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Until Trump began conspiracies about mail voting, Republicans were fully on board with GRACE PERIODS for ballots to arrive as long as postmarked by Election Day. They passed it overwhelmingly in KS, OH, & elsewhere.
But now Trump hates it.
So 4 red states—KS, OH, ND, UT—all banned it this year.
But now Trump hates it.
So 4 red states—KS, OH, ND, UT—all banned it this year.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Until Trump began conspiracies about mail voting, Republicans were fully on board with GRACE PERIODS for ballots to arrive as long as postmarked by Election Day. They passed it overwhelmingly in KS, OH, & elsewhere.
But now Trump hates it.
So 4 red states—KS, OH, ND, UT—all banned it this year.
But now Trump hates it.
So 4 red states—KS, OH, ND, UT—all banned it this year.
He’s tested this power with great success, turning republicans into a party that cares little about deficit spending, free speech, and states’ rights
December 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
He’s tested this power with great success, turning republicans into a party that cares little about deficit spending, free speech, and states’ rights
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NBA LEADING REBOUNDER.
NBA LEADING ASSISTER.
Historic doesn't begin to describe what Nikola Jokić is doing this season 🤯
Watch Joker and the Nuggets take on Antman and the Wolves this Christmas Day at 10:30pm/et on ABC/ESPN!
NBA LEADING ASSISTER.
Historic doesn't begin to describe what Nikola Jokić is doing this season 🤯
Watch Joker and the Nuggets take on Antman and the Wolves this Christmas Day at 10:30pm/et on ABC/ESPN!
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
NBA LEADING REBOUNDER.
NBA LEADING ASSISTER.
Historic doesn't begin to describe what Nikola Jokić is doing this season 🤯
Watch Joker and the Nuggets take on Antman and the Wolves this Christmas Day at 10:30pm/et on ABC/ESPN!
NBA LEADING ASSISTER.
Historic doesn't begin to describe what Nikola Jokić is doing this season 🤯
Watch Joker and the Nuggets take on Antman and the Wolves this Christmas Day at 10:30pm/et on ABC/ESPN!
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And yet if you surveyed the general public, you'd find that most people think the country is more dangerous than ever.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
And yet if you surveyed the general public, you'd find that most people think the country is more dangerous than ever.
Surprise surprise, the doom and gloomers were wrong about everything and the people with facts and figures were spot on!
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Surprise surprise, the doom and gloomers were wrong about everything and the people with facts and figures were spot on!
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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They're never going to release them. At some point, the Supreme Court will step in and say they don't have to.
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
They're never going to release them. At some point, the Supreme Court will step in and say they don't have to.
No kidding… I just never would have guessed. As I said the past 3 times this came up, this is essentially official Republican platform now with how many have been doing this
ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
No kidding… I just never would have guessed. As I said the past 3 times this came up, this is essentially official Republican platform now with how many have been doing this
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A minimalist world map
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A minimalist world map
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Two-story outhouse
Gays, IL
Gays, IL
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Two-story outhouse
Gays, IL
Gays, IL
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🏆 THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS SET 🏆
One game to decide who wins the NBA Cup!
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs will meet Jalen Brunson and the Knicks in the Emirates NBA Cup Championship on Tuesday (12/16) at 8:30pm/et on Prime!
One game to decide who wins the NBA Cup!
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs will meet Jalen Brunson and the Knicks in the Emirates NBA Cup Championship on Tuesday (12/16) at 8:30pm/et on Prime!
December 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
🏆 THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS SET 🏆
One game to decide who wins the NBA Cup!
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs will meet Jalen Brunson and the Knicks in the Emirates NBA Cup Championship on Tuesday (12/16) at 8:30pm/et on Prime!
One game to decide who wins the NBA Cup!
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs will meet Jalen Brunson and the Knicks in the Emirates NBA Cup Championship on Tuesday (12/16) at 8:30pm/et on Prime!
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epic fucking defeat for the White House. the effort to gerrymander Indiana (even further than it's already been gerrymandered) is defeated, 19-31.
it's worth celebrating that after Trump and the entire establishment targeted random state senators and sent death threats their way, they FUCKING LOST.
it's worth celebrating that after Trump and the entire establishment targeted random state senators and sent death threats their way, they FUCKING LOST.
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
epic fucking defeat for the White House. the effort to gerrymander Indiana (even further than it's already been gerrymandered) is defeated, 19-31.
it's worth celebrating that after Trump and the entire establishment targeted random state senators and sent death threats their way, they FUCKING LOST.
it's worth celebrating that after Trump and the entire establishment targeted random state senators and sent death threats their way, they FUCKING LOST.
More of these. It was a really challenging shared experience and just a few years later all but forgotten by many.
“For those who died and those who survived and all we lost during the covid-19 pandemic, we shall remember.”
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
More of these. It was a really challenging shared experience and just a few years later all but forgotten by many.
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Democrats flipped 25 state legislative seats this year—more than a 1/5 of all GOP-held seats that were up for election. Republicans flipped *zero* seats.
@taniel.bsky.social’s year-end statehouse analyses are always must-reads:
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
@taniel.bsky.social’s year-end statehouse analyses are always must-reads:
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......
boltsmag.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Democrats flipped 25 state legislative seats this year—more than a 1/5 of all GOP-held seats that were up for election. Republicans flipped *zero* seats.
@taniel.bsky.social’s year-end statehouse analyses are always must-reads:
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
@taniel.bsky.social’s year-end statehouse analyses are always must-reads:
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
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A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A huge night for Democrats:
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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NEW YORK IS 13-1 AT HOME!
It’s the fifth time they’ve won 13 of their first 14 at home in franchise history, and the first time since the 1992–93 season 👀
It’s the fifth time they’ve won 13 of their first 14 at home in franchise history, and the first time since the 1992–93 season 👀
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NEW YORK IS 13-1 AT HOME!
It’s the fifth time they’ve won 13 of their first 14 at home in franchise history, and the first time since the 1992–93 season 👀
It’s the fifth time they’ve won 13 of their first 14 at home in franchise history, and the first time since the 1992–93 season 👀
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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The fact that Biden can't forgive student loans with PLENTY of statutory support, but Trump and R's can do ANYTHING -- including saying, "Hey, let's mid-cycle gerrymander based upon race, cool?" And the majority says "cool," is fucking insane.
Be aggressive and uncompromising. Change must come.
Be aggressive and uncompromising. Change must come.
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The fact that Biden can't forgive student loans with PLENTY of statutory support, but Trump and R's can do ANYTHING -- including saying, "Hey, let's mid-cycle gerrymander based upon race, cool?" And the majority says "cool," is fucking insane.
Be aggressive and uncompromising. Change must come.
Be aggressive and uncompromising. Change must come.
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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.