It's also just really fuckin' funny that Aggie is going to die on the hill that "gender is not performative and only conforms to a dichotomous biological fact" when.... -OS

Perry's career is kind of the parable of Texas A&M. You took this drunk idiot who most people actually liked, because he was sort of goofy and hilarious and you put him in glasses, insisted he's smart, and that he should be taken seriously, and it all fell apart.

Comparing Aggie to the Kennedys is unfair to the Kennedy's because some of the Kennedys were actually liked and actually won things, two concepts that are totally foreign to Aggieland. -OS

Texas A&M is a nepobaby who was given every opportunity and advantage in life and used that to blow his own nuts off. -OS

An Aggie Yell Leader.

You thought the last 100 years of Aggie Football sucked? Just imagine how bad they'll be when you turn it into Nazi Jesus Polytechnic College. -OS

Eternally, the difference between Texas and Aggie is that Texas must be steered by an insane governor into doing the dumbest thing imaginable and Aggie just wants to go ahead and do the dumbest thing imaginable. -OS

The way to fight this is with malicious compliance. If you teach at Aggie you should be sending every syllabus, every assigned reading, and even all your lecture slides and assignments to the president's office to make sure they're "ok." Bury the fuckers in an avalanche. -OS

The obvious pattern of the emails -- and these are just emails from the estate -- is that Epstein was running a blackmail ring that had Trump in its net, and all these loathsome sonsofbitches thought Trump was the most loathsome sonofabitch of them all.

We're at least fairly certain ICE can't detain our beloved neighbor Nacho. The man is like the love child of Kosmo Kramer and Pancho Villa. Pure, ungovernable chaos. If they tried he'd come home in a stolen CBP truck. -OS

We're in that slim band of Houston weather where it's absolutely wonderful to be drunk outside. -OS

The crazy thing to me, is Manchin strikes me as the kind of guy who wouldn't be that hard to sell on the whole idea behind the shutdown. He had a rhyme and reason. He wasn't pointless. He wasn't Sinema.

I'd shove Schumer out the first available airlock and replace him with someone who knows how to wield a knife (stapler) like Klobuchar.

I'd have put Fetterman's head through window. Maybe another clot would shock some sense back into him.

Picking up the soap in the prison shower.

Zipping up your own cock.

Schumer could not have done more to lend credence to the progressive criticism of the Democratic establishment. There was no political pressure from the constituency to end the shutdown. You ended it for the donors. Stupifying politics. Kaine wants to break? Crush him.

Elko is probably the smartest hire Aggie football has made in 40 years, but today will be the first test of the year for whether they're the same old Aggie or not.

Our little dose of daily hopium is that the national environment in 2026 is more than likely going to be 10+ points more blue leaning than it was in 2022 and TX Republicans drew a gerrymander for dear leader that would've been utterly annihilated in 2018. -OS

That's equivalent of saying that every person who's being held in the looney bin against their will swears they're copacetic. -OS

And there's no off-ramp because the Senate is probably ready to cave to Democrats on Obamacare, but Johnson isn't bringing the House back into session when all the Democrats and probably enough Republicans want the Epstein files.

Airline travel will basically be untenable by Thanksgiving, and the whole of air traffic will have to basically be cut down to international and hub-to-hub by Christmas. And there's no off-ramp to this shutdown in sight. It's going to be a political bloodbath. -OS

The crazy thing is Texas really brought a lot of risk into their gambit for 5 seats (could totally blow up in their face for 3 of the 5 new districts) and CA could safely go full-Illinois, touch every district to the Pacific and draw a 52-0 map that's at least D+10 everywhere. -OS

And we think you'll really see this insane-o effect in the next round of Republican US House primaries with the new map. Already, North of Houston, Hunt and Luttrell aren't running again and will be wholly unsurprising if Toth beats Crenshaw in a crazy-off. -OS

Right. The Philadelphia collar counties have just legitimately been pulled toward the Dwmocratic Party by education sorting. Collin and Denton Counties in Texas are just way more diverse than they once were but the whites are even more crazy than they were in 2010. -OS

Kind of a general dynamic in both the older Houston and Dallas suburbs is that you have a map that looks more purple-ish because the new generation of homeowners are way less white, but the Republican Primary is nuts because the whites who are still there are bonkers. -OS

We've said this before -- but among the worst things has been the emergence of the two track Senate, which has sucked all of the pain and cost out of the filibuster and lead to a staggering increase in its deployment since the mid-1970s. -OS

I generally don't wade into Democratic Primaries, but I'll be vocally supportive of either Edwards or Menefee against Green. It's time to pass the torch, Al. Take the gold watch and come join me on the porch, man.

This is correct: In fact, Pelosi's main weakness was she feared being deposed, so she didn't build a bench of leaders. Jeffries became caucus chair because Crowley, one of her few proteges, lost to AOC.

I will say though, @ericmgarcia.bsky.social, Sam cast a long shadow in the House through his many protégés -- McCormack, Carl Albert, even Tip O'Neill and Jim Wright. Pelosi doesn't have the same set of coattails she'll leave behind.

They're both singular figures. Pelosi had slimmer margins, but Mr. Sam had to wrangle a more unwieldy caucus. Pelosi had more zeal and grit when she was in the minority, Mr. Sam more magnanimity in the majority.

Democrats might have done well last night because 9.5 months Trump has completely destroyed American power and standing in the world and also destroyed the White House and he doesn't even have the excuse of being invaded by the British. -OS

We assume Cuomo asked his interns for "one more honk, for the road" as he closed up campaign HQ today. -OS

A good top of the ballot for TX Dems in the Senate and all 3 of those S TX seats could tip over. -OS

They may well get away with it, but its a roll of the dice to be sure. Less of a guarantee of 5 seats than a CA map will be, without a doubt.

A good sign for Amanda Edwards heading into the runoff for TX-18 is that the haul of establishment endorsements Menefee collected won him votes in the whitest parts of the district (the Heights) but not the more Black voting boxes in 5th Ward and north of the loop. -OS

TX-18 is so far unfolding as expected -- Menefee and Edwards headed for a runoff that'll be decided by where the Jolanda Jones votes break in a head to head. -OS

Realistically, it'll be a minor miracle if he is able to get one of fare-free busses, rent stabilization freezes, or a minimum wage increase done. -OS

Mayor of New York is a thankless job. Fortunately for Mamdani, the bar is going to be hard to limbo under. He just has to refuse bribes from Turkmenistan.

Don't worry, Andrew, they still like you and NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC volume 3 in Staten Island. -OS

Houston's PI attorneys are so unhinged they can do a whole cheating/divorce soap opera arc through Billboards. -OS

As people who were actually against the Iraq War in 2003, when it was unpopular to be against it, we can't say anything nice about Dick Cheney, so we'll just say that we feel sorry for his widow and his daughters and leave it at that. -OS

It sucks that Baker Mayfield is both a Sooner and an obviously likeable dude. -OS

We always are very rough on Sanders. We do actually like him... which is why his occasional intellectual laziness and hazy historical mindedness irks us more than if he was just some jabroni we hated. -OS

We assume the special election in TX-18 tomorrow will whittle things down to a run off between Menefee and Edwards, but who fuckin' knows. -OS

Moving away from primaries would do the opposite of making the parties more ideologically disciplined. The litmus tests of primaries have played a huge role in sorting liberals out of the GOP and conservatives out of the Dems. More ideologically rangey parties are one of the selling points. -OS

We tend to agree -- imagine Black people gaining the influence within the party they rapidly accrued from 1948-1964 in the modern primary system when they're only 13% of the population. The old party was less democratic but in some ways more representative of its various wings and coalitions. -OS

Bernie Sanders's politics are best understood as a function of his irascible personality and the fact that he has neither the patience nor the touch for party politics, which is why he's popular on the one hand but could literally never be an FDR or LBJ on the other. -OS

Ok? The Democratic Party has always had its elites and establishments of various types. We have pur present establishment because Democrats voted the cab medallion hustlers and union bosses who used to control the party out of power. -OS www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Neither the Denver Broncos nor the Seattle Seahawks should've been allowed to change from their 90s looks to their current new-agey bullshit. You can't improve upon perfection. -OS