Opus DEI

it’s more that there is a less than 0% chance that a Green can win a federal race.

pretty stunning chart

He’s with the Green Party though :/

Now if only Jimmy Panetta could finally get a primary challenger

1968: Esquire asks every member of Congress:
1. What idea, work, or thinker most influenced your political philosophy?
2. What music do you prefer?
3. Who is your favorite painter?
4. Who is your favorite poet/novelist?
5. Name one of the movies you most enjoyed
6. Theatre, ballet, opera, or sports?

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put a redistricting plan on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress.

The referendum will take place on April 21.

lol did Cotton/AR GOP just not want to spend any money? Because that wasn’t going to be even remotely competitive.

Ironically, Cotton himself didn’t have a Dem opponent when he was first up for Senate reelection in 2020. His opponent was a Libertarian, and I think that was actually the best performance a Libertarian has had running for Senate (but still a massive loss).

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

I've obvs always had big problems with how the Times covers fascists/fascism but this article contains some real egregious shit that has my blood boiling, so here's a quick-ish thread on why/how I think it's so pernicious...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

interesting choice of C-Span footage in that background thumbnail, I must say

John Fetterman Brags That Brain Damage Made Him Abandon Progressives The Pennyslvania senator sat down with Bill Maher of all people to chat about leaving progressives behind.

I’d agree normally, but straight from the horse’s mouth:

newrepublic.com/post/182504/...

The types of people who read The Free Press is an audience, I suppose. A small, very wealthy and insular one, but still an audience.

The actual lesson is that if you try to engage in draconian immigration enforcement to appease the xenophobic right, you are just confirming to them that they are right and encouraging their xenophobia.

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

realistically no, but this was a state that was only Harris +6. the fact they couldn’t even find a perennial or obscure candidate to nominate is…insane. not sure when the last time something like this happened in an ostensibly competitive state. AR in 2008? though that might be an even weirder one

My fellow Americans

I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I did however go to freemusic .com to download all the latest music for free

The only Republican challenging Dem Sen. Ben Ray Lujan is disqualified by New Mexico SoS. The ABQ Journal says this would leave the GOP without a Senate candidate for the first time in "modern history," and just six years after Lujan won by only 6 points. www.abqjournal.com/news/four-ne...

Today in "marginal income, wealth, & capital gains taxes are too low, & this poses an existential threat to American democracy"

bald eagle killed by turbine
ergo
turbine funded by Obama
ergo
Obama hates America

it’s the first *resignation* afaik, but Jim Inhofe (R-OK, snowball thrower) revealed he had long COVID in an interview a few months after retiring from the Senate. He died like a year ago

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the

*None* of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump admin's pitch on why they should indict the Democratic lawmakers who recorded that illegal orders video believed the Justice Department had met the low threshold of probable cause, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

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after how relatively close we came in both of the open FL seats last year wonder if this one can finally do it

The Downballot posted yesterday that he denied he was going to resign early, am I missing somethinf

Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.

a society losing the plot in real time

actually it’s Jaggers

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means