Daniel Gilmore

Donald Trump is a deeply unwell man

Fyi, TXGOP apparently left 3 State House Seats uncontested that Trump won

HD 36: Trump +6
HD 39: Trump +2
HD 144: Trump +3

They're losing both the House and the Senate next year

He's been saying this for weeks, i don't know what they were expecting here? The amount of incompetence and wishful thinking in this admin is amazing.

There is no plausible way to weasel out of this in 2026. Using ICE to intimidate a couple polling places or whatever ain’t gunna cut it.

in a survey roughly half of macroeconomists said they don't expect core inflation to get below 2% until 2028 at the earliest.
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BREAKING: Democrat Eric Gisler has won the GA HD-121 special election, Decision Desk HQ projects, flipping the seat from red to blue

Just last year, Gisler lost this district by 22 points. The district was Trump +12 in 2024.

D+13.3 shift from 2024, meaning about a D+12 implied national environment. Even half of that is gigantic for Dems

DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED GEORGIA'S #HD121 (Trump+12):

Eric Gisler (D)- 50.9%
Mack "Dutch" Guest (R)- 49.1%

Campaign to put gerrymandered Missouri map on the ballot turns in 300,000 signatures • Missouri Independent Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.

300,000 signatures - more than twice what is required - have been submitted for a referendum to challenge the Missouri GOP’s blatant gerrymander.

If they hold, VOTERS will get to have the final say.

Kudos to @peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social on this effort.
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This is very fun, and if FL is seeing National Prop 187 then it's real - but I will also look for every reason not to believe this is that before I believe it's real

Close-to-final results in Florida's #HD90 (Harris+10):

Rob Long (D)- 63.7%
Maria Zack (R)- 35.3%
Karen Yeh (NPA)- 1%

Nearly 20 point overperformance for the Democrats in this Palm Beach County seat

Final results in the Florida #SD11 (Trump+39) special election:

Ralph Massullo (R)- 59.2%
Ash Marwah (D)- 40.8%

A 21-point swing to the left in a deeply Republican part of Florida!

its cool how he's cutting attack ads to destroy Republicans with next year

No joke, DEI stuff 😂

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A zoomed out shot of the room where Trump is speaking right now from earlier in the day:

Mackenzie Scott gave CUNY BMCC--one of the colleges I adjunct at--$30m in 2020 🫡

This is what I meant a couple of weeks ago when I talked about why Trump's foreign policy is imperial and interventionist, despite having some superficial coding as isolationist (and why people across the spectrum were fools to fall for that branding).

one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes

GOP wants Trump to campaign for them next year and I say, go for it

absolute fucking nightmare parents who simultaneously abused and despised their children but hated and despised everyone else *outside* of the family even more, and conditioned their children to see anyone with virtue or honor as suckers to be stolen from or kicked around

every single thing you learn about donald trump’s upbringing makes you go “okay, yeah, i see exactly how he turned out this way”

i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers

the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

Hard vacuum: famously a great place to dissipate heat

In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution

Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone.

Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs.

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Illinois, in the face of cruelty and intimidation, has chosen solidarity and support.

That should not be overlooked.

Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Gregory Bovino tried to appeal to our lesser instincts — but the best of us are standing up to the worst of them.

I've pointed this out many times before, but this sort of bullshitting worked great for Trump when he was running for president, but it doesnt work when he *is* president. He cannot grasp that he cant just bullshit away what ppl can see in front of their faces when he's actually the one in power