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@mattklewis @RobGeorge I'm old enough to remember when the President had to say the victim's name at the SOTU or else MTG and Boebert would howl without ceasing

I'm old enough to remember Willie Horton

@bdquinn @AntiToxicPeople Are the Republican-leaning suburbans really ok with a guy who will absolutely sign a national abortion ban?

I'll say this much, if Republicans nominate Rubio, Democrats have to think long and hard about who they run. A lot of the anti-Trump previously Republican-leaning suburban vote could snap right back to Rubio under the wrong circumstances.

I will never get used to this kind of obscenity being used in an official statement by the White House Communication Director. The White House no longer aspires to lead from a higher moral vantage point, it seeks to fight in the mud with the pigs.

@IAPolls2022 @MollyJongFast Unfortunately, our rigged, gerrymandered system requires Dems to win by a landslide just to have a shot

RCP Generic Ballot: This Day In History (May 24) 🟦 2026: Democrats +7.4 (new cycle high) 🟦 2018: Democrats +4.0 🟦 2014: Democrats +0.6 🟦 2010: Democrats +0.6 🟥 2022: Republicans +2.2

@CliffordAsness $4 gas doesn’t hurt you, it hurts 99% of everyone else. Time to end war and move on.

@TheAgentRocket @CharlesFLehman @DanielDiMartino The underemployment rate for college grads isn't unusually high either, but it's trending up for recent grads. If AI is killing jobs, it hasn't had much impact yet for highly educated people if we are just looking at the data newyorkfed.org/research/colle…

@CharlesFLehman @DanielDiMartino How many of them are gig emps and driving Uber or under employed? It’s not like 5% of that class was booing him.

The unemployment rate of college grads ages 20-24 is currently 5.3 percent.

That time NBC interviewed Murray Rothbard #nostalgic

@Thiss_Youu @GuntherEagleman Better question: why do these countries feel like they need nukes?

Byron Donalds just shut down CNN live. High gas prices aren't because of Trump. They're because Iran is trying to close the Strait of Hormuz and inflict pain on the world while chasing nukes. CNN still tried to blame Trump. These people are shameless.

@burgessev @gtconway3d @ShelbyTalcott Until they leave the Republican party or retire from politics altogether, nothing will change

How Trump lost Senate Republicans, w @ShelbyTalcott - His juice is LOW after Cassidy lost and Trump endorsed against Cornyn, per senators and aides - Senate Rs hated the Paxton endorsement and saw the attack on parliamentarian as low blow - Politically, the anti-weaponization fund is "unexplainable. And that's the problem," said Sen. Cramer. McConnell using Dems' words: "slush fund" - Timing for $1.8 B fund was terrible coming before the reconciliation vote ->"This is a delay of the administration’s making," GOP aide says - GOP spent two weeks wrangling over ballroom security before deciding to drop it; the WH indicated to Rs it could threaten to veto a reconciliation that's not to Trump's liking - Grassley told Blanche admin needs to coordinate more with Congress. Meeting w Blanche an "absolutely shitshow," per person briefed - WH official: “No one should be doubting how he’s able to bend everything to his will" - Sen. Lankford on jilted GOP senators: "None of them are punitive enough that they’re not going to do something to poke him in the eye. But they also represent their state.”

@maxtmcc How do we know that Trump didn't endorse him so that Dems will waste a lot of money in Texas that would be better spent in Michigan, etc?

I feel like a lot of people forget that Ken Paxton really did almost lose in 2018? It’s not hard to see how a harsher political environment and much sharper scrutiny could tilt the scales away from him

@reesejgorman Trump still has Fetterman to give him whatever vote he wants

New: Why Trump endorsed Ken Paxton. After election victories in Louisiana and Indiana, Trump was feeling emboldened and decided he wasn’t going to tolerate people who wouldn’t do what he wants. Trump long had been "pissed off" that the Senate Republicans wouldn't nuke the filibuster or fire the parliamentarian. And he expressed this to Leader John Thune in a call on Monday evening where he indicated he was leaning towards endorsing Paxton, but stopped short of outright saying it. Following the endorsement, people aren't happy. “Now he doesn’t have a governing majority,” a senior Republican aide said. “You pushed Tillis out, Lisa and Susan are independent, Cassidy has no fucking reason to do anything and now Cornyn has no reason to prostrate himself. Not to mention the other people who are just pissed off." “If you think you’re going to govern between now and the midterms, that ain’t fucking happening. It’s very, very short-sighted." W/ @DaniellaMicaela @alweaver22 @kadiagoba notus.org/campaigns/trum…

@Acyn 30 years ago, like when the popular songs were "Lick It" by 20 Fingers, "Boom Boom Boom" by The Outhere Brothers, and "Freak Like Me" by Adina Howard

Franklin Graham: There is a downward moral decline. Things that never would have been talked about publicly just 30 years ago, sinful behavior that should make us blush is now celebrated and flaunted on Main Street America.

@suzflep @jaketapper Cassidy lost because he voted for impeachment 5 years ago and decided to run again anyway

@jaketapper Stop propping Trump up. Cassidy fell because he betrayed his Hippocratic Oath and betrayed his country. Massie speaks truth. You personally have done enough damage in the destruction of democracy yet you persist. Shame on you.

5 of the 7 GOP Indiana legislators defeated for defying him on redistricting, Sen. Cassidy felled in the LA GOP primary yesterday, Rep Massie fighting for his life in Kentucky, Trump is now recruiting someone to challenge Rep Boebert.

@BillKristol It took you long enough. It should have been obvious that the G.O.P. could not be saved x.com/i/status/10910…

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

Let's not forget who she is

@Acyn Ironic Louisiana is 1/3 African American. For the #callais decision, SCOTUS saw that 1/3 of the Congressmen were black and said it was illegal.

Watters on VRA: Blacks, for 150 years, have only represented 10% to 15% of the American population, If they want to have more seats, they've got to get in between the sheets

The U.S. has gone from a system where the people chose who would be in the House, and state legislatures chose who would be in the Senate to a system where state legislatures choose who will be in the House (through gerrymandering), and the people choose who will be in the Senate

@TGrogan268173 The first edition of Miracles was so bad

C.S. Lewis was a shit philosopher.