Will Bunnett
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Looking forward to the entire Thomas Chatterton Williams chapter on this incident
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing 'Trump Whore' across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body - New Jersey Globe
A 26-year-old Ocean City woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Ocean City) instead orchestrated the
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November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Looking forward to the entire Thomas Chatterton Williams chapter on this incident
I've been reading dirty limericks by titan of speculative fiction Isaac Asimov, and they're...actually pretty urbane and relevant.
Many think it is quite egotistic
To have sex that is just onanistic.
Most people would choose
To do it in twos,
Since our system should stay pluralistic
Many think it is quite egotistic
To have sex that is just onanistic.
Most people would choose
To do it in twos,
Since our system should stay pluralistic
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I've been reading dirty limericks by titan of speculative fiction Isaac Asimov, and they're...actually pretty urbane and relevant.
Many think it is quite egotistic
To have sex that is just onanistic.
Most people would choose
To do it in twos,
Since our system should stay pluralistic
Many think it is quite egotistic
To have sex that is just onanistic.
Most people would choose
To do it in twos,
Since our system should stay pluralistic
Democratic senators’ theory of opposing Trump
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Democratic senators’ theory of opposing Trump
The lane is opening wider and wider for a hostile takeover of a Democratic Party that refuses to represent its voters. I just hope we end up with someone with more scruples.
Even more true today: Democrats are ripe for a base revolt like the GOP in 2015 when Trump went down the escalator.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The lane is opening wider and wider for a hostile takeover of a Democratic Party that refuses to represent its voters. I just hope we end up with someone with more scruples.
Another example of people calling themselves “moderate” when what they really mean is “pussy.”
Senate reaches deal to reopen government after moderate Democrats cave
Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave
Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Another example of people calling themselves “moderate” when what they really mean is “pussy.”
Wow, Trump’s very own peace prize, finally. Let’s put this one right up on the country’s fridge so everyone can see it.
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Wow, Trump’s very own peace prize, finally. Let’s put this one right up on the country’s fridge so everyone can see it.
Among other things, if Mills is the nominee in Maine, this might be the only way to save her candidacy. Her backing for the filibuster kills her potential contrast with Collins.
Let's hope Trump strong-arms GOP senators into killing the filibuster. It'll be the best thing for Democrats and the country in the long run.
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fili...
My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fili...
Trump wants Republicans to kill the filibuster. Great!
In the long run, it would be good for Democrats and democracy.
www.publicnotice.co
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Among other things, if Mills is the nominee in Maine, this might be the only way to save her candidacy. Her backing for the filibuster kills her potential contrast with Collins.
Reminder that “should we raise taxes on the rich” usually outpolls “should we raise taxes on the rich to fund [x].”
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Reminder that “should we raise taxes on the rich” usually outpolls “should we raise taxes on the rich to fund [x].”
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The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
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October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
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I remember a (genuinely beloved!) Dem client once who was convinced they were going to rile up voters based on Republican budget votes in the state legislature.
In their focus group of persuadable voters, nobody even knew who their state legislator was.
In their focus group of persuadable voters, nobody even knew who their state legislator was.
However much you, a politically engaged person, think the average American knows about what's going on, I can promise you: it's way less than that. No matter how low your estimation. It's lower than that.
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I remember a (genuinely beloved!) Dem client once who was convinced they were going to rile up voters based on Republican budget votes in the state legislature.
In their focus group of persuadable voters, nobody even knew who their state legislator was.
In their focus group of persuadable voters, nobody even knew who their state legislator was.
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HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
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They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It's been cool to see genuinely innovative attempts to reach voters in different ways in 2025, and not so cool to see the resulting dogpiles on Chorus and Newsom's podcast for their trouble.
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's been cool to see genuinely innovative attempts to reach voters in different ways in 2025, and not so cool to see the resulting dogpiles on Chorus and Newsom's podcast for their trouble.
I appreciate the instinct behind suggestions like this, which I think boils down to “make sure everybody knows.” I do think it’s worth highlighting, tho, that blanketing anything with ads is no longer the way to do that. That’s kinda what tripped us up in ‘24.
Democrats should carpet bomb the Midwest with ads of this clip during the closing stretch of the 2026 campaign.
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
October 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I appreciate the instinct behind suggestions like this, which I think boils down to “make sure everybody knows.” I do think it’s worth highlighting, tho, that blanketing anything with ads is no longer the way to do that. That’s kinda what tripped us up in ‘24.
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This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Scary Outfit
Scary Outfit
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October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Scary Outfit
It’s true for Democrats, but also liberals more generally: we have to get comfortable escalating and imposing consequences in order to have credibility.
Conservative media criticism? We’ve got to do better, there must be some reason they don’t trust us
Liberal media criticism? Time to go on twitter and mock the libs so conservatives know I’m one of the cool ones
Liberal media criticism? Time to go on twitter and mock the libs so conservatives know I’m one of the cool ones
October 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It’s true for Democrats, but also liberals more generally: we have to get comfortable escalating and imposing consequences in order to have credibility.
In my testing, introducing #punishment to whatever else Dems happen to be talking about typically moves support their way by several additional points.
There is a group of people currently in charge of this country who cannot be allowed to rule us under any circumstance, and who must be dealt with in ways that ensure they can never, as a class, return to power. Their enablers need to be similarly punished. Consequences FIRST, reconciliation later.
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In my testing, introducing #punishment to whatever else Dems happen to be talking about typically moves support their way by several additional points.
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I am a single issue voter and that issue is I want the Republican Party in federal prison.
That rage you feel, as you watch the White House get leveled? That's how we beat Trump. Harness that, refine it, find ways to get other people equally enraged. Get them so mad they can't see straight. None of this kumbaya BS. White-hot, unreasoning anger, that demands the people who did this PAY.
October 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I am a single issue voter and that issue is I want the Republican Party in federal prison.
I have some questions about this “power”
President Trump said he has “unquestioned power” under the Insurrection Act to deploy the National Guard and indicated San Francisco will be the next city to face federal intervention.
Trump claims ‘unquestioned power’ to deploy troops to San Francisco under Insurrection Act
President Trump said he has “unquestioned power” under the Insurrection Act to deploy the National Guard and indicated San Francisco will be the next city to face federal intervention.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have some questions about this “power”
I argue with my friend all the time about this. Yes, moderates perform a little better. No, policies and issues are not the only levers you can pull if you want people to think you're a moderate.
(the editorial identifies tammy baldwin — among the most liberal members of the senate — as a "moderate," which suggests there is something else happening here that isn't simply where she aligns on issue polls)
October 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I argue with my friend all the time about this. Yes, moderates perform a little better. No, policies and issues are not the only levers you can pull if you want people to think you're a moderate.
Moments like this are a good way to tell if the self described “moderates” in your are really committed to opposing extremism or if they really just meant “cowards.”
I'm not a political radical, in fact, I'm far from it. That's is why I'm going to be at the #nokings protest on Saturday. Tearing down our institutions to suit a mad king's delusions isn't conservatism, it's radicalism. It's destruction for its own sake. They aren't trying to conserve anything!
Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Moments like this are a good way to tell if the self described “moderates” in your are really committed to opposing extremism or if they really just meant “cowards.”
Incidentally, this is why Democrats need to learn to double down and escalate when Republicans try to trip them up on some decency double standard gotcha.
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Remember when Hillary Clinton got excoriated for calling Trump supporters “deplorables”
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Incidentally, this is why Democrats need to learn to double down and escalate when Republicans try to trip them up on some decency double standard gotcha.
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Remember when Hillary Clinton got excoriated for calling Trump supporters “deplorables”
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Remember when Hillary Clinton got excoriated for calling Trump supporters “deplorables”
This is why I've begun developing a model of healthy masculinity for progressives — so that when we reach out to young males, some of them actually resonate with what we have to say. This is possible when we turn traditional male concepts like dominance and duty to prosocial goals. #masculinity
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is why I've begun developing a model of healthy masculinity for progressives — so that when we reach out to young males, some of them actually resonate with what we have to say. This is possible when we turn traditional male concepts like dominance and duty to prosocial goals. #masculinity
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We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.
You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
October 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.
You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!
newrepublic.com/article/2018...