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Patrick LaForge
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House Democrats add 12 solidly Trump districts to their midterm election target list | AP apnews.com/article/hous...
House Democrats add 12 solidly Trump districts to their midterm election target list
House Democrats are adding a dozen Republican-held seats to their list of targets for the November midterms.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, an opponent of Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to be the state’s next governor. She’ll face off against a Republican who opposes virtually everything she stands for. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Michigan election chief Jocelyn Benson to face prominent election denier in governor’s race
Benson has been a frequent target of election deniers and anti-voting activists, who falsely accused her of perpetuating voter fraud during subsequent elections in the Great Lakes State.
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When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/
Phone numbers for airlines listed on Google directed to scammers
A Google spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the company does "not tolerate this misleading activity" and that it had fixed the issue.
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Live MI Sen via NYT..... Less than a point, only 15k votes separate them now
Travesty www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
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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Sideshow www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
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A house fire and threats? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Julian Beaudion Quits Senate Race in South Dakota, Clearing Way for Independent
The decision by Julian Beaudion, the Democratic nominee, to leave the race was the third recent withdrawal by a Democratic Senate candidate in a red state.
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Her “narrow victory four years ago was secured with the backing of moderate Republicans and independent voters who have recoiled against hard-line Republican nominees in each of the last two election cycles” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
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“persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Rep. Chuck Edwards Drops Re-election Bid in North Carolina After Ethics Rebuke
Chuck Edwards made the announcement after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured for “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two female staff members.
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Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d agoUFC cage match on the White House lawn: Pirro v Burgum. Trump MCs.
lol www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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Patrick LaForge@palafo.bsky.social · 4d agoRealizing she had no case, Pirro did the right and sensible thing here, which makes me wonder how long she’ll hold onto her job. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
An unusually intense heat dome is bringing dangerous temperatures to parts of the West on Saturday, where about 55 million people are under heat alerts. https://cnn.it/4w84qqF
Western US heat dome to bring dangerous temperatures 55 million people | CNN
An unusually intense heat dome is bringing dangerous temperatures to a large swath of the West this weekend, where about 55 million people are under heat alerts.
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Americans living in Trump country are furious about his luxurious lifestyle as they sell their own blood, hunt for free toilet paper, and try not to break down in tears, according to a New York Times report.
'Rock bottom': Red-state residents rage at Trump as they sell blood and burst into tears
Americans living in Trump country are furious about his luxurious lifestyle as they sell their own blood, hunt for free toilet paper, and try not to break down in tears, according to a New York Times report. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke with multiple red-state Americans who say th...
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Stoked to read this:
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 5d agoAutopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
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MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5d agoThe man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
Guy who dismantled Washington Post’s Opinion section quits. Not a wet eye in the house. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Adam O’Neal departs as Post Opinions editor after a year
O’Neal helmed a revamp of the section in a directive from Post owner Jeff Bezos.
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These are the ones we know. Now. Do not let yourself believe this is the full list. This is the list we know with the entire weight of the Federal Government invested in keeping us from knowing.
Pacific Antifascist Research Collective@pacantifa.is · 5d agoHere is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.
It‘s amazing Sen. Moreno hasn’t commented on the abuse allegations from his own daughter, but Sen. Husted is running for re-election and trying to hide. Don’t let him.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d agoa republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping. youtube.com/shorts/B0azE...
ICE pepper-sprays woman for filming in Inwood, NYC (7/30/26)
YouTube video by djlightbolt
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Things are happening www.amny.com/immigration/...
Has ICE’s New York surge begun? Masked agents caught on camera across city stopping people, attacking protesters with pepper spray | amNewYork
Has the ICE enforcement surge, that Trump's border czar Tom Homan threatened, started? Some New York immigration activists fear it has.
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NYC 🫶 Community Members letting ICE goons know they are not WELCOMED there 💪🏾
Breathtaking incompetence www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel
A shortage of Navy destroyers, used to defend against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, will force the head of U.S. European Command to prioritize the U.S. homeland instead, officials said.
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Another federal case that’s falling apart www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Missteps Mount in Justice Dept.’s Case Against Minnesota Anti-ICE Protesters (Gift Article)
The problems plaguing the case have not only hurt the government’s chances, lawyers say, but have also undermined the bonds of trust that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.
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