NEW: Chris Gober — a Republican attorney who played a key role in the GOP’s effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map mid-decade — is now the party’s nominee to represent one of the very districts he helped redraw.
This November, he will face Democrat Caitlin Rourk in the GOP-leaning district.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
www.wsj.com/business/med...
thank you!
Brb time traveling to 2015 just to get some rest
We can't keep living like this
If we're expected to believe that there's a Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, I really think we all deserve tomorrow off work. Immediate three day weekend for everyone forced to live in whatever hallucination this is.
What in gods name is Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas
NEW: Tomorrow, Virginians will begin voting on a redistricting measure that would allow the state to redraw its congressional map to counter GOP gerrymanders.
@nataliehausmann.bsky.social explains the legal battles that led to this point and what voters can expect when casting their ballots👇
It's really worth taking a moment and reflecting on how a state that requires ID to vote just acted to immediately invalidate the IDs of a specific group of voters - and what that move could look like if a state tries to weaponize it against others in the future.
Kansans have until July 14 to register to vote in the state’s 2026 primary election. A driver’s license is one of the most common forms of identification in a state that requires a photo ID to vote.
The law went into effect last week, immediately invalidating trans residents’ identification
A story that really deserves more national attention: Kansans are fighting a new state law that invalidated transgender residents’ driver’s licenses & birth certificates, depriving them of required voter ID shortly before the 2026 primary election 🧵
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It would be so easy to simply ban AI in political ads
Longstanding ethical and theological debates over war, the appropriate use of violence, and various approaches to justice notwithstanding:
That's not how human rights work.
Yesterday the whole country got a good look at what TX elections are like, when TX Republicans changed voting rules then blocked efforts to protect voters:
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Sorry but I am immediately blocking any journalists who post about what prediction markets are saying about elections
Today, in every vote counts
exactly
From the "they shenan'd once and here they shenanigan" department.
In case you're wondering....this Texas elections/Paxton/SCOTX mess has happened before.....Harris County 2022
www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/ele...
Bo French - who has called to deport Native Americans, frequently uses the R-word, pals around with Jack Posobiec, recently asked his followers if Jews or Muslims pose a bigger threat to America, and gleefully called the day SNAP benefits lapsed "National Chimp out Day" - currently leads with 41%
RIP crenshaw 💀
Harris County early vote:
Harris County early vote:
Harris County early vote:
🥹💘💘💘
I know there's a lot going on but can we please just take a moment to remember that the Dallas County GOP also wanted to be hand counting all the ballots tonight lol
i don't think there's one place to find this info - i think you just have to check each county's election website for the mail ballot dropoff location. here's galveston county:
galvestonvotes.org/hand-carry-b...
NYT’s reporting on the DOD-Anthropic dispute sheds more light on how the Pentagon planned to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans: by collecting and analyzing commercial bulk data.
So what is this commercial data? And how might Claude be used to collect and analyze it? 🧵 1/
