Kari Lake should not be on TV

GOP candidate for governor in Arizona should not be on TV. If you aren’t willing to accept the results of your election and/or deny the 2020 results, networks should not have you on to spread lies.

Why do you put Lake on TV?
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 16, 2022

CNN should not put people who won’t accept election results on TV.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 16, 2022

Generic poll update 10/16/22

In @FoxNews national generic ballot, Ds are +18 w/voters under 45, +9 w/college+ whites & +36 w/non-whites-even though pluralities of each group say they are worse off than 2 years ago. Another telling measure of resistance to Trump-era GOP on rights/values/democracy.
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 16, 2022

Unsurprisingly, Fox News buries the lede in its new poll:

Democrats up 3 in generic ballot, and "these results indicate a tight battle for control" of the House.https://t.co/1jda7rOwhM #FoxNews
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 16, 2022

Generic Congressional Ballot:

Democrats 46% (+4)
Republicans 42%

.@MorningConsult/@Politico, 2,006 RV, 10/7-9https://t.co/lex8qH1p7E
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 12, 2022

Generic Congressional Ballot:

Democrats 48% (+2)
Republicans 46%

.@YouGovAmerica/@TheEconomist, 1,030 LV, 10/8-11https://t.co/Sjo8RU3UNU
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 12, 2022

Generic Congressional Ballot:

Democrats 48% (+3)
Republicans 45%

.@MorningConsult, 8,381 LV, 10/7-9https://t.co/0gsNJcFYrd
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 12, 2022

New Monmouth poll on the generic ballot (with leaners):

Republicans 47
Democrats 44

Dems had 7 point edge in August. Now they’re down 3 pts. https://t.co/y735oGf1Aa
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) October 3, 2022

Examples of rich people influencing elections with money

Blame the terrible Supreme Court Citizens United decision for allowing for dark money.

The richest man in the state decides he does not like the Dem gubernatorial candidate (calls himself an "anti-Tina person”), spends a bunch of money on the two competing candidates, and a Dem +16 state a toss-up.

Best democracy money can buy. https://t.co/FbbelwXcP1
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 15, 2022

NEW: Diana Hendricks, the right-wing billionaire and Trump advisor donated $9.6 MILLION last quarter to Wisconsin Truth PAC, a Super PAC devoted to reelecting @SenRonJohnson and attacking his opponent @TheOtherMandela

Hendricks is best known for tax dodging pic.twitter.com/bosYlFll3N
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 15, 2022

Reclusive climate-denier billionaire seeking to “steer history” with dark money — that‘s how we roll these days? Not good.https://t.co/DwpmTCopmV
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) September 7, 2022

For months, a $1.6 billion donation has been influencing American politics from the shadows. Voters won’t get the transparency they deserve, but this article does a good job of connecting the dots:https://t.co/tK6itGR3Hu
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) September 1, 2022

Conservative political activist Leonard Leo's group has received the largest dark money donation ever reported: $1.6 billion.

Leo has been referred to as Donald Trump's "Supreme Court whisperer" and was influential in the confirmation of all three justices Trump nominated. pic.twitter.com/DQRyzHUj9p
— The Recount (@therecount) August 22, 2022

A computer ad with wrestler King Kong Bundy

KIng Kong Bundy in a computer ad!

Yeah? Well, I heard Hulk Hogan learned to use that computer in one minute and spent the next 22 leg-dropping communists. pic.twitter.com/w7xikEjWpr
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 15, 2022

As it turns out, King Kong Bundy, who played a bald-headed monster on screen, was quite the opposite off-camera! #WWE https://t.co/N2YQqfUCcw
— Pro Wrestling Stories (@pws_official) October 14, 2022

Trump’s antisemitism (and lack of reaction by the GOP)

Trump is a bigot. The GOP is antisemitic too since they haven’t responded to his terrible rant.

The Republican Jewish Coalition (@RJC) call themselves "a Republican voice in the Jewish community and a voice for American Jews in the GOP." Needless to say, they seem to have had nothing to say in response to this much-noted comment by their master and teacher, Donald J. Trump. pic.twitter.com/BGvG9vVPMO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 16, 2022

https://t.co/8qwEkKg3Dw
— Aaron Brakel (@junolocal) October 16, 2022

For the non-Jews out there, I would say that American Jews really aren't crazy about it in general when non-Jews issue warnings or instructions about what we as a group ought to do or need to do. All the more so when it's so clearly a threat. But not just that.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 16, 2022

Trump offered an ominous message Sunday morning, warning “U.S. Jews” to “get their act together” and be more appreciative—“before it is too late.” https://t.co/eDFKpMTLUe
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 16, 2022

Antisemitism falls from fascist movements like rain drops from the clouds.

The flow of antisemitism from the MAGA fascists was inevitable and inexorable. It is like gravity. It is innate and foundational to any right wing fascist movement built on lies and conspiracy theories.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) October 16, 2022

Dear Republican Jews, once again: time to leave the cult. This is not new, and Trump has warned you before. My Dec 2021 @MSNBC essay "Trump Loves the Jews–Until He Doesn't" https://t.co/1Sz80DFBiS https://t.co/1c1DHYMKhG
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 16, 2022

Trump warns American Jews to "get their act together" and back him because of his support for Israel "before it's too late" — once again invoking tropes of dual loyalty, an antisemitic canard in and of itself https://t.co/yMWg3PWEaj
— Ben Samuels (@Bsamuels0) October 16, 2022

Polls on wearing masks

Most likely to support continued mask wearing: Black people, and people making <$40K / year. Black ppl also more likely to know someone who died of Covid, and to have had finances adversely impacted by it. pic.twitter.com/ODQ2BrpMfA
— Katie Bach (@kathrynsbach) October 14, 2022

That is a gigantic gap pic.twitter.com/A1PhBSNYkQ
— Justin Feldman (@jfeldman_epi) October 14, 2022

A real Catbus

Catbus is a cat/bus hybrid in the animated film My Neighbor Totoro.

In Japan, they made that a reality. pic.twitter.com/sJY0HcZHtW
— Andrew Gill (@andrewgill) October 15, 2022

Amazing finish to a 2013 Ravens-Vikings game

Was this the wildest finish in regular season history? #Vikings–#Ravens in 2013.

36 points scored in 2 minutes and 5 seconds with countless lead changes.pic.twitter.com/uFL0KOFmBQ
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 14, 2022

Only 19 points had been scored prior to the final two minutes

ESPN recap

Covers: Only You

“Only You” was a big hit for the Platters in 1955. They had recorded another version in 1954. Ringo Starr covered it in 1974 and made a very strange video with Nilsson filmed on top of the Capitol Records building. John Lennon suggested it to Starr and recorded a version with a guide vocal that wasn’t released until 1990.

Good tweet comparing Fetterman’s top zip codes vs. Oz’s

This is good research. Most of Oz’s top zip codes are not in PA. I’m kind of surprised by Jenkintown, PA. My late mother lived there. It’s a Philadelphia suburb which I would not expect to be prime MAGA territory. Maybe most of the money is from one Trump cult member.

Fetterman’s top contributor zip codes vs. Oz’s top contributor zip codes, you have to laugh pic.twitter.com/SAGJok3Gho
— G. L. (@gldivittorio) October 13, 2022