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Ashley Hinson hired the Golden Girls 2.0 from Florida to play “concerned Iowa women” in her new ad.

This is bonkers. Like as bonkers as it gets.

So the "Elites" know what's best for the working class? Thats what got us in the position we are in. We allowed "Politician" to become a job title. More working class people should be in a position to do something to help their neighbors.

Trump supporters are firmly against communism-style handouts, but Trump's $5K checks? That's free money, baby! @jordanklepper.bsky.social

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this…

A Tufted Titmouse on a windy day.

"Even by the standards of this administration, the pursuit of Cassidy Hutchinson may be its nastiest and most repulsive move yet. . . The hounding of Hutchinson has an outsize moral dimension that lays bare the rot at the heart of the administration." harrylitman.substack.com/p/bring-me-t...

NEWS: The U.S. State Department says it will give U.S. visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family who have fled Brazil after Bolsonaro's loss

Elon Musk just gave Greg Abbott $5 million. Sounds like the Elon emails Abbott has been hiding must be more damning than we even knew.

In the words of Joe diGenova, you can’t indict without evidence. wapo.st/4yPWbRx

Susan Saint James 1946-2026 RIP

So his answer is: "I have a job. I don't have time to read a one-word label on a ballot."

Is Maria Pappas’s whole campaign platform that she thinks Alexi Giannoulias is dumb?

Tennessee governor candidate Jerri Green just CALLED OUT Marsha Blackburn for avoiding a debate. “This is a job interview and everybody is seeing her for the COWARD that she is.” “Show a little backbone if she has one left and stop running into elevators, stop running from press and the airports.”

Citation Oil & Gas is named more than any other company in an Oklahoma database of violations — over 1,000 times in the past decade. State regulators have never punished it, despite repeated staff recommendations to do so. By @nickbowlin.bsky.social for @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social

Bale Dalton: My opponent says that the war in Iran and rising gas prices are the cost of freedom. Well, I'm pretty sure that we had freedom before entering into this war of choice in which the only thing that is a viable alternative of getting out is a worse situation than when we got in.

🚨 Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek says farmers whose families have owned their land for over 100 YEARS are warning they could lose everything due to skyrocketing diesel and fertilizer costs amid the Iran war. “This isn't going to work. I'm gonna end up in foreclosure.”

🚨 Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek calls out Republican Ashley Hinson over what he describes as a $400,000 campaign bus and a request for gas money. “I'm just in a small car just driving around Iowa.” “That is a Marie Antoinette level of ‘let them eat cake’ disconnect.”

Trump admitted he blocked energy funding to punish blue states he lost in 2024, including $586 million for Illinois. Courts ruled it illegal. He's still blocking the money. Bipartisan permitting reform won't work if Trump ignores the law. He must reinstate the grants first.

Legendary musician Neil Young is suing the orange felon for $10M over copyright infringement for continuously using his song “Rockin’ In The Free World” at midterm MAGA Nazi rallies. Good, more artists need to do this.

Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek says even longtime Trump voters are approaching him on the campaign trail. “I'm a two-time Trump voter. I'm a three-time Trump voter. You've got my support because you're one of us.”

Rebecca Cooke on Derrick Van Orden: “He's gotten drunk in his official office, yelled at Senate pages, carried a loaded gun through TSA... I mean, he's really out there.” Cooke also slams his “six votes that he took to continue this war in Iran” as Wisconsin families face rising prices.

"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." --The Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by Congress on June 7, 1797

In other words, Trump invaded Venezuela, killed about 100 people, installed a member of the dictatorship as the new puppet leader, and stole the country's oil.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

An FBI agent fatally shot a man in Pilsen, the agency said. buff.ly/KR8JHYk

Trump's legal gambits getting weaker:

Oh, it seems record voter turnout has the corrupt war criminal worried. Good.

"I have 5 sisters... If any piece of shit did to them what Vivek Ramasamy did to Amy Acton he’d find himself flat on his ass" Former ND Senator Joel Heitkamp on why Amy Acton is the better human in the Ohio Governors race: bit.ly/4imhJyT

Racist, of course. But he's also saying this in Michigan, a state that has towns and cities named Dowagiac, Charlevoix, Epoufette, Hamtramck and Ocqueoc.

BREAKING: My take on the new Comey case - people are getting the analysis wrong in my view. substack.com/@weissmann/n...

Reading about an ailing priest literally being carried out of an ICE facility, as well as Team Trump spying on churches, I kept thinking about one thing: The Trump White House last year accused Biden and his administration of having “abused and targeted Christians.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I feel like Jared Kushner being at the center of the plot that ultimately led to an American journalist being dismembered via bone saw while he was still alive should be a much bigger deal than our billionaire owned news media is making of it.

Totally a Talafreako on this line of attack.

A snow bunting at Montrose Point this morning

New Epstein report from the House Judiciary Committee and a reminder that Blanche and Trump are still withholding a TON of information that is almost certainly damning on them, and definitely not exculpatory. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Flagrant, staggering bigotry from the highest offices in the land. Hell is not hot enough

NEW: For over a year, staff at Oklahoma’s regulatory agency built a case against the oil company with the state’s highest number of oil field pollution incidents and violations. Instead of punishing the company, officials let it restart operations. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

Really excited to learn from Trump and his cult next week how we cheated again.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 489. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

I’ll say it: it shows what disgusting pigs Americans are that they eat their cheesecake right there at the factory instead of waiting for it to be delivered to a store or restaurant

Probably doesn't even know it's a restaurant.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Proving once again that racist assholes are also dirt dumb.

Hey Alabama GOP—here’s the voter fraud youve been looking for, but it’s the GOP candidate for Lt Gov, being called out here by the Dem candidate @phillipensler.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DeR8AKh...

PSA Banana Republic at Old Orchard has mannequins for $50

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

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