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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 1h

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 1h

A wealth tax is a non-negotiable position for my primary vote. Also need income tax to be even higher than the FDR era. Give me 100% tax on all income over $50 million

CNN @cnn.com · 5h

Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 1h

A wealth tax is a non-negotiable position for my primary vote. Also need income tax to be even higher than the FDR era. Give me 100% tax on all income over $50 million

CNN @cnn.com · 5h

Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

www.cnn.com

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 4h

i think we can justifiably slice this thinner. trans issues are of very low salience to the voters democrats need to win on their right flank, and of very high salience to the voters democrats need to win on their left flank

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4

The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 6h

He knows he’s rage baiting, calling him a hypocrite doesn’t work. Just call him a stupid asshole and move on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Ted Cruz: "I think right now the 2 frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in 2028 are AOC and Mamdani. Now, he's not even eligible, but what do they care? Law doesn't mean anything to them. That's where their party is."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

If these elections had gone the other way — if the Democratic Party had underperformed or even lost one of these contests — then every commentator under the sun would say, rightfully, that Democrats were in disarray; that even the president’s deep unpopularity couldn’t keep them afloat with voters.

But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 1d

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights

Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.

www.msnbc.com

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

The coolest part is the red reflected light of the dress bouncing onto Eddie.

Roger Rabbit's production is unmatched.

Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 1d

Jessica Rabbit (Amy Irving) performing "Why Don't Ya Do Right?" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

MTG is on my short list of people who i think could do the trump thing (remember she comes from the fitness and wellness influencer world)

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene has confided to colleagues that she wants to run for president, according to four sources familiar with the matter, including one who has spoken with her directly about it.
www.notus.org/2028-electio...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Telling People She Wants to Run for President

One source told NOTUS Greene believes she has “the national donor network to win the primary.”

www.notus.org

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 2d

As the face of the “progressive prosecutor” movement steamrolls to a 3rd term, let me be the millionth person to note that when that movement loses elections it’s billed in national media as a crisis for the left, while the movement’s high points, of which there have been many, are largely ignored.

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

Democrat Larry Krasner, a national figurehead for reform prosecutors, has won reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney.

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

It’s ridiculous how good she is at this. Generational political talent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

PHILLIP: Republicans are saying that Chuck Schumer is afraid of you. Is he?

AOC: I don't think so. Sen. Schumer and I have worked together. I think Republicans are afraid of me and they project their fear onto him. So they're just telling on themselves when they say that.

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 2d

The whole “try to impoverish the state’s largest region” strategy does not appear to have paid off for Republicans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

Virginia governor elections

Major shift in the vote-rich DC suburbs.

LOUDOUN COUNTY
2021: D+11
2025: D+29

FAIRFAX COUNTY
2021: D+30
2025: D+47

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

It was a foregone conclusion but goddamn does it feel good

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/47O4mT0

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 2d

Once more, for old times’ sake

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

With regards to Mamdani’s comments on Israel, NBC just said that the notion that Israel should be a Jewish state is something that’s core to “Jewish identity.” Come on, man. That’s just offensive.

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible relief

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority

NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2d

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

The PA court races are the most important ones so I’m not relaxing til those are called.

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

People legit wrote countless op-ed pieces saying Youngkin was a future president because of that election. When was the last time you thought about him? If ever?

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

As you should

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

homer simpson and bart simpson are running in a park and bart says it 's just a little dirty .

ALT: homer simpson and bart simpson are running in a park and bart says it 's just a little dirty .

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John 🏳️‍🌈 @thejwq.bsky.social · 2d

The Virginia results should show JUST how bad McAullife’s campaign was. Spanberger is a vacuum of charisma and she’s still running circles around his numbers.

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