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We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party. Hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
These kinds of things could feed facts into a partisan media system.
this is a fantastic resource from the brilliant @jasonfurman. fast and clear explanations of latest economic data and trends.
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new - Rep. Jim Clyburn is heading to Michigan this weekend to rally Dems, per political advisor Antjuan Seawright. Dems are trying to project unity in Michigan and turn out Black voters ahead of election day
(Clyburn had backed Haley Stevens during the primary)
I don’t think I’m overstating it when I say this is how we get our country back. You start chipping away at the seemingly invincibility of tech barons and eventually you get to a place where they are subjects of democracy, not controllers of it.
BREAKING: Utah has filed felony and misdemeanor criminal charges against prediction-market platform Kalshi and two of its top executives, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara. abc4.com/news/local-news/uta…
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This tracks. National news media largely moved on very quickly from the gutting of the VRA but it consistently comes up as a huge mobilizing issue in the South when journalists bother to talk to any Black people.
I am in Clayton County, Georgia and have been talking to older Black voters outside a polling place and ahead of this Obama rally and can confirm: older Black voters to a tee are FURIOUS about the Supreme Court killing the Voting Rights Act. This is the home of John Lewis, Hosea Williams and MLK Jr.
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Michigan’s Muslim population is 2-3 times larger than its Jewish population. The feelings of the latter get blanket attention, whereas I’ve seen no analysis or reporting on how Michigan Muslims feel about Rogers’ messaging and ads suggesting his Muslim opponent is a terrorist
If you're trying to understand why so many Michigan Jewish Democrats are defecting, I wrote in August about it. It's not, per se, about foreign policy. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Obama: I LIVED at Chuck E. Cheese and California Pizza Kitchen and The Cheesecake Factory. That was my jam for about a decade.
Of course the real problem is prices have gotten so high a lot of folks can barely afford to go out to eat.
THEY THOUGHT THIS BECAUSE THE MEDIA LET REPUBLICANS GET AWAY WITH IT
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wild ruling out of Seattle that @PHLCouncil needs to read. a builder put $39M into 254 low-income apartments locked at 60% AMI for 30 years. from 2015 to 2018 it worked, collecting ~94% of rent.
then Seattle stacked on "tenant protections": banned criminal background checks, banned winter evictions, required 180 days notice for rent hikes + 3 months relocation pay, and forced the owner to let unscreened roommates move in and take over leases.
result: rent collections dropped from 93.9% to 44.1%!!! the building lost nearly $6M through 2023 ($2.7M in 2023 alone) and is now appraised as functionally worthless. the city bankrupted actual affordable housing lol.
the appeals court just ruled the owner can sue Seattle for an unconstitutional taking. when you strip a landlord's right to screen, collect rent or remove non-paying tenants, it's not "regulation" anymore, you took the building…. Philly has half these laws already 🙄 courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/8…
The thing that made the Comey letter so uniquely poisonous was that it was so close to the election that HRC couldn’t rebut it effectively. When you fight back things get worse before they get better. If he dropped the ad two days before the election it might have worked.
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South Carolina and Florida Senate polls way more worthy of attention here but let us not over look Peggy Flanagan’s 14 point lead in Minnesota. Justice for those of us who said all along that the supposedly competitive race there was a mirage
Thank god there’s a wall between news and editorial that prevented the news pages from being infected by this.
The mechanism is trash but it’s probably for the best if these schools loose their cachet.
Asian-Americans in Harvard’s Incoming Class More Than Double, to 43.2 Percent
Newly released data on the Harvard College class of 2030 say the class is 43.2 percent Asian-American, a record high and more than double the level when Students for Fair Admissions first sued Harvard alleging racial discrimination in admissions.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that Harvard was unlawfully using race as a factor in admissions. Since then, the numbers of Hispanic and black students in the incoming Harvard classes have dipped, while the numbers of Asian-Americans have soared.
