New in PN: Living in the long, stupid shadow of the Big Lie "Elections where Trump — or any other Republican — wins are fine, but elections where Republicans lose are corrupt. The only solution, of course, is to let the DOJ intervene both before and after any elections that Trump has fixated on."
Living in the long, stupid shadow of the Big Lie
Trump is laying the groundwork to interfere in the midterms.
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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 18h agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Sorry man we just can't keep on going like this. Can't have people speaking like this, especially people in positions of power. This can't just be fine now
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 18h agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
The White House Council of Economic Advisers claims illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $166,716 each. Cato's David J. Bier says those estimates aren't credible. They have actually reduced federal, state, and local deficits by $1.7 trillion over 30 years. https://ow.ly/ZPrG510160q
Diawara had converted to Christianity, and Mali's a Muslim-majority nation with an Islamist insurgency. He has no criminal record. Diawara was able to get a U.S. work permit. He worked as an Uber driver. On July 11 ICE agents waiting for him at where he lived with his family, all U.S. citizens.
Texas dad deported by ICE to Ghana was then forced to go to Mali, a country that's unsafe for him, he says
A Texas dad was deported to Ghana, where he says local officials forced him onto a flight to Mali. The problem? A U.S. judge had ruled he couldn't be sent to Mali because the country is unsafe for him...
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I’d be worried if algorithms were biased or these systems routinely made mistakes or LE used them to harass people, or that society was increasingly authoritarian or that they were used to restrict bodily autonomy, but since those are speculative harms I guess we are all good.
Police Are Increasingly Pulling People Over Because AI Deems Their Driving Patterns “Suspicious” | ACLU
Anybody is susceptible to being stopped, searched, or worse; AI makes new forms of abuse possible
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This is the culture MAGA wants to preserve btw This entitlement to call to police on any minority doing anything they don’t like
Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 2d agoThey called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.
The president of the United States will not accept the results of the midterms.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says El-Sayed is a jihadist and shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the Senate
The president of the United States of America will not accept the results of the midterms
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Murkowski is a DISGRACE to Alaska & our Country. You just don’t get any worse! I hope the Great People of Alaska understand what's happening. The Democrats are trying to steal this important Republican Seat &, if that happens, everything we’ve done for Alaska will come to an immediate hault"
No, he called them shitHOLE countries. He doesn't remember what he (famously) called them, because his brain is Swiss cheese
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."
Trump: "I did record numbers with Hispanics so I think thinkinkinmigk"
President of the United States admitting on camera that he prioritizes some citizens over others
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Collins could call me anytime he wants. 'You gotta help the farmers!' ... there's a big difference between that and Pee Wee Herman calling. 'Tell him I'm not in!' 'But he needs money for Georgia.' 'I don't give a damn what he wants!' Probably I shouldn't say that."
Dementia-adeled old man stumbles through old taglines until the crowd claps. It’s insane that this is continuing to happen so publicly and that this guy is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES This man has such a cult, that nobody is willing to stop this (bc they let him have too much power)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"
A decade in, and still shocking to witness industrial scale gutter racism coming from the President of the United States.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."
He will not accept the results of the midterms. The sitting president will reject the results of free and fair elections.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoThe Trump administration accused Canadian officials of trying to sway the midterm elections for Democrats. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said those claims have “no merit.” Here’s what to know.
Here's a supercut of notable moments from Trump's rally tonight in Georgia, including a lot of gutter racism, blasphemy, and reveling in the suffering of Americans who are struggling with high prices:
President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336
1 minute of pure racism. This is what we are now.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump says of Somalia that "all they have is people that shoot you all the time ... it's a shit house country"
Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.
Michigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-Sayed
Timmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed
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By the way this paid for with all your hard work. Your tax money was just handed over to this charlatan by Trump and Biden. And the Obama administration floated this guy cash to "save" the company in 2009. He's using your money against you.
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
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dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.
* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SUES TO BLOCK ALASKA SENATE RACE CERTIFICATION IF REPUBLICAN LOSES, CITING CANDIDATE NAME CONFUSION -- AP REPORTER ON X @reuters.com #AKsen
This is literally all he does. Insult women then go lie at rallies. Never forget how Republicans and establishment Dems accepted it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
Celebrating less choices and less efficiency. That’s what the right is all about.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoJoe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
