dan solomon

[texas democratic party waiting room] clayton tucker: [chanting] sid, sid- other candidates: sid, SID james talarico: [pounding his clipboard] SID, SID, SID!

he also once posted a meme saying that “the muslim world” should be nuked, threatened to slap none who wished him “happy holidays” instead of “merry christmas,” held a press conference with a cupcake as a dig at michelle obama, and looks exactly like rich texan from the simpsons

[texas democratic party waiting room] clayton tucker: [chanting] sid, sid- other candidates: sid, SID james talarico: [pounding his clipboard] SID, SID, SID!

sid miller went to my favorite coffee shop in south austin with the democrat running to succeed him to tape an msnow spot last week and i hope he comes back for poetry night

the new ad where the tarrant county sheriff warns that if talarico is elected, he’s going to close the “juvenile prisons” is fascinating to me, because it suggests there are enough swing voters with an emotional attachment to the concept of juvenile prisons that they must be advertised to

there’s another one warning that he wants to cap greenhouse gases. the median texas voter probably does know at least one or two people who work in oil & gas, but i’m just not sure that the words “greenhouse gases” have such positive connotations that people think they must be protected at all costs

i do think “tavern style” as a name is a relatively recent marketing term for what we always just called “thin crust” at chicago pizza places i worked at growing up BUT it’s good to have a name for it, otherwise people think it’s the same as other thin crust pizzas and it is not

after i moved to texas, it took me a very very long time to accept that ordering thin crust pizza here would not get me the kind of pizza i actually wanted, but now if a place says they do tavern style, it’ll be a lot closer

there are lots of explanations for this that don’t necessarily add up to what everyone on this site wants it to add up to BUT if you weren’t seeing these kinds of numbers it’d be a bad sign

crowd absolutely eating up the cringe of the “clear eyes, full hearts” tour

there are lots of explanations for this that don’t necessarily add up to what everyone on this site wants it to add up to BUT if you weren’t seeing these kinds of numbers it’d be a bad sign

talarico up next

there are lots of explanations for this that don’t necessarily add up to what everyone on this site wants it to add up to BUT if you weren’t seeing these kinds of numbers it’d be a bad sign

given how many more dem primary voters there were in march, if the numbers right now were the same as in 2022, you’d be asking what happened to all that enthusiasm. that’s not a question anyone needs to ask but trying to read more than that into this is not going to get you anywhere

there are lots of explanations for this that don’t necessarily add up to what everyone on this site wants it to add up to BUT if you weren’t seeing these kinds of numbers it’d be a bad sign

a lot more people voted in the democratic primary in march than usual (which could mean the thing you want it to mean, but that’s not new news), so it follows that the number of voters with prior democratic history casting early ballots would also be up

this has to be the absolute wildest closing message i’ve ever seen from a political campaign

there is a little boy in this airport terminal having a full-on screaming, crying meltdown and his mom is very sweetly and patiently saying to him, “i know, baby, but it’s for dogs” and i don’t wish for any additional context

the weird thing about paxton is that for years, he genuinely has had the enthusiastic support of the small handful of texas republican primary voters who determine who runs the state. the rest of the party has decided that’s good enough, and it will be, right up until it isn’t

louie fucking gohmert couldn’t take any more of the guy and decided to give his voters an equally wild maga diehard option and they said nah, they’re kpax ride or die. trump didn’t endorse paxton over cornyn to push texas gop voters to his guy, he endorsed to tell those voters that he was with them

my ai hot take is that it is good if people who want to type slurs at claude get told that it’s not acceptable to do that and it will stop working if they do, but not because i care about claude in the slightest

doing somatic therapy several years ago made the “does ai have feelings” question ridiculous. it doesn’t. it can’t. it doesn’t have a body to feel them in

okay fine, f/m/k