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Seniors are having a harder time today affording everyday expenses than when President Trump took office, between soaring inflation and the president's failed economic agenda. Social Security benefits aren't going as far as they used to. - @hassan.senate.gov
The @apnews.com calls #MI13 for @donavanmckinney.bsky.social He has unseated Rep. Shri Thanedar. That makes 7 from DSA headed to US Congress: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rashida Tlaib Chris Rabb Claire Valdez Darializa Avila Chevalier Melat Kiros Donovan McKinney
"Progressive candidate wins despite being outspent 9-to-1 in key state election"
Politico@politico.com · 10h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Consent manufacturing at its finest, folks...
Politico@politico.com · 10h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Legislators in several states have passed, or are considering, laws to push back against the federal government’s overreach under the second Trump administration. These statues are modeled off of older laws in Maine and California.
This Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - Bolts
Federal law makes it very difficult to file lawsuits against federal officers, but some states have adopted their own laws to give people a so-called cause of action to sue.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h agoNew 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.
good comment by @macfarlanenews.bsky.social
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 15h agoMacFarlane: I think it's an anti-establishment era we may be entering here. Look at all the different ways in which people are bucking against establishment. If El-Sayed is somebody who channels people who don't want the establishment to run and to reign, he's going to have a big night…
This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
On to the next one. Here's a strange special election to replace Eric Swalwell in 2 weeks. Melissa Hernandez & Aisha Wahab have gone head-to-head twice since June. Wahab won by over 20 points both times. But every AIPAC shell PAC & AIPAC itself are still coming in 10:1 for Hernandez.
The AIPAC Universe Comes Together for Sequel in California - The American Prospect
An array of super PACs is trying to muscle through Melissa Hernandez in a low-turnout special election for a Bay Area House seat.
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First Draft: Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever? @premthakker.bsky.social was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC. Read today’s ‘First Draft’: zeteo.com/p/will-this-...
VoteHub projects Abdul El-Sayed to win the Democratic primary for Michigan U.S. Senate.
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According to Representative Jimmy Gomez, immigrant detainees are being temporarily transferred from Metro Detention Center in Los Angeles to a facility in Santa Ana due to expected protests this weekend.
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Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT
Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.
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For instance, I love Francesca Hong! I shared some of that in this piece, but it's ok if you want a different candidate! Just make a first person case for why you like them, one that doesn't involve any weird triangulation or guesses about other people's votes. thewhitepages.net/p/the-real-e...
The real electability is the friends we make along the way
What the entire country can learn from Francesca Hong's campaign for Governor of Wisconsin
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They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time
Can you help us out? Pick up a phone banking shift to help us. It’s our many vs. their money.
Phonebank Hub - Abdul for Senate
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Remarks on a podcast about Black establishment politicians who "defang the white left" were supposed to sink Will Lawrence. They were picked up for a radio ad from the CBC's PAC. But then something happened: local Black leaders defended him and said he was spot on. prospect.org/2026/07/17/c...
As the CBC Condemns Will Lawrence, Local Black Leaders Back Him Up - The American Prospect
On a podcast, Lawrence said Black establishment leaders’ support for the status quo ‘is a big problem.’ Black voters and leaders in Michigan agreed with him.
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For anyone in Michigan, the primaries are coming up soon, vote for Abdul for senate, make sure you’re registered. This is an important race.
The Michigan primary has easily become the biggest cesspool of anti-Muslim racism since, well, the last time Democrats did this in the Michigan primary, and it's deeply cynical to attack another Muslim for pointing out objective reality: AIPAC is buying this race. They're not exactly hiding it.
Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.
Moms of Black Babies More Likely to Be Flagged to Police Over Alleged Pregnancy Drug Use
Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.
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