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NEW: Veolia execs in France ran controversial PR campaign during Flint water crisis trial
The campaign included targeted digital ads & has sparked concerns about potential jury influencing, and is now being investigated by lawyers representing Flint kids detroitnews.com/story/news/l…
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Journalists cannot decide what other people think is important. Their job is to illuminate what they think is in the public interest. I think reporting on rape allegations levied against the president of the United States is in the public interest. thenation.com/article/politi…
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I tried to explain this manufactured controversy to a friend and it went about as well as doing tech support for my parents over the phone.
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The influence and disinformation tactics that were deployed over the last decade to protect the perpetrators of the Flint water crisis have found their way into the US Senate race:
“Outside groups spend millions on ads to weaken Black support for El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race”
“The money isn’t from Michigan. The public relations group that developed the message isn’t either, though they do have previous ties to the state, including one of the worst public health emergencies in Michigan history.”
michiganpublic.org/politics-…
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The influence and disinformation tactics that were deployed over the last decade to protect the perpetrators of the Flint water crisis have found their way into the US Senate race:
“Outside groups spend millions on ads to weaken Black support for El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race”
“The money isn’t from Michigan. The public relations group that developed the message isn’t either, though they do have previous ties to the state, including one of the worst public health emergencies in Michigan history.”
michiganpublic.org/politics-…
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Some Trump voters who have turned against him are inaccurately reporting their prior vote, meaning polls that weight to prior vote are likely underestimating Democratic vote share
projects.statenavigate.com/f…
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Why did The New York Times publish its Alaska Senate race investigation so close to Election Day? How did @nytimes editors weigh a source’s retraction request? What did the reporting reveal? I spoke with @Kellen_Browning & @AmyEGardner about all of it. nytimes.com/2026/10/31/insid…
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Reached by @ErinatThePost, Haley Stevens in a text message declined to talk until after the election “when we have our democratic Senator-elect (my prediction!).” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Just talked to voters at an early voting center in Detroit. No one I spoke to had any knowledge of what Rep. Haley Stevens and her fiancé are saying.
The influence and disinformation tactics that were deployed over the last decade to protect the perpetrators of the Flint water crisis have found their way into the US Senate race:
“Outside groups spend millions on ads to weaken Black support for El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race”
“The money isn’t from Michigan. The public relations group that developed the message isn’t either, though they do have previous ties to the state, including one of the worst public health emergencies in Michigan history.”
michiganpublic.org/politics-…
“Flint resident Arthur Woodson has experienced these misleading tactics before. He had a front-row seat to Mercury’s work in the Flint water crisis litigation and now is watching it unfold statewide in a U.S. Senate race…he believes the public should know about Empowering Black Americans PAC and Mercury’s role.
‘They use Black communities to try to get you to go against the people who really are trying to help you,’ Woodson said of Mercury and Empowering Black Americans PAC, saying that their latest attack campaign in Michigan was deployed ‘just to help pump fear or agitate our community.’”
“In late 2015, as damning evidence emerged about contaminated water in Flint and the first lawsuits started trickling in, then-Governor Rick Snyder turned to wealthy donors and a cadre of crisis PR consultants, lawyers, and other advisors to survive the growing scandal.
One of the firms hired by the embattled Republican governor was the Washington D.C.-based lobbying and public relations firm Mercury Public Affairs”
Now, the firm and their Flint water tactics are back with a $1.5 million disinformation and attack campaign targeting Black voters in Michigan that’s funded by outside interests in support of the Republican US Senate candidate.
“In late 2015, as damning evidence emerged about contaminated water in Flint and the first lawsuits started trickling in, then-Governor Rick Snyder turned to wealthy donors and a cadre of crisis PR consultants, lawyers, and other advisors to survive the growing scandal.
One of the firms hired by the embattled Republican governor was the Washington D.C.-based lobbying and public relations firm Mercury Public Affairs”
Now, the firm and their Flint water tactics are back with a $1.5 million disinformation and attack campaign targeting Black voters in Michigan that’s funded by outside interests in support of the Republican US Senate candidate.
The influence and disinformation tactics that were deployed over the last decade to protect the perpetrators of the Flint water crisis have found their way into the US Senate race:
“Outside groups spend millions on ads to weaken Black support for El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race”
“The money isn’t from Michigan. The public relations group that developed the message isn’t either, though they do have previous ties to the state, including one of the worst public health emergencies in Michigan history.”
michiganpublic.org/politics-…
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Hate has played an arresting role in the late stages of Michigan’s Senate race, in which Abdul El-Sayed is facing the former U.S. congressman and Donald Trump ally Mike Rogers. At a rally in Port Huron early this week, Trump announced, “I’m here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a U.S. senator.” But El-Sayed does not take these statements lying down. His reputation is that of a know-it-all who is happy to scorch anyone who opposes him. Sarah Jukaku, his wife, described him as a counterpuncher. “If you are respectful, he will be so respectful. If you are kind and warm, he will be so kind and warm. He will mirror it with more,” she told Eliza Griswold. Read Griswold’s dispatch from the final days of El-Sayed’s campaign: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/B_…
“Flint resident Arthur Woodson has experienced these misleading tactics before. He had a front-row seat to Mercury’s work in the Flint water crisis litigation and now is watching it unfold statewide in a U.S. Senate race…he believes the public should know about Empowering Black Americans PAC and Mercury’s role.
‘They use Black communities to try to get you to go against the people who really are trying to help you,’ Woodson said of Mercury and Empowering Black Americans PAC, saying that their latest attack campaign in Michigan was deployed ‘just to help pump fear or agitate our community.’”
The influence and disinformation tactics that were deployed over the last decade to protect the perpetrators of the Flint water crisis have found their way into the US Senate race:
“Outside groups spend millions on ads to weaken Black support for El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race”
“The money isn’t from Michigan. The public relations group that developed the message isn’t either, though they do have previous ties to the state, including one of the worst public health emergencies in Michigan history.”
michiganpublic.org/politics-…
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Why can’t the New York Times stop talking about Haley Stevens?
Why Haley Stevens Can’t Stop Talking About Abdul El-Sayed nytimes.com/2026/10/31/us/ha… via @NYTimes
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U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers in Detroit this morning to meet with a local pastor who says he voted for El-Sayed but still accepted a meeting with the Republican.
“Go back to the suburbs Rogers, you suck,” someone yells at the former Congressman.
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Even as New York City's artistic spirit has been flattened by rising rents and the drab preferences of those who pay them, the Village Halloween Parade has remained a beacon of creative expression: gothamist.visitlink.me/O8b1T…
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We are now at the “Mike Rogers endorsing Haley Stevens” stage of this election
Representative Haley Stevens is a courageous leader who deserves the respect of every Michigan voter. She has conducted herself with nothing but class since the Democratic primary, a primary where a majority of voters did not vote for her party’s nominee.
She was absolutely right to call on Abdul El-Sayed to denounce the Rebellion PAC ad and she was right to call on him to apologize for espousing the same hateful ideology behind it.
Representative Stevens’ statement expressed a hope that Abdul El-Sayed “had heard the deep concerns of the Jewish Community.” It is as shameful as it is disappointing that his response to her clearly shows that he does not care about those concerns.
In her statement, the Congresswoman says, “ the Jewish and African-American communities of my district deserve to have someone show up for them, rather than fight over them.”
I agree with her and my campaign is about being there, showing up and defending these communities and all Michiganders.
