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The Oct. 10 version. The situation has improved moderately for the @democrats.org in both chambers.

“THIS IS EVIL!!!!!” Well, yes. The Paxton campaign is.

This is wonderful news. I wouldn’t use this as an opportunity to further go after Elon Musk — the offense was to shut it off, not to restore it. We should encourage him to do good things, and not do bad things.

Periodic reminder that the biggest scandal in American history outside of Watergate involved a grand total of $9 million (inflation adjusted) changing hands & it resulted in resignations, convictions, jail time, and new legislation, and in the Trump administration that amount is a rounding error

This is the result when you have a Groyper-occupied Government. Regular national socialist messaging paired with the corruption of a West African junta.

@gelliottmorris.com Making an (inconsistently updated) table of all the model and prediction market forecasts of the midterms I could find. Here’s the latest update:

No notes.

It is funny that for the longest time people insisted there was some mass of apathetic voters that could be mobilized by challenging the neoliberal status quo but it turns out they just wanted neoliberalism that was nicer to grandma and meaner to Abdul

Knocked on 100 doors with a friend for the @scottwiener.bsky.social campaign yesterday in SF. Can’t wait to do it again!

My bsky38.com ballot, with a shoutout to @gelliottmorris.com in particular.

Was a great time at SF's Sydney Goldstein Theater for Annie Lowery and @ezraklein.bsky.social's wide-ranging discussion on administrative bloat and efficiency this evening. The auditorium was packed — and for such a nerdy subject!

The case of the fugitive ICE thug is basically just this meme.

One of the most important and informative threads you'll read in months.

Awesome to see my state senator elected to Congress (albeit in am adjacent district), in spite of a $5.3 million campaign to install a vote for more military aid to the Likud.

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

This is actually the Korean Central News Agency. Except Ri Chun-hee is fucking Chairman Kim.

Idiocracy (2026)

There were 7 battleground states in the last election, which means that citizens of 43 states were simply ignored. This system doesn’t give rural states like Wyoming, North Dakota, or Vermont “a voice.”

Good use of polling.

Putting in a strong recommendation for “A Time to Love and A Time to Die” by Erich Maria Remarque, better known as the author of All Quiet on the Western Front. There are few who can paint as full a portrait of every character they name — no matter how minor — as Remarque can.

What a game. Of note: based on what I could find, Argentina taking 117 minutes to register a single shot is the longest a team has ever taken to do so in any World Cup match since at least 1966.

Perfectly stated.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

new metaphor just dropped

Banger thread.

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection?

i didn't realize how literally she was pulling wires without understanding them. manually typing shit into the prompter lmao

Hero.

4 new Senate race ratings changes over at Cook Political, and each one is a doozy in its own right: #NCSen: Toss Up -> Lean D #GASen: Toss Up -> Lean D #OHSen: Lean R -> Toss Up #NESen: Solid R -> Likely R Further evidence that the Senate map is shifting left in real-time.

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

I have seen one good example of this plate

Kevin Sorbo is 67. He doesn’t get to pretend to be some stupid Groyper born after 9/11 who sincerely believes the country’s biggest city isn’t vastly safer today than it was back then.

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