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This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
MS hasn’t elected a Democratic Senator since 1982. But there’s real opportunity here. @scolom.bsky.social is MS through and through, while Cindy Hyde-Smith has become a rubber stamp for DC, failing the working class. Our @ab21.bsky.social WCP shows voters are ready for more https://bit.ly/3SgbinZ
Working Class Weekly: Expanding the Battleground in Mississippi
Last week, we shared how our research with working class voters informed our paid media strategy in Alaska — a state that’s been reliably red for years but is ripe for a potential Democratic upset in ...
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.
William Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer who foregrounded his support for a data center moratorium, has won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s seventh congressional district in a victory for progressives.
This data center foe just won his Democratic House primary in Michigan
Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawerence will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November.
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Klobuchar responds: "None of my opponents on this stage condemned what ICE did. Not a word. Two innocent people were killed, shot in the back. We had many people arrested when they weren't supposed to be arrested, and we need reform to ICE."
Nothing to worry about here, just more consolidation in the global music industry.
billboard@billboard.com · 3w agoBMG Acquires Hal David, John Lee Hooker & ARC Music’s Full Publishing Catalogs
I will support Abdul El-Sayed because Voting Blue to stop 47 and his deranged actions and sphere is the only thing that matters! apple.news/AvD8y7PLbSjq...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing — The Associated Press
Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.
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The vast majority of Democrats (regular voters, activists, and electeds) are extremely serious about “Vote Blue No Matter Who” regardless of their ideological alignment.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 6h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
NEW EPISODE: DOJ is now 0-20 in the voter roll cases -- and we are winning. I break down the Trump administration's yearlong effort to build a national voter database, and explain why today we shut the door on Trump's scheme for the midterms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kc3...
Trump's DOJ is 0-20
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One more thing: Go ahead and use that anti-AIPAC energy against Mike Rogers if you want to, but you’ll find it won’t work as well in the general election against a Republican. And he’ll have a massive corporate-funded war chest that El-Sayed will need to compete against.
I think so too. People are really opposed to the wealthy controlling everything & you are correct.
Indeed. He really needs to hammer him on the effects of republicanism to the constituency and not let up. & it'll be tough, because the innate republican racism is going to turned up to 11 in this race....
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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We are stronger if we unite against fascism, instead of labelling ourselves "liberals" "progressives" "socialists", "The Left" and squabbling amongst ourselves. THAT WAS THE POINT OF ORWELL'S BOOK.
The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.
Jeanine Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning
The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is classic MAGA tale
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A major profile of @gilduran.com, author of the forthcoming THE NERD REICH from @simonandschuster.bsky.social is in @theguardian.com today! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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NEWS: Trump just bragged about gutting endangered species protections so oil drilling, logging, development, and even military training can expand with fewer restrictions.
Trump Announces Rollback of Endangered Species Protections
Trump: ”The United States of America is going to BUILD again.”
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Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what happens, it can’t be forgotten.
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In the Michigan state legislature, Joanna Whaley won the primary in HD-02. She’s now in a good position to be the first openly transgender person to serve as a state legislator in Michigan. www.freep.com/story/news/p...
Downriver candidate could become Michigan's first transgender state rep
Joanna Whaley, a hospital chaplain from Lincoln Park could be on her way to becoming the first transgender state rep in Michigan's history.
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I’m doing it because too many people don’t face reality. They think they can roll along into the general as if nothing changes. Everything changes. Will they make the necessary changes to their tactics? 🤔We’ll see. 🤷🏻♀️
This is why this is not just about Max Miller. It’s about “devout Christian” House Republican leadership who is standing with this guy because they crave power above all else. It’s the culture of MAGA and it comes straight from Trump. Vote them out.
Run that on a loop in the TikTok feeds.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h agoTrump: "I think we should be given an A+ on the economy"
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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