When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...
Colbert Savages NSA And Rep. Mike Rogers In 'See No Evil' Segment
Colbert Savages NSA and Rep. Mike Rogers in 'See No Evil' Segment
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LIVE NOW: @klonick.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social are discussing Vladeck's draft Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Foreword which argues that the Supreme Court is quietly dismantling district courts' authority. lawfare.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE NOW: Live with Steve Vladeck: The Courts v. The Court
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SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
Congratulations, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Healthcare should never be confined by party or ideology. Medicare for All belongs in the lexicon of every leader serious about serving the public. Thank you for making it the centerpiece of your candidacy.
If you believe the people we elect from Michigan should prioritize serving you and your family - not their own pockets and certainly not blind allegiance to the President - please join us.
Congratulations to @jocelynbenson.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, and all the candidates up and down the ticket who earned our party’s nomination here in Michigan. Now it’s time to come together and deliver the case that Democrats must make over the next 90 days, everywhere we go.
Q: Are you going to keep Jeanine Pirro? Trump: I haven’t made a decision.
NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”
…We need to win this Senate seat, because Elissa Slotkin deserves a partner like Abdul in the U.S. Senate.”
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
NEW: Trump is speaking today at a casino owned by a company battling lawsuits alleging its properties failed to stop the trafficking of a 9-year-old girl and other victims. The suits allege negligence and inadequate security. Our latest:
Trump to Speak at Casino Owned by Company Facing Lawsuit Alleging Failure to Prevent Trafficking of 9-Year-Old Girl
The ownership group is battling multiple lawsuits involving sex trafficking victims
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After being contacted by WIRED, an Apple spokesperson says that it has removed MaskAI from the App Store for violating policies against nudification apps, and the company has “always strictly prohibited apps designed to generate, distribute, or consume pornography.” www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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NEW: DHS wants to pay private contractors bounties to hunt down people who already left the country, photograph their homes, and demand money. It told them leaving the US would wipe out fines. It was the pitch for self-deporting. Experts tell WIRED this is a pointless escalation of tactics.
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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🚨 BARRON TRUMP COULD BE ASKED TO TESTIFY A House Democrat is calling for an investigation into the Trump orbit's reported connections to Andrew and Tristan Tate, including a request for Barron Trump to testify about any knowledge or communications he may have had.
🚨 DOCTOR CALLS OUT GOP’S MCCONNELL HEALTH STORY Mitch McConnell hasn’t been cleared to leave rehab, yet his staff claims the 84-year-old is still handling Senate business. A vascular surgeon says he should be focused on recovery, not proving he can work until he drops.
🚨 TRUMP UNVEILS HIS $22.5 BILLION AIRPORT MAKEOVER Donald Trump personally reviewed dozens of designs for a massive overhaul of Dulles Airport, featuring new concourses, an underground train and a 32,000-space parking garage.
If, after WWII, a Nazi had fled to Brazil with his Nazi secretary - and if those two Nazis had had a child while in seclusion... That kid would look exactly like Max Miller.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaywhoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
Sure, Democrats are not perfect and we have some bad apples. But sexual harassment and abuse of women has become an absolute epidemic among elected Republicans because it is the culture of the party under lifetime serial sexual harasser Donald Trump.
Is Mike Johnson going to throw some more Bible verses at us today while continuing to back Max Miller?
Republican primary voters are so racist that a guy named Tom Smith who DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE is going to defeat Trump’s endorsed candidate because his name is Amir Hassan.
The “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” people are going to go all in on racism in Michigan.
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
For a year and a half, we’ve been subject to the daily onslaught of Trump and his cruel, corrupt, and incompetent second regime. My question to you now, in the middle of the summer of our discontent, is what strategies you’re using to cope with this horror.
Office Hours: How are you coping?
Friends,
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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.
