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Crockett: When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while people were going hungry in the streets of America.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

11Alive news headline: "Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food."

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Obamas speech was good and as usual way better than 99% of politicians but the “distraction” thing is once again mainstream Dems not coming to terms with what they are up against.

The “distraction” is a part of the thing, not separate from it. It’s all part of the fight.

I wouldn’t kick either of them out 🤣

1986 WS Game 6

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Wut

Great song, great band

Sadly died in a cycling accident in 1966. Glad his band could find a suitable replacement.

Perfectly cast. Movies still taking things from it (like Empty Man’s Pontifex Institute)

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

I crossed it

I am way too fond of Harborcoat

Undeniably great. Also, he was 36 at the time of this picture.

3/ general. In the decades that followed basically no general staffs studied Lee's battles and strategies. On the contrary for the next half century and longer general staff's around the world studied Grant and Sherman and to a lesser extent other generals under their command.

People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.

Way

Imagine going through your life relying on "experts said" for every basic assertion of unequivocal fact.

"The experts say it looks like a nice day today."

"Are you hungry? Wanna get some dinner?" "Yeah, I could eat, according to experts." bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Tears for Fears were legends

You surely are right but my heart says The U.S.A. Trilogy

Maybe most consequential last game of a Finals since 1991

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies

the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

Scouting report on Kenobi early in the Clone Wars

Compare Tapper’s interviewing skills here to Tucker Carlson’s. It’s not that Tucker is noble or competent. It’s that Jake Tapper and co are so woefully bad and lazy that they make Tucker look like a genius interviewer by comparison

Waiting in line for the one restroom at a busy LA restaurant in front of Seth Myers.

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included