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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

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“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

wsj.comThe ‘Buy, Borrow and Die’ Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5 Trillion MarketA Deloitte study found a booming market in stock-based loans to billionaires—and the lesser rich.

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One of most interesting pro-voter maneuvers this fall: After facing years of attacks against popular initiatives, organizers in Missouri and Montana are pushing two measures this November that'd give their states arguably the strongest legal protections in the country for direct democracy:

boltsmag.orgTo Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - BoltsAfter years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri. They’ve placed constitutional amendments on... Rea...

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Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

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Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

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The corruption we know of is already staggering. Imagine the corruption we don't know about.

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.

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From the department of things I didn’t know until yesterday. 1 in 3 Kroger stores analyzed have overcharged customers. When they overcharge, it's more than 20% above the shelf price on average. bit.ly/4ytZCwQ

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Trump: "If you elect a Republican House and Senate on November 3, you'll get $5,000. And if we lose, you get nothing."

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This isn’t one of those “oh maybe we’re taking him out of context when he talked about bombing LA” quotes. It’s a five-alarm fire quote — and it ought to be placed high on every serious news site’s homepage tonight and tomorrow morning.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine."

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Will you look at this. He got there. Hell yeah: "Powerful people are using small minorities in our community to distract from their corruption. The only minority destroying America is the billionaires."

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... rigged the rules of the economy in favor of those wealthy special interests at our expense. But we can change that in this year, in this state, in this race." THAT is how you run against your own party, not this "I stood up to Biden" nonsense. Just tell people why stuff's broken and

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Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...

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Trump on what his fans could do with their $5k Trump check: "Let's go to Palm Beach and enjoy the president for lunch. Let's have lunch at Mar-a-Lago, where for $5,000 you'll get one hamburger and a small dessert."

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Fox News keeps trying to make Michigan congressional candidate Abdul El-Sayed sound scary, but everything he says just keeps making sense.

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Susan Collins wants voters to believe she is a moderate Republican who stands up to Trump. But the truth is Collins only takes sides against the regime when she knows her vote won’t stop Trump.

nytimes.comIn the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him (Gift Article)A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.

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“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

techpolicy.pressTech Hype is Cannibalizing the FutureEvery day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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It tracks that this is his definition of consent

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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Trump to crowd: “It’s amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clap.” Crowd: claps In the history of dumb fucking cults, MAGA is by far, the fucking dumbest.

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I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Donald saying his wife calls him "Sir" is rather amusing. I know it's a lie—Melania probably *never* speaks to him—but it shows that he is more interested in pretending to be respected than loved.

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Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!

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dennis hastert died. he was a pedophile. he was the republican speaker of the house. neither the media nor democrats ever talk about it.

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How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.

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Welp. Republicans distancing themselves from Trump, saying it’s time to end the war. Congress introduced War Powers resolutions to force Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran. Ashley Hinson: NO Jon Husted: NO Tom Tiffany: NO They had a chance to end it, but they voted against it.

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"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"

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