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Mathew Helman
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Dad, #mapoli communications pro, Senate/House race junkie, Springsteen disciple, Celtics fan, stand-up comedy enthusiast. He/him. Skeeto ergo sum.
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Mathew Helman @mathelman.bsky.social · Jul 9
[1/15] The House GOP decimating Medicaid & stealing food from hungry kids in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest is a form of violence.

Also, there are myriad cases of *individual* House GOP members engaging in violence. To avoid the memory-hole, here's a House GOP Violence THREAD.

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 2h
Amazing.

Susan Collins (R-Concerned) just sent out a this solicitation criticizing "millions from Hollywood elites" as latest fundraising report yesterday showed that she was raising oodles of money from Hollywood elites.

#mesen #mepolitics
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d
NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 5h
Unlike most US presidents, who make financial sacrifices for the job, Donald Trump is billions of dollars richer since entering the White House. How has he done it? The FT investigates his rapidly growing crypto empire — fuelled by his own policies.

An #FTEdit 🧵 on all the president's money 👇
A quote from Donald Trump: "The rules will be written by people who love your industry, not hate your industry"
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h
FT Investigation: The heart of Trump’s wealth is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire, which has already reaped more than $1bn in pre-tax profits, in part thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by the US administration’s own industry-friendly policies on.ft.com/47bCXtE
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 16h
Wonderful resistance by Pentagon reporters walking off the job en masse rather than agree to Hegseth censorship.

The WH press corps should be taking note
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h
Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 18h
NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1d
Here is GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, all smiles with the Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Peter Giunta who:

*Said ‘I love Hitler’

*Referred to blacks as ‘the watermelon people’

*Said ‘if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there.’

#NY17
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d
JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d
Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers
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WFLA News Channel 8 @wfla.com · 21h
Attorney for Rep. Cory Mills accuser calls for removal from office, hints at criminal charges
Attorney for Rep. Cory Mills accuser calls for removal from office, hints at criminal charges
An attorney for the woman granted a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) said she hopes he is removed from public office, and hinted that he might face future criminal charges.  …
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 3h
Americans who say the U.S. is less healthy under the leadership of President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now outnumber believers 2-to-1, per the latest Axios-Ipsos American Health Index.

www.axios.com/2025/10/16/a...
Axios-Ipsos poll: Trump, RFK Jr. lose America's trust on health care
Skepticism over child vaccine requirements has ticked up since Trump took office in January.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
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Bob Harvie @bobharvie-pa.bsky.social · 18h
Hi, I’m Commissioner Bob Harvie. In 2023, I helped Democrats hold a majority on the Buck County Board of Commissioners for the first time since the Civil War.

Now I’m running to defeat Brian Fitzpatrick and polling has us tied.

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NOTUS @notus.com · 18h
Democratic candidate Bob Harvie’s campaign is touting new internal numbers that show him tied with incumbent Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in a hypothetical two-way race for Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district.
Brian Fitzpatrick’s Democratic Challenger Touts Poll Showing Competitive Race
Fitzpatrick is a top target of national Democrats this cycle.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 21h
"MAGA now means Make Argentina Great Again."

Farmers across the country are furious. They’re losing export markets to Argentina while Trump sends the country a $20 billion lifeline, with the possibility for $20 billion more.
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Mathew Helman @mathelman.bsky.social · 4h
It is sad how manifestly unfit for the office John Fetterman has demonstrated himself to be.

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Axios @axios.com · 4h
When Axios began reporting on this story, Fetterman texted, "Enjoy your clickbait!"

Asked a follow-up question, Fetterman said, "Please do not contact."
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Axios @axios.com · 6h
SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h
Exclusive: A planned IRS overhaul would enable its criminal unit to more easily target left-leaning groups.
Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups
The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 21h
NBC News has cut its teams dedicated to covering Black, Asian American, Latino, and LGBTQ+ issues, The Wrap reports.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21h
Really hard not to see last year quite clearly as a Black woman being nominated for the first time and the response being the return of Jim Crow.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
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Politico @politico.com · 22h
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22h
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
The Trump administration's sweeping Education Department layoffs have cast doubt on a pair of decades-old promises from Congress: ensuring disabled students receive a free and appropriate education and protecting all pupils from discrimination in schools. nyti.ms/4n4yFKq
White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs
About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.
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