Dana Houle

“Hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.” Nick Cave

Journalists if you can hear me, investigate Marshall’s staffers and aides like they are Hillary’s emails www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Pretending you're defending the honor of The Cheesecake factory because you don't want to admit your MAGA savior Tricked out the White House like a two bit dictator.

“On the one hand, I endorsed Dan Sullivan, but on the other hand, the other Dan Sullivan should be on the ballot” is peak Lisa Murkowski.

Mohamed ElBaradei says hello

Fuck every analyst—especially libs and centrist Dems—who praised Trump for brilliantly building a working class coalition. They’re gullible tools little different from the working class voters who elected Trump who now moan because he’s put them through the meat grinder of his economic policies.

Maybe because those thousands of data centers don’t need to be lined up over 100’s of miles of contiguous tracts? NIMBYism & the process for building big government projects are major problems, but this is a bad argument.

Not an exact parallel but shades of the fall of the Soviet Union and how they were forced to withdraw out of Eastern Europe because of mounting internal problems

Holy crap, it just occurred to me: Vucic losing in Serbia may not only end the deals Jr & Eric (& Lewandowski)* made in Serbia, it may _expose_ them. *I’m not sure but I think Javanka got in on those deals.

I’d say Trump isn’t as good at influencing foreign elections as Putin, but I dunno, the Serbia results are a huge defeat for Putin. He’s lost both Orban & Vucic in a year.

Remember when a bunch of people told us we were idiots to believe that there would be midterm elections?

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

A huge chunk of their argument is powered by them not knowing anything. You want the campaign to have compliance lawyers! Remember the Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign that blew up when it turned out they were out of money and the campaign finance reports were a mess? It’s a bad article.

Holy crap, it just occurred to me: Vucic losing in Serbia may not only end the deals Jr & Eric (& Lewandowski)* made in Serbia, it may _expose_ them. *I’m not sure but I think Javanka got in on those deals.

I guess it was never consummated

"Bro, you can't take her to the Cheesecake Factory on the first date, bro. Gotta save it for the third at least. You open with the Factory, that's what she'll expect every time."

Lula winning confirms that whatever it is I think Democrats should do (& they may already be doing) is the only way we can win.

Just heard on MS NOW that Mississippi is a majority-minority state. Uh…no. Mississippi has the greatest proportion of African-Americans, but it’s under 40%.

I’d say Trump isn’t as good at influencing foreign elections as Putin, but I dunno, the Serbia results are a huge defeat for Putin. He’s lost both Orban & Vucic in a year.

This why “closing arguments” are not what they used to be.

If someone wants a party of white working class voters, you have to be akin to trump on marginalized groups. Simple as that

In 1964, blue collar support for the dems peaked at 80%. After that, the dems pushed civil rights through, it dropped to 47% in 1968, then 38% in 1972. The workers left the dem party because the dem party first fought for civil rights for black people, then women, then latinos and then queers.

But I thought USAID...

We have shipped thousands of whistles to New York in the last couple weeks and will ship to you too, for free, 100 to literal thousands. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

The Heritage Foundation adviser who recruited 12 bishops to pray over Trump in the Oval Office claimed a Ph.D. from an Italian university that doesn’t grant doctorates. His listed bachelor’s school is a high school. A Vatican official called the meeting an insult to Pope Leo XIV.

I love when someone who’s done elections for like 5 years talks like a wizened sage who thought he had seen it all.

Can anyone tell me if I’m misreading this or if there’s something wrong with it, because I’m having a hard time believing that all IE spending has been superPACs w nothing from the DCCC or NRCC docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

What we got us here, folks, is a standoff.

Because they’re worried he’s going to stroke out, & Vance doesn’t owe them anything.

The liberal media doesn't want you to know this, but domestic cheesecake production is at an all-time high under Trump.

Cheesecake Factory is the new soppressata.

Because they’re worried he’s going to stroke out, & Vance doesn’t owe them anything.

The team with fans has a 2-0 lead.

I would bet good money that Trump thinks The Cheesecake Factory is in the manufacturing industry.

Is there anything else unifying the states that have done this, anything at all

who was carrying some old-school metal airbrushes, the kind with the canisters. At some pit stop, he caught a glimpse of the book, and his face lit up: "Preston Sturges?! I love Preston Sturges!" and I made a new friend, who painted auto bodies. Movies are great. #SullivansTravels #TCMParty

Back in the early ’90s, I had to take the bus from Nashville to DC. It was a 24-hour trip, so I brought along Preston Sturges's memoir, which I'd just picked up at the Davis–Kidd remainder table. Somewhere we picked up a kinda scary-lookin' guy