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This gonna hit somebody team Monday night like TNT 🧨
Trill Withers@TylerIAm
You gotta be a fucking idiot to be a sports fan lmao
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Rick Masters
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@Flutter_Main @Ethereals68 Red Hamilton County while Strickland puts up Saddam numbers in Belmont County
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- Republicans are nominating a non-white candidate for governor
- Sherrod Brown wants to be a senator
- All this is happening in a year that is terrible for Republicans
Welcome to 2006
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@fizzbhau @TeddyChassin @ettingermentum sure and none of that would have worked if Bernie had already persuaded 50%+1 of the voters to vote for him. the fact that everyone else’s voters swung instantly to Biden after they dropped out isn’t absolving Bernie’s campaign, it’s condemning it
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@TeddyChassin @ettingermentum I think Bernie campaign made egregious mistakes and it's part of the reason they lost. But come on, we literally know Obama made the call for everyone but Warren to drop out and support Joe Biden, it's on the record. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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Variety@Variety
Adam McKay says "no group is worse" for America and its politics than "white liberals": “We are being hit with the high-grade marketing and no group is worse than white liberals. I mean, they are the worst. I’ve tried to talk to them about climate, they are so smug and captured. And it boils down to privilege. I mean, when you talk to white moneyed liberals, they’re getting a lot from this broken system.” variety.com/2026/film/news…
@daveweigel imo people saying Dems won’t do this underestimate the impact of some members in these D+80 VRA districts holding on to these seats until they’re wheeled out in a pine box and/or treating them as an inheritance to pass to their children upon vacancy. maximally unsympathetic
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Another way to look at it: Let's say a blue tsunami came out of nowhere and Democrats won a trifecta in South Carolina.
It would be in their interest to create *two* seats they could reliably win, one in Columbia and one in Charleston. Not one super-safe seat for Clyburn to win
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Both parties can nominate black candidates statewide or in majority-white districts. But the safe VRA district is having the last rites administered.
It's in GOP's interest to split them into safe GOP seats, and Dems' interest to split them into safe Dem seats.
The wrinkle: Some blue states passed their own race-conscious VRAs and will need to scrap them (or find a plaintiff who will) before 2028 ag.ny.gov/resources/orga…
NBC News@NBCNews
The Congressional Black Caucus reached a record 58 House members this Congress. Now, thanks to a Supreme Court redistricting ruling that’s expected to dramatically diminish Black representation on Capitol Hill, the CBC is fighting a five-alarm fire that could devastate its membership. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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@TheStalwart This is the fate of The Killers, a tremendous musical project that will one day only be remembered as the Mr Brightside guys
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They were playing that Mighty Mighty Bosstones song (the one) at the gym. The whole place was so pumped every time the chorus came on. Some songs will always just have it.
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@jbarro somehow the Dems looked at a bench with four statewide officials who were elected with boffo margins in 2022 and ended up with three below replacement level Senate candidates
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I'm not sure I can take three more months of reading about this extremely annoying primary
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
The Rogers El-Sayed gap is the headline but they’re al losing to Rogers? In a supposed friendly dem year…
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I would genuinely have far less heartburn about Abdul’s candidacy if he’d demonstrated an ability to 1) get elected to anything previously or 2) excite anyone who didn’t already agree with him.
This isn’t twitch. It’s real life.
hasanabi@hasanthehun
centrist libs still desperately trying to make the argument that a muslim doctor who’s dedicated his life to m4a is unelectable in michigan. they were professionally wrong when they complained abt w abdul campaigning w me. they’re still professionally wrong. have humility.
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@TylerDinucci @daveweigel Ticket splitting? In this political economy?!?
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No, it doesn’t. It shows her winning the +9 Trump district by 11 points.
That’s half her 2020 margin and would track a narrow defeat; the other district is +22 Harris. (No NRCC poll there, Rs don’t contest it.)
Better Maine@MaineLogic
New poll shows Susan Collins with a double-digit lead over neo-Nazi Graham Platner.
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@daveweigel @TylerDinucci Right, Newsom has every incentive to be a maximalist and go tit for tat with the GOP so there’s very little chance that striking down the current map doesn’t end with him pulling all the levers to go for 52-0 (which he might do anyway!)
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@TylerDinucci Right, you actually want Newsom to keep all those safe black and Latino seats instead of stretching Boyle Heights into Kern County.
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Like I was saying — here’s Schmitt (whose state split Kansas City to delete a Dem seat) urging DOJ to blow up the California map
Eric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt
Gavin—good luck spinning this one. California’s mapmaker said the quiet part out loud: race was the “number one” priority. Callais makes clear you cannot hide racial gerrymanders behind the VRA. California is next.
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@ZaidJilani Democratic primaries in a state with a functionally non-existent Democratic Party 🤷🏻♂️
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@mattyglesias @aoxamaxoa yeah I know it’s trying to prove a counterfactual but iirc Shor said they polled Obama vs Trump as a gag back in 2016 and it had Obama beating Trump in a landslide
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Wow I can’t believe that the Texans didn’t fall over themselves to vote her into the Senate haha just kidding.
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett: “The level of disrespect that is continuously lobbed against us as black women. I am one of the 535 most powerful people in this country. And for some reason, you think we on the same level, but you gonna disrespect me?"
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@keithchaput @mattyglesias @shannonrwatts have you considered that he is popular because he’s an extremely competent executive who reflects the preferences of the median voter in his state
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@mattyglesias @shannonrwatts It’s not that deep. He’s boring and brings zero new ideas, it’s hard to get enthusiastic about a candidate and playbook that’s been running for decades. Hope he wins though.
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@MattZeitlin Rubio over Crist in 2010 if we want to use the sitting governor analogy
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platner winning feels like cruz beating dewhurst or paul beating grayson, an open primary with a clear establishment pick losing to a grassroots challenger. we haven't yet seen the ultimate tea party move of a random inoffensive incumbent losing a primary like bennett in utah
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multiple fake monitors is actually an alpha move
Dr. Grizzo (PhD, MD, BA, MBA, 7'4 240 IQ)@mrgrozz
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@Robillard @daveweigel at the same time, you always got the sense that she never *really* wanted to run and was almost doing this as a favor to Schumer and the DSCC (who in turn may have underestimated Platner)
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One of the most stunning flops in recent political history — suspending a Senate campaign because you ran out of cash is something that happens to gadfly state legislators, not sitting governors running with the endorsement of party leaders.
Janet Mills@JanetMillsforME
My statement suspending my candidacy for the U.S. Senate:
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@RowlandRIVALS “Program X recruits itself” is one of the biggest lies that fans tell themselves despite it being constantly disproven
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Of course the moral here is Kentucky's brand has only ever helped inasmuch as it allowed Kentucky to hire the best coaches. You are as good as your coach, not as good as your brand.
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For 15 years you had almost absolute confidence that Kentucky could beat any program, anywhere, for any recruit. Just two years later it's "believe it when I see it."
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