Sam

Tweet from Lakshya Jain: James Talarico is going to need a WAR of D+6 in order to beat Ken Paxton, if that's who he faces. I can't stress enough how tough that is. Even Fetterman vs Oz didn't get a candidate effect of that magnitude. Paxton has to be one of the worst candidates of all time to lose this race.

This post really solidified how pointless talking about political WAR is to me.

We're in the process of some pretty Earth shattering political shifts, particularly with Hispanic voters. The idea that right now we can easily map what a needed WAR score would be seems ludicrous.

Haha yeah 4 was a drag, but the last episode was good enough to get my looking forward to 5.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

If he does this, it’ll be worse than anything John Fetterman has done.

roy cooper when it’s time to win an election in north carolina

this fucking asshole, man

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I mean she did, the online cliques maybe not so much.

All online political fandom is bad imo

The Hives candidate can never fail, only be failed.

I don't know who would be more annoying, so hope they both lose and go away.

I would like them to lie less, and when they do lie do it better please.

Everyone younger than me is a child, and I agree that we shouldn't elect children.

Also they are short.

too short, same goes for Shapiro

Pritzker might be able to get away being short just because he is large, he should be careful not too lose too much weight right now to be honest

Also no votes wouldn't have stopped any of them, bad look given how things turned out but no D was the 51st for any of these or even the 50th.

Beyond Trump saying that NIL is a mess and wanting to get folks together I bet that most of that 20 minutes was Josh talking and Trump giving vague statements.

Who knows what words were given but it initially appeared there seemed to be an idea that some D comity could spike a few of the worst and that just failed to work at all. Once Hegs and RFK went through D caucus should have been full stop on Yea votes on any nom for anything.

ahhh that makes sense, otherwise imagine going quietly would be easier.

Living in the US: millions in fed and possibly state taxes.

Living under a hail of missile and drone attacks: Priceless.

Having to worry if the slaves will rise up and lynch you: Based.

lives in a fantasy world

Skeptical of that number but im allowing it. Like when a receiver makes a cool catch that might have been out of bounds but the call stands

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

Could the press please, finally, learn this lesson:

Everything these people said about Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, starting new wars—all of it—was false. Not because they meant the opposite, but because they're post-truth and say whatever they think gets them an advantage in the moment.

somewhere in iran there are a bunch of guys bitterly shouting about ditching wfh policies

I think it’s under appreciated how much the damage that Trump is doing is going to damage America in the future. Once he’s gone.

It will constrain us, remove our options, limit our power, hurt our soft power, make us poorer.

It won’t be majorly associated with Trump. He’ll get away with it.

the "strong men create good times, good times create soft men, and soft men create hard times" meme that right-wing/trad weirdos love posting is true except the people posting it are the soft men creating hard times

Yeah, I think the widespread decision to allow long-dead diseases to come back is based at least in part on boredom. Nothing makes us feel alive like the prospect of death.

It's not that I had fond feelings about Neera Tanden before but I think her retweeting Nick Fuentes is pretty good evidence that twitter is a gamma radiation field for your brain

i am increasingly sympathetic to the position that QTing or RTing actual Nazis on Twitter doesn't mean you are aligned with those Nazis but this is (as Ian says) primarily an argument against being on Twitter

"Biden dismantled the military but I had already rebuilt it so I can end the forever wars by fighting this war forever"

Truly, this is the day Donald Trump became president