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Committed voters. Occasional snark.🤔 Scientist, rationalist, humanist, stoic. Published author, but here to defend democracy - not sell books.

[VOTE 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @CommittoVote]

The great thing about Vance right now is that he’s completely impotent, and yet is generating a trove of disgusting soundbites that will ensure that he’s never POTUS.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Vance *defends* Ramaswamy's reprehensible ad 👇

Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away from that. Do you think that ad was appropriate?

JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest with you. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. My concern is who is gonna govern. I have to admit I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans who are whining more about that ad than they are about what the Democrats want to do.

[VOTE 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @CommittoVote]

@lisakrstin @FeistyLibLady

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Husted: "If they say that they're not going to vote for me, then tell them just to stay home."

(This comment comes on heels of a dark money group with ties to MAGA Inc. spending $1.8M to prop up no name third party candidate Greg Levy in the Ohio Senate race)

[. @GregTSargent]

Striking: Dems growing optimistic about sweeping all four of the big House races in South Texas. If doable, that's seismic.

DCCC's @MadsSinclair tells us on the pod that internal polling has Trump -23 in TX-28, which he won by 10 points.

Transcript:

https://t.co/N1l8SpR4YG

[. @GregTSargent]

Really striking stuff from new NYT poll: Dems lead GOP on every major issue, including immigration, and are seen as the party of the working class by a 13-point margin:

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Wow, the $100,000 bribe for Kimberly Guilfoyle looks like child’s play! Alina Habba was paid $50 million for a pardon, AND it worked! This whole regime operates more like the mafia than a federal government!

I gifted this so you can read it

https://t.co/tHEpZtcFju

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

NEWS: While working at Trump’s Justice Department, Alina Habba accepted a $50 million bribe to help a billionaire banker charged with bribery get a pardon from Trump. Weeks after she started cashing his checks, Trump handed him a full pardon, and nobody in this administration batted an eye. Lock them all up and throw away the key.

[VOTE 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @CommittoVote]

The corruption is in broad daylight, and Republicans do nothing.

VOTE THE BUMS OUT.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A Venezuelan billionaire seeking a pardon from President Trump got one, not long after his daughter gave Alina Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, a $50 million deal, per NYT

The billionaire, Julio Herrera Velutini, was charged in 2022 in a federal bribery case involving a former governor of Puerto Rico.

Habba is a former Trump personal lawyer who later served as acting US attorney for New Jersey.

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@suzi365 @FakaktaSouth The fish rots from the head.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Team Trump is referring to Putin as a “humanitarian” this morning

From Washington Post:

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

North Carolinians: Check whether your ballot was accepted. If not, vote in person ‼️

Here's where you can check: https://t.co/zmumhdiAwS

The GOP is rejecting 7-8% of Democratic ballots.

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@mo_robz He ain’t one of them.

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@slantwisenews @atrupar Because that’s how extortion works, based on my extensive viewing mafia movies.

[VOTE 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @CommittoVote]

The natural question is, of course, “You had control of the House, the Senate, SCOTUS, and the Presidency. Why haven’t you already done this?”

BLATANT PANDERING THAT WILL EVAPORATE ON 11/4.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

[VOTE 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @CommittoVote]

@RachelBitecofer Trump literally had to do nothing except ride Biden’s economy as it glided to 2% inflation, and stay out of Iran.

But he can’t help himself.

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@RachelBitecofer At the end of the day people like to vote FOR something to be motivated to show up on election day. These disaffected Republicans might just sit it out rather than vote for a Democrat. Less desirable, perhaps, but a similar effect and they don’t have to fret about selling out.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

We suspected this was the reason Ukraine’s access to Starshield was restricted. But to see it from senior officials in this reporting is still utterly unconscionable.

Let’s be absolutely clear about what this means. The Trump Administration deliberately restricted technology Ukraine relies on to intercept Russian drones and ballistic missiles. It made it harder for Ukraine to defend itself and easier for Russia to carry out its deadly attacks against Ukrainian civilians.

They knew exactly what was at stake. They knew that more Russian drones and missiles would get through, allowing Russia to kill even more Ukrainians. And yet they went ahead anyway.

This is a deliberate weaking of Ukraine’s defenses that only Russia will benefit from. It is a betrayal of our ally that this Administration cannot wash its hands of.

The American people deserve to know who made this decision, why they made it, and how they can possibly justify putting more innocent Ukrainian lives in the crosshairs of Putin’s war machine.
https://t.co/y0iYN9QNPP

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING WSJ:

Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
https://t.co/I6EAstUC1G

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@RachelBitecofer “Your papers, please.”