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."
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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.
There’s just as good of chance that Alaskans will be offended by the insinuation that they are too dumb to vote correctly and hold that against Sullivan/Republicans as anything else. They’re putting up boards on windows when the entire house is about to float away in a tsunami.
Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner."
(So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)
In this stroller, there is now nothing but a bloody pulp. This is all that remains of the baby after today’s Russian shelling of a park in the Kharkiv region.
#MadeByPutin#FinancedByTrump
Well, this Nebraskan just decided to volunteer for another round of door knocking this weekend, courtesy of this fucking bitch talking out his ass like this.
TRUMP: The United States, out of respect for President Trump, was not required to give anything in return - an unprecedented situation for Russia
TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: If sanctions would have been placed, certainly those negotiations would have come to a complete and total halt
Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
@lawofruby.bsky.social I just watched you discuss the BBC/Trump lawsuit. I get that Smith’s testimony is totally relevant but how would BBC get around it all being hearsay? Trump’s lawyers are correct that all of Smith’s knowledge is based on second-hand information, right? What’s the exception?
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad.
"This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
Kristi Noem: "That man has given up more for this country than anybody in history, has taken more persecution, his family has suffered, yet they keep stepping up and serving and doing the right thing"
@bryancurtis.bsky.social@joelanderson.bsky.social Hello from central Nebraska. Love the pod and really enjoyed the senate rankings the other day. I think you should be bullish about Nebraska though. In this Trump +30 county there are Osborn signs everywhere. Not aware of a single Ricketts sign.
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 law signed by Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts when he was governor gave $836 million in tax breaks to data centers in 5 years before the new governor stopped it.
This wasn't a mistake but how Republicans think the economy should work: economic development can only be achieved with corporate welfare.
Maine, you have a choice: A Senator who helps Donald Trump hurt Maine and then tells us how concerned she is or somebody who will stand up against him before another family in Maine has to pay the price. I owe the people of Maine everything and tonight I'm asking for your vote.
OSSOFF: Mike Collins continues to defend the war. Georgians deserve to know how this war has helped them. How has it helped Georgians? Simple question
COLLINS: *brings up El-Sayed*
Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Victor Wembayana throws his support behind France's high school protests, condemning "systemic inequalities"
"I'm happy that high school students and youth in general are making their voices heard -- because me, I hear them and I understand their point of view"
www.lemonde.fr/sport/video/...
I am generally quite opposed to posting AI slop unless it is:
1) Obvious satire and therefore not suggestive of any effort to falsify or mislead.
And...
2) really fucking funny.
JD Vance on Amy Acton: "I did promise Amy that I would meet her at a bar later. I understand she's into that sort of thing, so I'm gonna try to get to know her."
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) ran this ad when he was running for US Senate in 2004 as a Democrat.
The ad touted his support for free college tuition.
Note how Kennedy's accent is much less animated.
This shift has coincided with the prevalence of advanced statistics in basically every sport. Doesn’t seem like a coincidence. “Gah, me no want to think. Me like only yell mindless conventional wisdom old white coaches have said forever.”
Trump: "The Fake News New York Times 'reported' on my Great, PACKED Rally in Ohio that, 'the place was not full.' In actuality ... The Arena was totally MAXED OUT. What does happen at all of my SOLD OUT Rallies, is people tend to migrate down ... I never have empty seats — Never have & never will!"