W.E.D.em Boyz

Okay it's cool that this guy happens to specifically dislike one admin official, but he's also been an absolute collaborationist from day one who deserves no celebration. He's not even running for re-election but he has still greenlit 95% of Trump's agenda.

operation epic bacon troll xD

Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.

extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina

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The cowards are scared to say it

Oh lmao

Closer to the middle. It is quite a long way from the Iraqi border.

Helpful graphic on the distribution of Kurds as Trump aims to convince Kurdish forces to cross the border and topple the Iranian government

It's always funny to me when leftists need to make sure people know that they aren't military isolationists. Like yes, I agree that there is a theoretical war that I would be supportive of. But it's sure as hell not going to be any of the wars the U.S. fights in my lifetime.

Or another way to look at it is that he was able to excite his white base of voters and do strong numbers with Latinos who had a contentious relationship with Crockett, but despite his efforts he didn't even make a dent in Black voters.

I would call him like a B-tier candidate. Decently strong speaker but not that great at getting attention on his own nor a great fundraiser. He is better than that median Dem candidate, but not amazing.

Crockett only has herself to blame. She ran the most narcissistic, non-issue focused race I've ever seen a Dem run. She had a big lead and all the momentum and she blew it. Talarico was not some incredible candidate.

Come on man

VoteHub projects the final margin to be:

Talarico - 52.5%
Crockett - 46.3%

Talarico at 50%+ while Paxton and Cornyn go to a 3-month runoff is the exact situation the GOP wanted most desperately to avoid

The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white

My guess is not including early vote yet. I think it will be sorted relatively quickly.

I don't know why the link disappeared t0lg-a.github.io/texas-primar...

This is a cool Github monitoring and modelling Texas primary election results for anyone interested

On the bright side, we can also bring Turkey into the war for no reason!!

It is sort of funny that Americans fetishize the Kurds in the way that people think Palestinians are fetishized

Hey I know we abandoned you in Iraq and Syria but how would you like to become cannon fodder for an absolutely impossible mission of overthrowing the government of a massive mountainous country of 92 million people?

It really can’t be overstated how insane this is

Glenn Greenwald If -- as Trump again said last night -- MAGA means nothing more than featly to whatever Trump believes when he wakes up (even if it's the exact opposite of what he said he believed the day before), then it is, by definition, a cult, not a political movement.

HEARTWARMING: baby gains object permanence

ok time for another round of

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Hollow Opposition On Iran, top Democrats only have procedural concerns

I wrote about how Democratic leadership has abandoned the moral high ground on Iran, and how it has left them toothless when opposing Trump.

Wait, this tidbit 👀👀 "Still other ideas have centered around whether the Kurds could take and hold territory in the northern part of Iran that would create a buffer zone for Israel."

I am an opponent of U.S. empire no matter who is leading it, but it is uniquely horrifying to have a president who genuinely has no clue what's going on and who has a team that is clearly just telling him whatever he wants to hear.

Really unfortunate news

Also, Trump calling the Kurds and essentially inviting them to cross the border and launch a revolution is the single worst idea anybody has ever come up with, for literally all sides involved. It's basically a mass murder pact. This is such a profound mess I genuinely can't believe it.

Trump also can't keep talking about how surprised they were that Iran is hitting bases in the gulf, when they very clearly said they were going to do that. Whether at the influence of the Israeli's or his own flacks, he clearly thought he could just decapitate the regime and go home. It's INSANITY.