David Faris

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime

Exactly yes

TX is obviously a more expensive place to play ball, but if Ds could sink their money into registration and turnout rather than PAC-driven TV ads, I don't think there's any particular reason to think that the state in inherently less winnable, and some pretty good ones to conclude the opposite. 5/

TX is the 2nd youngest state, with the 3rd-highest proportion of Latinos. In 2024 Trump won TX by a margin (13.7) virtually identical to AK (13.1) and IA (13.2) and just 2 points more than OH (11.2). TX was closer than any of the other three in 2020, which might be a better baseline. 4/

Iowans are older than the median American and tied with AK with a population that is just 6.8% Latino. A big shift for young voters could be significant in Alaska, but otherwise these three states are not the places where you would expect to see the biggest payout from the shifts we are seeing. 3/

According to polls, the two sharpest shifts against Trump nationally have been Latino voters and under-30s. Well, Alaska has the third-lowest median age in the country but has just the 34th highest percentage of Latino residents. Ohio is both relatively old and has the 42nd highest Latino pop. 2/

Feels like the conventional wisdom for Dems is that esp if Cornyn wins the primary, TX is a much less likely get than AK, OH or even IA. Dems will likely need two of those four states, along with NC and ME (and to hold all of their vulnerable seats) to win the Senate.

Not sure the CW is right. 1/

Everything is going exactly as planned with this extremely well-thought-out war.

Truly awe-inspiring for someone to spend virtually their entire career as a columnist at the same newspaper, writing over and over about the same issues, and to have learned literally not one goddamned thing whatsoever.

Fun to think that if there’s a major, blowback-driven terrorist attack on the U.S. any time in the coming years the exact same people responsible for all of this wanton, taxpayer funded killing will be like “Oh Em Gee why do they hate us???”

Love to live in history's most powerful country, where teachers are constantly forced to beg parents to buy them basic school supplies.

Literally “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Worth noting that while "what's the endgame?" critiques are correct, that Trump and his friends would give zero fucks if Iran descends into violent, endless civil war. It should go without saying that he doesn't care about Iranian lives. He would brag about toppling the Islamic Republic.

Forget the blatant illegality and the damage done to future US negotiators for one second. The basic logic of what Trump is asking of Iranians -- shelter in place while we bomb the shit out of you and then come out and overthrow the government when we're done -- just makes zero sense.

Every day it becomes clearer that the most important task of the next freely-elected, democratic government in the United States will be to figure out how to put real, permanent and enforceable constraints on the presidency.

"Elderly, incoherent pedophile clad in a cheap baseball hat announces unauthorized war" really captures this moment in history.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Just a thought

Perhaps ordering his caucus to mutely attend this atrocity was not the right call for Jeffries

If I need to be on X to be relevant, I choose irrelevance. I’d rather be hanging out with my kids anyway.

I love how like every three months everyone on here is required to justify why they bailed on Twitter. Don’t overthink it! Twitter sucks, the scroll is an unusable Nazi/Incel/Grifter cesspool and I feel like I need a shower every time I make the mistake of opening the cursed app.

I’ll tell you this for free, if you love television and you aren’t watching Industry you’re missing the show of the decade, maybe the best ever.

I'm sure that the president, a famously prudent and rational man, will take this Supreme Court ruling in stride, accept the loss with dignity and pivot calmly to other policy priorities.

Trust me, consumers are downstream of the main beneficiaries here.

The Supreme Court again stands up courageously for the only things that have truly inalienable rights in America: companies and money.

It’s about following the science, right?

One of the good ones yes

Once again asking why you do this to yourself Dave

Joe Flacco.

Folks the SAVE Act is DOA in the Senate. Thune knows that virtually the entire GOP agenda, inasmuch as there is one, is radioactive. Voter ID is one of the only things they want to do that polls well and Rs would rather use it as a weapon than nuke the filibuster.