Evan Newman

Pair of Minnesota Senate elections will decide chamber control, set tone for 2026 campaigns Contests in Woodbury and Wright County will restore the Senate to its full complement next week. The result could flip control of the chamber — and campaign messaging could carry through to 2026 when ...

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How are NY Dems not already doing everything they can to redraw their maps and combat the gerrymandering in other east coast states like NC and FL? Good lord.

Ranking the Universal Monsters Classics Autumn is almost here — and with it, the season of monsters.

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Colbert, Fallon, and Meyers should all go on air and tell the exact same joke that got Kimmel suspended.

#JimmyKimmel

Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

What Keeps People Coming Back to the State Fair Love it or hate it, the state fair is either your thing or it’s not.

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Tony Evers Is Out in 2026 — Here’s Why That’s a Win for Democrats How passing the torch now could protect fair maps and the governor’s mansion for years to come.

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10 Films to End Your Summer With Cool off during the dog days of summer with these 10 must-watch movies.

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Look, Gavin Newsom is always going to be Gavin Newsom, with everything that implies, but he seems to grasp the reality of what's happening here more clearly than most national figures in the Democratic Party

Evan's Edits | Evan Newman | Substack I write essays on movies, politics, history, and other subjects that spark my curiosity — and hopefully yours too. Click to read Evan's Edits, by Evan Newman, a Substack publication. Launched 10 hours...

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1880 shipwreck is discovered by accident in Wisconsin river A search of Wisconsin's Fox River led to the discovery of a ship that sank nearly 150 years ago.

A survey of a Wisconsin river led to the accidental discovery of a shipwreck that sank in the area over a century ago. cbsn.ws/40huVNh

Wisconsin approves film incentive to attract Hollywood productions LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- A film incentive program will attract Hollywood productions to the state.

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Wisconsin approves film incentive to attract Hollywood productions LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- A film incentive program will attract Hollywood productions to the state.

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Seriously, someone help me sue them.

can I sue X for this or something

AI bot Grok makes disturbing posts about Minneapolis man, who is now mulling legal action When Will Stancil woke up on Tuesday, he never expected the online firestorm that came his way on X.

When Will Stancil woke up on Tuesday, he never expected the online firestorm that came his way on X.

Sometimes you just think about Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West," nothing you can do about it.

U.S. Measles Cases Climb to 33-Year High Vaccination rates for kindergartners have fallen nationally.

Measles cases in the U.S. have hit a three-decade high, reaching the highest yearly total since 1992 in less than seven months.

Why MAGA Hates Superman He stands for truth, justice, and an American way that Trump is tearing down

@radiofreetom.bsky.social As a Superman fan you should read Nicholas Grossman’s excellent new piece:

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Plus, even if he wins in ‘26, a Dem running in an open race in ‘30 after 3-terms of Tony would have a tough go of it.

It’d be a lot easier being a 1st term Dem incumbent (having hopefully won in ‘26) running for reelection in ‘30, than to be a newbie running as Tony’s “4th term” in the same cycle.

Just him running in ‘26 would setup the party for failure in ‘30.

It’d be a lot easier for a Dem to win an open race for guv in ‘26 (during a GOP midterm) than during a potential Dem midterm in ‘30.

Tony Evers said he’d make a decision on running for a third term after the state budget process. Well now, the state budget has been signed. And I think it would be a huge mistake for Evers, 73, to run for a third term as governor in Wisconsin.

I don't know what it is about the economy you people find so confusing. For example, last year I bought a new lawnmower for $449. One year later, the battery failed. A new battery is $439. Therefore the entire rest of the mower is worth $10. Very simple, it's what we all learned in school.

Americans Deserve a Congressional Vote on War With Iran Unilateral action by the president deprives citizens of the ability to hold their representatives accountable in the years to come.

Unilateral action by the president deprives citizens of the ability to hold their representatives accountable in the years to come, Conor Friedersdorf writes:

The United States Bombed Iran. Now What? President Trump is taking an enormous risk.

"Whether bombing Iran was a good idea or a bad idea—and it could turn out to be either, or both—it is war by any definition of the term, and something Trump vowed he would avoid," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:

New York Times: U.S. Enters War With Iran

At least the New York Times is being direct with their headline for this one

Here we go

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The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs.

UFO myths gripped America for decades, and the Pentagon finally figured out where a lot of them came from. It was the Pentagon. https://on.wsj.com/45yk0lU

Tina Smith confronts U.S. Sen. Mike Lee following posts about deadly Minnesota shootings Though the Utah senator took the time to listen, Smith said he did not apologize for what he said.

Sen. Tina Smith pulled Sen. Mike Lee aside in the Senate shortly after she landed in Washington, D.C.

“I wanted him to hear directly from me about how painful that was and how wrong that was,” Smith said in an interview.