Also with the advent of Boompane I'm doing a King of the Hill GIF contest. Can anybody top Pocket Sand? boompane.ordoliberal.com

And there's an open lane for Democrats to align themselves with the rural economy if they want to take it, as @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social's new book showed. Republicans need to win rural America by like 40 points these days, cutting it down to 30 dooms them.

Republican voters only do this when they're very mad (also some of the worst results are from the part of the state in the Twin Cities media market in case you think people forgot about ICE terrorizing that state)

The shifts in Wisconsin over the past year have shown a huge erosion in GOP support in the more rural parts of the state. This coincides with Trump's trade war and Iran war really harming farm (and for that matter logging) communities

NEWSLETTER IS OUT! I did a deep dive into the Wisconsin Supreme Court election and Republicans may have a serious problem with rural America right now radio-free-america.beehiiv.com/p/is-rural-a...

…& holding places where Trump won by 25 down to 10-15 point loses would have not huge but significant effects on the results in states like PA, WI, GA, & NC. /4

A much more modest shift in large counties like Dane & the WOW counties around Milwaukee has a larger effect on the statewide results. But this shows how reliant Repubs have been on 30 point margins in places Obama won or lost by <10 points in 2012. Bringing rural counties back to earth… /3

Counties that shifted >17% were among Trump’s best; the closest were nearly 20 point wins. If only those counties shifted 17% & everywhere else remained the same Wisconsin would have gone from Trump +30K to Harris +10K. If the entire state shifted by 17 points it would have been Harris +550K /2

Quick back-of-the-envelope RE 14 counties that shifted >17% from last year’s SC election. 2024 those counties accounted for 7% of the statewide vote, Trump won them by 33 points & netted 80K votes. If they had been 17 points more Dem he would have netted 40K fewer votes Trump won WI by 30K votes /1

Georgia 14th. Losing 56-44 rather than 65-35 in a Congressional district that 378K votes in 2024 means losing 212K-166K rather than 243K-135K. A 62K gain just in that district

Alex Jones brought around 1/5 to 1/3 of the mob on January 6 and if Jones had (or ever does) decide to go scorched Earth on why he held up the mob while the Proud Boys consolidated, then led the mob to the Dark Side of the Moon, things could get interesting.

[Taps the sign]

Catastrophic illegal Iran War started by felon. #EpsteinFiles coverage. See? Two things at once. Not distracted.

This has been a rightwing fundie priority since long before anyone used the acronym MAGA.

Average length of the 16 sentences: 30 words.

If Mamdani was in Chicago or LA nobody would know anything that he’s doing.

The Big Ugly Bill’s first victims: 240,000 low-Income Americans have lost health coverage. @charlesgaba.com digs into what this massive loss of health coverage will mean for Americans: Subscribe to read on Lincoln Square’s Substack: open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

On the Kherson front, the past month and a half has seen a growing trend of long-range strikes on Russian targets beyond 50 km. Footage shows an accumulation of two UAZ Bukhanka vehicles and trailer with a BREM-1 recovery vehicle destroyed at a distance of 55 km from the frontline.

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Pokrovsk axis. The rapid response of "Omega-West" fighters in a "Novator" under the constant threat of drones. t.me/c/1859820180...

"Ukraine will continue to carry out strikes on Russian territory, despite calls from our partners. We have our own war… Their perspective is understandable, but we have our own truth and national interests." - Budanov.

"To President Putin, I say: we see you, we see your activity over our cables and pipelines, and you should know that any attempt to damage them will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences." - Healey said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has revealed that RF conducted a secret underwater operation in British waters. Over the course of a month, the UK and its allies tracked a Kremlin attack submarine and two spy submersibles in the North Sea before they retreated. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Occupied Oleshky, Kherson region. A Ukrainian serviceman uses a drone to film yet another city being destroyed by the Russians. www.instagram.com/reel/DW5X11D...

"Putin won't stop at Donbas; he'll target Dnipro and Kharkiv next. We must admit that some Americans think Donbas means nothing to us. They fail to see that Putin will lie and continue the occupation even after such steps." - Zelenskyy on Alastair Campbell's podcast. linktr.ee/restispolitics

A wonderful briefing from Russian intelligence.

This is more than the amount planned for the entire year (3.79 trillion) and exceeds the figure for the same period last year by 2.62 trillion.

Russia's budget deficit continues to grow and has further exceeded the annual plan. According to the Russian Ministry of Finance, the federal budget deficit for January-March 2026 reached 4.58 trillion rubles.

Monitoring channels report that Ukrainian "Neptunes" are heading for the swamps.

Zelensky responded to the Kremlin's statement about the "Easter truce".

Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine is preparing a new meeting with the U.S. and is finalizing security guarantees.

The April 8 edition of The Latino Newsletter is new opinion by Joseph Ramirez, a journalist and blogger from Torrance, California. A Latino Face for US Intervention The First Hispanic Secretary of State has become a Latin American nightmare

I know what it's like to navigate the complicated and broken health care system — I did it for my husband, Stan. In the Senate, I'll fight to pass universal health care, break up the conglomerates that dominate our systems, support investments in rural communities, and more.

60 hours until the election.

The political scientist Balint Magyar argues that the Orban regime doesn't have an ideology, and is an organised crime network. Paul Levandi argues that it's a revival of the 1930s fascist adjacent ideologies that governed Hungary during the Horthy era.

I really hope Magyar gets the two-thirds majority needed to get rid of the abominable constitution Orban wrote for Hungary.

The thing I am looking forward to the most is the unlocking of the E.U aid packages for Ukraine. For the last 4 years, twice a year, Orbán used his veto powers to block every single E.U aid package for Ukraine, every single fucking time. No more.

There was a poll a few years ago that showed 30% of Hungarians believe there is a "George Soros Party" even though there is no George Soros party.

btw, the guy who wrote the awful Hungarian constitution for Orbán, is the same guy who got caught at a 20 men gay orgy in Brussels.

btw, never order a taxi in Budapest, especially if you're a foreigner. They are run by criminal gangs who drive you into a dark alley near your intended destination and then charge you 500 euros, and if you don't pay they beat you up. A few years ago a British tourist was beaten to death that way.

Issuing correction on previous post of mine, this is correct but bridge's tradcath bent was afaik an adult choice Likely from when he was roommates with ross douthat

He doesn’t know. He has no idea how the federal government works. He doesn’t listen to his sycophants except when they’re praising him. He doesn’t read. All he knows is what he sees on Fox News.

Or what Mr. Trump you kind of already did all the bad threats.

Here's why it matters: BC there are a GREAT MANY questions abt Melania's visa. Paolo is her witness; w/o his word, she's an illegal immigrant who can and should be deported. www.nbcmiami.com/news/nationa...

Oh. Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child. Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Here we have quite a specimen in the wild: Whitus Davis Whitest. He doesn't care that his neighbors are under attack. He doesn't care about Black and Brown people. He doesn't care the ICE is murdering ppl in the street. But he sure showed us by not voting, right? Now he wants to complain. GFY, Dave.

The Iron Lady of Maine don’t scare www.npr.org/2025/03/02/n...

Truly ugly stuff going on with your boy here, Mainers!