Louisiana candidate filing closed today and the Democrats got a candidate in all six Congressional districts. The GOP did not get a candidate in #LA02 (Harris+32), making it the 2nd congressional district that the GOP have failed to contest this year. The Dems have not let any go uncontested yet.

*rubs temples* As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but... The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.

this is why i am laser-focused on paying rent for people right now. the second a family is evicted, the costs of everything explode. lives are disrupted, new schools have to be found, people are in physical danger, and then they are so much harder to rehouse with an eviction on their record.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Members of Jewish Voice for Peace have gathered together near the MDC for a solidarity Shabbat with their immigrant neighbors who have been under assault by federal agents this last year

Important news out of California today, where a DA was prosecuting pro-Palestinian protesters:

Manatee with dolphin splashes and a pelican landing 4 U 💜

Not gonna lie, the last line of Jeffries' post here got my attention.

the reporter going “so just to be clear, you guys are frogs now because of the other frog? there’s no other significance to the frog thing?? I would love for there to be more to it than that” and the frogs are just like “nah man we’re here to support the original frog”

In retrospect, it is a minor miracle that I’ve been able to have any sort of career in journalism after my first-ever published Politics Take (from February 2016) turned out to be this hilariously, cartoonishly wrong web.archive.org/web/20160225...

> a lot of leftist “AI is fake hype” sentiment is motivated imo by the fact that the silicon valley overclass is the most morally and aesthetically revolting elite in living memory. They’re just so repugnant (and that is true) that they *must* be wrong, there *must* be comeuppance

Chat, I slipped on ice while making this donation, but instead of dying, i did a sick wave dash. Celebrate the snuffbait spirit with me! I will match $500 donated to KCIF by users who quote dunk me with a receipt and something mean about me. The Death Drive Will Intensify, until God strikes me down.

The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"

One thing I find endlessly annoying is people pushing my boundaries under the guise of helping me grow but the real motivation is self-serving and I’ll be the growth decider, thanks.

l m a o. I had no idea. youtube.com/shorts/kn8oc...

“People feel it in their guts, on the streets. Abolish them, because otherwise they will execute us.”

Correction 👇🏽 Someone should edit this on Wikipedia

FWIW I've had flight attendants tell me to leave trash in the seat-back pocket when I'd missed their last trash sweep. I didn't, mind you; I packed it out with me instead. But it was surprising to hear.

Side note: Is @rns.org reporting cited in this court case? It turns out, yes!

"But the one thing that I will apologize for, the only regret that I have, is that I did not speak up sooner, and I will never make that mistake again."

When I say I stand on business this what I mean.

Curling doesn't necessarily have to be just a winter sport.

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👀 – Biss' campaign seems to have shared favorables for AIPAC with @capitolfax from the internal poll it put out yesterday #IL09 Very fav: 4% Somewhat fav: 7% Total fav: 11% Somewhat unfav: 14% Very unfav: 35% Total unfav: 49% Name ID: 60% Can't rate: 40%

NEW: Minneapolis residents aren't buying that ICE is finally ending its campaign of terror in their communities, despite border czar Tom Homan declaring the surge is over. “This is a good day for sure, but I don’t trust the fuckers." www.huffpost.com/entry/what-m...

James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.

lfg!!!

Dawn of The Final Day

Just signed up for a year, looking forward to good journalism that also gives Bezos a 🖕

Yeah, hard same. "I really don't want this to happen" was clouding my perception of "how likely is this to happen and how much impact will it have if it does".

Thank you so much for doing this!! Neither landing page nor the emailed acknowledgment mentioned the amount but it was $25, hope that’s ok!

IMPORTANT NOTES: - I can only match your donations if you TELL ME (quote-post, reply, or DM) how much! - memberships DO count as donations - if you sign up for a monthly membership, I'll match the first year's worth

Which is a shame, because I can assure there would be some *really, really cool* drone shots when covering religion.

You can help build billionaire-free local news. Repost this -> I give $1 Follow @51st.news -> I give $1 Follow me -> I give $1 Donate -> I match your gift Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.

“In the video and audio reviewed by The Post, at no point does Lemon appear to obstruct the pastor’s movement.” The indictment claims Lemon “physically obstructed” congregants as they tried to leave. The video in fact “shows Lemon holding the door for people who are leaving.”

That's a wrap for this one. 119 reposts, $216 in donations to match, and 32 Senator/House rep calls (I decided to count calling all three as $30) = $655. Rounded that up to $750. Receipt for the balance attached. Thank you all so much, and special thanks to everyone who donated/phoned. More TK.

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On a completely unrelated note, I'm curious about what would have happened if Bezos had died from sexual misadventure in the window between him negatively polarizing Mackenzie Scott against billionaires and their divorce settlement cutting her out of the rest of his estate.

Here is actual data on Trump's handling of immigration: www.gelliottmorris.com/i/159456631/... POTUS is hitting a new all-time low every day recently, with (dis)approval of Trump's handling of immigration overall converging on his handling of deportations, which has been underwater since last April

WOKE INTERNATIONALE NOW

"It is our global alliances that can be a hard stop against authoritarian consolidation of power, particularly in the installation of regional puppet governments."

*Very* nice.

ICE is moving forward with its plan to convert an abandoned warehouse located in Chester, NY into a detention facility. New Yorkers have seen the appalling, inhumane conditions of ICE's mass detention camps and their response couldn't be more clear: ICE and its cruelty have no place in New York.

If you block everyone who thinks AOC is too far right you will have lost nothing, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out