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RT @DeepNotShallow: Two different Hasan Piker costumes at this Denver DSA social

RT @JSweetLI: NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy was warned by Republicans about the now-infamous Amy Acton mother ad. Asawin Suebsaeng and I dug into the back story of the ad for @zeteo_news and it's worse than you thought. One Ohio Republican said Acton’s elderly mother was “far gone” and visibly unwell when Vivek's team, along with ad firm the Strategy Group, filmed with her. Two people with knowledge of the matter say that even the Ohio GOP’s lieutenant governor candidate, Robert McColley, expressed reservations about the anti-Acton ad – though he is now forced to publicly defend it on the campaign trail.

Republicans Warned Vivek Ramaswamy His ‘Rapist Protector’ Ad Was a Terrible Idea The Ohio gubernatorial candidate was told using Amy Acton’s estranged mother in an ad would backfire. The story of how it came together is even worse than you think. Read:

RT @hasanthehun: hey ted you seen this ?

Here is Abdul Al-Sayed’s buddy Hasan Piker calling for Black people to be lynched. WATCH and judge for yourself:

RT @kilotonics: the lawyers Hasan retained for this are the same lawyers (who've left and started their own firm) that represented Dominion in their lawsuit against Fox News, which Dominion won via settlement for $780 million

Hasan Piker has officially filed a federal complaint against Scott Jennings for defamation. once Jennings gets served, he'll have 21 days to respond

RT @cspan: President Trump: "I would pick Ted Cruz to be the next Supreme Court Justice."

RT @DropSiteNews: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HASAN PIKER, Plaintiff, v. SCOTT JENNINGS, Defendant. COMPLAINT WITH JURY DEMAND 1. On August 11, 2026, Scott Jennings falsely told a nationwide podcast audience that Hasan Piker was “out there calling for Black voters to be lynched.” He falsely told his listeners that Mr. Piker had a “plan of returning our country to lynchings.” And then he falsely told his social media followers that Mr. Piker “says the USA should resume lynchings against black people.” 2. All of Mr. Jennings’ accusations are false. Mr. Piker has never advocated the lynching of Black Americans, or anyone else. He has never called for a return to lynchings. And he has never proposed anything remotely resembling the supposed plan that Mr. Jennings falsely attributed to him. 3. Mr. Jennings did not merely mischaracterize something Mr. Piker said. He took a false, fabricated, and manipulated video of Mr. Piker, added a made-up quotation that Mr. Piker never uttered, and then made accusations that went beyond even what the manipulated footage purported to show. Mr. Jennings presented those accusations as fact, telling his viewers to “[l]isten for yourself” about Mr. Piker, knowing that he was playing a falsified video of Mr. Piker for those viewers, and completely disregarding the truth of Mr. Piker’s actual words. 4. The underlying footage came from a broadcast nearly two years earlier on Twitch, an online streaming service owned by Amazon. On October 29, 2024, Mr. Piker was reacting to a debate between two Black political commentators, one liberal and one conservative. When the conservative commentator blamed “woke DAs” for policies supposedly harming Black Americans, Mr. Piker mocked him by sarcastically portraying that comment as nostalgia for an era before the civil rights movement. Laughing, Mr. Piker said: He said, “We need more Klansman, okay? Can we go back to a better time when lynchings were happening? This is what I like as a Black man. Also, there’s no real racism in America.” My man said, “woke DAs,” dude. What are you saying? 5. Mr. Piker was plainly ridiculing the commentator’s position. He was not endorsing it. The debate video remained visible behind him. Mr. Piker introduced the remarks with “He said,” laughed as he delivered them, and concluded by questioning the commentator’s argument. His viewers understood the sarcasm. Some laughed along. Others expressly described his comments as hyperbole. Still others predicted that someone would eventually remove the context and circulate the resulting footage as though Mr. Piker had been speaking sincerely. 6. That is precisely what happened. In August 2026, a 42-second video began circulating on social media that combined fragments of three separate Twitch broadcasts. The portions taken from Mr. Piker’s October 2024 stream had been cropped, shortened, and rearranged. The underlying debate was removed from view. So was the contemporaneous audience commentary. 7. The words “He said,” which identified the object of Mr. Piker’s ridicule, were omitted. Mr. Piker’s laughter and subsequent explanation were also removed. The resulting video portrayed sarcastic criticism of another as though it were an expression of Mr. Piker’s own beliefs. 8. On August 11, 2026, Mr. Jennings broadcast that false video on The Scott Jennings Show, misrepresenting the manipulated video as authentic. But Mr. Jennings did not stop at repeating someone else’s misleading edit. He added his own caption to the video, presented as a direct quotation from Mr. Piker: PIKER: “LET’S GO BACK TO A BETTER TIME WHEN LYNCHINGS WERE HAPPENING” — 🔗 Political streamer Hasan Piker has filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN commentator Scott Jennings in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking $72.5 million in damages over Jennings’ false claim that Piker advocated lynching Black Americans. The full complaint is linked below.

NEWS: @hasanthehun is suing @ScottJenningsKY for defamation in DC district court, over Jennings claim that Piker endorsed lynching. Piker asking for $27.5m in compensatory damages, $45m in punitive damages.

RT @ettingermentum: WE are here for this

A follower notes that Jasmine Crockett will have campaigned in Nevada, Virginia and South Carolina by the end of this month. All three are among the six early states on the 2028 Democratic primary calendar

RT @daniel_lefferts: I’m at the Miami Fontainebleau with Flávio Bolsonaro right now. He’s really upset. But we’re gonna put on our tank tops and go to Twist

RT @jbarro: I’m going to run for president on a “no ketamine for straight people” platform

NEW: I spent a night out at one of America's top party schools to see how ketamine has taken hold on college campuses. The drug jumped into the spotlight in the “Cornell 7” case, where Jane Doe told investigators that ketamine left her incapacitated and unable to fend off sexual assault. At Tulane, students pass it around in plastic baggies at fraternity houses, mix it with cocaine to create “Calvin Klein,” and call the psychedelic effects “going horse mode,” a nod to the drug’s use as a horse tranquilizer.

RT @Popstonox: Hasan Piker confirms he has filed a defamation lawsuit against Scott Jennings for $72 million Jennings falsely claimed Piker thinks "the USA resume lynchings against black people"

Complaint here

RT @kwp1039: I can’t stop thinking about this. Who picked this woman? What is the face she is making? Is she trying to be Holmes? Does she think this is Holmes’s face? What exactly was the criteria for picking a winner? Has Elizabeth Holmes ever made this face ever? We need answers

The winners of the Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder look-alike contest celebrate in Washington Square Park.

RT @natsfert: It's because rural voters are The Thing this year, and rural voters trust you less if you do too much national media.

Pretty striking to see Ezra Klein casually acknowledge that attention is disconnected from political success ... considering he’s the main person who had pushed that theory in the first place My video from Sept on the cracks in Klein’s attention thesis:

RT @lmcgaughy: Texas AG Ken Paxton's wife is divorcing him, citing infidelity. But during one of the most watched races of the midterm elections, little has been reported publicly about the new woman at the center of his life. I sought to learn more about her. #txlege

RT @TM_Brown: Middle Ages thesis continues to be vindicated. They were worried people would steal and covet wedding flotsam as if it had divine properties.

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift's team demanded her wedding decor be burned to the ground, according to a source. 'They didn't want people to steal it and then auction it or sell it so they just burned it all,' an insider told me. My latest @DailyMail scoop here:

RT @PollTracker2024: #MichiganSenate WaPo: Arab Americans who voted for Trump now back Abdul El-Sayed Michigan’s Arab American voters helped deliver a GOP presidential victory. But in a competitive Senate race, many say the Democrat is the “America First” candidate. Interviews with about a dozen Dearborn residents show how some Arab Americans think El-Sayed, a fierce critic of Trump and the Israeli government, is the candidate who most embodies “America First.”

NIGHTBREED (Barker, 1990)

Trump: I love the meat! Ahhhh! I love it, look! *gestures*

RT @sarafischer: Exclusive: MacArthur, Knight Foundation and others are backing a new $21M investment fund for local news @axios

RT @AJSpiker: Had a great time seeing @RandPaul in Ames last night as he threw his full support behind @ZachLahn! Rand is putting his boots…