Measuring voters’ expectations (versus their intentions) of control of the House and Senate. I’m sure this would have value in a larger study of propaganda effects, but am I missing some value directly relative to the election? Maybe as part of a study to see if expectations correlated to turnout?

Accusing gentle sex trafficker Matt Gaetz of a misdeed?

They had the opportunity to prevent him from running again.

Literally all they had to do was have 16 or so of them say one word, “guilty,” at either of his impeachments, and we never would have had to hear from Trump again as a candidate, and he’d probably also actually be serving time in prison for his felony convictions.

It still infuriates me. Sixteen words - just breaths and some vocal chord flexes - away from being on such a drastically better timeline, including for the republicans themselves. But they were too cowardly for even that.

Yes, we’re so deep in corruption that somehow this is invisible to people.

Trump gave his son’s former partner an official role paid for by tax dollars after the son dumped the partner, in what appears to be a “no hard feelings but go away” payoff.

I get that ambassadorships are one of the most often used for political favors, but this is not even arm’s-length politics, it’s certainly for Trump’s family’s illicit self-interest. A functional government would investigate this at the very least and it would be grounds for scandal, and real political consequences for Trump at best.

It’s actually impressive how much of a charisma void Vance is - I’ve seen him try to upgrade himself from “bully hype man” to “bully” in front of a crowd before and it’s just silence. I think the crowd is usually so zoned out when he talks they may not even notice.

Well…He was convicted on 34 criminal counts. He didn’t go to prison only because of a feckless judge who was too scared of his responsibility to give a meaningful sentence and didn’t punish him at all.

Sorry, but that doesn’t really make sense. Here are your options:

You don’t vote at all, or vote third party: If you totally sit out the vote, you are having no effect, or are voting for the status quo by omission.

You vote republican: You are voting for the worst outcome.

You vote democrat: You are voting harm reduction.

Now to be clear:

1. “Harm reduction” is not just about you. It’s about LGBTQ people, it’s about people who are on ACA who will die due to continued cuts, it’s about immigrants who are going to be abused. Even if you think the democrats are “fascism-lite” (which I think is severely reductionist), you are severely downplaying, to the point that it mirrors GOP lack of empathy, the harms others are experiencing due to your refusal to vote for harm reduction.

2. In the primary, please, please vote for the most progressive person you can find, and let corporate democrats eat all the dicks. But in the general, please don’t just think of yourself and your emotional response of “screw them all!” Because “them all” includes your allies.

P.S.: Also, what is the point of downvoting good faith discussion? It really is not nice.

I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates…

I mean, I want to have those policies and services too, but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?

I’m guessing if that happens you’ll get your wish for no DNC by 2028, because we’ll be a state-enforced one-party system by then.

When the parties to the ceasefire haven’t heard about it, he’s not announcing anything because it doesn’t exist. I think we can just say “lies.”

Well, if MAGA AI bot spam and photoshops are to be believed, Trump is basically Rambo. I suggest he go over and fight on Russia’s side and solve everyone’s problem at once.

It’s rare that a politician is required to make such a clear choice between the wealthy elite and regular working people. Most of the time that is done in secret or with plausible deniability. This is really Gavin just saying, “I choose rich people.”

So they were also having an affair, it looks like, from all the comments Deters makes about having to leave his wife.

But also hilarious at how obviously Guilfoyle and Deters both act and think like criminals, while Deters seems to have a secondary extortion layer going on: intentionally putting it all in writing presumably as leverage to use against Guilfoyle later, while complaining that Guilfoyle isn’t giving him access to power and making clear that’s what he is paying for. Both obsessed with their own schemes and trying to use the other. #justdesperatesociopaththings

Yeah, I buried my “again” there.

So we’re at the point where Trump is openly and actively undermining US policy again in exchange for Russia to swing the election in his favor. Got it.

While CBS as an organization is losing trustworthiness, it’s important to remember that there are still journalists with standards and ethics that pre-date the Skydance purchase working there.

It’s reasonable to be skeptical about anything with Bari Weiss or the Ellisons’ fingerprints on it, but credible reporting will still keep coming through as long as there are people with backbones there to do it. Supporting them and giving their stories clicks is still ethical as a viewer/audience/citizen, and also creates at least some data to show internally that real journalism is more profitable than fake journalism.

Bergal stopped his car after he was “struck by one of the bullets or fragments superficially in the neck,” Charles said. “We arrested him, rendered first aid, and then took him to the hospital.”

Body camera footage from the New York City police officers who responded to the shooting show they were the ones who transported Bergal to the hospital to receive medical care.

So the story is barely 24 hours old, and ICE already is caught in a provable lie - that they took him to the hospital. As we’ve seen from their prior murders, ICE has a history of not only not taking victims to the hospital, but actively refusing to let bystanders administer medical care.

It’s not clear why they even say “weaponized his vehicle” anymore since ICE saying that is historically proof more that the victim didn’t rather than did. I suppose they need some soundbite, even if eventually provably false, for bots and nazis on X to signal-boost.

I can’t tell whether this story emphasizes the “stable” or “genius” parts of Trump more.

Just calling out that this user appears to post NY Post right-wing propaganda articles constantly and then delete the negative-voted articles so they don’t show up on their post history.

I’d love to know of a better poll aggregator, I’m aware they’re right-leaning but not sure what’s more reliable after 538 (itself not perfect) disappeared.

EDIT: Well, I went and searched and this site seems to be former 538 folks:

https://fiftyplusone.news/

RCP currently puts Graham up 2+% over Andrews, which - if you’ve heard Darline Graham talk including her vacuous, embarrassing Jack Smith hearing questions - is pretty sad. At least the GOP is on track to lose the senate (as long as democrats don’t mess it up, which they probably will).

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2026/south-carolina/graham-nordone-vs-andrews