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New: A deep dive into the big business of welfare and means testing. Deloitte has made a fortune on error-prone eligibility systems for programs like SNAP and Medicaid. We went to Arkansas and talked to folks struggling to get help in a system designed to break them.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUSSep 8
NEW: The biggest welfare scam in the country is run by a consulting giant. Deloitte has made over $6 billion running error-prone eligibility systems that make it harder for Americans to get the healthcare and food aid they rely on. We investigated the big business of welfare.
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Garrett Haake
@GarrettHaake10h
The GOP's most limited resource in this last week of the campaign is the time of their biggest surrogates. This tells you a lot about the state of the Senate map right now.
Patrick Svitek
@PatrickSvitek10h
Trump’s heading back to Kansas for a rally in Salina on Saturday, per the RNC. That’ll be three Trump or Vance rallies in Kansas over 13 days.
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People keep calling this episode Woke 2 but pretending like it was elitism to make fun of chain restaurants was a very 2017-2019 phenomenon
Clay Travis
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Replying to @ClayTravis
Obama's so out of touch now that he doesn't realize that for most normal people Cheesecake Factory is a HIGH END chain restaurant. As in, most people only go there for special occasions because the cost is comparatively high.
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Lonzo Ball
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Yeah Ant cuss Melo out He need that
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steven monacelli@stevanzetti9h
Incidentally, Chris Hilton is the lawyer who represents Elon Musk in his defamation lawsuit against Media Matters. Musk is the single largest political donor to Paxton and has repeatedly attacked Talarico on the transgender issue in recent weeks.
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steven monacelli@stevanzetti10h
Texas Transgender Student Union, the anonymous LLC in Wyoming that sent the bogus mailers, has retained Ken Paxton's impeachment attorney, Chris Hilton, to represent them as Transgender Education Network of Texas, the group that TTSU impersonated in the mailers, seeks depositions
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Just get Saquon out of this cursed game
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Tim Miller
@Timodc11h
What in the fuck is this.
Bulwark Clips
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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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This is the most nakedly bigoted American political campaign of this century.
Simon D. Schuster@Simon_Schuster12h
Replying to @Simon_Schuster
RFK: “There's 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.” Every aspect of that statement (save Fields) is absolutely false.
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Not to mention fucking ridiculous
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2.5 years ago we published a video detailing how Dollar General was quietly stealing from its customers by charging a different price at the register than they displayed on the shelf. Today, the FTC and 20 states sued Dollar General for exactly that. abcnews.com/Business/wireSto…

Dollar General sued by FTC, 20 states for what's being described as deceptive pricing

The Federal Trade Commission is suing the bargain chain Dollar General for what it says are “long-running deceptive pricing practices” by charging customers more once they reach the register than the...

abcnews.com
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS22 Mar 2024
NEW: Dollar General is stealing from their customers. They put one price on items and charge another—higher—price at the register. It’s a major scam that’s siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from the poorest people in America.
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Lol what is Troy Aikman’s deal
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Ryan Autullo@RyanAutullo15h
New: Gov. Greg Abbott must let his political opponent, Gina Hinojosa, review more than 1,000 pages of his unredacted communications with Elon Musk, a Travis County Dem judge rules. Abbott likely to appeal before Hinojosa reviews anything. #txlege news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…

Abbott’s Elon Musk Records Can be Reviewed by Election Opponent

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) must let his Democratic opponent in the November election review more than a thousand pages of unredacted communications he’s had with billionaire Elon Musk, a judge ruled...

news.bloomberglaw.com
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Ryan Bonifay
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SC modeled party is at R+1.9 but that is significantly worse than 2024 at this period of EV where it was R+28.8. Modeled Dem turnout is +7% vs 24 and modeled GOP is -45% vs 2024 147K Black turnout is near even vs 24. Share is 29.5% of ballots cast vs 21.3% in 2024 #scpol
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Average Matt Yglesias post
Polymarket Hoops
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Joe Mazzulla believes Joker is misunderstood: “I don't think he was as bad as people made him out to be. I don't think Batman was as good as we made him out to be.” (via @whitenoisepod_)
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Sam Karlin@samkarlin14h
SpaceX and Louisiana officials used NDAs and codenames to keep details of its massive Starbase project secret. A new lawsuit claims that many of those actions in Vermilion Parish were illegal. @alexlubben scoop:
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SLUG@generalslug15h
we need to stop platforming guys like this
patty bibi@pattybibi88Oct 25
Hes got a couple good points tbh
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They put Obama in this chair for three days and wouldn't let him get up until they finished filming ads for 200 different Democrats
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
@PollTracker202419h
Former President Obama endorses Peggy Flanagan for US Senate in Minnesota.
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Will Doran@will_doran15h
Breaking: Jonathan Miller, the Libertarian Party nominee for a Cary state senate seat, was taken into custody this afternoon with no shots fired. #ncpol He called WRAL during the standoff and spoke about what happened.
Jonathan D. Miller@JDM4NC22h
The whole police department is chasing me with guns drawn. This should be fun.
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It’s notable that Turek polling well behind Sand gets much less attention from the chattering class than AES polling behind Benson
Burgess Everett
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New: Iowa Democrat Josh Turek is running a radical Senate campaign ... to the center - Opposes impeachment - Supports Laken Riley Act - Criticizes Dems for blocking Husted data center bill and farm bill - Ticks off all the ways he can work with Trump “Politically, the term moderate can be pejorative. And I say that I’m proudly a moderate," he says in an interview. His opponent, Rep. Ashley Hinson, says Turek is "going to be voting with Chuck Schumer 100% of the time." But she too is running toward the center, distancing herself from Trump on Iran, Russia and Vivek ad Turek: Hinson’s “masquerading. I mean that’s a problem for me. I’m genuinely a bipartisan person,” he added. “She has been partisan. … Just be who you are.” On the throwback race in Iowa, where “They expect us to represent Iowa interests and not just the interests of whoever’s president of the United States," according to Chuck Grassley --> semafor.com/article/10/25/20…

Josh Turek is running a radically centrist campaign

The Iowa Senate nominee, if he wins, could start reconstituting a red-state Democratic bloc that’s lost ground.

semafor.com
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kev joon@never_oppressed20h
These people are actually medically stupid. It’s awesome.
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