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Andy Cohen

@ac-californian.bsky.social
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Analyst of data, consumer of information, defender of democracy, and of course vicious-yet-cute dog owner

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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 56m
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Erald Kolasi (@technodynamics)
Muse is not some friendly autonomous software ready to swoop in and automate your life. It's a system of mass surveillance and data scraping designed to give Meta as much information about you as po...
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 21h
Trump: I will scare you from the polls. America: We are more determined to vote. Trump: You don’t need to vote to Make America Great Again. America: We do — because you didn’t. news.gallup.com/poll/404558/...
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Early Voting Higher Than in Past U.S. Midterms
Four in 10 U.S. registered voters say they have already voted or plan to vote before Election Day, a higher proportion than in prior midterm elections.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
Gen Keith Kellogg, Trump's original Ukraine envoy (the appointment was vetoed by Putin) says that Ukraine should ignore Trump's request and continue its bombardment of Russian refineries, pipelines and storage facilities.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h
This could have been a debate. While Ken Paxton refuses to face James Talarico on the debate stage, James will be answering questions directly from Texans LIVE on CNN. Find a watch party near you: www.mobilize.us/texasdemocra...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
Sunday Telegraph: Donald Trump has just shown us, unambiguously, that he is Putin's man. Time to wake up to that fact. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
Donald Trump pardoned Jake Lang last year. That’s the reason why he is able to be here doing this. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 23h
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s most popular search engine, struggling arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 13h
which is why he gave $80 billion in tax breaks to data center developers. There are five data centers in Rockland with three more on the way. Unlike Mike Lawler, I will hold these companies accountable so they can’t exploit our communities.
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 11h
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Seth Abramson (@sethabramson)
Astonishing. 48 hours ago the NYT reported on a Treason scandal exponentially bigger than Benghazi, at the center of the Iran War, and involving Trump agents hiding the deaths of Americans in service...
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 11h
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Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff)
A shooting by ICE in the Bronx left 28-yr-old Oscar Bergal wounded and his 5-year-old son “traumatized” this week. NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams: “If this was happening in another country right...
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 13h
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
Mark Levin is out here demanding criminal investigations into the journalists and sources who exposed his stepson. The same stepson who should have his security clearance stripped yesterday if these “...
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 14h
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Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg)
Come rally with Tom Perriello, Shannon Taylor, Elaine Luria, and me on Monday, October 19th in Henrico, Virginia! These are three congressional seats that we can flip from red to blue - but we need yo...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 23h
In one stupid phone call to Putin on his birthday, Trump gave him EVERYTHING. He normalized Russian fuel exports, showed contempt for the Lindsey Graham Russian sanctions act he just signed into law, shifted blame to Ukraine, and gave Putin a lifeline by allowing spare parts for his refineries.🙄🤬
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ICIJ @icij.org · 16h
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control granted a Texas-based company license to acquire one of Armenia’s largest copper mines this summer — despite ties to a sanctioned Russian bank. Learn more: buff.ly/4JcIFKF
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Trump administration gave firm with ties to ballroom donor the green light to do business with a sanctioned Russian bank - ICIJ
Private equity investor Konstantin Sokolov was also appointed to run a government enterprise fund.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h
BY SPECIAL REQUEST: A shout-out to @ned1955.bsky.social, running to flip KY-05! You can help him here (yeah, it's a blood red district but every dollar helps...) secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 17h
This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 16h
Trump cares more about not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize than he cares about having actual peace in the Middle East or Ukraine.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump just announced that he is importing 400,000 tons of Russian diesel right away and up to 4,000,000 tons over the coming months. Every US$ going to Putin will be used to buy more missiles and drones to kill Ukrainian civilians. Trump's largess will lead to thousands of deaths. 1/2
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 19h
Speaker Johnson, who said he’d take a blow torch to your healthcare is saying if Republicans lose the House he will leave and start a lawn business. Next week I’m going to donate a wheelbarrow to him, so his staff can wheel him out of DC.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h
Directed by Alex Gibney, 'Musk' premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Sepand hit select US theaters last night, ahead of a wider release. It's one of the most important documentaries in recent years, featuring as the key face on camera, Musk himself, backup by a dozen of his senior execs.
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In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 19h
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Marcus Flowers (@marcusflowers)
Donald Trump doesn’t give a whit about the rules, he hates to lose, and Tina Peters was all too willing to help him when he tried to steal an election the last time. The red lights literally couldn’t...
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 19h
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Jon Ossoff (@jonossoff)
This is a congressman's son who inherited a seat in Congress, who now runs his daddy's trucking company, who voted seven times for the war in Iran, who voted for the tariffs, who voted to cut your hea...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/10/2026
When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
25. With the dam heaving under pressure, critics are pushing harder. Lawrence O'Donnell might have gone farther than anyone so far. He said Thursday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwM...
"If the president of the United States is insane, that is the biggest news of the day or any day. That is what will live in history. That is what historians will devote their attention to if the president of the United States is insane. If the president of the United States’ mind is crumbling before our very eyes, that is the most important story of the day because everything else follows from that, everything!”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
24. But at the top of her report was this: "The events are a ritual. He will attack Democrats. His words will probably stop making actual, logical sense for a moment, or for many moments. (It’s “the weave,” you see.)" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’
President Trump is doggedly lending his support to Republican candidates facing a rough midterm season. He is the same campaigner he has always been, but his crowds have changed.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
22. I think the strongest evidence to suggest the dementia taboo is fading came from the Times' Katie Rogers. She has covered Trump rallies for a decade. Last week, she said they "feel like the first stops of a farewell tour." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’
President Trump is doggedly lending his support to Republican candidates facing a rough midterm season. He is the same campaigner he has always been, but his crowds have changed.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
20. Last week, for instance, Time released the transcript of a long interview. For some, it revealed a broken brain. It raised the question as to whether Trump can tell the difference between fact and fiction. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
18. The furthest forward it has come is in the form of regular rhetoric, as when Mike Barnicle memorably called Trump a "damaged, delusional old man," suggesting dementia without naming it. www.editorialboard.com/the-press-co...
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The press corps is Trump’s assisted living program
We are beyond “sane-washing.”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
15. Donald Trump is weakening politically. (A new poll from Pew, the gold standard of polling, showed his approval is 30 percent. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump approval sinks to 30 percent in new survey
President Trump’s approval rating dropped to 30 percent in a new Pew Research survey, amid growing dissatisfaction with his handling of foreign policy, the economy and immigration enforcement. Sixt…
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
13. CNN's Jake Tapper, for instance, has never met a rightwing allegation he was not willing to give credence to. Yet when confronted with wild distortions by Kevin Hassett, head of the Economic Council, Tapper said voter unhappiness is showing up in the data, "just not the data you're looking at."
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
9. That said, widespread crisis has a way of changing what's considered normal. Last month, I noted twin patterns. www.editorialboard.com/the-power-dy...
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The power dynamic is shifting against Trump. Thank his binky
But the press would have stood up to him without Natalie Harp. Crisis demands it.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
2. And I think he will try to punish anyone who does not share his beliefs. As president, Donald Trump has vast powers at his disposal. "I can do whatever I want," he told reporters on Wednesday. Evidently, that includes forcing people to believe his delusions of grandeur.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21h
Trump brazenly lied about having seized Greenland during a midterm campaign rally.
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Trump, 80, Makes Unhinged Claim That He Seized Greenland
“I got Greenland,” the president told supporters. “I hope you’re happy about that.”
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ladies, 24 days to go until midterms. You know what to do. No time for cynicism, it’s time to act. Vote blue. youtu.be/hnGZnufbIWk
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'Tomorrow, Women Will Be A Part Of Making This Decision': Lady Gaga Speaks At Harris Rally In Philly
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Chuck Hubbard for Congress @chuck.hubbardforcongress.com · 21h
Shari and I loved seeing everyone yesterday at the Mt. Airy Autumn Leaves Festival! Fall is easily our favorite season. NC friends—early voting starts October 15th! Let's get out there and vote, y'all! #vote #midterms #mtairync
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 21h
Everyone knows… #HigherWages #LowerCosts #SaveOurHealthcareSaveOurHospitals
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 21h
The Trace has identified 32 incidents in which immigration agents shot at people since President Donald Trump’s operations began last year. Nine people were killed in these incidents. Another 15 people were injured.
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Federal Immigration Agent Shootings Tracker
See how many times ICE and other federal agents have shot someone, held someone at gunpoint or used less-lethal munitions.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Louisiana. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Children facing the camera | text: ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Longer lines and less food due to Government cuts are leaving food pantries and struggling families with no where to go. The cut to SNAP benefits as well as Trump and GOP cuts in the “Big Ugly Bill” have caused pantries to run out. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AbWQ99k4STFC...
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Food pantries overwhelmed by Trump cuts — NBC News
Those on the front lines of feeding their neighbors in West Virginia’s coal country say they face unprecedented challenges brought on by Washington.
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 22h
Trump is working harder to hinder Ukraine in its war with Russia than he is working to hinder Iran in its war with the United States.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
‘No regulation’: Trump officials bypass the public to boost invisible code #AlterNet
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‘No regulation’: Trump officials bypass the public to boost invisible code
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Andy Cohen @ac-californian.bsky.social · 22h
Get your vote locked in as early as possible if your state allows it, so Trump and his goons can’t mess with it at the last minute. If you plan to vote on Election Day, double check your registration status now!
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 22h
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ICYMI: Latino early voting is currently outpacing where it was at the same time in 2024 in RAW VOTE TOTALS, a new study finds. That's astounding. Turnout is usually much higher in presidential years. This election will bury the Myth of Multiracial MAGA. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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If Dems Win, Inscribe This Chart on Trump-MAGA’s Political Gravestone
A new analysis by a Democratic data firm shows that Latino turnout in early voting is outpacing 2024—a presidential year. That could be a big problem for Trump and the GOP.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22h
The President vs. every member of Congress COMBINED. Guess who made more personal financial trades? Donald Trump — with 28,000+ trades. Stock trading by top government officials should be illegal—no owning, buying, or selling stocks.
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