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With battle lines drawn on redistricting, Ferguson and Moore work to shift line in their favor - Maryland Matters Gov. Wes Moore (D) has a difficult, but not insurmountable, path to redraw the state's eight congressional districts — and it may hinge on the first-term Democratic executive's ability to win votes in...

Gov. Wes Moore (D) has a difficult, but not insurmountable, path to redraw the state's eight congressional districts — and it may hinge on the first-term Democratic executive's ability to win votes in the Senate.
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I mean, can you believe the gall of some people to suggest that Trump would treat a young woman disrespectfully?

Seems like the behavior of a totally innocent man who knows he did nothing wrong.

A photo of Hungarian and foreign participants gathering for an annual “memorial hike” of several neo-Nazi groups in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 8, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Marco Rubio Wants to Imprison You on Terror Charges for Supporting Nazi Punchers," and the DEK, "The Trump administration moved to designate antifa groups abroad as foreign terrorists — setting up the prosecution of their U.S. allies."

Under a 2010 ruling from the Supreme Court, domestic groups can face “material support” charges for providing nonviolent support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. interc.pt/4i1EqYJ

Epstein files and affordability concerns threaten to knock Trump’s second presidency off course - The Boston Globe The twin challenges represent a sobering situation for a president who has reveled in his unrivaled dominance in Washington.

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YouTube video by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Special Pastoral Message on Immigration by the Bishops of the United States

#CollectiveCourage: For the first time in 12 yrs, the U.S. bishops issued a Special Message addressing their concern for the evolving situation impacting immigrants in the U.S. Religious communities can play a key role in protecting our neighbors & building a stronger democracy, watch their message:

After all the revelations about Epstein and all his various Harvard pals -- Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Elisa New, etc etc. -- alumni are going to stop saying they went to college "outside of Boston" and start lying that they went to Tufts.

A scatterplot titled “Heavily Hispanic Areas Swung the Most Toward Sherrill.” Each point represents a New Jersey township, with point size proportional to votes cast in the 2025 governor’s race. The horizontal axis shows the Hispanic share of the population from 0% to about 80%. The vertical axis shows the change in the Democratic margin from 2024 to 2025, ranging from about –25 to +75 percentage points. Most points with low Hispanic population are clustered near zero or show small shifts, with some red points indicating shifts toward Ciattarelli. As the Hispanic share increases, points trend strongly upward, indicating larger shifts toward Democrat Mikie Sherrill. The largest positive shifts appear in heavily Hispanic cities: Union City and Perth Amboy are labeled near the upper right, both showing gains of 50 points or more. Paterson, also labeled, lies around 60% Hispanic with a large pro-Democratic shift. Overall, nine of the ten biggest pro-Democratic swings occur in places where at least 60 percent of residents are Hispanic.

“All told, nine of the 10 townships that shifted the most toward Democrats from 2024 to 2025 had a Hispanic population of at least 60 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

History suggests the GOP will pay a political price for its immigration tactics in California | Opinion Important lessons can be learned from mass deportations and anti-immigrant campaigns in California history. There are political consequences.

“Immigration enforcement measures to curry political support are nothing new to US politics or to Latinos in the United States. But history teaches us that the Trump immigration measures will have devastating impacts on the Latino community and that, in the long run, a political price will be paid.”

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Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
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Opinion | The ‘Groyperfication’ of the G.O.P.

here’s a gift link for this must-read @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

Will always be puzzled as to why Republicans hammered so hard on the Epstein stuff given that it was obvious that it would be a huge risk for their own guy

Trump and Epstein were buddies throughout the height of his trafficking -- what did they think would happen?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Pelosi, on Trump:

Why does Donald Trump hate Nancy Pelosi so much?

This is what she says about him in her book

'Affordability,' and the repercussions of the increasing global wealth gap : Consider This from NPR ‘Affordability’ was the word that resonated across America during elections last week, reflecting voters’ demand for elected officials to address the rising cost of living. But the wealth gap in Ameri...

Many thanks to @npr.org's All Things Considered for talking to me about inequality. When .41 cents of every $1 of new wealth has gone to the richest 1% since 2000 while the bottom half of humanity received just .1 cent of every $1, you know there's a problem
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...

on the word bubble as in one lives in one’s bubble are there any suggestions for better words for this?

So the BBC director general has had to resign because Panorama suggested that Trump tried to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election? Because obviously that never happened …

‘New York City Has Fallen’: MAGA Responds to Zohran Mamdani’s Victory With a Racist Freak-Out Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory.

Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory.

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She doesn’t even say his name.

Every Republican member thinks this way about Nancy Pelosi. But few say so in public.

My hot take is that Mamdani is a very effective communicator and campaigner

And he’s funny too

Democrats should not just learn from him, but they should use him strategically - send him to Fox News etc, & let him make his policy pitches

No more of this weird “let’s ignore him” nonsense

Voters in New Jersey and Virginia who said the economy was their number 1 issue voted 63-35 for Democrats last night.

That’s a sharp reversal from 2024, when Trump won economy voters by 60 points

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Mystery conservative donors bankroll opposition to Trump’s tariffs The Supreme Court test of Trump’s tariffs is backed by a legal group funded without disclosure by some of the wealthiest conservative donors.

Gift link: wapo.st/494mk5M
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Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas

YouTube video by The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia (Live) - OFFICIAL

Democrats RN
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This is hyper-local, but it looks like with half of the precincts reporting, Charlotte City Council District #6--a long time GOP-held district--finally flips to Democratic.

If this hold, the nationalization of Charlotte politics has finally reached this district.

#ncpol #cltpol

Pennsylvania is retaining a liberal majority in the Supreme Court and I'm so so proud of @votersoftomorrow.org's Penn State chapter who worked until the very last minute to make it happen!

“Adopting a phone-free schools policy is a more effective intervention than anything we have seen before...”

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