Trump only won in 2016 because of Jim Comey and the electoral college He lost in 2020 by a wide margin when incumbents did well He won in 2024 by a narrow margin during a major global anti-incumbent backlash He has never been popular

As you see the reports out of Texas SD-9, keep in mind: This was the cash discrepancy. Money speaks -- but it's not as loud as it used to be.

I mean,

If I was a GOP strategist, I’d be pretty worried about diluting my safe +15 districts into a bunch of +5 gerrymandered districts after tonight.

BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.

One way you know America is not/no longer an actual democracy is that the Republican Governor managed to delay this election for almost a year, giving the GOP an artificial advantage in a narrowly divided parliament. This is something that does not actually happen in real democracies anywhere else.

It rocks that Republican messaging after intentionally jacking up people’s health insurance costs to insane levels has shifted towards “uhhhh we hate insurance companies now, why are they so mean to you.” Voters across the board (myself included) are dumb. They aren’t that dumb

in 2020, the previous decade’s gerrymander started to get competitive. republicans held on to power narrowly and redrew the map to maintain their gains by ceding a few districts to dems to preserve their majorities. the map they drew last year threw out that strategy in favor of maximum expansionism

So… a bribe? Trump got $500 Million and U.A.E. got “tightly guarded” A.I. chips. How is this not a bribe, exactly? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

for my part i will just say that texas senate district 9 is the exact sort of district republicans draw to ensure that they do not have to face competitive general elections

Leigh Wambsganss raised nearly $2.3 million for the SD9 district, much of it coming from three billionaire-funded PACs. Taylor Rehmet raised $346,000, most of it coming from donations of $100 or less. His biggest donor gave him $12K, and a bunch of local unions also cut him larger checks.

definitely follow rob if you are trying to understand the texas special election results from tonight

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

NEWS: Democrat Christian Menefee has won the special election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, further narrowing the GOP’s slim majority in the House.

I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.

The Trump Administration And Its Allies Are a Who's Who of Jeffrey Epstein's Network Based on the latest Epstein Files, it seems personally knowing pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was a necessary job requirement to be considered for the Trump Administration. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

lmao

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

Going through the Epstein files I found this invite to what appears to be a cursed dinner party at Deepak Chopra’s house where he invited Dawkins, Harris, Krauss, and Shermer

At the direction of Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Dr. Trisha Pasricha has been arrested for obstruction of justice

remember when trump was saying that the epstein files were a hoax? lmfao

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

Assuming the time stamps on these emails are Eastern Standard Time, our story was published at 7:29 pm in New York and Epstein decided to email Thiel about it, 7 hours later... perhaps before going to bed? www.forbes.com/sites/ryanma...

I look forward to the time when I once again have no clue who tf the deputy chief of staff is.

/2 AUSA jobs tend to be EXTREMELY competitive. (Not to say they’re not occasionally awarded to morons for politics.) Having to advertise for AUSAs on Nazi-Pedoworld is deeply embarrassing. Also the notion you have to be politically loyal to the President to be a entry-level lawyer is loathsome.

Utterly pathetic and historically unprecedented.

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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

The tl;dr takeaway from that thread is that many of the people who engaged in acts of racist vigilantism like this in Oregon in the 1970s & 80s were avowed, Hitler-admiring Nazis...& one of the people who was closely tied in to their networks was the chair of the OR GOP from 1978-9.

I'm so old, I remember January 2025 when this racist letter circulated in Lincoln County, OR encouraging people to report on their neighbors who are undocumented. The letter ended by saying this would bring houses prices down. What was condemned as racist vigilantism last year is now gov't policy.

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

“There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” abc7ny.com/post/ice-min...

6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."

So weird that the guy they chose to direct the Melania Bribe-Umentary was a Me Too-canceled has been pictured with Epstein and another Epstein-backed child sex trafficker who also *killed himself* in prison So many coincidences!

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

I don't know how you could even vet this but I'll just note that during the 2016 campaign it was imperative that we saw every email Hillary Clinton ever wrote.

again it is very funny that conspiracy theorists think they need to crack some elaborate code the elites use to communicate, when in reality they're just like "see you at sex crime island! bring the harem!"

man i give up

"Elon Musk, a totally brilliant physicist"

Jeffrey Epstein Sent Five Nights At Freddy's Porn Via 4Chan Links, Emails Show