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For anyone in Virginia who’s pro Palestine please vote for Hashmi, she’s YIMBY endorsed and a huge pro Palestine advocate she was at protests in 2021 and send a letter defending protests www.vpm.org/news/2021-05...

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Insane in Louisiana These judges get MONEY for evicting people As in, they get to keep fees, personally, as part of their pay

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This is not government efficiency. This is incompetence.

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If a Democratic president cut off one of the red states dependent on federal funding, it would be a political scandal. But cutting off California -- the single biggest "donor state" in the nation, one that sends in to the fed'l gov't ~$80 billion more than it gets back -- is straight-up theft.

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Literally yesterday, Ed Markey told me Republicans would preserve the IRA renewable energy tax credits BECAUSE most of them go to red states. Democrats continually go out of their way to provide a windfall for areas that don't vote for them.

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“I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else. I think that, in the way that we have in this country, equality should be enshrined in every country in the world. That's my belief.” - Zohran Mamdani

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My new column at Governing is on my family's choice to take the convenience of an urban neighborhood over a larger home and yard. Not everyone wants to raise kids in this environment, but more families should be able to make this choice if they want to: www.governing.com/urban/high-d...

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NEW: Virginia's two most populous cities voted Harris in November, and both have Republican sheriffs up for reelection this year, at a time where sheriffs are rushing to help ICE. There's no Democrat, or indy, challenging either sheriff. Main filing deadline passed; a final one is in two weeks.

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To follow up on my point from yesterday, some people said that "Gaza showed Democrats would abandon Harris". That's wrong. Biden's handling of Gaza was electorally horrid because it drove away independents from the party — look at our survey. Biggest shift with independents and Trump 2020 voters.

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I really appreciate WaPo jumping off of reporting we did at Bolts in May to spotlight an ICE data-sharing program that many blue counties are part of. Our story was focused on Oakland: boltsmag.org/alameda-coun... @pbump.com graphs just how widespread this is: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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Very sad news about the passing of Jerruald C. Jones He was a former Delegate and Judge in Virginia His son Jay Jones is currently running for Virginia Attorney General Sending my condolences to the whole Jones family

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This ain’t good, folks… Why are we hearing about this, days later?

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 8 days ago • 241 comments

AtlasIntel poll Generic ballot Democratic 51% Republican 42% 5/21-5/27

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The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

submitted 9 days ago • 107 comments

BREAKING: Trump administration's effort to stop NYC's congestion pricing is blocked, as Judge Lewis Liman, a Trump appointee, issues a 109-page opinion granting a preliminary injunction to the challengers defending the congestion pricing program. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

every day Trump says "you need to buy our exports" and every day other countries go "oh cool do you have anything worth buying" and we go "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how about natural gas"

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

not morbid, accurate. and this is why I cannot give him grace - how many elders will lose their cancer care because of his ego

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-Three of the 215 House Democrats have died this year, all from states that Trump won (TX/AZ) or have a Republican Governor (TX/VA). -Six House Democrats have died since April 2024. -The last eight House members to die in office have been Democrats, going back to 2022.

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In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing. Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

There are good articles to be written about how polls still haven't fully solved the problem of measuring Trump voters. But a sentence like this, in this environment, is totally irresponsible.

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We’re testing a new feature! Starting this week, select accounts can add a livestream link to sites like YouTube or Twitch, and their Bluesky profile will show they’re live now.

submitted 19 days ago • 1129 comments

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza overnight as UN human rights chief warns of ‘ethnic cleansing’ – Middle East crisis live

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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 116 comments

“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

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The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

submitted 30 days ago • 2734 comments

Big news in North Carolina: A federal judge (appointed by Trump) has handed a major loss to Republican Jefferson Griffin, who's trying to overturn November's supreme court race. The judge, Richard Myers, ordered North Carolina's Board of Elections to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs's win.

submitted 33 days ago • 38 comments

#GAGov Brian Kemp, the GOP's top recruit to take on Jon Ossoff, is reportedly saying no to the race. A recent @ajc.com poll showed an Ossoff-Kemp race would be close, but Ossoff had ~double-digit leads on everyone else.

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I've avoided commenting about his channel, but this video is so ass that I might have to make something about it. Also this is absolutely part cope for the fact that the Dutch suck at building heavy rail metro

submitted 34 days ago • 31 comments

There's a Bluesky thing where you see a big spike of really stupid replies once your thread crosses some virality threshold where it "escapes containment" It's like somehow my content reached a new corner of Bluesky that's not yet covered by my blocklists

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Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means a 25% tariff on all $114B in non-USCMA-compliant auto part imports has now gone into effect, alongside a hideously complex system allowing carmakers to rebate tariffs on 15% of the content in a US-made car this year & 10% next year

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whatever i think of fetterman — which is, frankly, not much — i think primarying him would probably be a mercy at this point, because he is very clearly unwell, for reasons that aren't his fault, and he's unlikely to get better while serving as a senator.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

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Pierre Poilievre had held his seat for 20 years — that was quite the huge defeat for him yesterday, for a man who 3 months ago seemed as certain to become Prime Minister as you can be heading into an election year.

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl. www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

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