Jim Saksa

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

Trump and Republicans are restarting their voter fraud misinformation machine ahead of the midterms. When I checked, Republican candidates were implicated in voter fraud at up to 38,000x the public’s rate. If they were actually worried about voter fraud, they’d start with their own candidates.

This is the concern about the DOJ lawsuits and the admin's other obviously unlawful actions. Not that they succeed, but that they work to whip up another Jan. 6-like mob (or mobs). www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

NEW: Views of ICE have turned more negative among Republicans and Democrats alike (even as a wide partisan gap remains). Americans view ICE more negatively than any of the other 11 agencies asked about in the latest @pewresearch.org survey. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

🚨 U.S. Postal Service says to mail in your ballot by TOMORROW at the latest

Dear corporate executives: for a fraction of whatever you are spending on your current crop of lobbyists, I will explain how midterms almost always swing against the party in power, and other obvious phenomena www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It turns out that an international system based on “deals”, instead of rules, endangers all of us personally and our democracies collectively.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an unprecedented lawsuit Thursday, effectively calling for Alaska’s Division of Elections to set aside the results of the Senate race if anyone other than incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) wins www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As @gelliottmorris.com has noted, Trump is now underwater on immigration and deportations. Opposing the admin on its immorality IS good politics that will HELP Democrats get elected!!

“I just was in full panic, like, ‘No, there’s children, there’s babies in there.’ I told my Siri to call 911,” he said. The dispatcher had questions for him, but he didn’t stay on the call to answer them. “I said, ‘I’m sorry, I have to go in. People are going to die.’”

I don't know why the WH press corps is so chicken shit. MTG tried this once, refusing a foreign outlet (BBC, iirc) question, asked for an American reporter. So I jumped in, yelling "American here with a question" and then asked her to answer the BBC reporter's question. (not to toot my own horn)

I know we say 'unprecedented' a lot, but this shit is seriously unprecedented (and unserious, as I hope I conveyed in my quick write up. I'm assuming there will be standing, ripeness, statutory, and constitutional challenges here): www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Check out a special collection of scholarship forecasting the 2026 US Midterms, too! Research, in addition to polls, matters. bsky.app/profile/pspo...

Sometimes when a team is special you can tell right away. Just sayin.

One of the craziest comebacks I have seen in this building. Sixers were dreadful all first half and then hit a level of intensity the Cavs simply couldn't match in the second, overcoming a 29-point lead. Insane start to the year THE RECAP from me allphly.com/sixers-home-...

PLAY THE SONG!!!!!

The Sixers complete a historic comeback to win their home opener over the Cavaliers 🔥 Instant analysis: www.inquirer.com/sixers/live/...

Asked Todd Blanche about possible post-election litigation from DOJ today. He declined to rule out potential action, citing theoretical “doomsday” scenario. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

For anyone wondering about how the Louise Lucas indictment relates to DOJ's so-called "60 day rule" about pre-election actions, Jack Goldsmith wrote about the purported rule for @lawfaremedia.org in October 2024: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

I know people are worried that the polls are off this year, as they can be. But when that happens, you hear parties and candidates really loudly saying so, and - more importantly - allocating resources accordingly. Right now, the GOP is acting like the polls are correct.

If these Emerson polls are accurate, some big name Republicans might be going down.

Montana House (First Congressional District) Oct 12 - 14, 2026 Sam Forstag (D) 50% (+4.0%) Aaron Flint (R) 46% Emerson College (A) 329 LV Sponsor: Poll Vault View Poll

An update on Florida's early voting. It is still trailing 2022 due, in part, to a significant change in law regarding mail ballot requests. Democrats and Unaffiliated voters are making up ground in the in-person early vote, but Republicans not so much michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/florida-ea...

I cannot get past how this seems to suggest it is unusual that someone understands politics differently at 21 from when they were 11. Maybe learning Santa isn't real or where babies really come from set young Mikey down this path of discovery

I don't know what's more gobsmacking and unforgivable, this or the UArts collapse. Like, truly, incompetent management and bad boards and vampiric consultants are such a goddamn problem in the non-profit world

Decades of financial mismanagement. Leadership that never seemed to truly understand the museum and its audience. A study that—shockingly—recommended ripping out all the dinosaur exhibits. Kyle Bagenstose delivers the story that I've been waiting to read about the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Those in North Carolina who are voting by mail can track their ballots at: northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/ #ncpol

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

Really instructive to see, day after day, the public deserting Trump, and elites—tech, corporate, legal, media, think-tank— hanging in there, rationalizing, excusing, and enabling away.

You and my toddler both! GOOD JOB BUDDY, WHO IS A BIG BOY?! Wonder if Trump has to wear night diapers too...

My friends who moved to London a few years back love it. Helps they're got a good ex-pat community and live in Notting Hill and not, like, Slough

I'm not exaggerating, Jeffrey Lurie needs to hire an independent investigator to review the entire decision making process that led to Jalen Hurts not only playing that game in London, but then getting onto a transatlantic flight back. He could have died, heads need to roll.

Insane he took the field, insane he flew back after. Everything about this is insane and could have ended with Hurts dead on the field. We need inquiries and accountability here.

so the government, more than a year after their wiretap act charges against me were dismissed, has just re-indicted me on the same charges

As I've been posting, everyone in NC has higher #earlyvote turnout except White Republicans. If you add a White by Party chart you'll see it

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Idk who needs to hear this but you should vote EARLY if you have that option where you live. Do not wait for Election Day. This is an A+ list of voting tips from @lwv.org. It is time to lock in

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

a tremendous work of longform journalism

Free markets are great when they work but when the assumptions underlying them - perfect competition, perfect information, etc. - don't get close to the real world realities, they tend to break down and enable rent-seeking behavior. Like this!

The recording laws are limited to private settings and phone calls. And depending on the state, you only need one other person - not everyone - there to agree. But in no state does it apply to public settings like this.

Trump posting videos of people being mauled to death is exceedingly disturbing and should trigger 25th Amendment discussions but will probably go unremarked by most outlets

"Thank God my kid is too young for this issue," is something I now say or think almost daily. I am dreading when that stops being true. (He's 4, I've got some time)