This time the headline is the entire story.
[...] However, the rule has not been finalized, and both the executive order and the proposed rule have faced multiple legal challenges.Justly so,
Sunday, August 02, 2026
Saturday, August 01, 2026
Asshole, and not even a trustworthy one. Who else? Trump. Of course. Outdoing himself. And he sees himself on Mt. Rushmore. Self unawareness, ya betcha.
If they don't give me Todd Blanche as AG, I will throw a shit fit. Watch me. Or just cave into the blackmail of it all.
This is a message to the Senate of the United States. A Constitutional branch of the preeminent trioka, Congress, Courts, Executive. The gall and stupidity are staggering.
Here's the AP report, carried in a local daily, PioneerPress:
Trump’s threat to push ahead on settlement fund injects new uncertainty into attorney general talks
By ERIC TUCKER
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to push forward with a fund to compensate his allies if two Republican holdouts will not support his nominee for attorney general, injecting fresh uncertainty into a Senate confirmation vote planned for next week and underscoring once more his interest in securing payouts for supporters who feel unjustly persecuted.
Trump asserted in his Truth Social post that he would keep acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his current role and press ahead on the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” if Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina refuse to back the former federal prosecutor who was key member of Trump’s defense team when the Republican battled four indictments.
The administration needs their votes but both lawmakers have protested Blanche’s selection because of a lawsuit settlement that created a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who feel mistreated by the criminal justice system and provided Trump and family members with immunity from tax audits.
In a sign of apparent progress Friday, Trump pronounced the fund “dead.” As negotiations continued into the night, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, rescheduled a committee vote for Blanche that had been postponed earlier in the week.
A spokesperson for the committee said Grassley, R-Iowa, would like to see Blanche confirmed before the August recess and that putting the Tuesday vote on the calendar “gives more time for the White House to secure the votes for the President’s nominee.”
But by Saturday morning, those plans were in jeopardy with a new announcement from Trump that appeared to put the fund back on the table — and dinged the two senators who are leaving Capitol Hill when their terms end in January.
“If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche, one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard” to restore the fund. The president insisted, as he previously has, that the fund “takes care of those who have been so badly treated” during the administrations of Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Tillis, who is retiring, took note of the president’s turnabout by saying in a post on X that despite Trump’s comments Friday, he “clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against.”
He added: “It’s unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully, we can resolve this by Tuesday.”
[...]
What brand of stupid is this? How could anyone have voted for that gentleman?
How? How,how,how,HOW!!!
Hopefully, those who did are capable of feeling buyer's remorse.
Blanche is hoist in Trump's petard. Bless the two of them.
That entire bogus collusive litigation exercise, with Blanche in the middle, stinks.
UPDATE: This is an extrajudicial contempt of the District Court. The judge handling the case should enter a finding of contempt; $500,000 fine per day until the contempt is cleared. Not a public expense. From Trump's personal wealth. He can pay it in crypto for all the fuck I care. But just hang the contempt onto his shoulders. He caused counsel to misrepresent the truth, in court, about that dumb-fuck slush fund attempted theft.
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
AIPAC doles out poisoned money. They back worse of candidates, torpedoing better progressive choices. In Minnesota support Angie Craig over Peggy Flanagan. In Michigan, "ogre on a pike" is a phrase gaining attention. It is arguably wrong. More is needed.
Washington Examiner, before it hits its paywall, wrote:
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed is facing backlash from members of his own party after saying that moving the Democratic Party in a more progressive direction would require putting “one ogre on a pike.”
During the donor call, el Sayed discussed how winning the Michigan Senate race would give him a national platform to push the Democratic Party further left, including backing a primary challenge against Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in 2028.
“If I win … well, y’all came at me, so now I get to come at you, and, you know, primarying people like John Fetterman, I have no problem to do that,” el Sayed said during a Zoom meeting with donors, according to audio obtained by Politico. “Ideally, you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different,” he added, describing how he believed a Senate victory could help advance the progressive movement.
That gets the statement out, for examination - true or not? Crabgrass believes the image is more weeding of - crabgrass. Runners and all. You have to dig, and dig, and keep digging. The head on a pike only goes so far. Proof? You want proof?
Consider AIPAC's ogres. Any politician who does not kiss ass over Israel and Zionism and Netanyahu and says genocide is not, to AIPAC, a good thing.
AIPAC HAS THEIR WAYS:- a link and its screen capture
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If that is not naked heads-on-pikes chest pounding, nothing is. "We're AIPAC and cross us and die." It doubtless quells many, but really, not those set on opposition. Suck as El Sayed. AIPAC meddling in U.S. election affairs is ongoing.
You never know who you'll find whoring to AIPAC.
Link. Check the date. Ongoing and intense and untruthful.
BACK TO EL SAYED COVERAGE
Start by a search = fetterman is a jerk
Early on the return list, here and here. Not too far later, here (linking to here), and also here and here. Trending stories. A basket case. In the U.S. Senate. (Likely not the only one, but the nail that stands up gets pounded down.) Likely a single termer, but you never know. Try search = fetterman israel
So, Washington Examiner is as Republican as JD, or more so. Other outlets show some objectivity:
El-Sayed was responding to a supporter, who asked how he planned to use his “voice at a time when, unfortunately, we’re not going to get any policy over the finish line,” referring to the final two years of the Trump administration.
In his response, El-Sayed framed the race, which has seen a historic level of spending by AIPAC’s political arm, as one of biblical stakes: He likened himself to David and the forces that have lined up against him to Goliath. “I need to use the platform that I have, and frankly, AIPAC and all the other corporations are going to give me if I win this race,” El-Sayed said.
“What they don’t really realize is that in spending so much money, they’re turning me into David, right? So, like, if I’m the guy who came through and beat Goliath, now all of a sudden you just gave me the best platform in the entire U.S. Senate, which I love because then guess where all eyes are going to be?”
The discussion revealed how he views his race as the left’s most consequential stand in the midterms and its implications for 2028 — especially as a newly crowned early 2028 presidential primary state.
“Michigan is going to be, what state number five — first big swing state on the whole map. I love that for us, which means that I get to then start paving the pathway for 2028 and who will be the next president,” he said. “What I’m trying to do in this race right now … is to offer compelling ways or offer sort of memes that people can pick up who are running for president to sound like we need them to sound.”
and -
‘Put one ogre on a pike’
In a televised debate on Monday, the final head-to-head before the state’s 4 August primary, the moderator asked El-Sayed whether he regretted his comments made in a Zoom meeting, in which, according to leaked audio published by Politico, he suggested that if “you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message”.
The comments drew immediate backlash from several high-profile Democrats and charges of sexism by those who believed the remark was a reference to Stevens. “Many people took offense to that,” the debate moderator, Roop Raj, noted. “Do you regret any of the comments that you’ve made?”
El-Sayed did not reply directly, but said he had been speaking of supporting a primary challenge to Fetterman, the towering Pennsylvania Democrat who campaigned as a progressive but has moved to the right since taking office.
As Crabgrass contends, an evolution is afoot, and Darwin knew it happens over time. Weeding the garden of Constitutional democracy is not gee, and then quickly done.
For instance, Is Chuck Schumer entrenched? Will he be budged easily?
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Crabgrass earlier posted about a tail-wagging-dog problem, Angie taking AIPAC money less that Emmer took, and more than Stauber; with this link.
If it is not questioned, it cannot be stopped. Our nation, Israel as a proxy, is like Iran having proxies; and our nation simply should be better than that but is not.
Not yet. The myth of the snake tempting Eve, but Eve biting the apple is kind of at play. Netanyahu tempts, Trump bites. But both have preintentions which are wrongful.
War, killing and destroying, is not really good for anything or anybody; but we live it now in real time. To make Iran bow to collective asserted weight. The Arab Gulf states holding the coat while the ally fights.
In Minnesota Peggy not Angie represents wisdom in choice. No question. It may end up with votes counted against Peggy, which is the system at work. The system - evolution - slow over time - all that. And El Sayed, may he prevail. All against that image of AIPAC's heads on pikes. Hunting trophies. Whatever analogy you like.
UPDATE: link
FURTHER: JTA writes. Food for thought. Anti genocide, Anti ethnic-cleansing, Anti Apartheid, Anti Netanyahu, Anti Zionism and Anti settlements is not antisemitism. Nor is the two state solution. That entire lie is finally getting debunked. Bless truth. Jews in America are not the question, and hatred against them is wrong and despicable.
However, * * *
Last, to understand mechanisms and incentives, this, which has an ending causing thought. It is hard to blame someone such as Craig for what is common fodder for Congress critters and staffers, as the video lecturer notes the ubiquity of AIPAC..
One more link, a related but different subject, here.
Trump is egegious. Proof of the defect in the "enligntened despot" hypothesis. His vote tampering is extremely dishonest in its reach. A fact checking site shows the Trump vote tampering reach to the Post Offfice. He has no fucking shame!
The headlining is a bit confusing. States under siege are not without voter lists.
They just refuse to make them available to Trump tampering. They have lists, which they regard as private state information. From the item:
WASHINGTON, DC: A claim circulating online alleged that the US Postal Service (USPS) proposed ending mail ballot deliveries for states that do not provide voter information to the federal government.
The claim has fueled debate over election rules and the role of federal agencies in voting. Let's fact-check the claim.
[...] The claim is true. The US Postal Service (USPS) proposed a rule change that would require states to provide the federal government with lists of mail-in and absentee voters in exchange for USPS delivering mail ballots to voters in those states.
Christsakes, Trump will stop at nothing to steal an election -
As of July, 2026, a judge had blocked the implementation of the order and proposed rule in about two dozen states that challenged the policy. Legal challenges over whether the proposal can move forward in other states remained unresolved.
In July, some Facebook posts claimed that a federal judge had ruled that “ALL 50 states MUST send in their voter rolls to confirm citizenship.” However, that claim did not accurately describe the legal situation at the time.
While an appeals court allowed USPS to continue working toward finalizing and implementing the proposal during the ongoing litigation, the posts failed to mention that a court had blocked the policy in 24 states.
They also did not account for another lawsuit in which a judge was considering whether to halt implementation of the proposal while the case continued.
In plain words, Trump is fucking around with mail-in ballots and should stop!
It is beyond belief what the asshole will do. Voting like driving to the market is something that should be easy, rather than strewn with phony roadblocks.
Fred Trump and Roy Cohn really did a number on the nation by raising that schmuck.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Key U.S. Senate seats for the November electrion, which might be hinge races to see whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate. And * * *
As already posted here, the Minnesota Dem primary is between a conservative AIPAC supported candidate and a progressive, Peggy Flanagan, a Native American
Abdul El-Sayed may be buoyed by a younger, anti-establishment coalition as he runs against an establishment candidate
El-Sayed, running in Michigan to be the Democratic candidate for US Senate this November, is trying to strike a delicate balance between policy wonk and performer – capable of detailing the mechanics of the proposed Medicare for All system of universal healthcare one minute and delivering a punchline the next.
At a moment when American politics has become conspicuously humorless, he is an unusual political persona. And in a matter of days, on 4 August, Michigan Democrats will decide whether he’s their type to send him to the United States Senate.
El-Sayed faces the more moderate representative Haley Stevens, who has the backing of the Democratic party establishment. The duo are virtually neck-and-neck at the polls – raising the prospect of the party’s grassroots voters again defying the wishes of its leaders.
While a string of socialist victories across Democratic primaries in recent months has boosted the left of the party, El-Sayed rejects the label. He just wants capitalism that works.
El-Sayed, 41, has tried, and failed, to win office before: in 2018, he lost the Democratic gubernatorial race in Michigan. Has the younger, anti-establishment coalition he now represents grown larger than the one that rejected him eight years ago? El-Sayed believes it has.
“I think people are sick and tired of the establishments on both sides of that, and I think we are having success because we’re speaking to that frustration,” he said. “And politics doesn’t have to suck, and you can build a politics that doesn’t suck.”
That quote seems to summarize a view of his establishment opponent's brand. Given how Schumer, Gillibrand and Cheyenne Hunt shook a me-too to derail Platner in Maine, it appears they don't have one to shake at El Sayed. Which is fortunate. Surely you'd expect they've searched for one.
Following an image of El Sayed rallying with Bernie and AOC, Guardian, writes:
Next month’s Michigan primary will test whether that coalition is now large enough to nominate one of its own as a Democratic candidate for Washington.
El-Sayed insists he didn’t plan to run in this year’s US midterm elections. Heading into 2025, he said, “I thought I was going to keep doing what I was doing” – running Wayne county’s public health department, trying to keep key programs and health centers afloat as Donald Trump’s administration wielded the axe.
“The straw that broke the camel’s back was when they froze federal funds,” El-Sayed recalled in an interview. “I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to flow programs like [nutrition support initiative] Wic and federally qualified health centers and vaccines, and meanwhile we’re watching our tax dollars get sent abroad to drop bombs on other people’s kids.”
Throughout his campaign, El-Sayed has frequently tied the Israel-Gaza war, which he unflinchingly calls a genocide, and other conflicts involving the US to affordability at home. “Every time you want to put glasses on kids, people ask you: ‘Doctor, how are you going to pay for that?’” he said. “Nobody asks the general how he’s going to pay for the next war.”
Repeating, he is not the AIPAC favored candidate, that said, back to the text:
The roots of this worldview long predate this campaign, and run through Egypt, where El-Sayed spent childhood summers with his father’s family.
He describes the country as both “glorious”, because of the fullness of family and social life, and “painful”, because of the strict political order surrounding it, and the role that decades of US military support helped play in sustaining it.
[...]
El-Sayed credits his grandmother, whom he calls the smartest person he ever knew, for teaching him that, while talent is distributed widely, opportunity is not.
“I’m playing with house money, man,” he said. “Put all the chips back on the table and try and do something new. I was supposed to be a cab driver in Egypt. That’s not my life.”
Instead, as a student, he was a starting defenseman on the University of Michigan lacrosse team, vice-president of its Muslim Students Association and, in 2007, the university’s first Rhodes scholar in years. He studied at Oxford, attended Columbia medical school and eventually entered public health, rather than private practice.
“He was always the smartest guy, the awesome guy who can work the room,” said Mohamad Issa, a head and neck cancer surgeon in Ohio who knew El-Sayed during his college years. “The first person there. The last person to leave.”
Issa remembers approaching El-Sayed after a game of basketball as a nervous freshman, having earned disappointing grades in his first science classes. He had been told by an adviser that medicine might not be for him.
El-Sayed, then a student athlete, spent months mentoring him, offering study strategies that Issa says transformed his academic career. Two decades later, Issa says, he still teaches those same techniques to students he mentors today.
“He’s a bro,” Issa said. “That’s all you gotta know.”
After years of research and being an instructor, El-Sayed led Detroit’s health department after the city’s bankruptcy, then took over Wayne county’s, where he helped cancel roughly $700m in medical debt affecting 300,000 Michiganders.
“He almost has an idealistic pressure in his mind about wanting to live fully, in a way that is admirable,” said Dr Sandro Galea, dean of public health at Washington University, who has known El-Sayed for more than 20 years. “It comes from a sense of wanting to do right by people, wanting to help in a better world for people.”
Clearly, again, he is not AIPAC's horse in the race. Shunning a "socialist" label, Guardian reports El Sayed's thinking:
His critique of the economy is not that markets can never work, but that concentrated corporate power has prevented them from working as advertised. “If the markets actually worked the way they’re supposed to, you might have some efficient movement of money,” he said. “The problem is, we don’t live in capitalism, we live in oligopoly.”
El-Sayed points to universal healthcare. Private insurers make money from people when they are younger and healthier, he says, before handing them to the government at 65, when their care becomes more expensive. A rational system would spread those costs across a lifetime, according to him, rather than privatize the profitable years and socialize the costly ones.
For El-Sayed, the question is ultimately the same one he absorbed in Egypt, at school, in his research and from his grandmother: who is permitted to benefit from the institutions around them – and who is expected merely to endure them?
With that message, he has gained ground inside the Democratic electorate, with rallies attended by hundreds of eager Michiganders from across the political spectrum, though
the party establishment has been considerably slower to follow.
Chuck Schumer, the US Senate minority leader, and retiring senator Gary Peters have backed Stevens, reflecting the party leadership’s preference for the more conventional candidate. El-Sayed, meanwhile, has assembled a different coalition, winning recent endorsements from the likes of progressive representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders.
The divide reflects a broader disagreement inside the party over what will help it win.
Grossman, [a pundit] at Michigan State University, does not believe the concern driving figures at the top of the Democratic party to oppose El-Sayed is primarily ideological. It is, he said, more about what a victory by someone to Stevens’s left would signal nationally.
That national signal being that the people can have a voice which Schumer and Gillibrand cannot bend and control, a signal that pair would sooner shun immediately than look at and reflect upon It's power, and money management of U.S. politics at stake, and Schumer et al. don't want to give up what Pelosi eventually gave up because she was older than sin. More from Guardian:
“The concern from Washington is more about the long-term image of the Democratic party and whether someone closer to El-Sayed’s politics would make it harder to hold the seat in future elections,” said Grossman. “I don’t think Abdul will suffer a major penalty for ideology in this election.”
El-Sayed has faced unusually determined resistance.
Not everyone inside the party embraces his offering. Lon Johnson, a former chair of the Michigan Democratic party who supports Stevens, argued El-Sayed’s politics could ultimately cost Democrats one of their best opportunities to retake control of the US Senate. “There is real concern that Abdul would not be able to beat [Republican Mike] Rogers and then potentially lose us a majority possibility in the Senate,” Johnson said.
Outside groups, led by the pro-Israel lobbying network Aipac and its affiliated political funds and committees, have poured roughly $30m into the race on behalf of Stevens, making Michigan one of the most expensive Democratic primaries in the country.
While El-Sayed continues to speak out about Israel’s destruction of Gaza, ads have leaned heavily on domestic issues, highlighting Stevens’s experience working with the Obama administration’s auto rescue in 2008.
Yeah. Obama bailed out Wall Street and GM and let Main Street face big time forclosures, so what, yea for that? Hardly. Latest news about GM, they have been selling Buicks made in China, and given tariff things from Trump, they will move part of that game to the U.S. That linked USAToday thing:
GM intends to sell the Buick Envision vehicles assembled at Fairfax to the North American market, the company confirmed. This means production in China may continue for sales to other, non-U.S. markets.
This is the latest change for GM after regulatory shifts and slower-than-expected consumer demand of electric vehicles roiled its production plans during President Trump's second term.
In the meantime, production of the Buick Envision in China has not been disrupted, and GM will continue to ship the Envision to the U.S. from China. GM said additional product and timing details of the new Buick will be shared closer to launch. GM sold 41,924 Buick Envisions in 2025.
So, yeah, Obama bailed out GM and as a thank you GM in turn used Chinese labor, not U.S. autoworkers, until the tariff war changed their mind That is representative of the thinking of the establishment Dem Party in DC, and change would be welcome.
Try search = gm saic joint venture's future -- That will show a story of history from Obama's bailout to now. Learn or already know facts.
The Obama bailout of the corporation, not the workforce but the firm, is on the rocks.
GM is still a Schumer-like firm, a failure, but happily entrenced and making rich folks richer until a hammer may fall. Using the U.S. auto industry as an example of anything suggested as good for the masses from establishment Dems runs into ownership greed being serviced in DC.
Try search = ford family control of voting stock and prospering however the market goes
Tesla is doing okay, Elon managing it in non-traditional ways, while the others arguably show us a stinking example of has been. And when an Establishment Dem trots out "Obama GM bailout" to engage autoworkers, are the unions that clued out?
Unlikely.
Don't expect clean thinking rather than slanted spin propaganda from establishment Dems like Schumer and Gillibrand. It's not in the DNA. Which is why an evolution is afoot. Gross economic inequality favoring the class war the rich are waging on everyone else is being called into question. There are better candidates than others. That's fortunate.
But it is an evolution. The inertia mass of incumbent Democrats will hold the line until enough progressives get win after win, so there is hope, while the establishment seems to not mind playing trans-issue crap with the GOP while both embrace a status quo loving money. Concentrated money, donorship elite paying dues to those running both Parties.
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It grew into a rant. I could say, "Sorry about that." But no. I am not at all sorry. People every so often need a good rant.
"Andrews views the broader landscape of Trump’s second term with profound alarm. She sees a state and a country buckling under the weight of “chaotic” economic and social policies. “I’m deeply concerned about the direction this country is moving in,” she says. “Gas prices are high. Grocery prices are high. There’s an affordability crisis in housing and in childcare. We don’t have jobs to meet the needs of folks who are graduating from technical colleges or from four-year universities and, on top of that, we’re witnessing unprecedented corruption in the federal government.” Her proposed remedies to break the fever include ending partisan gerrymandering, implementing term limits, banning members of Congress from trading stocks or becoming lobbyists and overturning the Citizens United supreme court ruling to purge dark money from politics."
Guardian report, even before Graham croaked Dr. Annie Andrews was the SC Dem candidate for Senate. Now she runs against sister of smooth slime. A quack awakened the political imperative within the heart of this South Carolina pediatrician -
Dr Annie Andrews says her ‘mission remains the same’ as she now aims to unseat Darline Graham, sister of the late Republican senator
[...] “My opponent will change but my mission remains the same and that’s what I’m staying focused on.”
That mission was galvanised by the two decades that Andrews spent on the frontlines of what she describes as America’s “broken” public healthcare system, including 15 years at a children’s hospital in Charleston. The experience ultimately compelled her out of the medical ward and into the political arena.
“Over those years, I started to understand that the problems my patients and their families were facing were policy problems. These were systemic problems with systemic solutions and what we needed to do was start electing people who inherently care about South Carolina’s kids and families and care about solving those problems.”
She recalls: “In the aftermath of Trump being re-elected, the day that I decided to consider this seriously was the day RFK Jr was nominated to lead HHS because, as a paediatrician, that’s the worst-case scenario for America’s public health system.”
For Andrews, the elevation of Kennedy – who spent decades amplifying baseless anti-vaccine views – is not merely a political affront but a direct threat to the lives of the children she treats.
“Doctors are trained, when they take a history from a patient, to ask if their immunisations are up to date. Twenty years ago, when I started asking that question, the answer was almost universally yes.
“Now when I ask that question, I brace myself for the response because bad actors like RFK Jr, [quack, quack] grifters and conspiracy theorists have been peddling in these anti-vaccine conspiracy theories for decades [quack] and it has seeped into the consciousness of many parents in America who now don’t know who they can trust for solid evidence-based medical information about decisions for their children’s health and it’s deeply frustrating to watch as this has evolved.”
The consequences are brutal. Measles cases in the US have hit a 35-year high, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, with more than 90% of reported infections occurring among the unvaccinated or those whose vaccination status is unknown.
[...]
Indeed, for Andrews, the triage urgently required in Washington is clear. She views the impending Medicaid budget cuts signed into law by Trump as a devastating threat to rural South Carolinians. She advocates for defending Medicare, lowering prescription drug costs through federal negotiating power, and gradually introducing a public option to force private insurers into offering more competitive, less profit-driven plans.
And her definition of the public health emergency extends to gun violence. She speaks with the authority of a doctor who has “cared for children with bullet holes in them” and “stood at the bedside of a child who has been shot and held the parent’s hand, understanding that these are preventable injuries, these are policy choices that have been made by our lawmakers”.
While acknowledging that gun control may not be the primary issue driving voters to the polls in 2026, she insists: “I will not stand on the sidelines as gun violence continues to be the leading cause of death for kids in South Carolina and kids all across this country. But the good news is the vast majority of Americans agree with me. Over 90% of Americans believe we need commonsense solutions like universal background checks.”
[,,,] Her proposed remedies to break the fever include ending partisan gerrymandering, implementing term limits, banning members of Congress from trading stocks or becoming lobbyists and overturning the Citizens United supreme court ruling to purge dark money from politics.
Andrews has spent a year building a statewide campaign apparatus, raising funds and recruiting more than 2,000 volunteers. This week, she gained the endorsement of Her Bold Move, a national support network for women running for political office. [...]
Not a Medicare for All advocate, but championing a public option; she is short of a certified progressive, and the Dem Socialists advocate a unicameral Congress with the Senate abolished, and Andrews is silent about that. So, good overall, but in South Carolina a ray of sunshine in a stale ranging tightly from Lindsey crap to Clyburn crap.
As Guardian noted in closing the item:
South Carolina is a stronghold for Republicans with state elections historically decided by double-digit margins. In 2020, the Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison shattered national fundraising records, amassing a war chest of more than $100m, yet still lost to Graham by a crushing 10 percentage points.
Clyburn is well up in years, set in ways, and the fact is Harrison was a Clyburn pick and hence got money and hence lost the contest. Some Dems need to think anew.
Or keep losing, the Clyburn way or the highway. Awaken, please. The fish fry is yesterday, Andrews is today, and we hope she is tomorrow in the Senate.
(The Crabgrass headline is a run-together of two item paragraphs)
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Her Bold Move, (https://www.herboldmove.org/about-us), the national support network endorsing Andrews is not explicit, but it seems some women thought Emily's List needed a second front, of possibly more young and open thinkers. HBM 2026 endorsement images suggest extreme longevity is not considered a plus to these advocates. That's a Crabgrass guess, but Emily's List did go extreme super-top-heavy on Hillary in the Hillary vs Trump days, so something shaking differently is a sound development. Something other than Clintonian hash might just have a better, fresher flavor.
They seem Democrats, per checking the web on those already holding a political office, none dessicated, judging from the photos. Pelosi not on the endorsement board nor endorsed. One wonders, do Republicans have a second front female advocacy thing, younger than Susan Collins, etc. - or even one at all?
UPDATE: Emily's List might face a third front - WFTW
https://www.womenforthewin.org/
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/wftw
Of interest,
Colleen J. Davis
chairs the Her Bold Move endorsement board, and is a key person with WFTW, with this https://www.womenforthewin.org/meet-the-team bio
Colleen J. Davis has been in the entertainment industry for two decades. In that time, she has worked on television series of all genres including soap operas, reality, live events, children’s programming, & daily talk shows. Over the past few years, Colleen has made the transition from creative producer to clearance producer where she oversees various legal aspects of a production. Politics have always been an important part of Colleen’s life. With a firefighter father & a postal worker mother, local elections had direct impacts on her family. From a young age, she was taught the importance of voting & has still never missed a single chance to submit her ballot. Colleen splits her time between L.A. & her native Seattle. When not working, she can be found traveling or cheering on her favorite soccer teams: the Seattle Sounders, the O.L. Reign, & the U.S. Women’s National Team.
Davis appears to have no wikipedia page (a Delaware Colleen Davis office holder does, so don't be confused). However, https://grokipedia.com/page/Colleen_J_Davis notes her activity with both of the above mentioned activist networks. Crabgrass gets a feeling that Emily's List is establishment-entrenced Dem party, these two networks being distinct and different.
Schumer might feel far, far more comfortable with Emily's List. Vice versa.
FURTHER UPDATE: US citizens learning of Andrews for the first time might want to contribute directly to her campaign, and not via either of the two activist nets.
search = Dr Annie Andrews campaign page -- links to
https://drannieandrews.com/platform/
See, also, https://drannieandrews.com/the-new-york-times-the-doctor-will-seek-your-vote-now/
South Carolina residents probably already know much about Andrews. And await general election early voting to cast a ballot in comfort, no lines, no ICE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Andrews_(physician)
WANTING TO AVOID ANY CONFUSION: "EMILYs List Endorses Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina's U.S. Senate Race".
So even the traditionalists are Andrews supporters, which matters.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Sideline Susie.
If you care: https://sportsbyline.com/nbc-sideline-reporter-michele-tafoya-click-to-listen/
Ambitions beyond her doing a sideline interview or a report from the injury tent and you're screaming at your TV, show the field, show the fucking field!
Now ambitions beyond the sideline. Qualifications? That remains a question. But somebody who hates football while favoring "entertainment" decided sideline susies was a good idea. We've had them ever since. Tafoya was handed that ball, and ran with it.
UPDATE: A GOP view:
After reading this Washington Examiner article, I'm not certain that Mike Lindell, the purveyor of MyPillow, is a Republican. If he is, he's a John McCain Gang of Eight type of Republican, not a movement conservative like Ted Cruz. I've vooted before for candidates who weren't movement conservatives up and down the ticket in Minnesota. I'll enthusiastically vote for Michelle Tafoya for U.S. Senate in the primary and in the general election if she wins the primary, which I think she will.
What can I say?
UPDATE: Link.
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