Back to school season shouldn’t be the start of school shooting season. Literally no other developed country has anywhere near the level of gun violence we have in this country and it’s fucking unacceptable we act like there’s nothing we can do.

Don Jr's Online Buddies Allegedly Demand $5 Million from Russian Shell Companies to Say Nice Things about His Daddy emptywheel.net/2024/09/04/don…

I've got mail ballot request data for four states onboarded onto the 2024 early vote tracker. Just about there to post the link...just a few things to tidy up and a few more states to add

Who will leak the leakers?

Egypt bribed Trump $10 million Russia bribed conservative influencers $10 million Seems like the going MAGA price

The new DOJ charging documents raise a curious question: DOJ charges two lower-level employees of a Russian front company, but despite providing chapter and verse about the complicity of the two "Founders" of that company, the Founders are not charged. My Suspicion (based on my

Huh. Wonder if this is connected to the leaked Trump campaign managers' email telling staff don't talk to the press or they'll be fired

How many times did Musk promote just one of these Kremlin agents? ALOT.

It's a big deal that veteran journalist Mike Barnicle has now called out his media colleagues for failing to adequately cover Trump's visibly worsening mental state. It should spur a real discussion about how to do this, before it's too late. 1/ New piece newrepublic.com/article/185622…

Who among us hasn't "mistakenly" said that an interview with a Nazi apologist was very interesting?

The people who convinced Senator Mike Lee to create his “based” Twitter account were the same people alleged to have “unwittingly” taken Russian disinfo money.

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds." apnews.com/article/f0b0fe…

My job is to analyze policy. I can't even find a complete sentence in this

This is a for-real genuine problem: leading media reporting a version of events you wouldn't recognize if you saw or listened to it yourself. (I listened to this speech. In a million years would not have written this summary.) Please, someone from the NYT, actually engage with

SCOOP: NPR has ID'd the two Trump campaign staffers involved in an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery last week that Trump insists did not happen. One of them is a deputy campaign manager. More with Quil Lawrence+Tom Bowman: npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

The Trump campaign has still not followed through on its pledge to release video of the incident, despite repeated requests from NPR. x.com/stphnfwlr/stat…

BREAKING: Today, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration launched a state-sponsored and taxpayer-funded political ad, disguised as a website, seeking to undemine Amendment 4.

Natalie, Blair, Tootie, and Jo would like a word

How do we know Trump knows this is a lie? He knows he can lose on the abortion issue, which is why he waffles on it. If he really had such a devote following he could say and do whatever he felt