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!!!! First day of our new podcast, America Actually (w/ Astead Herndon). It's going to be about the upcoming elections and America's road to a post-Trump future.
But as we got started I wanted to write something about why I landed on that theme and what I saw as the our mission in a landscape of a lot of media choices
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If you're a basketball fan I simply don't know how you watch the Playoffs that Angel Reese has had without wanting to run through a brick wall
This is ELECTRIC. The type of hoops that makes you FEEL SOMETHING.
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"I know exactly who he was, I know what his gift could do, and I know that we were all just a little happier, a little better off, for getting to hear the song...for as long as we did."
@adamamin gives a touching tribute to his late partner, Stacey King ❤️
Senator @ElissaSlotkin is facing fierce backlash, including from President Trump, after comments about holding Trump’s enablers accountable and a strategy of “deterrence” made during our live podcast at @UChiPolitics
Ironically, she spoke about the impact of being targeted by Trumpworld in the same discussion.
Here, she details the onslaught of threats she received the last time the president called for her criminal prosecution
Watch:
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Stacey King Forever 👑
Tonight, and every night this season, we will wear this jersey patch in honor of Stacey ❤️
Next week on @PBS: A roundtable you won't want to miss
AI: Who's in Control? The latest #DeadlockPBS, hosted by @ucdavislaw Professor Aaron Tang
Premiering Oct. 27 at 9/8c. Bookmark it
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America, Actually with @AsteadWH has won silver in the Signal Awards in the news & politics category for its episode, “Dems are in the middle of a civil war. He’s at the heart of it.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/sig…
Woo! The @signalawards names America, Actually! its silver prize winner in the Best News & Politics podcast category
Thankful for the team and congrats to all the winners!
variety.com/2026/tv/news/sig…
New: We’ve posted the full conversation between myself and @SenatorSlotkin at @UChicago — which covered everything from health care to housing and the notion of electability
But between the viral audience question about Kamala Harris, and the strong reaction to the Senator’s statement about accountability for corruption and “deterrence,” you owe it to yourself to watch the full thing
Available in America Actually feeds and the @voxdotcom YouTube channel
youtu.be/F8Mm4FgIwBg?is=shje…
This is the third event I’ve held with @UChiPolitics
— @ChicagosMayor in 2024
— @hasanthehun in 2025
— @ElissaSlotkin in 2026
Thanks to everyone who came out! And thanks to the institute for providing a venue for the earnest exploration of ideas. We’ll be back
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Actually cannot believe what I've read here.
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office says.
mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery.
Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units.
The investigation died.
We unearthed it:
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ANGEL REESE TONIGHT:
30 POINTS
16 REBOUNDS
3 ASSISTS
2 BLOCKS
1 STEAL
10/16 FGM
1/1 3PM
34 MINUTES
SPECIAL PLAYER. 🔥🔥🔥
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Astead asks Elissa Slotkin whether we need a generic white guy in 2028:
There's a huge delta between what the average citizen feels and what the donors think. The donors are absolutely stuck in old-think of "I need a Christian white straight middle-aged sixty-year-old man."
I asked @SenatorSlotkin if impeachment should be the goal of any Democratic House, considering that to many, failing to impeach Trump after Jan. 6 feels like it’s cheapened the word
Her response, about holding Trump’s enablers accountable and creating a sense of “deterrence,” has sparked an uproar in conservative media.
Watch for yourself:
President Trump himself has now weighed in
.@POTUS: "They've weaponized government. Slotkin is a low-life who is ruining her state, just destroying her state. What they're doing is really discouraging people from going into politics. They weaponized government, the Democrats — that's what they've done."
And here’s the Senators response, given to @jaketapper @CNN
This isn't my first rodeo with President Trump. After calling for me to be arrested, tried, and hanged for a 90 second video he didn't like, he is now attacking me for saying that there will be accountability for people who commit crimes on his behalf.
It's simple. If you break the law, then you should be held accountable. If you are stealing taxpayer money and enriching President Trump or his family, then you should be held accountable.