Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
Democrats are up nine points on trans issues. NINE Red States have less draconian anti-trans state laws.
Even *Third Way* agrees that this kind of rhetoric & moronic, their own research suggests vacuous “safety & fairness statements” poll 10 points better than bigotry.
Turek is choosing to be evil
Turek is running for Senate in Iowa, a conservative leaning Republican state.
And it is a very close race.
You have every right to criticize his position on this issue and in a perfect world I’d join you.
But let’s put that aside and help him win this race. Turek is still better than his opponent
I remember many yrs ago one of my regular customers asked another of my regular customers "I seen you in Shields th other day with a couple of [racial slur] teenagers, what was that about that?" And the other guy replied "Do you mean my fucking grandchildren?" Never seen a man visibly shrink so fast
These candidates leaning into transphobia are also just dumb on their other issues. Talarico saying he’s reduce gas prices by suspending the federal gas tax is fucking stupid when you could take a clear stance against the incredibly unpopular war actually driving prices up.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
Horrific.
that Houdini commercial got me thinking— i kind of hope all conservative content becomes AI-generated and conservatives have fewer opportunities in media.
HELLO.
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I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee).
But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.
it’s the year 2085. the NY Knicks open the season defending their 20th title. the first commercial is a Chase one and features Kevin Hart’s 35 year-old clone.
Trade some middling prospects for Freddy Peralta, instantly break his whole shit and flop so bad that all of America knows what every inch of your ass looks like, trade Peralta for some maybe-better prospects to a team that fixes him instantly. Yeah I'd say this is outcome is a big win for the Mets.
NARRATIVE BUSTER: After months of anti-trans ads by Republicans, the latest ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos poll shows... Democrats have a +9 advantage on "transgender issues."
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
one of the most terrifying scenes in movie history has to be when John Malkovich’s character visits the home of the bank employee in IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1993)
We went to Milwaukee a couple of years ago for Bob Uecker Bobblehead Night (no regrets) and caught this video of the sausages folding into the service elevator together 😂😂😂
Q: Just over two weeks until the midterms. Lot of close races. Are you nervous?
Vance: All you can do is make your argument to the American people and they get to decide.
Kevin Mannix, the former SFPD sergeant accused of a double murder-suicide in Marin County, was in the midst of a late “midlife crisis,” said a longtime close friend of his wife, Ann Mannix.
I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money.
Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.
To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.
BREAKING NYT:
Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter.