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New: A deep dive into the big business of welfare and means testing. Deloitte has made a fortune on error-prone eligibility systems for programs like SNAP and Medicaid. We went to Arkansas and talked to folks struggling to get help in a system designed to break them.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUSSep 8
NEW: The biggest welfare scam in the country is run by a consulting giant. Deloitte has made over $6 billion running error-prone eligibility systems that make it harder for Americans to get the healthcare and food aid they rely on. We investigated the big business of welfare.
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Taniel@Taniel41m
A group no one had heard of just released 30 polls at once that are now making the rounds. What's least convincing to me is that nearly all of the 30 are in line with what you'd expect based on averages or, in the many rarely polled House races, conventional wisdom.
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NEW — The super PAC for DATA CENTERS has arrived. Meet Building the Future. The group is spending millions for Darline Graham in the homestretch, a preview of fights to come in 2028. With @ELaserDavies: nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/po…

Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race

As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.

nytimes.com
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New rule? The Schumer rule?
Jim Geraghty
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It is quite possible that the new rule — the Schumer Rule? — will be that if one party has the majority, it will _never_ hold a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee from a president of the other party, no matter how much time remains until the next election. Democrats talk a lot about expanding the Supreme Court, but if, God forbid, there’s an unexpected vacancy in the next two years, they may well end up shrinking it temporarily.
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Mike Nellis
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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So Sorry I Died@101Iight14h
The last thing you hear before it’s announced you’re gonna get drafted
TMZ
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Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers tmz.com/2026/10/25/nicki-min…

Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers

Nicki Minaj has received some informal nominations to be the next White House Press Secretary ... with 2 staffers glowingly floating her name as a replacement after Katie Zacharia was fired.

tmz.com
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jaakea@fwjaakea21h
Top 10 NBA Slander Nicknames
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Josh Cowen
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NEW: public school choice may have a place in the policy toolbox, but what happens when choice just reshuffles familiar barriers to quality and access? I sit down with Princeton’s Jen Jennings, whose new book The Scarcity Loop explains it all.
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The raw numbers of GOP 18-29 year olds voting are so low that it genuinely could be 20-30% groypers who are not voting for Republicans
Aaron Astor
@AstorAaronOct 25
Some of these partisan-turnout numbers among younger voters are nuts. In NC, 55,291 Dems (18-29yo) have voted; just 11,982 GOPers (18-29yo) have done so. In 2024, the two parties were almost even among 18-29 early voters. Does NCGOP expect those young GOPers to vote on E-Day?
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There’s actual research showing that Muslim candidates suffer a far greater electoral penalty than people from almost any other group, and 45% of Michigan voters said they wouldn’t vote for one as president. Your blinders are on
Spencer Steel@spencerjsteel17h
If Rogers wins the MISEN in 9 days, the pundits and the DSA-lefties will point to Islamophobia, and Rogers HAS run an Islamophobic campaign. But AES is unpopular with a wide swath of voters because he's an immature, dislikable jerk. @murphymike has hit on this, and he likes AES!
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Muslims and Indians are the GOP’s monsters of the week this cycle and it’s dragging both Vivek’s floor and El-Sayed’s ceiling lower. Simple as
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Bona looks way better tonight
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I think this would’ve been like a 30 point blowout without his minutes. He did some dumb stuff but anytime he was on the floor the defense just looked more alive
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That Jalen Williams injury is not good man
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Joe Weisenthal
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*LULA WINS BRAZIL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, DATAFOLHA PROJECTS
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Bolsonaro disasterclass
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The Bolsonaro family in the second round
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Sam Robinson@samueljrob16h
Latest from Detroit early voting: 1,279 early voters today. There were 614 voters on second day of early voting in 2024.
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Alonso Gurmendi@Alonso_GD16h
Some Bolsonarista politicians already saying they “wont accept losing”.
Renan Brites Peixoto
@RenanPeixoto_17h
Menos de 2% das urnas apuradas👇
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vaibhav vijay@_vaibhavvijay_16h
omg if he actually comes back from down 3-1,,,, LuBron
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
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Brazilian presidential election 🟥Lula 51.02% (left-wing) [incumbent] 🟦Bolsonaro 48.98% (right-wing) 5.7% reporting Results from The Guardian
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Krystal Ball
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Jesus Christ
Acyn
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Beamer on El-Sayed: He has a birth certificate but he's not an American. He had the choice to be an American or not. He has chosen otherwise. He has blood that's red. However, he has chosen to remove any strain of the white and blue part in his blood. We cannot allow this man to invade and, occupy our country. (He is an American)
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