asankar.bsky.social
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Enten: How many people watched Gavin Newsom's speech on just YouTube alone? Over 3 million folks. Joe Rogan, his average podcast episode over the last month has averaged only 1.6 million YouTube views, so Newsom's speech.. very, very popular.
June 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Average daily reads of my Today in Politics Bulletins since inception:

OCT - 96,518

NOV - 128,188

DEC - 164,954

JAN - 230,523

FEB - 276,450

MAR - 315,714

APR - 378,578
May 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 113. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 113. 4/15/25
… Dan Caldwell, one of SecDef Pete Hegseth's top advisers, was escorted out of the Pentagon today after an internal investigation.
open.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A top adviser of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, a U.S. defense official said.
Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe
Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
April 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."
April 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Making my way through the judgment now. It's 88 pages and I will have a lot to say.
April 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled in a massive fundraising haul amid progressive calls for her to launch a 2028 primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer
Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in three months, smashing her own record
It’s a massive haul for the progressive lawmaker who has been barnstorming the country with Bernie Sanders.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."
April 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Heisman winner Travis Hunter threw out the first pitch for the Savannah Bananas 🍌
April 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.

Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"

"That theory has been debunked"

"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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So many evocative photos from last night. Look at Myles Lewis-Skelly’s face here - priceless.
April 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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😍
April 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.

Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Today I introduced my first bill as a Senator.

A commonsense, bipartisan piece of legislation designed to protect people and their homes from natural disasters.

Let's get it passed.
April 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The More You Know…💫
April 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Oh hellooo
April 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The Senate process that has legs is canceling the national emergency, because that's a privileged resolution that has to get a vote in 18 days. Democrats should be introducing a resolution canceling the emergencies every day, setting up daily votes in 2-3 weeks.
Senate Majority Leader Thune on Cantwell/Grassley tariff bill getting a floor vote: “I don’t think that has a future. The president’s indicated he would veto it”
April 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM