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M'ris; Polkageist, Esq @stiricide.bsky.social · 7h

Easily the weirdest part of this entire newscycle is Fox trying to poach... Hallmark viewers, I guess? By spinning the Kirks as The Greatest Love Story Suddenly and One Sidedly Told.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang

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The Can’t Win Victory Fund @cantwinvictoryfund.bsky.social · 1d

#Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Can’t Win Victory Fund helps “can’tidates” in impossible districts make noise, grow the vote for up-ballot races and push for fair maps—and yes, we make it fun.

Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run

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M'ris; Polkageist, Esq @stiricide.bsky.social · 1d

@ariellaelm.bsky.social one more for the Noteworthy Wins pile.

M'ris; Polkageist, Esq @stiricide.bsky.social · 1d

Downingtown elects @ericadeuso.bsky.social as PA's first openly transgender mayor: whyy.org/articles/ele...

Downingtown elects Pennsylvania’s first openly transgender mayor

Democrat Erica Deuso defeated Republican Richard Bryant in the borough of Downingtown’s mayoral election.

whyy.org

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M'ris; Polkageist, Esq @stiricide.bsky.social · 1d

@ariellaelm.bsky.social add this to the Notable Wins pile.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 1d

Dems have swept all five row offices in the crucial swing county of Bucks County, PA, by about a 56-44 margin, including my longtime friends Joe Khan and Danny Ceisler being elected District Attorney and Sheriff, respectively. We swept all four open common pleas judgeships. This is a great night.

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AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 1d

You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter.

Local. Elections. Matter.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.

DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.

His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.

Journalists: It’s bad for you!

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

Colorado's shock of the night if this holds, but Republican firebrand Danielle Jurinsky narrowly trails in her Aurora City Council re-elect bid. Jurinsky built a national profile on immigration via Fox News and the Trump campaign, but she trails two Dems in a pick-two race. #copolitics

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 1d

[P] This one is smaller, but...with ~57% of the results in, it looks like Fred Harran, the incumbent MAGA ICE-collaborator sheriff in Bucks County (my home county), is getting trounced.

Inject this directly into my aorta.

Election results with Fred Harran currently getting 30.79% of the vote, to his Dem opponent Danny Ceisler at 69.18%

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

BREAKING: Maine voters reject a sweeping Republican-backed anti-voting ballot measure that would have created a new photo ID requirement for voting, eliminated programs that expanded access to absentee ballots, ended the state’s permanent absentee voter list and more. Story to come.

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M'ris; Polkageist, Esq @stiricide.bsky.social · 1d

I mean their "Cuomo comes in second in NYC mayoral race" live chyron is pretty incredible.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*

The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t seen many people talking about Mississippi. Mississippi is holding seven legislative special elections because their previous districts violated the voting rights act.

We have a chance to break the state Senate super majority today.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 everything old is new again

Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 1d

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not.

They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
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Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link.
I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation.

Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after.

[0] https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092

[1] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

A crow flew nearby. “Hello, Crow,” shouted Toad.

Toad talks to a friendly crow flying overhead the sled.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 1d

What reason could the government have to kill a free program that saved people time and money, and cost the government significantly less than the value it saved?
I wonder.

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 1d

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.

IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.

IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.

(Story from when the pilot launched.)

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants

The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

If you are voting today, please don’t forget to vote in every race, not just the ones that have been getting attention. We have school board seats to flip and hold. We have city council seats to flip and hold we have bond measures to repair schools and libraries.

Don’t leave a single section blank!

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M'ris; Polkageist, Esq @stiricide.bsky.social · 1d

Chester County voters, if you were caught in the hinky pollbook sassafrass this morning, ChesCo polls will be open til 10pm with the correct pollbooks.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 1d

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 2d

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies

Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

www.theatlantic.com

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