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Every line of this trailer will have you cringing harder than the one before it right up until the last one, at which point you will actually laugh out loud

Add to this Steyer's donations to other federal and state political committees, including the ~$272M he gave to his group NextGen, and he's approaching a billion in explicit political spending since 2013. Forbes estimates his net worth at $2.4 billion

On the one hand: a lot of this is probably generic clickfarm rage bait designed to generate engagement $ by shit-stirring on a hot issue On the other: this is such an obvious and easy win for foreign intelligence services that it’s almost self-evident they’re behind some of it

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Oh you’re a 9/11 truther? That’s cool. I’m really only into artisanal small-batch conspiracy theories

Big @maxwelltani look at this moment's big political story — the absolute flood of secret influencer $$ semafor.com/article/05/25/20…

Excited to unveil the design for the East Potomac Golf Links renovation from Fazio Design. Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals—of the National Capital Region—championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates.

A would-be spy offered a staffer on @ChinaSelect $10,000 for insider information on U.S. policy. Our staffer's response? Report it, document it, and expose it. As a Select Committee, we referred the matter to the @FBI after documenting the outreach and collecting call transcripts. This is exactly why the Select Committee on China exists, to shine a light on the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate our institutions, and to fight to protect U.S. national security. nytimes.com/2026/05/09/us/po…

Does this mean I'm safe from being retroceded back into DC

New political fundraising text spam tactic just dropped (the link goes to a WinRed donation page)

"Like, are we kinda being pricks?"

Also in this morning's FARA Monitor: foreign agents for the Bosnian region of Srpska distributing a recent column by ex-Illinois governor, and son of Serb immigrants, Rod Blagojevich

In FARA Monitor subscriber inboxes this morning: financial details of a Saudi-backed venture capital firm's investment activity

Chinese Propaganda Outlets Jump Into Crusade Against Data Centers as Beijing Races To Achieve AI Supremacy @CAndersonMO @FreeBeacon freebeacon.com/china/chinese…

Shot in the dark, @nikitabier, but sham offshore click-farming would be a lot easier to root out and publicly shame if we could see prior usernames

Kudos to the judge in this case, who seems to agree with the underlying policy agenda but ruled it "is a nonjusticiable political question."

In a rare on-record statement, Sergey Brin tells me: "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.” nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/po…

This is obviously correct on the fundamental problem in US health care. But the column elides the political reality that makes reforming it, I'm sorry to say, impossible. The problematic constituency isn't labor or business, it's hundreds of millions of Americans insured through their employers. They really like the generous plans they have, even if an alternative model would actually bring down costs and prices. Woe unto the pol who tries to shift them to a different insurance model, let alone one that actually requires out of pocket cash payments in lieu of premiums that most of these people aren't directly shelling out for (even if they understand at an intellectual level they are paying every month). An honest reformer would have to say: no, if you like your plan you probably won't be able to keep it, sorry. Good luck with that. It's absolutely necessary to meaningful reform of US health care, and also politically impossible. Happy Monday!

WASHINGTON (AP)—Minutes after his inauguration Monday, President Barron Trump sent nominations to the US Senate for the 44th and 45th justices of the US Supreme Court, setting up a shift in the high court's ideological balance considered routine for each incoming administration