Rogue state behavior
Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
"No" on 3 + 5 = 8
"When a small circle of private equity donors outspends the other side more than 30 to 1 to rewrite the rules for every state election, voters are entitled to ask whose interests the new rules will serve."
Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON.
Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
who the fuck signed this warrant
The criminality of the Trump administration knows no bounds, and we cannot afford a “Look forward, not backward” approach afterwards. There needs to be accountability for the immorality, illegality, and rot at all levels.
Once a day I’m reminded that several leading left intellectuals spent the first Trump term claiming that the admin wasn’t fascist.
We used to have rules against doing this so close to an election.
You can’t get more Gestapo than this…. “a criminal probe into her immigration paperwork, which her late father filled out after the family emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was a child”
All right so Fetterman is definitely being told by Republican billionaires and Senators that he can win if he runs again as a Republican, so get ready for him to switch parties. (I think we can make that switch less likely if we make it publicly clear he has no chance of winning as a Republican.)
Unfortunately I've compiled a thread of how he's gotten really creepy and predatory especially in recent weeks
Signaling to what Republican voters / media personalities want, really
DEFINITELY creepy, and Vance dog-whistled a serious threat underneath the attempt to portray Acton as an alcoholic: “Now I did promise Amy that I would meet her at a bar later, Iunderstand that she’s into that sort of thing. So I’m gonna try to get to know her a little bit better.”⚠️
It feels like this whole midterm elections cycle is a game of Mad Libs.
What do you mean Florida Republicans allegedly stole millions of health insurance money from poor children to bankroll a campaign that blocked a marijuana legalization referendum
it has to frustrate JD Vance knowing he has an extremely, horrifically subpar grasp of humor despite being a proud little debate twerp and professional talker
Not just weird -- very creepy
Trump's idiotic, criminal war is wreaking havoc on municipal budgets.
Folks, Putin’s United Russia Party directly and publicly funded several EU far right parties including Germany’s AfD, France’s RN, and Austria’s FPÖ to the tune of millions for years. All of this is done in the open, and the fact it is news shows a failure of leaders to explain basic facts of now.
Turns out that Trump's announcement of an "energy ceasefire" in the Russia-Ukraine war was bullshit. Turns out that major media will keep falling for it every time.
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
