Wisconsinites are 80% in favor of a bill to fund schools & tax rebates that failed to pass the WI Senate a few weeks ago. A remarkable number given unanimous opposition of elected officials on one side of the aisle, including 2 gubernatorial candidates #WIpolitics today.marquette.edu/2026/05/marq...

Sounds dreamy.

The path to riches in 2026: get a White House badge, then trade volatility.

After Bill Cassidy lost in his primary, it looks like Thomas Massie is toast. The radicals of each party are something to watch.

Doesn't anyone else think JB Pritzker is going to try for the 2028 Dem nomination?

This is the correct take. A significant own-goal by the far left that will likely deny Democrats power in the Assembly and Senate after elections in November. In purple WI, when you have a chance as a Democrat to convince voters you are not a tax & spend party, you should take it. Elections matter.

wut? receiving too much capital??? 🤔 Also, weird to ignore supply and blame a small part of demand.

The share of value created by Claude that is going to Anthropic is minuscule right now. Totally insane how much money it is saving us. I've never experienced anything like this in terms of a business service basically giving their product away for free. Maybe AWS in the early days.

A little too close for comfort.

There will be a LOT less farmland in the future and the luddites will fight the change every step of the way.

Cats can be infected by hantavirus but will show no symptoms, therefore the virus is not dangerous to them. In addition, cats cannot transmit hantavirus to people.

Living on the east side of Madison is a trip. Leftists are insane and I don't think they really have any interest in winning general elections. Their focus is almost totally against normie Democrats.

OMG I'm going to turn into the Joker...the usual facebook NIMBY's are freaking out that a Hotel downtown Sun Prairie is being built with less than normal off street parking and will utilize under-used parking elsewhere and valet services. I swear they expect to drive their car into bed at night.

Maybe the best thing that could happen for US politics is having the socialist candidate win in the Wisconsin Dem primary and then lose in the general election to Tom Tiffany.

Someone needs to introduce the youths to the category of Pulses.

I couldn't sit on my hands any longer. Pritzker at less than $.03 just seems undervalued, even though a long way out.

In the Wisconsin Dem primary for governor, most candidates are just trying to one-up the others on the number of free ponies they are going to provide if elected. They're making Tom Tiffany look intelligent, which is not an easy thing to do.

The Sara Rodriguez campaign is killing me. Incredible incompetence.

I would pay Anthropic 10x what it is charging for their Max subscription and it would still be a fantastic deal. That's how good these models are at programming and software development.

The WI Dem primary for governor is wild. The current, two-term Governor Tony Evers is wildly popular among Democrats and yet not one of the Dem primary candidates is campaigning on continuing Evers success and extending with a Dem Assembly. 🤷‍♂️ Related: The socialist is winning.

One thing Anthropic is better at than OpenAI is their model rollouts. I appear to have access to ChatGPT 5.5 in the API, in Codex CLI, but not in the Codex app or in ChatGPT. Super frustrating. With Anthropic, when they release a new model, we have access to that new model quickly and in all places.

I'm not sure an avowed socialist who has called for abolishing the police can win a statewide election in Wisconsin, but I'm pretty sure we're going to find out this November.

What happens to American politics if a socialist becomes the governor of purple state Wisconsin?

Looks like I've got myself a new project tomorrow!

I'm a dog person and I'm already tired of dog policy debate.

I'm a lot more nervous about the outcome of the Wisconsin Governor race than the markets predict. Can a socialist win in Wisconsin?

The Judge Brunette team was ready. Good to see. 🙌🇺🇸 #SCOWIS

It's baby bunny season. 😕

Second tornado warning for Madison this week.

This alone was worth the price of admission today.

What the heck. I'm now rooting for Massie. 🤷‍♂️

We need a lot more utility scale batteries. ASAP.

Called it! This will be a cake walk for Judge Brunette into SCOWIS. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

The prediction markets response to this news.

Two hours later, in 60 degree weather. Baseball sized when they fell.

Exciting.

This is a good podcast wrt the near future of AI progress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=htOv...

When it comes to the Centaur version of business processes, Claude is *way* out in front of ChatGPT right now. Seeing how AI is improving AI right now, it's interesting to look back at some previous OpenAI decisions that were distractions from that fundamental non-linear self improvement process.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

So depressing. The left flank of my team has become anti-progress, anti-technology reactionaries. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/06/w...

What to learn from the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court race: 1. Dobbs is important wrt voter's opinions of the Judicial branch. 2. Trump is unpopular. 3. Educational realignment. That's it. (but people keep drawing maps with arrows 🤷‍♂️)

The race on the liberal side to run for the open 2027 Wisconsin Supreme Court seat is going to be something. It's an amazing opportunity for a left leaning judge that can get into the 2027 general election. The top candidate might be Judge Lyndsey Brunette, who lives in a county that Lazar won.

Took my earnings.

My tiny software company spends about $4,000/month on AI right now and it's the best investment I've ever made.

WTF??? charlesatpollsandvotes.substack.com/p/a-new-wisc...

Hanging with the SCOWIS justices pre party.

The funniest part about yesterday's SCOWIS election results is that Chris Taylor got more votes than Maria Lazar in Chippewa County. Why is that funny? Because Susan Crawford lost to Brad Schimel in Chippewa County in 2025. And we grew up in Chippewa Falls!! 😆

The margin in this Wisconsin Supreme Court race is going to be above 15%. Amazing.