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New - House poll - California (CA-11)
🔵 Scott Wiener 53%
🔵 Connie Chan 47%
Tavern Research (Wiener Internal) - LV - 9/17
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Incredible timeline where the anti-monopoly fanatics, the a16z accelerationists, and the stochastic-parrot people are all aligned against letting the frontier labs decide not to destroy the world
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Where in America can new homes get permitted and built fastest? And are we getting faster or slower over time?
In a new paper with @leonardo_damico and Audrey Wang, we show cities like Raleigh typically *finish* construction before cities like San Francisco even approve it.
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Mesmerized by this photo of John J. Cafaro, the contractor behind Trump’s Reflecting Pool job, at the Republican midterm convention.
Photo by Mark Peterson for @VanityFair
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"live, work, play" is a lot of pressure to put on a building with one working elevator.
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The Senate committee responsible for commerce and technology policy has zero hearings on AI scheduled for the next 4 months.
The committee's top priority is, instead, the Protect College Sports Act.
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With Jonathan Kreiss-Tompkins now having a good chance at winning Alaska Gov, I’d like to STRONGLY recommend this 2018 article about how JKT helped architect the Dem-led coalition w/ Indies & Rs that’s controlled the state House since 2016 (minus 23-24).
politico.com/magazine/story/…
Today, Julia and I are suspending our campaign and endorsing Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Governor of Alaska.
More than 34,000 Alaskans put their trust in us, and thousands more gave their time, energy, and support to this campaign. We will never forget that.
What we built together does not end here. The work continues, and so does our commitment to building a better future, made in Alaska.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for believing in us and for being part of this campaign.
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An incredible story. The Iranian Christian woman who wrote “help” on the glass on the hotel in Panama has finally found permanent safety; in Canada.
The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇
Every once in a while a story you write as a journalist changes someone's life. A Canadian couple read our profile of Artemis Ghasemzadeh, the Iranian Christiane convert deported to Panama by Trump admin. They mobilized, against all odds, and brought her to Canada.
nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world…
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Ossoff: When you step back and consider it, the situation is absurd. Tech titans dig bunkers and warn us the new intelligence they’re training could lead to mass joblessness or human extinction, while our Congress debates ballrooms and youth sports.
We’ve amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over, but we can’t summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K. I say all this to say, but it’s the crushing weakness of our politics, against the unmet needs of our people and the massive stakes of our times, that’s shaking our faith in the future.
But Atlanta, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.
When Eva is old enough to ask me why I let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully, that I didn’t
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Schumer gets a lot of hate (especially on this website) but his recruitment of Cooper increasingly looks likely to flip a key Senate seat in a state Trump won by over 3 points less than 2 years ago.
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The most important story about the American safety net isn't some white paper speculating how we can distribute AI frontier lab profits--it's the rapid decline in SNAP enrollment in the wake of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.
Katie is a must-follow for that story.
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP.
cbpp.org/research/food-assis…
ALT Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.
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🚨 NEW from @Ipsos_in_the_UK Britain backs Binface 🚨
When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election...
33% say Count Binface
21% say Nigel Farage
32% say neither
13% are undecided
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After 7 years of work, today my bill to zone for more homes near public transit finally takes effect. It’s time to tackle our affordability crisis by building the homes we need to end the shortage — and building them in places people can access public transit.
