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El-Sayed and his wife react to Common’s timely freestyle

Wow. Big story from @ZachGorchow pro.stateaffairs.com/mi/elec…

Exclusive: Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign says it has raised $1.2 million in the four hours and counting after former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens backed Republican Mike Rogersin the final messy days of the Michigan Senate race. That marks his second-best fundraising day since winning the nomination in August. politico.com/storyline/live/…

RIP @juanatkins. ra.co/news/86327

genuinely, what is the worst tweet of all time?

One of my least favorite traits in liberals is the tendency to assign to bigotry claims made against members of minority populations that, when made against non-minorities, would be obviously in-bounds. This has happened twice to me recently, re: Abdul el-Sayed and Ilhan Omar. Abdul el-Sayed's birth mother was a Muslim Brotherhood activist. His half-sister posted publicly about being ardent supporter. He denied the existence of family ties rather than addressing them when asked. He signed a petition in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The question of his support for the Muslim Brotherhood is not because he is Muslim; the story has legs because he has close family ties and lied about them. Ilhan Omar married one man in a religious ceremony, then married another civilly, claimed to separate after two years, then divorced after and remarried her first husband civilly. During her marriage to her second husband, she filed taxes jointly with her first. The circumstances of her second marriage are very obviously suspicious. People have investigated whether he was her brother and whether the marriage was for immigration reasons. The core of the allegation is not incest, but immigration fraud, and it has legs specifically because the circumstances look very very weird. I absolutely and categorically refuse to turn my brain off when I see things I would flag as weird in any other context simply because the context is that Republicans are using those things in partisan ways against Democratic politicians from minority backgrounds. That leads to a toxic dynamic, a sort of incuriosity-of-low-expectations, where the only anomalies people are "allowed" to take seriously are ones that do not possibly implicate identity traits. No. It is reasonable to ask Abdul el-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood; it is reasonable to scrutinize Ilhan Omar's second marriage. I will hold this line and I will not apologize for it or hedge when people choose to selectively see scrutiny as bigotry.

Scoop: El-Sayed’s campaign is asking Stevens to stay away from all future campaign events in the closing days of the race, two people familiar with the decision told POLITICO, W/ @lisakashinsky & @jsscppr politico.com/news/2026/10/30…

Just saw the Elizabeth Holmes movie. It's a deeply inventive film & fascinating character study. But I represented clients in the Theranos investigation, and in case anyone got sucked in by the deliberate cinematic ambiguity: she was responsible for a massive fraud. Hard stop.

Most people still haven't let reality sink in. The "future of cyber attacks" isn't some kid in his basement running ChatGPT scripts hoping to find a lucky opening…. No the future is North Korean operatives getting hired onto a major tech company's SysOps team and working there for months behind hyper-realistic AI avatars and cloned voices…backed by multimillion-dollar server farms running fully abliterated models trained for the sole purpose of breaking defenses. Or it's an attacker sitting at root level inside the IoT security camera on your office wall watching your screen Or it's a single email with hidden instructions that your company's own AI assistant reads before quietly sending your internal files out the door without a single click Or it's a video call where your CFO and three coworkers tell you to wire $25M…except none of them are real. Or it's your CEO's cloned voice calling the IT help desk at 6am, asking to reset his login because he's "locked out before a board meeting." Or it's an AI that studied years of your team's Slack messages and now writes phishing emails that sound exactly like your boss sent to every employee at once. It's a different game…and most companies are still defending against the kid in the basement