Happy Friday everyone

Where we're at Helps GOP —TX: 5 seats toward GOP —OH:2 seats toward GOP, but also 1 toward Dems —NC: 1 Dem seat to likely GOP Helps Dems —CA: 5 seats toward Dems —UT: 1 seat flips Dem ? —MO: 1 seat to GOP... but veto referendum? —VA: Dems trying —FL: GOP maybe GOP push stalls: —KS —IN VRA —...

it is morally good, it is socially good, it is food-good, and it is good *for our wallets*, and the people last year who jumped on people for noting that immigration is good for the economy because that was dehumanizing immigrants, and the people who listened to them, I think were wrong!

The most horrifying thing about the Epstein saga is obviously the child sex trafficking. The second-most horrifying thing is the open flouting of any and all accountability for all the political/Ivy League/legacy media elites who made a decision to associate with and befriend a convicted pedophile

there is actually a story in this revolting Nuzzi piece if you sandblast away the lies about a hot young woman being "in love" with a guy old enough to be her grandfather who looks like a catcher's mitt and sounds like an evil muppet

Once you reach a certain level of notoriety in the media industry you become invincible. A political reporter sexted a source and in the end all that happened was that Vanity Fair made her their West Coast editor and the national newspaper of record gave her a flattering profile with glamour shots

democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3 they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3

FROM: Editor <[email protected]> TO: Jeffrey <[email protected]> SUBJ: Stay up, playboy

Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/

What do we make of this email, sent from Epstein to himself a week before he was arrested with the subject line “List for Bannon Steve” with just a list of names.

Time traveling back to 2009 just to read this sentence to myself as a 21 year old college student journalist 2009 me: "ohhh shit it's over for him now I bet" 2025 me: "lol nah there's about 40M people who will literally commit murder for him"

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

If Dems retake the House in 2026, they need to subpoena Sulzberger to find out how much the NYT knew about Epstein/Trump and why they didn't share it

Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"

I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.

a famous wealthy rapist was enthusiastic to put another famous wealthy rapist on the Supreme Court, where he would go on to give the famous wealthy rapist who appointed him total immunity from prosecution

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

Today was a great reminder that a lot more rich and powerful people other than Trump are in the Epstein Files and all of them are equally opposed to them ever seeing the light of day

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

The Epstein petition now has a majority even without Grijalva.

BAW GAWD THAT'S @mtsw.bsky.social'S MUSIC

Others have said before that 2026 will be a lot like the Tea Party wave of 2010. Which saw Republicans retake the House majority. But the Tea Party also had cranks like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock who lost winnable US Senate races. Graham Platner is definitely giving "crank who will blow it"

Imagine hearing someone earnestly say this and then immediately voting to give him a trillion dollars

"The Democratic Party is fresh off a wildly successful election. For centrist Democrats like myself, it spelled a perfect time for unconditional surrender!" @rexhuppke.bsky.social satirizes the shutdown "deal" and the quaint negotiating customs of moderate Dems. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.

gonna go ahead and take a wild guess that private equity is somehow involved here

MAGA went down in flames in every state where there was an election last week in an overwhelming rebuke of the party in power, and 8 Senate Dems still caved to them despite getting nothing in return. Absolutely zero political awareness

Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

If they don't get this crusty ass corrupt pedophile out of the booth THIS MINUTE

I got gastric sleeve surgery a little less than a month ago, already lost 25 pounds(!!!)

The makeup line is insane but we should talk about how the cartilage in his ear magically grew back

Hulu: we have live sports! did we mention we have live sports? live sports here Me: cool where's the UK basketball game Hulu: we don't have it lol Me: Hulu: Could we interest you in 20 women's lacrosse games featuring teams like Southwest Louisiana Tech-Monroe Campus and North Dakota Wesleyan?

"Repeal the big beautiful bill" needs to be Dems' rallying cry next year (and through 2028)

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

This is about as clear that Fox signaling gets. Audience of one and all that, and trying to get through his head that he's fucking it all up.

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Focus group behind two-way glass. Pete watches as the moderator asks, "Would it upset you if someone congratulated Mamdani in a tweet?"

“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.” What are we doing?

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.