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got lots of music for sale at the ole @Bandcamp site if you please:
jcowit.bandcamp.com/
Plus all this month, 20% off ANYTHING in the store, if you use the code word: "September."
Buy it all! I'm moving and could use the change:)
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Dana White “is the face of UFC and one of the most recognizable names in sports”—but after he was caught on video slapping his wife multiple times, he faced almost no consequences, @jemelehill wrote in 2023. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Both @JakeTapper and @DanaBashCNN spent the last 9 months of their lives publicly pushing a self-serving political narrative that was completely fabricated and based on nothing other their own personal emotions and political preferences. Obviously, @AIPAC and @ADL did the same:
Our poll of Jewish voters for @jstreetdotorg: There's no exodus of Jewish voters from the Dem party:
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One of the smoothest arguments a ruling party ever gave the opposition: "They made prices higher on purpose."
It would be naive to ignore the effect of the Iran war on the midterms, but we should not lose sight of the fact that tariffs were brutal for Republicans (via @NBCNews)
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Hi @JeffreyGoldberg, given you know @WajahatAli personally and have published him (and published me too) in the Atlantic previously, are you okay with Kirchik calling Waj a terrorist (and also saying I'm not really an American)?
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We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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it's a shame that haley stevens took all the discourse oxygen today because this is the funniest thing i've ever seen
With 3 days left to #ElectionDay, here’s part of the closing argument from @RogerMarshallMD.
#kansassenate
"America has never done wrong, and events in history should never be contextualized by America's role in them, even when they cost American lives," is the most childish goddam concept I can think of, and yet, we hold folks to this when they talk about American history.
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Putting out a statement from your mom saying you didn’t make this decision because of your fiancé seems like going one step too fast on the comms rollout. The national media isn’t talking about that part yet but they’re about to be.
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abdul el sayed and every muslim person around him has been called a radical islamic jihadist terrorist every single day by the entire political spectrum since he won the primary and i haven’t seen a single think piece or major media interview of an arab voter abt how this makes them feel. arab and muslim voters combined make up almost 4% of the electorate. jewish voters make up 1.4% & many of those jewish voters aren’t zionists or will let israel get in the way of preserving american democracy. so we’ve heard endlessly from a tiny group of potential spoiler voters who aren’t getting their way on a deeply unpopular issue- why?
If you're trying to understand why so many Michigan Jewish Democrats are defecting, I wrote in August about it. It's not, per se, about foreign policy. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Hey @Grok, concise, no spin.
Who has accepted major financial gifts from government(s) linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas:
Donald Trump or Abdul El-Sayed?
Start with the name.
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The field is opening up so much that Democrats are spending in Mississippi and the NRCC Chair is fighting for his life in North Carolina and the head of CAP is still litigating the Michigan primary. With 12 days until the general election, this is a generational run of obsession.
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crisis of literacy moment: overwhelming majority of clips on this website show something entirely different than the description & ppl can’t even get themselves to watch the often out of context clip & just rt and start theorizing over the false claims in the description
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This clip of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is getting a lot of attention tonight, but many of the people sharing it are misstating what she was asked.
When she said, "Not to my knowledge," she was not answering whether she had married her brother.
Chris Hayes had already asked about the brother claim, and she called it “insane” and a right-wing conspiracy theory initially started by a Somali blog.
"Not to my knowledge" was her answer to his follow-up, whether she was related to the man in any way.
People are welcome to criticize her for that — but they should at least get the question she was asked right.
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Me: "Do you know how many times you've tweeted about Piker since you wrote that tweet [about not tweeting about him] on August 30th?"
@mattyglesias: "Probably more than I intended to."
Me: "8 times.... you tweeted about Mike Rogers 6 times. So you're tweeting about the streamer you didn't want to talk about more than the Republican candidate you say you want to defeat."
Yglesias: "Yeah, that's fair."
Me: "Why?"
Yglesias: "What do you want me to say? You got me."
From my new Zeteo interview with the top centrist pundit - on the left, Michigan, Gaza, immigration, polls, electability, and more:
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Yglesias's posts since Aug 30 include ~5 mentioning Piker and at least 9 mentioning Rogers/Rodgers, not 8 and 6. Hasan posted about Piker ~35 times in the period.
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Beyond targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Trump administration has killed, arrested, deported, and demonized Somalis at home and abroad. theintercept.com/2026/10/21/…
Losing this game, and this series, *after* this moment is the emotional equivalent to: if ending of The Never Ending Story was Bastian riding Falcor, pumping his fist, and then gets knocked off by a plane.
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So, unlike how Dana makes it appear, El-Sayed didn't just say "sure, yeah."
He unequivocally said "yeah, absolutely." And it has now been revealed that the guy asking El-Sayed the question is a GOP operative and far-right Christian nationalist.
