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Pretty good take haver. Democracy enjoyer. Hater of authoritarianism & populism. Globalist. Reader of history.
Harris & Mamdani appreciation account. Will tolerate shade @ Schumer.
She/her.
Harris & Mamdani appreciation account. Will tolerate shade @ Schumer.
She/her.
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52 percent of U.S. adults say Trump has made the economy worse, vs 28% who say we are better off because of him www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-...
52 percent of U.S. adults say Trump has made the economy worse
Three major polls this week show Americans remain deeply pessimistic about affordability, opportunity, and their economic future. Your weekly political data roundup for February 8, 2026.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
52 percent of U.S. adults say Trump has made the economy worse, vs 28% who say we are better off because of him www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-...
The thing is - these results make me pretty furious.
All these people knew better in 2024. But they voted for Trump anyway. Places like Loudoun county, Arizona, all the annoying suburbs which went redder than normal.
They fucking knew. I’m glad they’ve woken up but what a hole to crawl out of…
All these people knew better in 2024. But they voted for Trump anyway. Places like Loudoun county, Arizona, all the annoying suburbs which went redder than normal.
They fucking knew. I’m glad they’ve woken up but what a hole to crawl out of…
You know, just winning Trump +10+ districts in the South by 20-30 points.
Haha what the fuck
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
The thing is - these results make me pretty furious.
All these people knew better in 2024. But they voted for Trump anyway. Places like Loudoun county, Arizona, all the annoying suburbs which went redder than normal.
They fucking knew. I’m glad they’ve woken up but what a hole to crawl out of…
All these people knew better in 2024. But they voted for Trump anyway. Places like Loudoun county, Arizona, all the annoying suburbs which went redder than normal.
They fucking knew. I’m glad they’ve woken up but what a hole to crawl out of…
Democrats are sleeping giants. Refusing to push the gas. Held back by ideals of decency and fairness and blah blah blah.
It’s like Truman and FDR. Sure we want to be nice. But if you push us beyond our breaking point, we punch back, hard.
It’s like Truman and FDR. Sure we want to be nice. But if you push us beyond our breaking point, we punch back, hard.
The GOP is entering the “finding out” phase of gerrymandering. By the same metric, Dems got almost 40% of the vote in Utah and currently hold zero congressional seats due to gerrymandering
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Democrats are sleeping giants. Refusing to push the gas. Held back by ideals of decency and fairness and blah blah blah.
It’s like Truman and FDR. Sure we want to be nice. But if you push us beyond our breaking point, we punch back, hard.
It’s like Truman and FDR. Sure we want to be nice. But if you push us beyond our breaking point, we punch back, hard.
A lot of the Republican voter suppression efforts are really really misreading the moment.
They are stuck in 2020. Pandemics over. Dems have taken over high income high propensity voters.
By all means. Make voting harder for the disengaged. Dems will win even bigger.
They are stuck in 2020. Pandemics over. Dems have taken over high income high propensity voters.
By all means. Make voting harder for the disengaged. Dems will win even bigger.
We’re looking at another very big Dem overperformance tonight—in a Trump+13 district. Dem Chasity Martinez is up 61-39 with more than half the vote in. Notably, like in TX last weekend, the e-day vote has been even *better* for her than the early vote. voterportal.sos.la.gov/graphical
February 8, 2026 at 2:55 AM
A lot of the Republican voter suppression efforts are really really misreading the moment.
They are stuck in 2020. Pandemics over. Dems have taken over high income high propensity voters.
By all means. Make voting harder for the disengaged. Dems will win even bigger.
They are stuck in 2020. Pandemics over. Dems have taken over high income high propensity voters.
By all means. Make voting harder for the disengaged. Dems will win even bigger.
I really really told myself not to get my hopes up. The Deep South special elections have been meh for Dems this year especially. But just wow.
Yea, I get why so many R’s are choosing to retire.
Yea, I get why so many R’s are choosing to retire.
With nearly half of the vote reporting in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:
Chasity Martinez (D)- 61%
Brad Daigle (R)- 39%
Martinez is currently outperforming Harris's 2024 margins by around 30 points throughout the district.
Chasity Martinez (D)- 61%
Brad Daigle (R)- 39%
Martinez is currently outperforming Harris's 2024 margins by around 30 points throughout the district.
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
I really really told myself not to get my hopes up. The Deep South special elections have been meh for Dems this year especially. But just wow.
Yea, I get why so many R’s are choosing to retire.
Yea, I get why so many R’s are choosing to retire.
🔥 🔥 🔥
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
February 8, 2026 at 1:40 AM
🔥 🔥 🔥
He’s so good. Also hot. He’s very good and hot.
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
He’s so good. Also hot. He’s very good and hot.
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Jesus fucking Christ, could we please just have more people like this. And fewer like Trump. And Kristi Noem. And Jonathan Ross. And Jesus Ochoa. Please.
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 7, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Jesus fucking Christ, could we please just have more people like this. And fewer like Trump. And Kristi Noem. And Jonathan Ross. And Jesus Ochoa. Please.
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trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars
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Trump built his entire political career on racist birtherism.
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Trump built his entire political career on racist birtherism.
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Rep. Mark Amodei, the sole surviving Republican in Nevada's congressional delegation, is retiring after ~15 years in the House.
February 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Rep. Mark Amodei, the sole surviving Republican in Nevada's congressional delegation, is retiring after ~15 years in the House.
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This is 1930s style racism. Donald Trump is a racist piece of shit and he was raised by a racist piece of shit father and mother.
Trump posted on Truth Social a video depicting the Obamas' heads atop ape bodies. Tim Scott says "it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House."
I'd be curious to hear from Sen. Scott what are the second- and third-most racist things he's seen out of this White House.
I'd be curious to hear from Sen. Scott what are the second- and third-most racist things he's seen out of this White House.
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
This is 1930s style racism. Donald Trump is a racist piece of shit and he was raised by a racist piece of shit father and mother.
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He worked so hard at the job, he’s earned a break
Marco Rubio steps down as acting head of the US National Archives reut.rs/4rEilDc
Marco Rubio steps down as acting head of the US National Archives
U.S. Secretary of State and national security adviser Marco Rubio is no longer the acting archivist of the United States, a spokesman of the National Archives and Records Administration said on Thursday.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:40 AM
He worked so hard at the job, he’s earned a break
Imagine if the 78 year old president had spent 4 years supporting and highlight his VP choice so when it came time for her to run she’d have an established record and visibly which would help her get over the 2-3 point hump in the swing states to win.
Imagine.
Imagine.
February 6, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Imagine if the 78 year old president had spent 4 years supporting and highlight his VP choice so when it came time for her to run she’d have an established record and visibly which would help her get over the 2-3 point hump in the swing states to win.
Imagine.
Imagine.
Maybe we give the Gen Z kids too much grief. They’re genuinely horrified by the Epstein stuff.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Maybe we give the Gen Z kids too much grief. They’re genuinely horrified by the Epstein stuff.
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You are seeing parts of the far right inch publicly up to where they always have been privately: that older middle aged men have a right to exploit teenage girls as the Natural Order of Things.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
February 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
You are seeing parts of the far right inch publicly up to where they always have been privately: that older middle aged men have a right to exploit teenage girls as the Natural Order of Things.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
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Me, looking at the Bitcoin price drop:
a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right
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February 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Me, looking at the Bitcoin price drop:
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The Romans had an appropriate postmortem punishment for evil men like this: Damnatio Memoriae. All your statues were destroyed, your name chiseled from all monuments, all public records of your existence erased.
In death the narcissist would be utterly forgotten except as an object lesson.
In death the narcissist would be utterly forgotten except as an object lesson.
You want your Gateway project funding? Here’s the price. 🤡
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February 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The Romans had an appropriate postmortem punishment for evil men like this: Damnatio Memoriae. All your statues were destroyed, your name chiseled from all monuments, all public records of your existence erased.
In death the narcissist would be utterly forgotten except as an object lesson.
In death the narcissist would be utterly forgotten except as an object lesson.
I don’t know how to explain it. But as I hit my 30s and got closer to 40, the guys I found attractive got older and older.
My husband is getting older with me and I find the salt and pepper on his beard nice! And it’s making me realize it’s not normal to be old and like 16 year olds.
My husband is getting older with me and I find the salt and pepper on his beard nice! And it’s making me realize it’s not normal to be old and like 16 year olds.
“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I don’t know how to explain it. But as I hit my 30s and got closer to 40, the guys I found attractive got older and older.
My husband is getting older with me and I find the salt and pepper on his beard nice! And it’s making me realize it’s not normal to be old and like 16 year olds.
My husband is getting older with me and I find the salt and pepper on his beard nice! And it’s making me realize it’s not normal to be old and like 16 year olds.
Ok real talk - what’s going on with the DNC?
Is Ken Martin under performing and it’s become an irrelevant institution?
Is Ken Martin under performing and it’s become an irrelevant institution?
February 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Ok real talk - what’s going on with the DNC?
Is Ken Martin under performing and it’s become an irrelevant institution?
Is Ken Martin under performing and it’s become an irrelevant institution?
On the one hand I want American democracy to survive.
On the other hand, if they broke elections and stole them to install themselves as autocrats and the idiot idiot voters who gave them power over fucking egg prices have to live in the dystopian hellscape they elected.
Well…🤷♀️
On the other hand, if they broke elections and stole them to install themselves as autocrats and the idiot idiot voters who gave them power over fucking egg prices have to live in the dystopian hellscape they elected.
Well…🤷♀️
"What’s most alarming here is that Director Gabbard’s own team acknowledges there was no evidence of foreign interference, yet they seized voting machines and election data anyway," U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence panel, said. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
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February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
On the one hand I want American democracy to survive.
On the other hand, if they broke elections and stole them to install themselves as autocrats and the idiot idiot voters who gave them power over fucking egg prices have to live in the dystopian hellscape they elected.
Well…🤷♀️
On the other hand, if they broke elections and stole them to install themselves as autocrats and the idiot idiot voters who gave them power over fucking egg prices have to live in the dystopian hellscape they elected.
Well…🤷♀️
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An impressive young Democrat, Navy veteran, and state senator Patrick Schmidt is in the Kansas U.S. Senate race to challenge the weak Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. A recent poll had Trump's approval at only 48% in the state. A winnable Senate seat, IMO.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
An impressive young Democrat, Navy veteran, and state senator Patrick Schmidt is in the Kansas U.S. Senate race to challenge the weak Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. A recent poll had Trump's approval at only 48% in the state. A winnable Senate seat, IMO.
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This seems good…? Am I imagining it? Because it seems quite good?!
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
This seems good…? Am I imagining it? Because it seems quite good?!
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We're never going to be able to shame these people into doing the right thing, the kind thing, or the democratic thing.
The only answer - the only thing that might correct their abhorrent behavior - is electoral punishment so severe that it leaves no doubt.
Organize. Donate. Register. Vote.
The only answer - the only thing that might correct their abhorrent behavior - is electoral punishment so severe that it leaves no doubt.
Organize. Donate. Register. Vote.
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
We're never going to be able to shame these people into doing the right thing, the kind thing, or the democratic thing.
The only answer - the only thing that might correct their abhorrent behavior - is electoral punishment so severe that it leaves no doubt.
Organize. Donate. Register. Vote.
The only answer - the only thing that might correct their abhorrent behavior - is electoral punishment so severe that it leaves no doubt.
Organize. Donate. Register. Vote.