Seth B

Seth B

@sdbauer.bsky.social

Editor, writer, Olympic medalist, coach, hyperlocal news volunteer

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NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

democracydocket.comTodd Blanche falsely claims DOJ isn’t seeking to block Alaska from certifying Senate contestBlanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certifying the state's election if the Republican loses. The actual complaint says otherwise.

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Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas. But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.

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Ossoff: "If you're involved in any of this, next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God, in front of Congress!"

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“America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine…Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine.” — Mike Pence I briefed him as Vice President. He’s right. Lifting sanctions doesn’t buy peace. It funds the war. Slava Ukraini.

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This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.”

Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule.

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Another home run for McSweeney's.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2

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NEW: President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections.

democracydocket.comTrump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improveTrump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.

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The Iran war, the mass deportation campaign, the trade war with Canada, the affordability crisis, the Kennedy Center, the Epstein mess, the measles, Jr.’s Russian wedding, the embrace of Putin—is there not one GOP leader who has the guts to say this ain’t working? That’s a rhetorical question.

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After nearly two years of economic failure and broken promises, JD Vance’s midterm pitch these closing weeks is “give us another chance.” The American people cannot afford another round of this - and the good news is we don’t have to.

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If Al Qaeda or Iran blew up the Kennedy Center, Congress would declare war. When Trump illegally demolishes it, Congress won't do anything.

Zeteo@zeteo.com

Don’t Think Trump Won’t Demolish the Kennedy Center – He’s Shown Us Who He Is Even as a child, the president stole other people’s buildings to feed his monstrous ego. Also, Ed Sheeran lost his voice and then his support acts. 'First Draft' from @martinpengelly.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/dont-think...

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I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity

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Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

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Ok so Trump is *promising* that he will pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans win the House & Senate. And as I’m sure other astute observers are noting, that’s essentially a taxpayer-backed, congressionally unapproved $1.3 trillion bribe. He’s bribing the entire country—with our own money

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If you were to list the top 1000 real problems in the United States, voter fraud wouldn't be one of them. It’s not even in the top 10,000. Donald Trump made this up in order to make it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat.

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North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump

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NEW: Nevada called the Trump administration's bid to police its voter rolls "bulls**t" after DHS walked back Trump's claims that thousands of noncitizens were illegally registered to vote in the state. “This whole exercise has been bulls**t,” Nevada Secretary of State Aguilar said.

democracydocket.com‘Bulls**t': Nevada election chief blasts Trump's noncitizen voter roll claims after DHS walks them back“The fact that they are so flippant about a fundamental constitutional right is unsettling,” Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar told Democracy Docket.

We need consumer demand for online content micropayments so that people can read great articles a la carte rather than subscribing. We should be able to read firewalled articles the way we used to buy newspapers at the newsstand if the headlines caught our attention.

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Breaking: Administration unable to find proof of thing they just made up.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

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