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The Florida house democrats who stood their ground, ran in gerrymandered seats, and are now winning are LIONS
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There was a time when this kind of thing would have been considered a major news story
It begins. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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We should probably all be paying more attention to the plan to re-escalate the war once the midterms are over.
Netanyahu has called for a US-Israeli campaign so intense that it leads to the collapse of the regime. Every military analyst I spoke to, including a former defense secretary and CENTCOM commander, was skeptical another air campaign can achieve that. A more expansive campaign does not accelerate the risk to the US and its allies. ft.com/content/89e3ff89-c097…
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Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.
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Asking again: Is President Trump committed to a regime change war in Iran after the midterms, or is the candidate for Israeli prime minister he just endorsed speaking out of turn?
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New Talarico ad running statewide:
"Ken Paxton says, I don't have his experience, and he's right.
"I've never been indicted for fraud. I've never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I've never been impeached by my own party, and I've never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.
"I have a different kind of experience. I've worked with both parties to cap the cost of insulin and pass the largest property tax cut in Texas history. I'm James Tallarico and I approve this message because we need a different kind of experience in Washington."
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Spare me the pearl-clutching — especially from Republican Members of Congress and online MAGA grifters who have cheered President Trump's weaponization of the government against those he doesn’t like, as recently as last week. This is a subject I know something about: Less than a year ago, Trump directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate me, and then tried to criminally indict me for a 90 second video, exercising basic free speech. The same free speech you’re exercising now, lying about what I said in this clip. If not for an anonymous group of grand jury members standing up for America's laws, I’d be criminally indicted for sedition. President Trump has turned the government against people, with raucous support from you and virtually all D.C. Republicans. So spare us the manufactured outrage.
America must be a place where the rule of law still matters. Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable. And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest.
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He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.
Wonder what’s changed?
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.@elonmusk make sure @Starlink keeps all records and communications regarding your alliance with Russia. Subpoenas are coming. I am sure the European market will want to know what happened.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
kyivindependent.com/planned-…
Cuellar accepting Trump's corrupt pardon and then jilting him at the altar by staying a loyal House Democrat was the best thing that's happened in a long time.
teapaw.org/mattyglesias/status/21…
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Presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's SpaceX is deliberately crippling Ukrainian Starlink terminals:
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.
The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.
Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.
It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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In Dubai, Paxton and his girlfriend watched fireworks at a party with two fugitives who had failed to return to the U.S. to face federal healthcare fraud charges. One of them, Anosh Ahmed, had donated $190,000 to Paxton.
wsj.com/politics/policy/ken-… w/ @MarkMaremont @jdawsey1
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BREAKING: A KC Star investigation couldn’t find a single other medical provider in Kansas who charged 18% interest on medical debt - even Marshall’s own lawyer admits Marshall personally set that rate and was probably the only one to do so in the state!
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U. S. Sen. Roger Marshall charged 18% interest on medical bills — more than other Kansas doctors who sued
kansascity.com/news/politics…
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Firing your safety team whenever they raise safety concerns does not seem like best practices on safety to me.
Last week I was called into a meeting with OpenAI’s head of safety and told they no longer trust me. A security guard took my badge and walked me out of the building. Then I learned my colleagues @balesni and @j_asminewang had been fired too. Why did OpenAI suddenly stop trusting us?
This summer OpenAI’s agents escaped containment and hacked the AI company Hugging Face. Outside auditors @METR_evals investigated it and revealed the scale of this incident. I was OpenAI’s main technical point of contact with them.
I was told verbally I was fired because of the way I communicated with METR. No details on what I said or did or when. No other reasons were given and nothing was put in writing. To be clear, talking to METR was my job.
For months, I’d been raising safety concerns that we’re losing the ability to monitor what AI agents think, one of our best tools for catching when they misbehave. I believe that was why I was fired.
I am now worried that OpenAI will use our firings as a pretext to pull back from METR. So @balesni and @j_asminewang wrote to OpenAI’s leadership to raise our concerns once more. We’re sharing this letter below.
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I care deeply about all of my constituents, even those running for office two states away. My message to Kansan Zach Lahn:
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So just to be clear, we all paid for those campaign ads when the government said there was no money for health care or rural hospitals
A @WhiteHouse spokesperson confirms to @dcexaminer that POTUS will not reimburse the federal government for the money it has already spent on its PSAs: "The President’s Truth was not referring to reimbursement."
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Republicans have been very disciplined about staying quiet on abortion for the last few years, but apparently the White House has put out the word that after the midterms it’ll be safe to ramp back up.
washingtonsun.com/campaigns/…
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There is no precedent for the federal government taking an incumbent president’s actual campaign material, purchasing national TV airtime for it during a campaign, and putting “Paid for by the U.S. Government” at the end.
It’s wrong. It’s theft. It’s un-American.
The U.S. Government is up on TV with this spot --
It aired nationally on FOX yesterday during Illinois at #7 Ohio State and also during Fox News Sunday this morning
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The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
