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October 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Not a fan of Swisher, who is very smug and glib. But virtually every incumbent party worldwide lost during this period. So the machinations of people like her were very unlikely to be pivotal. Campaign operatives like to think everything is about their activities and it really isn't.
October 5, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Not a fan of Swisher, who is very smug and glib. But virtually every incumbent party worldwide lost during this period. So the machinations of people like her were very unlikely to be pivotal. Campaign operatives like to think everything is about their activities and it really isn't.
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How campaigns spend hundreds of millions of dollars matters.
October 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
How campaigns spend hundreds of millions of dollars matters.
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one thing that might be attractive if you wanted to avoid triaging Texas is to figure out how to make some of the Texas money work nationally, like by spending it on national football broadcasts ads?
trying that thought on for size
trying that thought on for size
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
They can't let go of Texas. It's completely demoralizing.
October 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
one thing that might be attractive if you wanted to avoid triaging Texas is to figure out how to make some of the Texas money work nationally, like by spending it on national football broadcasts ads?
trying that thought on for size
trying that thought on for size
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Not at all efficient. Debatable during a presidential election, but worse when a third of the states don’t even have senate elections.
Besides, nationalizing the election is the last thing Repubs should be doing.
Besides, nationalizing the election is the last thing Repubs should be doing.
October 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Not at all efficient. Debatable during a presidential election, but worse when a third of the states don’t even have senate elections.
Besides, nationalizing the election is the last thing Repubs should be doing.
Besides, nationalizing the election is the last thing Repubs should be doing.
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The Supreme Court’s new term and my list of dread: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
The Week Ahead
October 4, 2026
joycevance.substack.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM
The Supreme Court’s new term and my list of dread: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The backpedaling-to-come will be something to see….
Sen. Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.
October 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM
The backpedaling-to-come will be something to see….
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The reckoning is here…
October 5, 2026 at 12:14 AM
The reckoning is here…
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I love James Talarico’s simple statement in response to groveling Angela Paxton’s deplorable lowlife political ad. She’s a insult to smart, honest and hardworking American women. She’s earned her place in hell.
#Pinks #Voices4Victory
#Pinks #Voices4Victory
October 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I love James Talarico’s simple statement in response to groveling Angela Paxton’s deplorable lowlife political ad. She’s a insult to smart, honest and hardworking American women. She’s earned her place in hell.
#Pinks #Voices4Victory
#Pinks #Voices4Victory
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Today is my birthday. My birthday wish is for everyone to check their registration and vote in the midterms. Also donate to your local animal shelter. 🩷 Thank you.
October 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Today is my birthday. My birthday wish is for everyone to check their registration and vote in the midterms. Also donate to your local animal shelter. 🩷 Thank you.
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If it’s so easy to “just take it” Donnie, why haven’t you done it⁉️
October 5, 2026 at 3:32 AM
If it’s so easy to “just take it” Donnie, why haven’t you done it⁉️
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We will never again be a democracy if we don't get the big money out of American politics. There should not be any higher priority. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...
One Priority Above All Others
We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump
davidrothkopf.substack.com
October 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM
We will never again be a democracy if we don't get the big money out of American politics. There should not be any higher priority. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...
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Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests.
Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade.
Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade.
Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
www.cbsnews.com
October 5, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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I think Bouie overestimates the effects of the manosphere on elections & underestimates how many people are genuinely unhappy with the direction & pace of demographic/social change.
October 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I think Bouie overestimates the effects of the manosphere on elections & underestimates how many people are genuinely unhappy with the direction & pace of demographic/social change.
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Do you know what they are **doing** to the mothers and fathers and friends and neighbors and children on these planes, before they take a sauna????
October 5, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Do you know what they are **doing** to the mothers and fathers and friends and neighbors and children on these planes, before they take a sauna????
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I'm sorry a MANTA RAY SKIN TABLE
Like all of the rest of this is superfluous AF, yes. But as someone who works with leather and knows what a single, SMALL ass stingray skin costs, PLUS just got to do a night snorkel with real, majestic manta rays, what the ACTUAL fuck
Like all of the rest of this is superfluous AF, yes. But as someone who works with leather and knows what a single, SMALL ass stingray skin costs, PLUS just got to do a night snorkel with real, majestic manta rays, what the ACTUAL fuck
October 5, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I'm sorry a MANTA RAY SKIN TABLE
Like all of the rest of this is superfluous AF, yes. But as someone who works with leather and knows what a single, SMALL ass stingray skin costs, PLUS just got to do a night snorkel with real, majestic manta rays, what the ACTUAL fuck
Like all of the rest of this is superfluous AF, yes. But as someone who works with leather and knows what a single, SMALL ass stingray skin costs, PLUS just got to do a night snorkel with real, majestic manta rays, what the ACTUAL fuck
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I've been saying this for years. And many of their children have already passed on. We are mostly now a couple or more generations removed from the people who were there for the defeat of fascism.
I often think about how the rise of the neo-fascist right corresponds to the declining numbers of WW2 vets around to slug them right in the face.
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
October 5, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I've been saying this for years. And many of their children have already passed on. We are mostly now a couple or more generations removed from the people who were there for the defeat of fascism.
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Well, the WW2 generation had its internal contradictions, as did America. Few of them would have grasped that Nazi law borrowed from Jim Crow and would have been angered by the argument. But they would have been quick to recognize the language and symbolism of current neo-fascism.
October 5, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Well, the WW2 generation had its internal contradictions, as did America. Few of them would have grasped that Nazi law borrowed from Jim Crow and would have been angered by the argument. But they would have been quick to recognize the language and symbolism of current neo-fascism.
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Texas was pretty cool when it was the center of gravity for the Democrats, too
October 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Texas was pretty cool when it was the center of gravity for the Democrats, too
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Remember, Harris campaign was good. The biggest problem by far was the SuperPAC, that never went hard negative against Trump, waited too long to get on the air, & was generally an eccentric experiment by David Shor & his ilk.
And one of the top people had no experience in campaigns: Kara Swisher
And one of the top people had no experience in campaigns: Kara Swisher
Woman who as late as 2022 thought Musk was great has thoughts.
Here are 2 big disqualifiers among journalists:
1. Thought after 2017 Trump might become a responsible & in any way “normal” president.
2. Didn’t see a decade ago that Elon Musk was a weirdo & possibly evil.
Here are 2 big disqualifiers among journalists:
1. Thought after 2017 Trump might become a responsible & in any way “normal” president.
2. Didn’t see a decade ago that Elon Musk was a weirdo & possibly evil.
October 5, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Remember, Harris campaign was good. The biggest problem by far was the SuperPAC, that never went hard negative against Trump, waited too long to get on the air, & was generally an eccentric experiment by David Shor & his ilk.
And one of the top people had no experience in campaigns: Kara Swisher
And one of the top people had no experience in campaigns: Kara Swisher
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Not sure if the point of Angela Paxton’s video was to cause people to search Angela Paxton’s name only to find out that she helped facilitate Ken Paxton’s corruption for many years before ultimately filing to divorce him on “biblical grounds”, but that’s what happened.
October 5, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Not sure if the point of Angela Paxton’s video was to cause people to search Angela Paxton’s name only to find out that she helped facilitate Ken Paxton’s corruption for many years before ultimately filing to divorce him on “biblical grounds”, but that’s what happened.
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We murdered four more people in a boat today
October 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
We murdered four more people in a boat today
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If Ballot Measure 2 passes it will repeal:
1) open primaries - gone
2) ranked choice voting - gone
3) requirement to report campaign contributions over $2,000 - gone
Vote NO on Ballot Measure 2 #akelect
1) open primaries - gone
2) ranked choice voting - gone
3) requirement to report campaign contributions over $2,000 - gone
Vote NO on Ballot Measure 2 #akelect
1️⃣ Alaska
One of most important states this fall, no doubt:
—Senate seat could flip, determine majority.
—Dems hope to flip governorship, too.
—An Indy is making a bid for US House.
—Measure to repeal ranked-choice voting (again).
—Bipartisan coalition seeks to keep legislature.
One of most important states this fall, no doubt:
—Senate seat could flip, determine majority.
—Dems hope to flip governorship, too.
—An Indy is making a bid for US House.
—Measure to repeal ranked-choice voting (again).
—Bipartisan coalition seeks to keep legislature.
October 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM
If Ballot Measure 2 passes it will repeal:
1) open primaries - gone
2) ranked choice voting - gone
3) requirement to report campaign contributions over $2,000 - gone
Vote NO on Ballot Measure 2 #akelect
1) open primaries - gone
2) ranked choice voting - gone
3) requirement to report campaign contributions over $2,000 - gone
Vote NO on Ballot Measure 2 #akelect
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October 4, 2026
October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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October 5, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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