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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 26

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  1. [8]
    phoenixrises
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    Democrat Haley Stevens endorses GOP’s Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race I've been following this race because the podcast I listen to is from Michigan. This is insane.

    Democrat Haley Stevens endorses GOP’s Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race

    I've been following this race because the podcast I listen to is from Michigan. This is insane.

    5 votes
    1. [6]
      Halfloaf
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      And she’s lost a lot of her staff as a result. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6187032-stevens-staffers-resign-rogers-endorsement/

      And she’s lost a lot of her staff as a result.

      https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6187032-stevens-staffers-resign-rogers-endorsement/

      5 votes
      1. [5]
        phoenixrises
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        I saw some news that she's been expelled from the party already but it's unconfirmed right now.

        I saw some news that she's been expelled from the party already but it's unconfirmed right now.

        1. [4]
          DefinitelyNotAFae
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          She's murdered her political career for an endorsement that is too late to do anything. I'm sure she's got money enough and can pivot to whatever grift she's lining up. But the absolute fuck

          She's murdered her political career for an endorsement that is too late to do anything. I'm sure she's got money enough and can pivot to whatever grift she's lining up. But the absolute fuck

          1. [3]
            phoenixrises
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            I'm guessing the AIPAC check cleared, it's actually so insane.

            I'm guessing the AIPAC check cleared, it's actually so insane.

            1 vote
            1. [2]
              moocow1452
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              I don't think there's an amount of money that can buy as unforced an error as a cross party endorsement against the person who bested you in the primary. It's personal and/or she's trying to pivot...

              I don't think there's an amount of money that can buy as unforced an error as a cross party endorsement against the person who bested you in the primary. It's personal and/or she's trying to pivot to the Fox correspondence track.

              1. phoenixrises
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                or she's just getting ready to move to the united states of israel, after all she sees it in her dreams.

                or she's just getting ready to move to the united states of israel, after all she sees it in her dreams.

    2. patience_limited
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      Stevens is just saying the soft parts that were her primary campaign points out loud. She's always been both pro-corporate (member of the New Democrat Coaltition) and pro-Israel, to the extent...

      Stevens is just saying the soft parts that were her primary campaign points out loud.

      She's always been both pro-corporate (member of the New Democrat Coaltition) and pro-Israel, to the extent that she primaried another (actually Jewish, pro-labor, pro-human rights*) Democratic Congressman out of his seat with AIPAC funding in 2022, after Michigan lost a seat in the 2020 census.

      Stephens came from wealth, and has been a not-very-effective party insider for so long that she clearly felt entitled to win. She's taking her hurt feelings out on everyone. May she sink into well-earned obscurity.

      *Full disclosure: The Levins, multiple generations, were friends of my family. Dynastic politics don't thrill me, but Andy Levin was the real progressive deal throughout his time in Congress. I've had negative sentiments towards Stevens since that time for pushing out a much better person and Representative, and supporting Mike Rogers is a complete betrayal of Michigan and the country.

      1 vote
  2. [2]
    Hunterquill
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    Kennedy Makes Bigoted Remarks About Arabs at Michigan Campaign Event Seems like the racists have shifted focus from having latinos in their crosshairs to having southeast Asians and Muslims....

    Kennedy Makes Bigoted Remarks About Arabs at Michigan Campaign Event

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed on Monday that Arabs did not win major global awards and “don’t produce literature,” remarks that came as President Trump and his allies step up anti-Muslim messaging in the final days of the midterms.

    Speaking at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Kennedy said at first that the “Muslim religion produced a golden age” in which “Islamic lands were the center, the foundation for art and literature and science and engineering, and they were highly tolerant and pluralistic and cosmopolitan.”

    But then he argued that the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement founded in 1928, had “created stagnant societies,” falsely claiming that Arabs no longer produced award-winning work.

    “That’s why you don’t see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims winning the Nobel,” Mr. Kennedy said. “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce — they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Field prize, they don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.”

    Arabs have in fact won all of these prizes, including as recently as 2025. Clips of Mr. Kennedy’s comments spread widely online, with some angry users sharing names of Arab and Muslim winners of major awards.

    On Sunday, Mr. Trump claimed in a string of Islamophobic remarks that Dr. El-Sayed and Democrats would “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores” if Mr. Rogers lost. This month, Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, made an inflammatory comment that Dr. El-Sayed slept in an Osama “bin Laden jersey.” Mr. Rogers, who was present at both events, has pushed hard to make false claims and pointed questions about Dr. El-Sayed’s background a central issue of the campaign.

    Seems like the racists have shifted focus from having latinos in their crosshairs to having southeast Asians and Muslims. Almost like more people are starting to see through all their bullshit.

    4 votes
    1. Lyrl
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      If your movement gets critical backing from racist fervor, it can't be allowed to stop. The Latino deportations have gone less visible - still happening in large numbers, but not being made a...

      If your movement gets critical backing from racist fervor, it can't be allowed to stop. The Latino deportations have gone less visible - still happening in large numbers, but not being made a spectacle of, so the racist ra-ra around them has receeded. So they have to pick a new target for the supporters to rally hate for.

      Sadly given human nature, if the economic challenges were less obviously caused by Trump, I think that strategy would be working well.

      2 votes