Leftist political analyst with ADHD, focusing on Georgia & RI. Sometimes I talk about justice. | cishet, autistic, 26 | @elium2.com on Bluesky
Sandy Springs, GA
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NEW: Who's Paying for the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund's Brett Smiley Mailers? helium.elium2.com/victory-fuβ¦
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The mundane fact that that the leading public health official in the country is a vicious, ignorant quack who, under the auspices of sociopathic president, is putting lives at risk is barely an issue in this campaign.
NYT: RFK Jr. to Allow Use of Unapproved Peptide Injections
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday that he would allow widespread patient access to unapproved peptide injections made popular by internet influencers, sparking serious concern among drug safety experts.
The plan would bypass the most standard Food and Drug Administration safeguards for approving drugs, such as tests to see if the compounds work better than a placebo and whether they might cause cancer or birth defects.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/healtβ¦
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Michiganβs Muslim population is 2-3 times larger than its Jewish population. The feelings of the latter get blanket attention, whereas Iβve seen no analysis or reporting on how Michigan Muslims feel about Rogersβ 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/2026/0β¦
Canβt be canceled if no one has heard of you in the first place
βEvery possible -ism and -phobia and moral impropriety has been ascribed to me since I began my largely pro-bono career as an internet girl,β writes Ivy Wolk.
In a new essay,β the 22-year-old comedian and actor reflects on the way her dark thoughts about her own self-image are interpreted as βsoulless edgelord fareβ β and all the times sheβs been canceled since she started posting her comedy online as a teen, including when children once decided en masse that she was a βwhorish foilβ to a famous friend of hers.
βAs much as I wish for anonymity or a slate wipe sometimes, I am grateful for the perspective Iβve aggregated and the ways in which I have been challenged never to abandon my beliefs and my unbounding love for other people,β Wolk writes. βIt cannot harden me, it cannot isolate me from community, and it cannot remove me from public life.β
Read the full essay: nymag.visitlink.me/yANP5M
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SCOOP: After telling reporters from @dallasnews and @NBCDFW she was undecided in the Texas senate race, spox for Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker told me she has voted β but won't endorse Paxton or Talarico. She met with both candidates. Read: star-telegram.com/news/politβ¦
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NEW: Cobb County, Georgia will send absentee ballots via priority express mail to voters who never received them despite applying weeks ago.
The announcement comes after a lawsuit aimed at forcing the county to act. demdock.com/4jMMKyu
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Republicans are behind and we're in the final lap of the Indy 500
I have lived through a lot of cycles where Democrats got their hopes up at the end about a bunch of things that ended up not materializing. But maybe it'll really happen this cycle.
We could have an enforcement system like this in Georgia where violations were promptly penalized, but we choose not to.
very helpful, thank you Elon
ALT Screenshot of this website's message when you click for details on why you can't reply to a tweet. It says βWho can reply? Only some accounts can reply.β There is then a large button that says βGot Itβ.
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What you call the βJewish centerβ were parties (Bennett, Liberman) every analyst considered as far-right a few years ago.
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More than 10,000 Palestinians from East Jerusalem with Israeli citizenship voted in the election, breaking a boycott dating back to Israel's 1967 annexation. haaretz.com/israel-news/elecβ¦
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There's a real problem with this Times Peltola story: I don't know how you can write this story without any mention of Republican support for Eric and Carol Hafner in 2024 and 2026. That's crucial context for how both parties try to game the top 4 ballot. And given the staff
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Something I notice about this rally, the DJ keeps on hyping up Keisha Lance Bottoms. He keeps asking people to give it up for her. It's pretty clear Jon Ossoff is going to win this race, but KLB is trailing Rick Jackson in most polls. #GAPol