@Jmscher1 @Nomads4Pritzker Thxs for reading. And there is an Ossoff section. If anything I think we might have undersold him a bit. Pritzker is our best bet, but Ossoff could definitely pull this off, and he’s got assets as well.
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Editorial Board @dissentmag. Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.
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@yeselson @Nomads4Pritzker I did! And agreed with it. Must have missed the ossoff section. Thanks
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Yeah, by his lights, Matt gets this. Ossoff’s pol persona is “painfully earnest young man” which “works” in a “more in sorry than anger” break with the status quo. Still think, per article w/ @Nomads4Pritzker that a Jewish candidate is best to do this:
x.com/nomads4pritzke…
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Sometimes you need to cork off a take that you think your subscribers won’t like slowboring.com/p/the-obama-of…
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@Jmscher1 @Nomads4Pritzker Yes! That’s our point exactly. Read our article.
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@yeselson Funnily enough @bradlander is also a Midwestern Brad Lander (by birth!, a NYer by long time persuasion!!)
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Yeah. Biss is Midwest Brad Lander. If that is AIPAC’s cordon sanitaire against the anti-Israel left, it’s in deep trouble. And is another marker of where the party is on the issue.
Benjy Sarlin@BenjySarlin
Pro-Israel movement deciding to go all-in to stop this guy is real 2010s thinking. They're going to need to carve out space for liberal pro-Israel/anti-war voices to have any hope of containing further left. At this rate, they'll wish they had more Dan Biss types soon.
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AP: Gov. JB Pritzker criticizes AIPAC after pro-Israel group spent heavily in Illinois primary
“It became an organization that was supporting Donald Trump and people who follow Donald Trump,” Pritzker said. “AIPAC really is not an organization that I think today I would want any part of.”
apnews.com/article/illino…
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@NewLeftEViews Any US president can do that—but they have to wsnt to do it. Ike dud it in ‘56. The dog really does wag the tail. Israel is the client state. If Trump used some of his mob boss bullying on Netanyahu, rather than Canada or the Euros, the Israelis would stop in ten minutes.
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Evidently correct. And it depends on the Oval Office’s ability and willingness to guarantee that their satellite in the Levant backs down with them.
Gregory Brew@gbrew24
There's only one real road to de-escalation, and it runs through the Oval Office. Iran is not going to back down--their entire strategy is predicated on this. Israel will keep going until they are told to stop. This is Trump's call. When he wants it to end, it will end.
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@EmissaryOfNight My guess? No. That’s just blaming himself too.
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@nikhil_palsingh But does he have to yet? At $150, I guess maybe he does (defer to experts)? But Brent crude was this high three years. It was much higher in 2011 and obviously 2008.
He’s at 40%, same as before. His base will probably stay with him. He might be able to dither for awhile.
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Isn’t the market still pricing TACO, making it less likely though?
Rory Johnston@Rory_Johnston
I still think Trump will TACO—because he *has* to TACO. Oil loss it too big, too politically untenable. While the damage is already extensive and recovery will already be a months-long ordeal, it can get so, so much worse and this is fundamentally a crisis of lost time. People will push back and say it isn't up to Trump anymore. But while there are two other major parties in this war, Trump remains the 1) most important, and 2) most movable by external pressures (like, say, oil prices), so it's gotta be him.
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It wasn't a caricature, you morons. That was actually what he's like.
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
From @SohrabAhmari: “Trump…has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, childish, a chaos agent…The scale of [his] failures...return[s us] to the character problem that first gave rise to the Never Trump movement” unherd.com/2026/03/trump-… via @UnHerd
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*NETANYAHU: WAR WILL END LOT FASTER THAN PEOPLE THINK
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"In 2002, 3x as many Democrats said they sympathized with Israel as the Palestinians; that has now more than flipped, with nearly 4x as many Democrats sympathizing with the Palestinians. Among younger Democrats, the gap is nearly 7-1." More here. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Lisa Kashinsky@lisakashinsky
Gallego becomes the latest potential 2028er to reject AIPAC money, via @DashaBurns
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Richard Yeselson retweetledi
New KFF poll on expired ACA subsidies
(among 2025 marketplace enrollees)
—80% report higher health care costs
—51% say "a lot" higher
—28% switched plans, 9% went uninsured
—78% say Congress was wrong to let funds expire
—62% blame Trump or Republicans
—14% blame Democrats
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Classic Netanyahu: In Hebrew, he said the war will continue as long as it takes
In English, he said that it will end faster than most think
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@JoshZ2012 @LarrySabato @MichaelMcGough3 Possible yeah. Depends upon how seriously he views his own political project and career—or whether he is just counting the days to get out of DC.
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@yeselson @LarrySabato @MichaelMcGough3 Not hard to imagine Fetterman doing what Lieberman did and running an Indie campaign as an anti-left "centrist." He seems genuinely disgusted with the idea Democrats won't give Trump a blank check.
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Will Democrats renominate Fetterman? Will Fetterman change parties? Will Fetterman even run for re-election in ‘28? Just asking.
Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews
ALERT: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) votes YES on Markwayne Mullin nomination to be Homeland Security Secretary Fetterman helps Mullin salvage an 8-7 vote of support from the Senate Homeland Security Cmte
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@gabrielwinant @comradejumpshot the whip, even if the other coalitional elites have plausible reasons to believe they will vastly benefit too. The “nationalist project” can be seen an enabling fiction—but it is necessary one to maintain domestic political legitimation.
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@gabrielwinant @comradejumpshot I think, yes, the ruling elites believe they are expressing a coherent US national interest—even if they are wrong in thinking that—that is roughly consonant with their transnational coalition partners’ own respective apprehensions of their own national project. But the US has
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@gabrielwinant @comradejumpshot each other and with different, yet mostly similar articulations of ruling elites in Israel. And through this—Israel is, without a doubt, a US client state. The dog always wags the tail; even if the tail sometimes seems to have a life of its own, it doesn’t.
Basically this?
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@gabrielwinant @comradejumpshot and the significantly upper hand via oil and, later, lng, market control and distribution. Project has many ups and downs, and looks *somewhat* different from the vantage point of partisan elites in the D and R parties—but ultimately those elites share congruent interests with
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