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Patrick Dillon @mpdillon 4h For political folks who have not particularly given Iowa any close thought in 4 or 8 years, an extremely salient fact to know right now is it has a brutal 6 week abortion ban that had a year’s worth of judicial review and went into effect this summer.

And for people looking for the why of it, remember that the abortion bans in Iowa recently went into effect:

In general I hope the bigger (or any) accounts are not shy of blocking. Look through some of their other posts, and if there’s a trend, that trend will always continue.

Ah, gotcha, good to know

New York 1st District : U.S. House : 2024 Polls The latest political polls and polling averages from FiveThirtyEight.

Can I just point out Avalon is amazing for being one of only ones making the leap from national news to actually running for something? Not many polls in NY01, it but looks like he's about 3 points away from LaLota, aiming to flip the seat:
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/...

The DoNotPay Story, With Kathryn Tewson If you've been reading Techdirt recently, you probably know all about supposed

Also the podcast with @mmasnick.bsky.social covering it is excellent:

soundcloud.com/techdirt/the...

Note I'm just a small fan account, George is here:
bsky.app/profile/gtco...

Brandi Buchman @Brandi_Buchman 1h Having a reaaaaaal hard time believe they'd pour millions of dollars into something like Project 2025 and then shut it down.

Am not buying that they'll scale back anything one bit. They're saying "you're not supposed to pay attention to us"

emptywheel (seiceáil) @emptywheel 24m Quick Tl;dr on Page and Strzok lawsuit. Both sued for Privacy Act violation. I was told years ago their claim had merit. DOJ apparently agrees bc it just settled with them for > $million. But Strzok had a SEPARATE suit for how he was fired. That goes forward.

They got so much harassment thrown at them for years and years; am glad they get at least something from the settlement (similar with McCabe). And Pete's other lawsuit goes forward:

A graph showing that polling methods have greatly diversified from phone polling since 2000.

I think it's helpful to see how much polling has diversified over time (due to things like non response-bias and more). I'm sure it made the math side of polling more complicated, but makes knowing the non-math side that much more useful and important for the average reader.

X: 'Deep concern' at social media company partnering with Israeli verification firm Campaigners raise concerns over Au10tix founders' links to Israeli intelligence services

And if you get verified on X, your data and identification is sent to Israeli Au10tix:

"Au10tix is located in Israel and both have a well-documented history of military surveillance and intelligence gathering"

www.middleeasteye.net/news/x-twitt...

I admit to spending way too much time looking through CyberStuck, I just cannot get enough of it: www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/

That along with NYers reading their mean tweets of him in court were two of the worst days of his life

Boebert, Trump, Gaetz - no man, woman, or child is feeling quite comfortable in that courtroom

Also Trump has been asleep at least three times just today, if I read correctly - not exactly an innocent man en fuego with righteous indignation who'd be intently following along with every word

Oh HELLO! Melania texting Michael Cohen to call Trump. Show more Quote Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien · 1h Replying to @TylerMcBrien Now we see People's 249, texts between Melania Trump and Cohen on 10/18/16: MT: Good morning Michael, can u pls call DT on his cell. Thanks

And it looks like she knew and was assisting further between Cohen and Trump:
twitter.com/TylerMcBrien...

So the next question we can actually ask is: Given the news of RFK Jr.’s brain worms, does that help Democrats or Republicans more in November?

George Santos took $3,000 from dying dog’s GoFundMe, veterans say | CNN Politics Two New Jersey veterans say now-Congressman George Santos promised to raise funds for lifesaving surgery for one of their dogs in 2016, then became elusive and took off with the money.

Santos is like: "I stole from a dying dog's lifesaving surgery fund, but at least I didn't brutally murder it, come on Kristi"

www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/p...

Kristi Noem: It's a 'tragedy' not to force rape victims to give birth South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), a possible vice presidential candidate, called rape and incest exceptions for abortion a "tragedy."While speaking to Dana Bash on CNN Sunday, Noem was asked if she s...

And just before all of this, she was explaining her position of "It's a 'tragedy' not to force rape victims to give birth"

Clearly the smart pivot for Pro-Life™ Noem was to then boast about murdering puppies.

www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Tesla Will Recall Cybertruck in Latest Setback A federal auto safety agency said the accelerator pedal on the pickup truck, sales of which began in late 2023, could become stuck, increasing the risk of accidents.

Soap was apparently used to get the pedal pads on, which is about the last place I would want things to unexpectedly slip and get stuck in wide open throttle

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/b...

@EliotHiggins This is a good time to remember not to believe everything you read on the internet, especially people who quickly claim to have identified the person of interest in an event like this, and not to reshare speculation spun as facts

Also:

If you took an average of their total interactions, I would bet it would be close to that

Related, @helenkennedy.bsky.social's newly created account for just that, @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social!

A graphic showing 64 court losses and one win for Trump's cases related to and filed after the 2020 election

Obligatory graphic:

Just tried and it seems they're all working now. Signal was also apparently down for a bit.

On the plus side, Wikipedia already placed her where she belongs (reference 20):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiar...

Man strips, jumps into fish tank at Bass Pro Shops in Leeds The suspect struck a pole in the store’s parking lot. Police say he then stripped, ran into the store and jumped into a fish tank.

Bits of some of the above, generally just sad if it's true he's suffering from mental health issues.
www.waff.com/2024/01/05/m...

Apparently the mobile app and Spaces work, but neither the desktop web nor mobile web work for me. Haven't seen a concrete reason why yet

Barristers barring baristas from bearing ballistas