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Run University of Montana President Seth Bednar as an independent given the poor perception of the Democratic brand in Montana. It would require the eventual Democratic nominee to stand down.

Montana Dems need to stop fucking around and get on board with Tester’s plan

Thoughts and laughter

Live footage of the NRSC now sweating several Senate seats in solidly Republican states

Our national abandonment of shame is so profound that our lying politicians don’t even bother to lie *well*

Drivers Tried to Shield Their Cars From Brakes. Instead They Crashed Into the Gas Station.

Morning Digest: Talarico wins Democratic Senate nod as nasty GOP race goes to second round Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton will keep slugging out for almost three more months

A HUGE opening night for the 2026 primary season is over, and The Downballot has a fresh rundown of an evening that saw James Talarico win the Dem nod for Texas' U.S. Senate seat, GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw become the first member of Congress to lose reelection, a Dem pickup in Arkansas, and a lot more.

Breaking: Arkansas Democrats just flipped a Republican seat It's the ninth red-to-blue pickup in a special election in Trump's second term

JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.

Our full recap:

I tried this for my workshop last year just to test it. I put in everyone’s availability, titles of their projects and subject areas, specifications for panel sizes and lengths, and then . . . it produced an entirely unworkable schedule that ignored the availabilities altogether.

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Public Policy Polling memo reading: With just two weeks to go, the latest PPP poll among Democratic primary voters in Illinois finds that Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton has pulled into the lead in the race for U.S. Senate. Stratton leads with 33%, followed by Krishnamoorthi at 30% and Congresswoman Robin Kelly at 11%. Over our last three polls since early February, her vote share has steadily increased from 23%, to 27%, and now 33%--a 10-point gain in the last four weeks. Just one week ago, Stratton trailed Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, 27% to 29% and now she leads him 33% to 30%. The favorability rating for Krishnamoorthi has dropped from 51 favorable/15 unfavorable, to 47/24, to now 41/30 across our three polls over the last four weeks. He’s gone from a +36 net favorability rating to +9, indicating that voters are holding increasingly negative opinions about Krishnamoorthi in the closing weeks of the race. On the other hand, Stratton continues to have a strong favorable rating at 40/16 holding steady from last week (43/15).

Let’s gooooooo

Now forthcoming in the Duquesne Law Review!

I did!! I appreciate it!!

hell yeah state constitutions

Fwiw I do pretty much all of my very basic graphic design in Google Slides, which makes it pretty easy!

This is via @daveweigel.bsky.social, from a Third Way event happening today.

This is so malignant and unserious. That these groups have to put their thumb on the scale so egregiously to get the results they've pre-ordained tells you everything you need to know about them. x.com/daveweigel/s...

What a sense of accomplishment you must feel

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

as well you should be

It’s always a great day to talk about state constitutions!

The damage done to Labour by the by-election loss seems massive. Their argument to centre-left voters that they should “vote strategically” to defeat Reform failed. Now, there’s a *more* plausible argument for Labour voters to vote strategically *against* Labour and for Greens or the LibDems.

yep. that’s what I thought of.

I really don't have words

I find it incredibly insulting when Ivy League law journals—which have never accepted my pieces—suddenly think that I possess expertise and that my thoughts are worth listening to when they want me to review a piece for them.

I'm old enough to remember when "negligently" meant something different from "intentionally and maliciously".

if a frog had a tail it wouldn't bounce on its ass

LLMs break our ability to conclude when there is proof of effort. We make high schoolers write essays and do math assignments not because we care about essay or because we don’t know the problem set answers, but because the effort trains them in a certain way. We read customized cover letters as an important signal of interest, because it has traditionally been hard to make a good one, and you could only do it for so many jobs you applied for. Gatekeeping is inevitable, and when the old mechanisms stop working, other measures will step in, like relying on the prestige of the candidate’s institution or their connections to decide who to hire, or what papers to cite or publish.

I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...

I hope there's a backlash, and if there is, it'll be severe.

the gubernatorial primary is stuffed with candidates. one of them just needs to switch over.