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  This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 488. Ron Filipkowski Oct 25 … We are at the point in the midterms where the demented and addled president has added to his rally speech a comparison between the buttocks of Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) and rapper Nicki Minaj . From his rally today in MI: “I looked at his ass, and I've never done that with a man before. By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss.” … Trump also claimed on Fox that Husted went up in the polls after he told people that Husted has a nice, muscular ass: “He went up 14 points or something. That was when I said the A-word. I looked at his body.” … Trump at his rally in GA: On gas prices: “We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: ‘Trump is bragging about all the money they’re making while people are suffering at the pump.’ I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.” … Who is ‘we’? Comparing senate nominee Mike Collins to Sen. Jon Ossoff : ...

    02 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News   FOCUS: Adam Serwer | Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame for Their Alaskan Defeat Adam Serwer, The Atlantic Serwer writes: "For Trumpists, no system that results in a Republican loss can be considered legitimate." For Trumpists, no system that results in a Republican loss can be considered legitimate. M ary Peltola was declared the winner of Alaska’s special congressional election last night, defeating the former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin . A Democrat hasn’t held the seat in 49 years, and Peltola will be the first Alaska Native elected to Congress. The election was the first in Alaska to utilize  ranked-choice voting , a system adopted by the state’s voters in 2020. If no candidate reaches 50 percent support, the lowest-ranked candidate is eliminated and their votes go to the second-ranked candidate on their voters’ lists. This continues until one candidate has at least 50 per...

    02 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News   Barbara McQuade | Are Trump's Passports the FBI's Smoking Gun? Barbara McQuade, The Daily Beast McQuade writes: "When the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month, they didn't find a smoking gun, but they did find some smoldering passports." DOJ’s latest filing suggests the proximity of Trump’s personal identification to top secret government documents could prove the former president is personally culpable. W hen the  FBI  searched  former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence  earlier this month, they didn’t find a smoking gun, but they did find some smoldering passports. On August 8, agents removed from Trump’s home  33 boxes  of  sensitive government documents , including more than 100 records classified at the highest levels. In a  36-page brief  responding to  Trump’s motion to appoint a special m...