New world screw worm for the private sector?

(wokely) I'M BEING GREAT REPLACED

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

I think if you step back and think about “is this guy who came out of nowhere, who has done nothing in politics, whose qualifications are ‘looking like a chud’ and ‘repeating left-wing buzzwords,’ really ready to be an actual US senator,” you’ll see this was not a massive feat of prognostication

I know this is directed at Paxton, but it absolutely applies to Platner and that's why the party can't let him be the nominee.

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

November's likely going to be a landslide for him. That Orange County vote total for the Republican candidates is.. woof.

There’s a reductio ad absurdum quality to internet leftism. Almost every human being has lived on land that at one time was taken by murdering the previous inhabitants. White settler descendants have now lived on (stolen) land longer than their indigenous predecessors.

its insane how this man basically funded the entire american transphobia movement bc he hates his trans daughter

The level at which Iran is constantly humiliating the GOP is kind of amazing tbh

It's funny how perfectly the *strait of Hormuz will open in two weeks!" stories parallel the phenomenon of "a recession is 100% guaranteed to for sure come next quarter" stories in the runup to the 2022 midterms

maine, summarized: 1. graham platner sucks 2. he is going to win the primary 3. he is, still, probably going to win the general 4. he’s going to be better than susan collins, because even joe fucking manchin would be better than susan collins 5. we will need his vote to do reconstruction 2.0

Could Stephen Colbert Save PBS? Inside the Campaign Working to Make It Happen latenighter.com/news/stephen...

The SpaceX IPO and the flurry of rules-changes around it should really be a bigger scandal. It's not only one of the biggest swindles in human history, it's proof of nearly universal corruption. We are simply ruled by thieves and gangsters.

Congrats to the GOP for forcing the entire country talk about @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s girlfriend, who it turns out is super hot 👍

Talarico just might win.

This idea is not getting the attention it deserves.

If you spend years throwing stones from the outside, don’t be surprised when people on the inside don’t like you. I feel like this is a lesson that progressives and leftists should learn better.

Congratulations DSA, you got your wish!

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

“What’s too much for Tulsi Gabbard” is a scary question at this point

Gabbard to rejoin Sanders Institute

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

the fun part about not posting on x dot com is not having to learn about all sorts of people against my will

I've never really cared about this DNC autopsy report nonsense because what is it about that report that is any more insightful a "take" than the million other takes I've read about the 2024 election? It's not some kind of inside dope. The whole thing is silly.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, defeated in primary, switches to support it.

Talarico now favored by Kalshi prediction market.

If the Nazi Party existed as a political party today, all these things would be true: 1. They would be critical of the existence of the state of Israel. 2. They would probably be Israel's fiercest critics. 3. The Ryan Grims of the world would automatically view this as a good thing about the Nazis.

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The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-e...

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

When does pedocon theory become just pedocon fact?

Trump underwater by 8% with the only demographic that matters (to the New York Times)

Whether it’s Ken Paxton committing multiple felonies or James Talarico ordering a vegetarian taco, both Texas Senate candidates have troubled pasts.

The next democratic president better do this.

It never occurs to these people that there is another political party who doesn’t believe in these things that also holds power.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

If they can make you believe absurdities they can make you commit atrocities

Chuck Schumer Substantially Vindicated

Trump is tied for his second-lowest approval rating ever in the CNN/SSRS poll (35% vs. 34% in the week January 6, 2021), and hits a record for highest disapproval ever in the poll (1 point worse than last month, and 2 points worse than his disapproval after January 6, 2021).

from the Goldman internal of NY-12 (very affluent liberal district) whatever heated ideological debates people have online, most Democratic base voters see the factions in the party less in terms of existential debates over justice and more like the Avengers

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

If we dream it, we can do it.

under the conditions likely to prevail this year, this is a 10-2 map, which they can make a 11-1 map as soon as September of next year. if there were a legislative supermajority in Virginia, _maybe_ they could do something about it but there isn't.