Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...
BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social · 10h agoKansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"
An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ by Matthew Cole examines how bank accounts linked Kushner to Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia: vanityfair.visitlink.me/qHPzPB
The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers
An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
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Again: Vivek Ramaswamy is in politics only because he was JD Vance's friend at Yale. He & JD met Peter Thiel together; Peter then kept JD as a protege and financially supported him. Vivek worked a real job and got real investors for his scam biotech firm, but wouldn't be here without his pals.
Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
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Paul LePage plans to sunbathe in Florida while Mainers struggle to heat their homes this winter.
Because it's just an empty frame with an air compressor inside to keep it suctioned. No car with a full load out of car stuff in it would be able to do this.
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
Y’all have been in charge for decades @marshablackburn literally wtf are you talking about
Thom Tillis criticized Trump regime's criminal case vs Comey. Now he is signing off on two lawyers as fed judges "despite their involvement in the high-profile prosecution" of Comey. Yet elite media/political world in DC take Tillis seriously www.politico.com/newsletters/...
BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."
Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...
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UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.
The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
(1/X) Check out a typical Harper's letter signatory's Twitter feed and you'll mostly *still* find 80% complaints about the "woke left", even in the midst of the greatest government crack-down on free speech in at least 60 tears. Why? Because the "free speech" movement is donor/patron-driven.
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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UPDATE: I just listened to the press conference with Oz & Vance...and sure enough, just as I suspected, they're apparently relying heavily on AN AI MODEL to "decide" which ACA enrollees meet the financial eligibility standards and which ones don't.
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
After reading (as you should!) the @propublica.org barnburner on Susan Collins, consider this from RDP in 2021: Biden Needs to Fire the FBI Director prospect.org/2021/04/28/b...
Biden Needs to Fire the FBI Director - The American Prospect
Trump-appointed FBI director Chris Wray cannot be trusted to handle the continued surge in white supremacist violence and terror.
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"Several Trump Org executives who had previously traveled to the island to explore real estate deals and who even registered the Trump trademark there in 2008 have in recent months returned to Cuba under the aegis of Dominari Holdings for meetings" Lee Schlenker, Ed Augustin for @theguardian.com
Trump and Rubio allies are vying for control of Cuba’s assets if regime falls
Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions
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Bo and Sunny Obama romp around the White House grounds in 2013
Host: A Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin secretly bankrolled much of Don Jr's wedding, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses.
