster response previously said "bitch" Biden “deserves to die,” pushed election conspiracies — and claimed once he teleported to a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun...it was real.” More here: www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

Over on X, Ari Fleischer is attempting to dunk on the media by pointing out a 2001 New York Times story that correctly pointed out Afghanistan would turn into a quagmire. Asking these questions was neither unpatriotic nor bad reporting.

NEW: A fundraising email from Donald Trump for his PAC features a photo of a flag-draped transfer case carrying a soldier’s remains from last Saturday’s dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, while promising donors access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”