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Octavia Butler knew her stuff….. feels like she was friggin psychic. You know the trick to 3 card Monty? The queen was never on the table. -words to live by

#GA Did you know that Jon Ossoff spent years exposing corruption as an investigative journalist? Now in the Senate, he refuses corporate PAC money & is leading the fight to ban stock trading by members of Congress. When you don't take checks from special interests, you're free to work for families.

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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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.

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Today is the start of the "quiet period" before the midterm election, a longstanding legal protection for eligible voters. Forty-four states, plus Washington, D.C., are banned from doing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act

A federal law bans late voter roll purges. Republicans are pushing to reinterpret it

There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters.

npr.org

longish piece on El Niño's impact on global commodities w/ nice quotes from Sarah Kapnick and @ccallahan45.bsky.social i've stared at this quote for a while now though and I can't figure out what this Allianz economist is saying: "“El Niño acts as an intermediate between economics and the climate"

Record El Niño Threatens Fragile Economies Squeezed by War

The El Niño could be the most powerful in decades, fueling major threats to fragile economies around the world.

bloomberg.com

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."