Jesse “ElectionSky When?” Bacon

Will they be on the pod?

I think this led me astray I grew up around cows and was like surely I can handle raw milk! But I shouldn’t have!

And I feel like it was already legend by 2012, my first pub quiz

Daniel Donner calling his shot bsky.app/profile/corn...

I mean maybe the fish will be protected from runoff under their namesake?

Wait will it help or harm his drainage election that his name is Blok?

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And getting more people to vote for you as a Republican is really hard right now!

Ha bears repeating!

Yeah and it ignores the actual elections happening every week !

Like I'm not going to tell anyone to calm down, but more be alert to the possiblity of things backfiring / don't assume Trump has superpowers?

Did you see the special election results in Mpls last week?

Agreed. And not to both sides, but I am also wondering why the Republicans didn't push their magic vote suppression button in 2017, 2018, 2020, or 2022?

and they can only conceive of that by the paid allegation. The sense that people are not being deterred.

Don’t get me wrong, the government would love to impose consequences but the constant rhetoric about “paid protesters” is a tell that they recognize on some level there’s nothing they can do to deter people from protesting

Unfortunately we need Future Gov Klobuchar to agree!

We don’t talk enough about how the original Wizard of Oz is a literal charlatan I know Dr. Oz ‘s name is Turkish but it still is incredibly on the nose

Very much same and I just took my daughter to a screening ldor vdor

Literally every week there's a special election held where I’m like “well, that would have been a good one for Trump to cancel”

How'd it work in the Twin Cities special elections? Like I have no doubt they will try to intimidate people elsewhere but its going to backfire electorally. Doesn't mean we shouldn't be out there helping secure the vote

And they got very similar results in Fort Worth!

They couldn't even steal a seat in Fort Worth!

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com piece sums up my hopes and gives us the to-do list those holes aren’t going to fulfill themselves!

Oh wow I knew we had a big tent but

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And this district was a few points to the right of the state as a whole

This would have been a great one to cancel, since it was just a runoff!

Texas Democrats score landslide upset in race Trump badly wanted to win Taylor Rehmet just flipped a deep-red seat—and gave his party a shot in the arm

“With one other GOP-held seat vacant. Rehmet will also face Wambsganss again this fall, as the two were the only candidates who qualified for the March primary ballot.” open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...

“ He defeated Republican Republican Leigh Wambsganss, the chief communications officer for Patriot Mobile, which describes itself as “America’s ONLY Christian conservative wireless provider.”

Keep panicking Republicans!