People are absolutely going to use this as evidence the votes are rigged but it turns out Americans don’t look up who they are voting for lol this is fucking embarrassing

Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

if there's no value to publishers in letting Google reference them, they should not let Google access their content.

In fairness, their search has been dogshit for years

3. There’s more of a chance Paxton will lose the general. But Trump cares far more about controlling the Republican Party than running Congress.

i don't live in CA, so who knows what they'll do, but in general no you shouldn't vote for anyone who wants to put ChatGPT in schools so badly they'll say it as part of their signature AI plan

Kash Patel is my favorite member of the Trump regime. Yes, he’s an incompetent fascist, but I appreciate the shenanigans.

I think this November is going to see an honest to god bLuE wAvE but I also believe the Republicans see it coming and are going to pull every dirty trick in the book (e.g. gerrymandering, redistricting, voter suppression, etc) to stop it. I worry it’s gonna be closer than many people believe.

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

“they’re all crooks”, great, stay home! “they’re all the same”, great, stay home! “there’s no difference between the parties”, great, stay the fuck home, and use anti-cut gloves when prepping your dinner!

there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely

my crank belief is that nonpartisan elections should be banned for exactly this reason

imo, from a campaigner's perspective: El-Sayed's academic & professional background (see some of the replies) is so impressive, you don't want people looking deeper into it. This sort of pedantic, "Well, acktually..." nitpicking isn't worth it.

Btw I’m 99% sure the mcmorrow campaign were the ones who oppo’d this and pitched it to politico (at my job we do this with republicans all the time) which is the first thing she’s done that’s properly made me think less of her

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

if whichever partisan democrat gets put in charge of the FBI next wants to bring back The Drizz to help clean house I’m listening

torn between my desire for an apocalyptic midterm blowout and my desire never to hand anything to AtlasIntel

The Hasan Piker debacle seems to have primarily had the effect of making Abdul el Sayed more likely to win, which was the very opposite of what Third Way and the Free Press want

I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s

Still a brutal time for caffeine addicts like me—coffee prices are up 18% over the last year and 56% since 2020

I, for one, think Democrats should simply ignore the supreme court ruling

There are no rules anymore. Cali brought a gun to a knife fight and almost no one else will. That shit has to end decades ago but it can end tomorrow. Platner was right when he said VA should straight up ignore the courts Ohio style and to keep the WH in court constantly post-2026

This really is one of the most remarkable things around....Ohio voters actually enacted a bipartisan redistricting process. And Ohio Republicans basically just completey evaded it and have gerrymandered the state even more.

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

The ceasefire is such a fascinating shared fiction

no, it's good. don't listen to the haters, donald. america is ready to sacrifice

The hustler class is the most reactionary class in existence

Moulton is transphobic cowardly piece of shit and Markey should be choosing his successor, not running again

It's also not clear if it's a bloc that will survive indefinitely. Like, what happens when Southern Black voters don't clearly consolidate?

Note that I don’t think this is a hard rule indefinitely, just that establishing a bloc big enough to beat their center of gravity is very hard with the current coalition. Very likely to be true in 2028.

So like, what does the US do when the country's entire right-wing apparatus, which is still a solid ~33-35% of the country, continues to get even worse as time goes on?

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

I know we all roll our eyes, but this stuff is really bad. The reason diplomats use dry, formal speech is that they their primary audience is abroad (as it should be). Trump admin shitheads talk like this because they're only speaking for their domestic base.

I'll point out - and of course I'll defer to medical professionals, but this is my understanding - if you're taking a MoCA every 4-6 months, the most likely reason is that you are experiencing rapid cognitive decline

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Fetterman is simply not going to be a Senator after 2028 no matter what he does, that's baked in at this point and his future television prospects are probably higher as 'the D senator who got primaried for being an asshole' than 'the guy who switched parties and got obliterated in the R primary'

I ultimately think Fetterman won't switch, mostly because it's more fun being The Asshole Democrat Who Goes On Fox News than just another Republican but switching parties because Sean Hannity talks you into it would be the single most embarrassing way to do it

any worldview or ideology that requires the repeal of modernity is doomed to failure

this is actually the way forward we are not going to get a bunch of low-info Trump voters to vote D, but we can get them to check back out of the political system altogether

Susan Collins is more of a Nazi than Platner because she supports the facist neo-Nazi party, despite her opponents tattoos.

Maybe its bad, but I want revenge in the rawest terms possible against the GOP. You can’t tell us for years they are a threat and expect it to not radicalize us They hurt us, they hurt me, and I want to hurt them back. I want the wraith to be karmic and god’s will even if it isnt true.

I’m not going to lie to you: I’m going to lie to you. Everything will be fine and things will settle down.

No, no, keep typing, you're one hot take away from Janet Mills becoming 30 years younger and un-suspending her campaign

there is no one less committed to voting blue no matter who than sycophants who thought they would never have to swallow a vote that they didn't prefer

someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine

The best way to get a bipartisan gerrymandering ban through Congress would probably be increasing the amount of house seats (which should be done anyway) that way most members of Congress wouldn't lose their job even if they're in a gerrymandered seat.

I support ruthlessly partisan redistricting that makes the need to ban gerrymandering nationally (or better yet ditch individual districts altogether!) as clear to voters as possible. It should be at the top of the party platform & we should demand it in the press daily.

shaking my head as i explain that i simply expected better from the people who put susan collins in the senate for 20 years straight