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What Zohran Mamdani's favorite rappers shows about his politics usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
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Speaking at the Freedom Fry in South Carolina, the introductory speaker tells the room of Republican loyalists "I don't know how you feel about tariffs, I don't know how you feel about the war. But there's not single one of you here is who is an Islamist-loving Communist."
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NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/mu…
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Two former South Carolina governors, Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges, have endorsed Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews in the state’s U.S. Senate race:
“We may have served as your governor from different political parties. But we agree South Carolina deserves better than more of the same political fighting”
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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#closingmessage
PORT HURON, Michigan, Oct 25 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, had not awarded him a Peace Prize.
Ukraine's war with Russia? 🤨
AP: Kansas Senator Roger Marshall says the Ukraine war, not the Iran war, has caused high diesel prices
Roger Marshall said Wednesday that Ukraine’s war with Russia — and not the U.S. war with Iran — was to blame for high diesel prices that have imperiled his party’s control of Congress in the midterm elections.
The answer, delivered during a debate with Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton.
apnews.com/article/senate-ka…
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On his main feed Bo French has been mostly careful to do tweets about the Texas oil and gas industry. Presumably a lot of folks have been asking him to keep it tight. But in the replies, he’s back to doing interracial cuck fear again
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Blinder & Watson (2016) found that there is superior economic performance under Democratic Party presidents thanks to fewer wars and energy shocks, which they seem to characterize as dumb luck or something but IMO reflects a genuine pattern.
slowboring.com/p/republican-…
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CNN: New York US House polling
(Among Jewish voters)
🟦2018: D+40
🟦2022: D+49
🟦2026: D+13 (36 pt swing to the GOP)
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Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers:
Scott Ritter's views fell 43%
Rick Sanchez's views fell 39%
Max Blumenthal's views fell 37%
Ben Swann's views fell a 18%
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Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers:
Tucker Carlson's views dropped 71%
Douglas Macgregor's views dropped 62%
TCN views dropped 34%
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Mentions of the word "Fauci" on X have fallen off a cliff since the data centres in Russia were hit
Makes you wonder...
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BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!
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Two federal agents are going door to door near the crime scene “trying to get evidence.” Darializa Avila Chevalier and state Sen. Gustavo Rivera are following them to tell people they don’t have to answer or speak with the agents.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the ICE agents who authorities say shot a man in Marble Hill Thursday afternoon were wearing construction vests and masks, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at least one of them was carrying a long gun.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement.
"Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.
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Alert: Longtime Republican consultant Rick Wilson (but now an independent) says the Republicans are pulling campaign funding out of Ohio, giving up on the state.
• The Ohio Comment: Wilson explicitly stated, "I'm told they're going to leave Ohio."
• The Reason: He noted that national leadership is "not happy about Ohio" and viewing the state as an expensive media market and a "heavy lift," they are playing a "game of triage" to reallocate those campaign dollars to cheaper, more winnable races like Alaska.