Kat Abughazaleh isn’t your typical Democratic contender. At 26, she brings punk shows, mutual aid, and real empathy to the race—running boldly against the party’s old guard. 🇺🇸 #IL09 #GenZPolitics #XapaAI Read more: www.dcreport.org/2025/09/17/k...

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall! I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures. Explore, share, save:

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Diaper Diplomacy.

The rules from the Department of Housing and Urban Development would allow major changes to public housing and Section 8 vouchers: - full-time work requirements - 2-year time limits - stripping aid from whole families if one member is in the country illegally www.propublica.org/article/trum...

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Ohio State history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries — Hakeem Jeffries’s brother — is on Charlie Kirk’s professor watchlist, and he has some interesting quotes in this!

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

4/ Borsook divided the tech ”libertarians” into two main types: the Ravers and the Gilders. The Ravers are the ones who go to Burning Man and project countercultural ideas. The Gilders are the Peter Thiel types, more overtly focused on money and power. But they are birds of a feather.

Posts claim Charlie Kirk once introduced Kyle Rittenhouse as "a hero to millions." That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent second autopsy. The truth will be revealed! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

We're at the point where Troy Nehls has declared Charlie Kirk the 13th apostle.

Two things Kash didn't know. 1) Who Dylan Roof is. 2) That Shein, in which he has a significant investment, is a Chinese company.

It remains relevant that an actually tiny number of Republicans could save our constitutional republic and they won't do it

Its already happened. We have a NAZI country now.

Premium Newsletter: There is no real market for renting out AI GPUs, and the majority of revenue comes from two companies - Microsoft and NVIDIA - the latter of which rents its own GPUs back from Neoclouds like CoreWeave so they can raise debt...to buy more GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/is-there-any...

"Outrageous incident" turns out, in fact, to be manufactured outrage by, checks notes, a right-wing individual. Twisted on so many levels, including the fact that people could have been hurt. The store had to close because of threats based on disinformation. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

Sometime this week the U.S. Marshals Service quietly published the latest numbers on threats against judges:

Donald Trump and his billionaire friends see a recession as an opportunity for profit. Let's create a revolution that empowers us all instead. #OneV1 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemCast

Schumer backing anyone but McMorrow in the Michigan Senate race is insane. You wouldn’t believe it if you saw it on a TV show. “No one’s that clueless.”

Scoop: A sudden no-bid ICE contract for specialized sniper training has gone to a decorated former Marine who is also the brother of a GOP lawmaker. Reached by WIRED, he says there was no hookup; 20 years in a reconnaissance unit and even more as an instructor simply left him uniquely qualified.

Georgia law lets judges resign in a way that cancels elections and lets the governor pick their replacement. Critics are demanding that this loophole be fixed. “You don’t cancel an election just because you don’t like the outcome.”

Meanwhile in New York someone has dressed up as Trump in a hospital gown with an IV infusion of bleach. *Chef's kiss 😘👌

Venezuela: "This plot seeks to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil platform operating in waters extending into the yet-to-be-delimited Essequibo region, with the intention of justifying retaliatory and hostile actions against our nation," Rodriguez said during a televised address."

Happy Labor Day, Michigan ✊

Christ.

It's the Epstein Client List.

In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Why does a woman arrested at an anti-ICE protest die in custody? No one knows since the media isn't covering it. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DemsAct #DemCast

It was clear two years ago that Project 2025 and Trump planned to drain all monies from everything but Criminal Justice, Immigration, National Security and the Military, and that those formerly separate pots would in fact be one pot aimed at controlling the American population via government force.

Trump is taking away health coverage from more than 14 million Americans by sending their health insurance premiums through the roof and adding layers and layers of often impossible paperwork. Slashing Medicaid and gutting Obamacare.

Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.

I just want a reporter to ask a question that begins with, “Many people say you are dying…”

In a concerning display of cognitive confusion, President Donald Trump, 79, muddled the identities of two women in politics during a recent Oval Office appearance. Trump erroneously referred to "Kristi Whitmer," merging the names of DHS Sec., Kristi Noem, and Michigan Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 25 AUGUST 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES TODAY HE SAYS "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a DICTATOR" In Washington DC 3-story banners of Dear Leader adorn the Dept. of Agriculture & Dept. of Labor Just like you'd see in North Korea or China LET IT SINK IN

Intetesting take from a ... {checks notes} … forensic pathologist

The selective prosecution claim will be epic.

During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic. 

I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:

1. History isn’t there to be liked or disliked. 2. History is there to be learned from. 3. History offends you? Even better. Then you’re less likely to repeat it. It’s that simple.

someone is making scrapbook pages and hanging them up on fences

I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.

Can someone list the six wars he has stopped? i wonder if the information is in the #Epstein files