Shawn "Smith" Peirce

@silversmith1.bsky.social

Co-Host & Co-Producer at The Politics Bar thepoliticsbar.com | Fmr. Exec. Producer The Randi Rhodes Show | Longtime Producer, Host, Editor, Writer, Journalist. | Born In Neb | Also at Mastodon, Threads, & Twitter

@tbonier.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

But here's perhaps the most compelling stat: across the 13 states with a critical mass of early/mail votes cast so far, Hispanic turnout is outpacing 2024 levels, and not by a small amount. More Hispanic voters have voted than did at this point, despite '24 being a presidential.

@tbonier.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

Drilling down a little deeper into Hispanic turnout, in 94% of counties nationwide Hispanics are accounting for a larger share of votes cast than they did in 2022.

@tbonier.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

Some of the most notable increases in voters of color early vote share, relative to '22 include fairly large Hispanic increases almost everywhere. Black voters have increased their share of the PA vote by an astounding 9 points. AAPI voters w/big numbers in NY and NJ.

@tbonier.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

23 days out from election day, the most notable trend emerging from the early vote is large turnout increases among voters of color relative to the same point in time in both 2022 and 2024. In fact, in every state reporting thus far the white vote share is lower than '22/'24.

@josefoshea.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

@atrupar.comReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

WELKER: Earlier this year you said President Trump should be impeached. What do you see as his impeachable offenses? EL-SAYED: Like, which one? There are many. Making sure that every president understands who comes after Trump that there is a rule of law I think that is absolutely critical

@bgrueskin.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

“Witkoff and Kushner raised the possibility that intelligence sharing could be cut off if Kyiv did not heed Washington’s warning to halt the strikes” on Russian refineries. “It was a firm request from POTUS. “Hours later, Ukrainian forces struck the Yug Rusi oil terminal in Rostov-on-Don.”

US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing Trump suggests Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be replaced after Ukraine's leader criticised diesel deal with Moscow
@rubashkin.bsky.socialReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

A pop-up Super PAC is spending six figures on mailers backing a socialist running as an independent in the Ohio Senate race against Husted and Brown. We won’t know the donors for a while but there are signs it’s a GOP-backed effort.

@indivisible.orgReposted by @silversmith1.bsky.social

Trump is trying to create chaos and confusion around the midterms. Our job is to deny him the fear and cynicism he needs.

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