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EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND
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RESULT: Mark Hill won the race for mayor of Frisco, TX.
He beat a candidate who ran a remarkably racist & Islamophobic campaign that his backers said was crucial for the “soul” of the city. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ba…
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MONTANA. Could be the Dem US Sen nominee is going to quit in favor the Indy candidates backed by many Dem leaders ... or could be a total ruse to get a few days of free media attention
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In maaaany years of flying, I doubt I’ve ever experienced a total breakdown of service and care than @AmericanAir over the last 48 hours.
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On the big board of all flights at my airport, six flights were marked as canceled. All @AmericanAir. And yet they keep talking of “weather” (including in their response to this thread earlier)—weather that apparently affects only them. Magic weather.
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Illinois is a deeply screwed up place when it comes to wrongful convictions — and the new Chicago prosecutor has taken steps back on that front — but some noteworthy reforms moving.
“You need a place to live. You need food to eat. You need a future for your children,” says a wrongfully convicted man who has lobbied Illinois lawmakers to increase compensation to exonerated people. (w/ @injusticewatch)
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“It used to be the case that we could live our lives with the presumption of innocence... With mass surveillance systems the presumption evaporates, and we live under the surveillance as if we were all guilty.” boltsmag.org/everything-ever…
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happy Election Day to those who celebrate… even on a Saturday
Frisco, a Texas city of roughly 200,000, is voting for mayor tomorrow. Both candidates lean to the right right but one of them is campaigning on starkly anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rhetoric.
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Huh, the GOP will not have a candidate in a Florida *state House* district that they currently represent.
Well this is something of note
In HD47, a Hispanic-maj seat that flipped from Biden 13 to Trump 3, the Republican incumbent did not qualify for re-election and Republicans recruited no backed
This seat will be an automatic Democratic FLIP - as two DEMs filed #flapol
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A Illinois bill landed on Gov Pritzker's desk on Monday:
For people exonerated & released from prison over a wrongful conviction, it provides for a payout to $50K per wrongful year in prison (& $25K per wrongful year on probation or parole), with no cap. boltsmag.org/illinois-certif…
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FWIW, Jay Clayton, Trump's new DNI nominee, was just on CNBC insisting there was election fraud in the LA mayoral race. That's sort of party line stuff at this point. But still, relevant to this post since Trump's openly using it to go after voting
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Charlie Cook on last week's Fox News Ohio poll (which had Sherrod Brown up 8): "When reading the numbers that follow, you should know that unreleased, private, high-quality polls conducted for both sides show similar results; this poll is not an outlier" charliecookpolitics.com/p/oh…
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The Alaska elections division has issued a preliminary decision to remove (the other, other) Dan Sullivan from the ballot after GOP complaints. adn.com/politics/2026/06/11/…
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CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD
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It's gotten lost a bit, but the AP has still not called the GOP primary for secretary of state in Nevada. Jim Marchant, who led a network of election denier candidates in 2022 and now is running again, leads the more establishment-y Shirley Folkins-Roberts 33% to 31% for now.
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