Sam Kay
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Sam Kay
@NYCSamKay
External Affairs & Public Opinion @ManhattanInst | Previously @OnMessageInc surveying elections


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The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.



Multiple Dem primary polls now show Planter beating Collins outside the MOE, while Mills is tied with or losing to Collins. Gallego already endorsed Planter, clearly thinking about 2028. Wouldn’t be surprised if more Dems follow despite Schumer’s wishes.


BREAKING: Five Guys is now offering its first-ever combo meal for $13.99 in a bid to take on McDonald's and Wendy's.




We understand the concerns about the predicted storms not reaching their potential today. That said, we still have one more evening round to come, which may bring a burst of wind. Tomorrow, we'll post a discussion on what limited some of the storm activity today.

AUSTIN REAVES PERFECT MISS TO SEND NUGGETS-LAKERS TO OT!! Get to ABC now! 🍿



The level of sheer hate and vitriol that Rashida Tlaib has whipped up in her own community and channeled toward mine cannot be understated. Congresswoman—please spare us your crocodile tears, especially today. Growing up in Metro Detroit, any time tensions flared up in the Middle East, you'd reliably see anti-Israel Muslims travel from Dearborn to protest vigorously outside the Jewish Community Center, Jewish schools, and synagogues throughout West Bloomfield. I once asked one of my teachers why no Jewish groups from our community ever deigned to go organize pro-Israel demonstrations outside a Muslim community center or mosque in Dearborn. The teacher was offended by my question, treated the idea of such a response as both absurd and dangerous, then simply insisted that it was not something "we" would ever do. That asymmetry always stuck with me. It irked me. Many of the more progressive Jews in my community—many of whom attended Temple Israel—weren't as bothered by it. My family usually attended a different synagogue growing up, but I spent plenty of time at Temple Israel. In seventh grade, there were hardly any weekends when I wasn’t there for a friend’s bar or bat mitzvah. I vividly remember one Shabbat evening service there. Before taking a group of Detroit Jewish teens to Israel—mostly public school students with very limited Jewish education or knowledge about Israel's history or that of its antagonists throughout the Middle East—a rabbi told the congregation they planned to “teach these kids both sides of the story.” That comment bothered me then—and frankly, it still does. Why is it the responsibility of Jewish community leaders to travel halfway across the world to explain the grievances of people who openly celebrate violence against Jews? That instinct—to endlessly empathize with those who hate you—runs deep in parts of progressive American Jewry. Unfortunately, figures like Rashida Tlaib have spent years exploiting that impulse while simultaneously fueling the very hostility that makes Jewish communities less safe. So forgive me if I find today’s performative sympathy from the Congresswoman—a longtime arsonist of the antisemitic fire now raging in America—a little hard to take seriously.





New York Times this morning (link below)




