If I had a nickel for every time a guy named Graham suddenly suspended his campaign for the US Senate in July 2026 I’d have two nickels

The writers dropping all those hints about Mitch was some incredible misdirection

Everything Trump touches

Sen. Lindsey Graham has won his Republican primary in South Carolina, NBC News projects, after he spent millions to secure the nomination.

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Graham, who is in his fourth term, got a boost from President Donald Trump, who endorsed him last year…

(arc)

Seems like a straightforward interpretation to me. They could have just said “If a man has sexual relations with a man, both of them have done what is detestable”, but they chose to add the “as one does with a woman” bit.

We’re really going to put more money in the hands of wealthy home builders and real estate developers and just hope it trickles down and call it affordable housing legislation

A Democratic U.S. Senator has taken to social media to urge Canada to reconsider its boycott on American alcohol, specifically wine from California.

In a post on X, California Senator Adam Schiff

I really wish we had an opposition party

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government … assassinate … ME!

That might mean more to them if we hadn’t already been shooting thousands of missiles at them

According to a survey from the libertarian Cato Institute think tank…

This is all a bunch of ideological bullshit, isn’t it?

This civic ignorance extends to basic governance: Nearly 60% do not know the main purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to limit government power…

Yep.

From the bottom of my heart, Cato and NPR and all these smug dipshits who want to call everyone else ignorant because we’ve got better things to do than give a shit about their tired ass mythologies can go fuck themselves. Fucking morons wonder why people don’t have more respect and reverence for the country like the last 50-60 fucking years of history didn’t happen.

To pick just one of potentially countless examples, white liberals are among the least churched people in American society. Black people are among the most churched. And they are key pillars of the same party.

One can also argue that the modern Democratic Party is a basically female party. Its voters are disproportionately female. Its mores, iconography, ideas about power, aggression, empathy are increasingly gendered, whereas the GOP is increasingly organized around a kind of hyper-masculinity, or, less generously, rapists. But again, this can’t be a party base since a huge minority of women consistently vote Republican.

“There is no one single race gender or religion that dominates this group, so they’re too difficult for me to describe and basically may as well not exist.”

Dear Liberals, I know watching a handful of socialists win Democratic party primaries has been very difficult for you, but the whole “we can have a multicultural society and universal human rights (because that means more kinds of customers for my business!)” thing was like the one thing you got right, so maybe take a deep breath and log off for a bit, hm?

The United States needs an all new political system that would allow new political parties to have a chance

Stopping state elections doesn’t seem like authority a federal Election Assistance Commission would have

“Sounds like probable cause for an extrajudicial execution to me. [Belches]. I like beer!”

“Administrative warrant” is a bullshit term, they are not warrants (which requires an executive branch law enforcement officer to ask a judicial branch court for permission), they’re fucking rubber stamps one ICE employee gives another

Midterms are still going to crucify gop and trump, tho probably only metaphorically speaking

The fact that we didn’t imprison him and every other Bush lackey is a big part of why we’re in our current situation

they declare this election a horrible loss

What does that even mean tho? They declare random bullshit all the time and we all go “that’s nice dear” and get back to whatever we were doing already. What’s their plan after making this declaration?

two industry sources saying a passenger was partially sucked out of a window

I feel like that information that should have gone in the headline, and the fact that this all took place on a Boeing was information that should have gone in the article

Ah, that makes sense, my bad. Thank you for sharing a really great article, hope it’s widely read.

Link is broken, but it looks like the article is here

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Related bit of research from a few years ago I found really fascinating, “A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote”

A study I co-authored with fellow researcher Kevin Morris, published in December in the American Political Science Review, finds that traffic stops by police stops in Hillsborough County reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.

Our study compared the voter turnout of Hillsborough motorists who were stopped by police shortly before and after each election. Drawing on information about each person’s turnout in past cycles, we found that these stops reduced the likelihood that a stopped individual turned out to vote by 1.8 percentage points on average. The effect held when accounting for characteristics like race, gender, party affiliation, past turnout, and prior traffic stops to improve our comparisons. The discouraging effect of stops was slightly higher in 2014 and 2018.

These results make clear that the collateral consequences of policing—including worsening outcomes for economic security, educational attainment, and health—also extend to political participation. If the communities who are most frequently subjected to policing are also discouraged from voting as a result, it could create a vicious feedback loop of political withdrawal.

Why would traffic stops make people less likely to show up to the polls? Past research has already established that the most disruptive forms of criminal legal contact, like arrest and incarceration, discourage people from voting. Our study shows that low-level police contact matters in the same way. If a traffic stop makes a motorist fear that the government will harm them, it can prompt a withdrawal from civic life that political scientists call “strategic retreat.” Motorists might worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into police violence, a more common outcome for Black people in particular. Beyond justified fears of violent victimization, voters might also bristle at the perception of being targeted to raise revenue through excessive ticketing. Accordingly, if incarceration ‘teaches’ would-be voters that their government is an alienating and harmful force in their lives, traffic stops could catalyze a similar form of ‘learning.’

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