ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

“The president is a pedophile who is starving your kids, crashing your planes, and destroying your healthcare.” Republicans certainly are not above this rhetoric, and in our case the rhetoric has the benefit of being true.

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

What are some county shapes that you hate? That, putting aside from partisanship, just looks ugly and its county borders should be changed? Mine:

I think it says a lot about the quality of left media (as well as center-left) that an Abdul El-Sayed does not excite as much as Platner initially did.

Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court. The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used. The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.

Wilson ahead by 91 *votes* in Seattle

It is generally true that American institutional media favors the conservative political narrative and helps facilitate its discursive advantages but I have never rlly understood why people say POLITICO and Axios in particular just make stuff up

Perth Amboy, NJ 83% Hispanic Median Household Income: $58,490 15% Bachelor's Degree, 68% High School Grad 2025 Gov: 🟦Mikie Sherrill: 78% (6,281) 🟥Jack Ciattarelli: 21% (1,731) 2024 Pres: 🟦Kamala Harris: 53% (7,430) 🟥Donald Trump: 45% (6,209)

Really just an unbelievable series of Ls for people who adopt a realist theory of politics. We have two parties committed to playing this shutdown as stupidly as possible

So the Senators who were in favor of this deal, but didnt vote that way because they were up in 2026 and wanted to escape any blame, were likely Booker, Hickenlooper, and Warner, right? Also maybe/probably Reed and Coons.

Looking at the results HD 52 from Virginia on the Gubernatorial level, and you wouldn't guess that Spanberger lost this seat by 3.4 points. One of the few examples outside of Alaska of "Land doesn't vote" cutting the other way.

the secret is that its all of those thing

As someone on the record for generally not believing in rotating villain theory, if you think that there were exactly enough defections to make it 60-40 and these defections all coincidentally came from Democrats who are retiring/not up for a while, you're a mark

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

Wow, Warner voted against. Concerned about a primary? Dont see how else Kaine votes yes, but he votes no.

Hoping for the non-zero chance that Freedom caucus Rs in the House kill this.

let’s be clear here 1. its not all Senate Dems 2. The most fucked thing is a lot of them doing this are actually retiring

"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says - CR through Jan. 30 - ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December - Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future

Think this moment shows why Mills cant become Senator, because you know she would be one of the Mod senators wanting to cave. Hope some third Dem candidate jumps in who wants to abolish the filibuster, otherwise Platner is the only other option.

Bloomberg and CNN have both reported it now but this pathetic Bluesky pro-Schumer Kremlinology will never die, huh

well, some of you wanted to hear it from the man himself, here you go:

it’s very difficult at this point to figure out if there is actual movement towards a Dem cave or just a Republican whisper campaign to Axios to make it seem like there’s a Dem cave and I’m going to hold my fire on any of it until something actually happens (or not)

one of the greatest struggles for any left-wing political movement in the modern west (and increasingly beyond) is how much of the sheer abject deprivation, fear, and often fatal dangers that were inextricable to the lives of any but the wealth just...barely exist anymore

I would respect House Democrats a lot more if they started planning primaries against the Senate Surrender Caucus tbh. like Joe Neguse would wax Hickenlooper 60-40

Looking back at Michael Lange's prediction of how the General would go in NYC, he did quite good in predicting the results down to the precinct lvl. Only whiffs from him was how much Cuomo consolidated the R vote, and the idea that East Asians would lean towards Mamdani instead of Cuomo.

Last thing I'll say about the TX referendums is that this was the closest measure, which I was extremely surprised by, and that, in all of these, South TX is consistenly to the left of other parts of the state outside of the major urban counties, with them sometimes matching Harris county.

Also some counties in East TX being outright against the idea of clean water, apparently.

Just realized, 40% rural Texans in the East and North were like, "Fuck those dementia patients" lol. Wasn't paying attention to this ballot measure so missed that.

Got two people who liked my profile on Hinge as soon as my subscription ends? Very #suspicious.

So many races in 2026 is gonna be Likely R or Lean R lol

Because I'm a dumbass, I accidently used the old PSC districts instead of the current ones. These are the current lines.

Being as generous as I can, this is the closest equivalent to NYC's "Commie Corridor" I can think of for Houston, and, uh, forget corridor, is just a small group of precincts. Consists of 95k people (out of Houston's 2.3 Million people), and although progressive, definitely less so than NYC's CC.

in a very real sense, these people do not live in reality. they take actions based on what they see in cable news, and react to the consequences of those reactions as described by cable news. they have put their own propaganda inside their control loop.

Talarico's response is so cool though. "Jesus followed strippers, and are we not commanded to live like Him?" beastmode lmao

To go along with this: Gary Prevost, my old Latin American Politics professor, taught us that revolutions happen when rising expectations meet declining outcomes, and while this isn’t a revolution, you can see the echoes of the thought. Once you internalize the idea, you can see the echoes elsewhere

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

He lost this district in the primary by 0.10% and won the district in the general by 1%. Maybe has a chance, but idk, feel like he's damaged goods to the people who'd want someone like him.

Sometimes America is so beautiful it just makes you want to cry. From beauty.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

The 2025 NYC Mayoral election, a contest between Socialist NY Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa resulted in a 9% victory for Mamdani, becoming the third Socialist, and Second DSA NYC mayor in the city's history.

Pretty expected

Okay, this update makes way more sense.

Using 2025 VA House of Delegates data on the VA Senate Map (since almost every seat was contested in the House), Dems could've gained 5 seats in the VA Senate, going from 21/40 seats to 26/40 seats if the Senate was up in Virginia this year Among the Blue here, Rs hold Districts 4,12,17,24, and 27

The most common disease of mental capacity on here which cuts across ideological preference is Bluesky users seeing a random person in their phone and assigning them the role of spokesperson for their intra-coalition opponents.

Dems proposed a deal they knew was DOA, now R’s can deal with air traveling halt, the President not wanting to do Food Stamps, him trying to kill the filibuster dividing them, and rising economic discontent weeks before thanksgiving R’s can’t afford more of this

Genuinely wild to see the republicans refuse a softball and instead prefer to ride a rollercoaster made out of rusty screws

Im pretty surprised both at Senate Dems not caving to Republicans AND Senate Republicans not caving into Trump yet tbh.