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Will a great night for Dems and democracy mean Trump doubles down? | Will Bunch It was a Democratic blue tsunami from Maine to Mississippi Tuesday, with the common bond between voters being they think America is way off track.

I've been covering elections since 1982 and never seen a whupping quite like Tuesday, with Democrats winning everything everywhere from Manhattan to Mississippi

The question now: Does a cornered, wounded Trump double down on dictatorship? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/demo...

UPDATE: Toddler Detained In Chaotic Border Patrol Raid At Home Depot In Cypress Park This Morning ~ L.A. TACO After an agent hit the child in the face with a ball, the youth was driven away from the scene by Border Patrol. The child was later reunited with its mother in the afternoon.

Fuck these evil monsters.
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Stunned by some of the revelations in @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Aaron Davis’s book, “Injustice.” They report that AG Merrick Garland’s team was blindsided by the bombshell testimony of Meadows’s aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 Committee. open.substack.com/pub/jimacosta/…

Federal Judge Sara Ellis declares that Homeland Security is not telling the truth about its attacks on the people of Chicago.
"I don't find defendants' version of events credible." she says.

YouTube video by Electrek.co Xpeng's Tesla FSD self-driving competitor unedited test drive

Ok, this is really impressive. An EV under $20k with full self driving, this is the Xpeng Mona 01.

See the whole unedited and not speed up (which Tesla does to mask small movements/jitter with their FSD) video from underground parking to another one (20 minutes drive):

#Xpeng #Tesla

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If Starbucks baristas have to strike, we’re striking too — with our wallets.

Don’t shop at Starbucks if baristas are on strike. No contract, no coffee. Period. #NoContractNoCoffee

Unbelievable. First the administration chooses to limit SNAP benefits, even though it’s clear they have the money to keep paying them out.

Now they’re announcing they plan to intentionally delay and cancel flights.

Perfection. A dude possibly dying next to him and Trump standing there very clearly thinking only about himself.

Listen to the room. Or get out.

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Listen to the room. Or get out.

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AOC Has Democrats Applauding With Her Viral Reaction To Zohran Mamdani's Historic Win

After Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opened up about why his win is so important—and what it means for the future of the party.

Leak Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false…

After months in the coming - Leak Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List www.wired.com/story/hack-e... #DDoSecrets

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A milestone: the court order in Chicago today potentially checks America's slide to a secret police state. For the first time, ICE and CBP agents are ordered to wear clear identification: badge numbers or names. Either they comply or this becomes THE issue in which the battle for democracy.

The Wildest Democratic Wins You May Not Have Heard About Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere.

Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

I was one of the four people who got canned.

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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Yeah, man, the Democrats are the ones who are being hurt politically. You got it.

'First signs are visible': Republican ex-lawmaker flags evidence of 'migration' from GOP A former Republican lawmaker says that people are fleeing the GOP in a great migration. The shift started slowly within the party, but now it's picking up speed, according to Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, former U.S. senator, representative and the former U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2022 to 2024...

A former Republican lawmaker says that people are fleeing the GOP in a great migration.

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
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Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation

The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.

The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.

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When I Loved New York Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?

New article! I wrote about Mamdani's win and the NYC I once lived in and loved: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

In an interview with the 2 authors they report Garland and his AG's office *never* spoke to Cassidy Hutchinson. 😡

🇺🇸 Protesters in 'Handmaid's Tale' red cloaks rally against 'fascism' in US

Demonstrators dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale," march through Washington DC, chanting slogans and carrying banners to protest what they describe as the country's drift toward fascism and authoritarianism.

The GOP took a beating in the 2025 elections across the board. The president is in rapid decline. The House has been shut down for two months to block the Epstein Files. And now this.

We should have “Republicans in disarray” stories across the board right now.

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.

To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:

Trump Flatly Denies When Fox Anchor Confronts Him With MAGA Voter’s Pained Plea: Prices ‘Way Down’ Baier confronted Trump with a plea from a loyal supporter who said she was “not happy” with rising prices, only for the president to insist she's wrong.

Trump tells actual supporter that she is wrong about grocery prices going up. Instead Trump says on Fox News that the prices are "way down." Tough to gaslight people when they feel the pain of higher prices. But then again Trump has dementia. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment

ICE deported him anyways.

They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.

Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.

What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?

He died a few weeks after deportation:

Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses The results showed that Democrats don’t have to choose between attacking Trump and highlighting the economy. In fact, they are often inseparable.

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump.

That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/

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It seems like Elon Musk stoking a civil war in England isn’t good for Tesla’s sales there Tesla’s EV registrations in the UK, its biggest market in Europe, took a dramatic hit in October 2025 — just 511 units — marking one of the brand’s weakest showings in recent memory. That’s a steep drop from 971 in October 2024 and 2,677 in October 2023. The tone of the market is shifting. Maybe Tesla’s CEO stoking a civil war in England isn’t helping the automaker’s demand in the important market. more…

It seems like Elon Musk stoking a civil war in England isn’t good for Tesla’s sales there