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A complaint from the state Democratic Party chair cited New York Focus’s reporting on campaign finance mistakes by the GOP candidate for governor.

New York Dems Call for Investigation of Blakeman Campaign

The state Democratic Party chair cited New York Focus’s reporting on campaign finance mistakes by the GOP candidate for governor.

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It's been more than a week since we last checked in on the Brooklyn Democrats. Things have surely sorted themselves out over there, right? hellgatenyc.com/bk-dems-cont...

Is It Ok To Do a Coup After a Judge Ordered Leaders Not To Do a Coup if the Judge Said You’re Not a Leader When It Struck Down Your Prior Coup Effort?

Only the subtlest legal minds will grasp the big questions as the Brooklyn Dems legal battle returns to court.

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We are sensing a pattern

he despises Jewish people. the president is an antisemite. yet we're never supposed to say so, or discuss how that might be a factor in the growth of antisemitism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

Trump says the press smeared Roger Marshall as "a shylock type guy"

He's used "Shylock" like this repeatedly now, and it's not because he's familiar with Shakespeare. Guaranteed he picked up using it as a slur from his father because nobody younger than that says it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

Trump says the press smeared Roger Marshall as "a shylock type guy"

I am so tired of our president being a big racist dipshit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · yesterday

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

Channeling hatred for billionaires into electoral politics is healthy—even for the billionaires—compared to the alternative

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · yesterday

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

one thing dems could do with their investigatory power would be to highlight the internal corruption of the regime and turn all of them on each other

🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · 2d ago

i suspect that trump himself doesn’t even know how many people are paying him at this point, nor does he know how many middlemen are skimming from it, and surfacing the latter is going to be what causes the real fireworks in the next term

Absolutely jubilant march in Bay Ridge for No Kings Vote Early day! That's the @brassqueensnyc.bsky.social and @juliopenabk.com with the bubble maker! Huge high five to @bkindivisible.bsky.social ! @handsoffnow.bsky.social

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Bolts@boltsmag.org · 2d ago

Advocates for people with incarcerated family say prisons often cancel visits for what they deem is excessive contact with loved ones. “There are so many other experiences like that where just a simple hug or a peck is constituted as excessive contact.”

washington dc is not trump’s personal property and must be given statehood to prevent this kind of abuse in the future

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

1. he’s so open about it this term! so basically republicans have had to move to “this is good, actually”, can’t deny it’s happening 2. it hits different, even for republicans, when everything is so damn expensive trump grifting billions stops feeling like owning the libs and more like owning you

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d ago

Suddenly, Trump's corruption feels like a salient political issue. I don't know why it took this long, but it's happening. Even Republicans are telling pollsters they're souring on Trump's grift.

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

Exclusive: How CBS News’ Middle East war spread to the Upper Midwest

Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to Abdul El-Sayed’s supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood.

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I agree with this. One amendmwnt that I think could pass is to modify the electoral college so that winning > 50% nets you some number of bonus electors but that if no candidate reaches 50% there is a second round of voting.

🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃@darinself.com · 2d ago

Presidentialism isn't great, but two-round elections are certainly better than single-round, because a lot of the "oh that guy couldn't actually win" realize "oh sh*t, he could actually win" and get off the bench. Trump doesn't win 2016 if we use 2-rounds.

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

Three Shootings in America

A week of our entirely-ordinary *extraordinary* violence

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Linking costs to corruption has been a smart move and I'm glad to see more Democrats doing this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Donald Trump set another record. There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry. Until now.

Help flip an Assembly seat blue in Bay Ridge! Republicans need some time off to think about what they’ve done.

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 4d ago

Join us this Sunday at 2:30 in Bay Ridge! We'll be out knocking doors for @chrismccreight.bsky.social. Because southern Brooklyn deserves strong voices advocating for affordability, health, safety, and the environment, and because the Trump GOP has no place in Brooklyn.

Incredible #NoKings Early Vote parade in Bay Ridge! Baby with the @brassqueensnyc.bsky.social ! Folks cheering from windows! @juliopenabk.com with the bubble machine! @bkindivisible.bsky.social making it happen!

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

This is exactly the right approach — openly mock the bigots as small-minded and cowardly and weak and proudly embrace diversity as a sign of our strength and success

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4d ago

I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

I've said it before, but a family of four that takes the subway to Manhattan pays $24 total *roundtrip.* Paying $12 — for just the way in, since there's no congestion fee to leave — to pilot your land yacht into the densest and most transit-rich city in the country is a bargain.

Jon Orcutt@jonorcutt.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thought we might get thru this season without this, but here we go - so weak: "On Thursday, Hochul also told Juliet Papa of 1010WINS that she was 'taking a look at' calling off the planned 2028 toll increase to $12" @nyc.streetsblog.org

Join us this Sunday at 2:30 in Bay Ridge! We'll be out knocking doors for @chrismccreight.bsky.social. Because southern Brooklyn deserves strong voices advocating for affordability, health, safety, and the environment, and because the Trump GOP has no place in Brooklyn.

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A complaint from the state Democratic Party chair cited New York Focus’s reporting on campaign finance mistakes by the GOP candidate for governor.

New York Dems Call for Investigation of Blakeman Campaign

The state Democratic Party chair cited New York Focus’s reporting on campaign finance mistakes by the GOP candidate for governor.

nysfocus.com

Even the greatest baseball team of my lifetime, a decade-plus into a historic run of dominance, is not immune from the effects of close contact with the failking of America. Remarkable stuff. defector.com/the-dodgers-...

The Dodgers Went To Grandpa's House! | Defector

There are aspects of being president of the United States that Donald Trump is really bad at, and others at which he is significantly worse. It goes without saying that none of that is improving, but ...

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noooooo this bill includes really strong new data center regulation provisions and it's going to massively cut net carbon emissions by allowing solar to connect to the grid at the pace we need

as you read the insane campaign fundraising numbers dropping today please recall that currently Elon Musk is personally responsible for about 1 in every 20 dollars spent on behalf of Republicans nationwide in 2026; I wouldn’t be surprised if when the dust settles that number is as high as 1 in 10