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After taking a crazy amount of flak from her own party for the simple and brave act of refusing to back a blatant antisemite, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) is fighting back.

Stevens published an X article titled "The Decisions We Make," laying out exactly why she yanked her endorsement of Democratic Socialist Abdul El-Sayed and threw her support behind Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race. Her party has spent weeks trying to bully her into retreat. She hasn't budged an inch.
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"My decision to withdraw my endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed and support Mike Rogers has angered many Democrats. I understand why," Stevens wrote. "But it was not impulsive, and it was not made for me by anyone else. It was a decision of conscience."

Stevens explained that she endorsed El-Sayed after losing the Democrat primary and put the party first. And she didn’t get much credit for doing so.

"Instead, I was shut out. The endorsement was welcomed; the people behind it seemed to be forgotten," she said. "There was little effort to listen to the voters who supported me or bridge the real disagreements our primary had exposed."

The campaign's embrace of Hasan Piker sealed the deal for her. El-Sayed paraded the bigoted streamer around college campuses, and Stevens didn't hold back on what came next.

"Just days ago, Piker compared efforts to win over Jewish voters in West Bloomfield to canvassing a KKK neighborhood," Stevens wrote. "Abdul condemned those remarks, but his decision to embrace Piker in the first place raised serious questions about his judgment and his ability to bring people together."

Philadelphia anti-Israel groups are planning a bicycle ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi-orchestrated pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria.

The “Boycott Ride,” organized by Philly Bike On Your Left in collaboration with Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, Boycott CookNSolo and Philly Solidarity Calendar, is scheduled for Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at Rittenhouse Square in the heart of Center City. A flier promoting the event states, “No business for Zionists,” adding, “These Zionist establishments must go.”

The flier names several Philadelphia businesses, including Dizengoff, a modern Israeli restaurant; Huda, a sandwich shop; Schlesinger’s Restaurant and Delicatessen, a Jewish deli; Mac Mart, a macaroni-and-cheese kiosk; K’Far Cafe, an Israeli cafe; and Goldie, a kosher falafel shop.

“Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” organizers wrote.

The Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee of Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and StandWithUs released a joint statement on Monday calling the boycott ride “Jew-hatred, plain and simple.”

My goodness, what a wet dream.

I'm going to send a private message to CC27 and SVPete this afternoon with my predictions, which I prefer they not reveal until tomorrow. I'll take the egg on my face if I'm wrong. But I do want it documented.

When either of you re-posts my private message, please note the date and time stamp.

Election Day on DU: If we lose, it's because of Elon Musk, with his vote-altering satellites. And Putin, as always. Vladiir Putin and Elon Musk. And Vladimir Musk. And Elon Putin.