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NEW: Mike Collins previously suggested hanging U.S. military and political leaders from a helicopter and joked about pushing Pelosi out of a plane. We also uncovered another antisemitic post from a business recently launched by his son-in-law. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/23/p…
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Ossoff repeatedly challenged Collins to commit to stopping what he described as “neo-Nazi propaganda” being produced from the congressman’s home at their debate last week.
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Four million dollars raised for Dana-Farber by Team Beans!
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“To the best of my knowledge — and I knew Reagan pretty well — he was not an ass man,” Newt Gingrich said, adding, “at least not about guys.” huffpost.com/entry/newt-ging…
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#IowaSenate Ashley Hinson calls on Vivek Ramaswamy to take down Acton ad in interview with ABC News. She also called JD Vance's comments "ridiculous" when he defended the ad.
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Our investigation into allegations of data fabrication at the firm SoCal Strategies, and an alleged association with the admittedly fraudulent firm Wedgewood Polls, has resulted in the pollster wiping itself from the face of the earth. Full story at 50+1: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/mor…
NEWS: The website and social media accounts for pollster SoCal Strategies have been taken offline after FiftyPlusOne reached out to the firm Tuesday to verify data quality and potential ties to Wedgewood Polls, which admitted to fabricating data this week. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/mor…
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I feel like kinship with this man having to spell his name over the telephone
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I much prefer the original LaGuardia of waterfall from the Cleveland terminal
Absolutely losing it at La Guardia's Temu version of the Changi airport waterfall
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Gov. Mike DeWine talks about Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s mother saying she is lying about her past - “the ad is deeply, deeply troubling” and that when you know the full story “it makes it more wrong”
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Wow — long time congressman and GOP nominee for Senate in 2018 who then challenged DeWine from the right in 2022 primary.
For those who follow the daily polls and political trends, the floor may have just fallen out from under the Republican campaign for Ohio Governor. And any Republican who fails to distance themselves from this ad risks taking on water as well. I have to give Jon Husted credit. He said he would not have run the ad. That was the right response. While he stopped short of outright condemning it, he made his position clear. Vivek Ramaswamy needs to pivot, and quickly. Stop defending the ad and start talking about his policies, his vision for Ohio, and why he believes he is the better candidate. If he chooses to double down, I don't see anything good coming from it. Here's what too many people in politics seem to forget: Voters don't always elect the most qualified candidate. They often elect the candidate they like, trust, relate to, or even sympathize with. You can have the strongest résumé, the best policies, and the most impressive background, but none of that guarantees victory if voters don't like what they see or hear. And when voters believe someone has been treated unfairly, sympathy can become a powerful political force. Elections aren't won simply by convincing voters that your opponent is worse. They're won by convincing voters that you're better. That is a lesson every candidate, Republican or Democrat, would be wise to remember.
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I think there’s some context that you might be leaving out here
Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad is apparently unprecedented. It would be just awful to activate all the members of a politician’s family to attack them…as the Democrats did with every member of RFK’s family. youtube.com/watch?v=ww9fTNrW…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Acton's mother has been estranged from her daughter for 48 years because she sided with her husband (Acton's stepfather) when Acton reported that her stepfather had sexually assaulted her. That is different than RFK Jr.'s family, whose criticism of RFK Jr is focused on policy. dispatch.com/story/news/loc…
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exclusively can report that Abdul El-Sayed used to do the thing were were changed our names for Halloween on here.
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made my spooky halloween ted kaczynski one year and it didn't land
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Acton releases a response from her brother, which makes me think this will become even more of a backfire. Vivek has simultaneously elevated the horrific story of her upbringing, framed her as someone who's overcome unthinkable horror, and painted himself as a sleeze
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NEW: Following the release of an ad in which her mother, Donna Arthur, attacks her, court records obtained by @NRO confirm key parts of Amy Acton’s personal history, including that she was sexually abused by her stepfather while Arthur was married to him nationalreview.com/news/amy-…
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Threads has the best algorithm because it takes all of the rage-bait dynamics of politics and applies it to the most mundane stuff imaginable. You can post “I love oatmeal,” log off, and come back to 15,000 replies saying “how fucking dare you.”
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