Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Key Trump lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election permanently disbarred Eastman has remained active in election denial circles, continuing to push conspiracy theories about voting and elections.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

HOWLing

You don't have to look very hard to see which way Wisconsin is trending since 2018.

We still have some tinges of purple, ...but damn if we aren't moving Forward.

The biggest GOP win since 2018 was for State Treasurer at 1.4%. I would bet money that many folks who work in politics couldn't tell you his name, despite the fact he's both currently serving as a statewide elected official AND actively running for another term. >>>

Haven't updated this chart in a while. Seemed like it was time.

Some takeaways:
WI Dems have had 7 wins since 2018 with margins bigger than 10%. Compare that to WI Republicans that have had 4 wins... total! >>>

Schrödinger's Straight

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students.

Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

Thanks!

I worked a bunch of races tonight and all my candidates won.

Feeling pretty good y’all.

Yup. Feeling really good. I worked with Citizens for Dane County’s Future and we pretty much won all our races.

Yeah! Hell of a night!

Yeah he did (I helped make this happen and I’m feeling really good this evening 😊)

Pam Bondi got fired and my Scaramucci calculator really blew up!

mooch.lol

Hello Merge Tag - A Podcast About The Intersection of Politics & Social Media We check in with candidates, consultants, strategists and more to find out what's working — and what's not — in the political digital world.

Check out the full ep at HelloMergeTag.com, on YouTube or wherever you stream podcasts.

In our latest episode of Hello Merge Tag, we got into how he built it, where it breaks down, and why he thinks AI is about to be a serious equalizer for smaller campaigns.

Also: the Wesley Hunt $6 million ad budget story is a genuinely epic AI cautionary tale. >>>

He built a tool that automatically pulls ad data, researches the real-world context around it, and generates a full research report — complete with charts, timelines, and sourced analysis. >>>

Most campaigns use the Meta Ads Library the same way (if they use it at all!). They scroll around, take some notes, maybe screenshot a few ads.

Joshua Canter took a different approach. >>

ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

The poll of the weekend? The main Alaska pollster, ASR, released a poll of Alaska’s Senate race with Mary Peltola leading by 5 against GOP Senator Dan Sullivan. Even just putting this one in play is a big deal for Dems and their difficult path to a Senate majority.

Madison No Kings.

Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Uncancel Colbert and I’ll commit to 30 mins a week of something else on the network. Bari’s choice.

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

Art of the deal?
No deal!

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now