Seriously, of all the ways in which Democrats could be said to own this (and they can be argued), the 2024 party platform is like … #57. There’s way more salient stuff from THIS YEAR one could peg Dems on.

“People who use the r-slur are just evil” theory undefeated

Yeah, and I agree, it is — there were some faint rumblings about changing it earlier this month but then they were basically like hmm too hard.

That’s just how the timing worked out (it had to be between 4/4 and 4/16 because X days after vacancy, by law) newjerseyglobe.com/congress/mur...

Sherrill resigned yesterday 😩so NJ-11 is vacant til April

213 because Sherrill resigned this week

GA law holds that the election has to be held no less than 30 days from the day it is declared (which couldn’t be before 5 Jan)—and GA specials are all-party, so it’s most likely that there will be a runoff (perhaps between two GOPers considering the partisan lean of the district, but either way).

The U.S. Constitution forbids House seats from being filled by appointment. They can only be filled by special election.

That sequence makes it sound like she means after Republicans lose the House next fall / the 120th Congress is sworn in, so probably just “Democrats will try to impeach him”

It made him feel like it was 1986 in New York again, talking to the New Yorker of the moment

Seriously. “Trump thought Mamdani was fine to interact with and, as we know, doesn’t give a single fuck about ideology or policy or the GOP, so he was just vibing” is Occam’s razor.

“some of the asperities and peculiarities of their character” what did he mean by that… 🤔

This whole discourse is honestly nonsense. Harris didn’t lose because of abstentions related to the genocide; she lost because midwit USians were mad that prices were high & wanted to make it 2019 again by magic. I wish more USians cared that much about genocide, but data really doesn’t bear it out.

as a kid growing up in the ‘00s, I definitely thought government-run space travel would play a much bigger role in my american adult life than it has.

Right, TIL — I guess they’ve been friends for years! 😬 www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

If this happens, Trump ran over a dog on live tv.

he just published a book!

(It would also have the effect of putting DeSantis in the position of calling two special elections, hopefully making it harder for him to delay FL-20 forever like he did in 2021…)