JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

Most people who think this are delusional. I bet I could take him though.

I wonder what it would be like to have a government that functioned.

“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.

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I'm more comfortable with a lazy old nag than any animal you'd call "elite." But horses are important to my family. Godspeed these hairy Lamborghinis.

Never a word for the junior senator, Roger Marshall, or my opponent, Tracey Mann. These little pro-business orgs won't say a word for them. Repeatedly. In very conservative places. They'll praise Moran, but they hit the brakes hard after that. A crisis of competence in government.

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It's such an interesting and useful observation that great entrepreneurs aren't introspective. I mean, it's false, but it's false in an interesting and useful way. Some don't. Elizabeth Holmes not very insightful. But as a society we grant them years, decades even, to reflect in isolation.

A lot of lawyers would do a lot of terrible, terrible things to make sure this sentence and footnote never got written about their client. (This case is about whether a gaming company cheated the developers of Subnautica 2 out of hundreds of millions.) courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...

What a mark of shame for any decent American, for this bumbling wet drunk to see you as a life preserver in his dirty little war.

I was once hired to teach negotiation to a military team with a large training budget. At lunch they talked about how they'd had MMA stars come in to work with them too. They were pretty open about the fact that they learned very little useful skills, but had a lot of fun and got to meet stars.

Long-term memory is woke

We just wrapped up our big candidate forum at Washington Days in Topeka. Excited to see some of the strongest candidates to come forwards in Kansas in decades. Stay tuned for video! #bluewave #colinforkansas #midterm #kansas #politics

I borrowed Mr. Technopants, my son Ox's Lego creation, to help explain how ICE is violating the rights of Americans--and why it's a problem for Americans even if only immigrants were being abused. youtu.be/5gJRwurl4NI

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

Firms are gearing up for the Refund Wars now. We're likely to see billions transferred from government to corporate coffers. And good! The taxes were illegal. But *consumers* shouldered much of the tariff burden. And won't get those refunds. A massive wealth transfer from consumers to investors.

I teach business law to business students. I show them this video, and ask which witness listened to his lawyer? Which witness is going to get stabbed by his lawyer? youtu.be/bqpot5VNobY?... This is the one and only way anyone should emulate Robin Thicke.

I've been writing my U.S. Rep, Tracey Mann, every day for 49 days and he has not responded to me about why he doesn't support Uncapping the House. Now, @colinmcroberts.bsky.social, who is running against him in the upcoming midterm election, SUPPORTS UNCAPPING THE HOUSE OH SNAP #projectnocap

An interesting reform we're starting to push for is uncapping the House of Representatives, making each district roughly 500k people. (It's about 750k now, with some up to a million.)

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Getting the word out as a candidate: we can curb ICE violence by amending Section 1983, holding feds to the same standards as local cops. www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...

I don't know that Twitter numbers mean much anymore, but I was sure surprised to see the CDC fall so flat in its defense of RFK. Some of the replies are blowing up, but not even the MAGA/MAHA dead-enders are enthusiastic about this.

Doing a TikTok town hall for my congressional campaign, and I'm pleased to report that the young people are sharp, observant, and unafraid to tell important truths.

Over 1,200 miles in the car this weekend, to and from the far corners of Kansas. Up by 5 and home after midnight, making every hour count: tabling with the party, meeting supporters, lecturing on negotiation strategy, and seeing a bald eagle strike. God, I love Kansas.

Texas today, Kansas in November! @colinmcroberts.bsky.social

I ran this question past an investigative reporter whose work I admire, and it turns out this is something journalists have been looking into with little success. No one seems to know if accounts like @CMDROpAtLargeCA on X are monetized. Think maybe Congress should make sure they aren't?

Question for people who know about social media business practices: is X paying public employees for engagement? My understanding is that private shit-stirrers can make significant money for posts that drive engagement. What about Bovino, Hegseth, etc.? Anyone know what X's practices are?

This could be incompetence or it could be malevolence but there is no universe where this is normal or a good idea. Cops involved in justified shootings get support and time to recover. This wasn't that, but it shows how abnormally ICE is behaving. They're acting like it's an active combat zone.

The Farmers Union. Planting common sense and growing America for a hundred and twenty two years.

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

Not a goddamn word about the government using a man's exercise of his Second Amendment rights as a pretext for killing him in a protest.

Beyond the obvious need for tribunals for the crimes Noem and others have committed and enabled, bringing shame back seems fundamental to the enterprise of rebuilding this country. No society can survive without a general understanding that this kind of shameless lying is unacceptable.

Because the only way to change that is to run the hard races. @runforsomething.net

Hard to see the people of Minneapolis suffering and not being able to do anything concrete to help. So I worked the phones today instead and campaigned. I feel like that sounds selfish, but undermining a Midwestern MAGA incumbent means something right now--especially in a red district and state.

Horses matter to my family, so it’s painful to see a smart Hutchinson program shut down. It reduced wild horse overpopulation, rehabilitated inmates with real skills, and provided affordable horses funded by its own auctions. Cutting this helps no one.

You're not so special, there's no plan for what to do if I die before you finish, either.

Request to the legal community in Texas, Wisconsin, and other states with partisan judicial elections: do you know someone who would speak via Zoom to a group fighting the introduction of such elections in Kansas? 1/x

There's no reason to hold ICE to a lower standard than local cops--and nothing stopping the GOP majority from solving a problem for a change. But they won't. So let's elect some politicians with practical solutions. www.colinforkansas.com

Done. Well, one step closer to being done, at least. But if it picks up critical mass among candidates, real action becomes a lot more likely. www.facebook.com/share/p/18K7...

Yet another United States Attorney disqualified because they were illegally appointed. This is five now? H/t Roger Parloff. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of the things I miss most and least about Twitter is the Twitter lawyers. The circuit appointed a judge to decide questions about Halligan's appointment in any cases involving challenges to her appointment. That judge and this one were right; Halligan and this poster are over their skis.