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🚨 Troy Jackson FIRES BACK after Susan Collins runs an ad questioning his qualifications as a fifth-generation logger. “It's not the first time I've had someone that thought they were better than me talk down to me.” “Actually it IS about a cord of wood. People can't afford to heat their homes.”

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Big Oil buys off Congress. No action on climate. Big Pharma buys off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. But we can begin to course correct by electing leaders on Nov. 3 who represent the people, not big money. Let's get it done.

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This election can determine whether millions of Americans pay more for healthcare — or lose coverage altogether, suffer, struggle and die. 💙 Protect Medicaid. 💙 Restore ACA tax credits. 💙 Lower premiums. 💙 Lower prescription drug costs. 💙 Save lives. Getting sick shouldn't bankrupt you...

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This jerk right here is the first major American political figure of any party who simply refuses to accept the result of any election that his team lost. This attitude in a Presidents destroys the Constitution. It took the United States over 230 years to sink to this low.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You'll respect the election results whatever happens? TRUMP: If they're honest elections (That's a no!)

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There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

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When Anthropic was created, its co-founders pledged to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the company to philanthropic causes. As they prepare to take the company public, they appear to be walking back that pledge.

motherjones.comAnthropic’s founders pledged to donate most of their stock. Their IPO tells another story.The AI giant’s new filing calls the promise a “revocable,” nonbinding “expression” that depends on market conditions.

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As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

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Jon Husted voted against the release of the Epstein files just weeks after receiving a maximum campaign contribution from an Epstein co-conspirator. Ohioans deserve strong leaders in Washington, not pedophile protectors.

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In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

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Always. Read. Paul.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

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Whoever called the cops needs to be named and shamed. Absolute pieces of shit.

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White people calling the police on a Black toddler and police responding are why it's always and forever the racism, not "economic anxiety."

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

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Just because your food has an American flag on the label doesn't mean it came from an American farm. Corporate loopholes have made it harder for Americans to know where their food actually comes from. It's time to bring back honest country-of-origin labeling and put American farmers first.