Chuck Edwards, the Republican Congressman from NC-11 with a weird/creepy staffer sexual harassment ethics case open, abruptly ended his reelection campaign at 3:32 am this morning. The local GOP committee will select his replacement; the seat (where I grew up in WNC) is currently rated a tossup

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

The 26-year-old man was fined £200 by Llandudno magistrates

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So ESPN fires a bunch of folks so that they can pay Pat McAfee a gazillion dollars to have Aaron Rogers on his show give idiotic self righteous diatribes. It’s almost like they don’t really wanna keep politics out of sports, just a certain kind of politics.

Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

In any other timeline, this would be a BFD.

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · yesterday

“Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.” apnews.com/article/trum...

“Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says

Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.

apnews.com

Watchdog group Democracy Forward sends demand letter to Justice Dept seeking "under oath" statement that the Trump slush fund is truly dead: "The Acting Atty General has still refused to provide a sworn statement under penalty of perjury" Democracy Fwd sued to challenge fund

google docs you know NOTHING. nothing

Ex-NYC Mayor Eric Adams traveled to Wisconsin Rapids to convince residents to allow a real estate developer to build a data center in their town. Boos quickly rained down.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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HOO BOY. "The Committee found that Representative Edwards engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers." Examples:

! The House Ethics Committee says it's finished an investigation into Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) and has "concluded there was substantial reason to believe Representative Edwards violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces."

Pelosi isn’t even running.

Those of us with a functioning brain stem, and who have been on this earth longer than a mayfly, have seen all of this before. Again, call it whatever you want, but know it’s only for yourselves. It’s not fooling us.

OuterBoroPrincess@outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not going to watch us lose however many Black reps to the evisceratoon of the VRA by MAGA, then watch white “progressives” brigade the Black Speaker-to-be in order to undermine his leadership. Just. . . please.

Not going to watch us lose however many Black reps to the evisceratoon of the VRA by MAGA, then watch white “progressives” brigade the Black Speaker-to-be in order to undermine his leadership. Just. . . please.

ESPN senior management’s favorite outlet to leak damaging news to about Black on-air talent

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2d ago

Clay Travis Offers to Pay WNBA Champions $10 Million If They Can Beat a Boys’ High School Basketball Team

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan reports first 2 US deaths of people who had been sickened in outbreak of cyclospora.

It’s so lazy to put Schumer and JEFFRIES in the same bucket. Stuck in the 90s? Jeffries was born in 1970. Just say what you want to say, and spare us the dog whistles and oblique, meaningless references.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2d ago

I keep arguing that Dem leadership (Schumer, Jeffries, etc.) are stuck in the 90s, as are many of the high profile Dem consultants and advisors. They think most voters are de facto moderate. This is why their thinking is outdated:

Shocked at multiple Spider-movie rankings on my feed that do not put Spider-Verse 1/2 first. If anything, I'd have expected people to keep them out of their rankings entirely, because they're so obviously better than any of the live-action movies that it's not fair to consider them side by side.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, my electric bill has doubled, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now Black kids won't be getting free breakfasts from Head Start anymore.

And here is Senator Thom Tillis’ response:

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 4d ago

Toddler-in-chief, Felon Trump, seeing his Golden Boy Blanche tanking, threatens to keep the $1.8 billion slush fund to pay insurrectionists who attacked law enforcement and our Capitol. That slush fund is dead from the get-go per a federal judge so Trump is barking up the wrong tree as usual.

the hive acts just like this trying to figure out beyoncé's plans for act iii 🤭

And, not for nothing, but Hela wielded that stupid hammer too. I’m not impressed.

OuterBoroPrincess@outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 5d ago

Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter are the two *least* interesting humans in the MCU, and yet. . .

Just bought it so I will be far behind you but I’m excited to start this one

But, also, we shouldn’t even live in world where millions of people are routinely exposed to the political musings of some 23yo makeup artist, or whomever.

OuterBoroPrincess@outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 5d ago

Watching people in real time who were on some vote suppressing, both-sides bs in 2016, singing very different tunes today. And, yeah, they should have listened to the GROWN FOLKS who told you Roe isn’t “settled law,” and whatever other DSA bs you parroting. . .

Watching people in real time who were on some vote suppressing, both-sides bs in 2016, singing very different tunes today. And, yeah, they should have listened to the GROWN FOLKS who told you Roe isn’t “settled law,” and whatever other DSA bs you parroting. . .

OuterBoroPrincess@outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s actually a problem that social media has given so many people whose frontal lobes aren’t fully developed these enormous megaphones to speak about - and, heavily influence - our politics.

It’s actually a problem that social media has given so many people whose frontal lobes aren’t fully developed these enormous megaphones to speak about - and, heavily influence - our politics.

Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter are the two *least* interesting humans in the MCU, and yet. . .

I know people put a lot of weight on the Talarico race but Abbot needs to go. They don't hate him enough for me. So many things can be reversed if he is gone.

Black people were disproportionately impacted by this mode of disenfranchisement, because Black people are more heavily policed, more aggressively charged, and more vigorously prosecuted. All entirely by design - for the fools in the back who want to pretend racial identity is subordinate to class

OuterBoroPrincess@outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Establishment” Democrat, mind you.