Jones outperforming Harris.... many things are about to happen that have not happened in an age.

genuinely believe we'll go 3-1 in Iowa again, this time as a bonus we get the governorship and the senate seat

the sound you hear is the Trump 2024 coalition breaking apart

Selzer was not wrong. Merely early.

A couple internal Dem polls of IA03 showing Republican Incumbent Zach Nunn massively downc

that's sure one way to have this dog him the rest of his life

Remember when that train derailed in Ohio and we heard about it for months? Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened? www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...

trump threatening to have bondi investigate “democratic banks” lol yes definitely follow the money that will work out well for you

The thing about the "moderate to win" crowd is that they pose as Data Guys but very clearly have an animus toward the left that skews their analysis. When Trump won, they were all pathetically eager to say, "ah, the country is anti-immigrants xenophobes now, top to bottom, what can you do?"

I know there's some criticism of his big policy proposals, they're not maximally effective from an analytic perspective, but I think part of how we got here is an emphasis on technocratic effectiveness that tried to make its own success invisible, and we need to compete for attention again.

everyone that's been buying into politico's attempts to manufacture drama between mamdani and hochul needs to take a gigantic L here this was always going to happen. been very apparent since the endorsement

oh. look at that.

We have got to fucking find a way to raise taxes. Its one of the most pressing problems of building political legitimacy of our era. I think Mamdani has the right idea: you have to connect it to specific, *visible* projects and drive home the association of *what you will be getting* for your money.

These Megan Kelly clips are pretty good proof that a lot of people have gotten much much much worse over the last 10 years

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

My opponent Michael Whatley said again this week that grocery prices are down. People who actually buy groceries know that’s a lie. The erratic tariffs need to stop.

"GRANTS, NOT MCCLELLANS" is a banger of a line in an article filled with good ones

journalism when the govt wants to scan your retinas: “children, some as young as 25, are using encryption (classified as a munition by US export agencies) to evade common sense safety monitoring” journalism when the govt is raping children: “the minor woman interacted with the esteemed senator”

NRCC favored pollster Cygnal showing the generic ballot as D+6 50/44, and for the first time in two years, voters whose top priority is inflation and the economy now prefer a generic Democrat for Congress (D+13) over a Republican. www.cygn.al/poll-voters-...

oh okay yeah Schumer is cooked. when, not if we're already at the "desperately find alternatives" stage of grief

shocker

has sageposting gone too far?

*this is batshit insane*

Dehumanising a trans legislator because she's "not your culture" is fucking insane.

Apparently the dignity of humanity is infinite, but limited in that it does not extend to Sarah McBride.

"isn't even culturally at all like us" is another way to say "we hate her because she dresses, acts, and presents herself as a professional woman her age" I think we really need to unpack how much this segment of the trans community absolutely HATES trans women who socially transition.

i think if you unironically post something like this about one of your trans brothers or sisters, you should crawl under a rock and stay there until life leaves you.

Perhaps people are holding Sarah McBride to an unusual standard that they don't apply to other politicians, for some reason.

how is the only governor commemorating this fucking Phil Murphy

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

oh. look at that.

coalitional politics continues this is also why Mamdani isn't going to help anyone primary Jeffries or Hochul

(there is no viable third candidate with both in the race, it is pointless wishcasting to say 'well support someone else')

If you are comparing being prevented from posting for a few days to being "disappeared" into a facility with no access to the outside world, you're only proving why you need to be prevented from posting.

that story is repulsive but you needn’t waste your brainpower envying that vanity fair reporter the things she got behaving abhorrently with a disgusting man. i wouldn’t have an affair with RFK jr to secure the journalistic bag and you wouldn’t either. look at him. he looks like he cums battery acid

I’m gonna miss our only true poster Senator

well, that's (another) dealbreaker for Josh Shapiro in 2028 www.eenews.net/articles/rgg...

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

Harry Enten continuing to be the most annoying person on the planet.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

This is the main problem with vulgar Marxist materialism tbh. You get too caught up in looking behind the curtain for the man in the top hat when it comes to like racism or nationalism. Sometimes things just are what they are.

People are far more likely to genuinely believe bad things than they are to be grifting.

there is absolutely some misogyny at work in the way some of you people talk about kamala harris.

revisiting this I believe she has commented on the shutdown, but not *since* the cave. I get the impression people don't pay attention to her on here and only choose to see the things she posts, but she's much more conversational if you watch the book tour stops!

a concept i talk about a lot with the guy i'm seeing is "fast thinking", which is like low-grade, shallow, and easily disposable pop intellectualism. key hallmarks include focusing on discourse over substance, not being able to separate similar form from different content, and "annoying = evil"

i think derivative of this is point is the question "what does responsible punditry look like?"

.....really?

pathetic, weak excuses. do they have the votes for that? do they really, angus?

i... okay then james