Vivirescorrer

Emergency planner from the software industry. Lefty looking for a political organization that can absorb ideas from its members; AKA not totally top-down.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Michael Bennet is the first sitting U.S. Senator to lose a primary for governor in an open seat race in the post-World War II era.

[Matthew Klein @MattKleinOnline]

There are still several House Democrats at serious risk of losing primaries to progressive challengers this summer.

Aug. 4: Wesley Bell (#MO01)
Aug. 4: Shri Thanedar (#MI13)
Aug. 8: Ed Case (#HI01)
Aug. 11: John B. Larson (#CT01)
Aug. 18: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (#FL20)

[Dan Friedman @dfriedman33]

By popular demand, I'm resharing this piece on Karoline Leavitt getting paid to put her name on op-eds extolling Miles Guo, who got 30 years yesterday for stealing $1 billion from followers of the phony political movement he and Bannon launched. https://t.co/CuXZaySah5

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to investigate a congressional fund reportedly used to settle sexual misconduct claims involving members of Congress with taxpayer money has passed.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

DSA candidate, Melat Kiros, has defeated a 29-year incumbent in her primary for Colorado's 1st House

She will head to congress in November as the seat is a safe Democratic seat

[Taniel @Taniel]

RESULT: In an upset, even if it was looking likelier in recent weeks, Colorado AG Phil Weiser has defeated Senator Michael Bennet in the Dem primary for governor.

Bennet has been the state's centrist senator since his 2008 win. He'll stay in the Senate (term ends in 2028).

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️🇨🇴 BREAKING: Colombian presidential candidate Iván Cepeda says he will not recognize Abelardo de la Espriella as president unless De la Espriella renounces his U.S. citizenship and clarifies whether he has collaborated with or belonged to U.S. security or intelligence agencies.

In a statement titled “Announcement of civil disobedience in the face of the violation of our national dignity,” Cepeda said De la Espriella’s dual U.S. citizenship, past legal work for Alex Saab, alleged ties to U.S. agencies, and support from President Donald Trump raise questions about Colombia’s sovereignty.

Cepeda also demanded that De la Espriella respect Colombian judicial sovereignty, stop any effort to extradite President Gustavo Petro, and end what he described as political persecution of opponents through the U.S. Justice Department.

If those conditions are not met, Cepeda said he would call for peaceful civil disobedience and urge supporters not to recognize De la Espriella’s authority.

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

The 11th Circuit's oral argument on 3d-party challenges to Judge Aileen Cannon's order keeping secret Jack Smith's Vol II Report on USA v Trump (classified docs prosecution) has been postponed again. The current setting, for week of 9/28, has been bumped. No explanation given.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: U.S. Department of Transportation reportedly moving to roll back an Obama-era rule requiring airlines to prominently display total ticket prices.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Pocan: "I know you're a Christian nationalist by declaration."

Vought: "This is the second year in a row that you've used that slander."

Pocan: "You think calling someone a Christian nationalist is a slander? You wrote an article called 'Is There Anything Actually Wrong With Christian Nationalism?' And now you're saying it's a slander?"

[Jess Coleman @jesskcoleman]

Originalism is such a sham.

Here is Kavanaugh inviting the Court to create new "exceptions" to birthright citizenship "recognized based on new developments after 1868."

Ask the same for abortion or voting rights, and he'd laugh you out of the room.

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

NEW: In 2020, the Montana U.S. Atty cut a plea deal that let a tribal police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl serve less than a year in prison + dodge the sex offender registry.

That U.S. Atty is now Montana GOP Senate nominee Kurt Alme. https://t.co/AHJ6rHWKSO

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING on MS NOW: Mike Johnson's latest effort to force through the SAVE America Act to rig elections just failed.

The House failed to clear a procedural vote 198-224 on the NDAA largely because the SAVE Act was attached.

[McKenna Schueler @SheCarriesOn]

Democratic socialist and unionist Oliver Larkin swayed delegates at the Florida AFL-CIO's annual endorsement convention this month against incumbent Democratic U.S. Congressman Jared Moskowitz, notably resulting in a 'no endorsement' in the race. https://t.co/8Fl4zgoLr7

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just struck down restrictions on political parties’ coordinated campaign spending, saying that they violate the First Amendment.

The 6-3 decision means political parties will be able to coordinate with candidates, and raise unlimited amounts of money.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Major U.S. egg producers will pay $3.3 million & donate 53 million eggs to settle an alleged price manipulation probe.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500m for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement
https://t.co/Or2FnFwTFS

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Who's lying? @TheJusticeDept, who told a court yesterday @ICEgov "no longer intend to convert the Roxbury Warehouse into an immigration detention facility," or @SecMullinDHS, who says "we will be keeping this site for a detention center." It has to be one of them!

h/t @Haleaziz

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Our tax code has a $48 BILLION loophole for the richest 1% to avoid capital gain taxes.

That's bigger than the USAID budget, or NASA's budget.

Tax breaks for the rich cost us SO MUCH.

And all they do is make the rich richer while we struggle to afford gas, groceries, and rent.

[Jennifer Harris @jennifermharris]

Am worried that the deluge of investment, much of which is plowed into data centers, is beginning to starve the rest of the economy of the money it needs (to say nothing of the talent and physical materials). Sounds like I'm in good company @TheStalwart

https://t.co/LzrfXnrxts