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I didn't realize it either until seeing it on Twitter myself, but just so people are aware, the Ohio Senate election is a special election. So the 2028 race is actually just the same senate seat we're doing a special election for in 2026. Moreno isn't up for re-election until 2030. So if Dems flip the seat in 2026, it'll be a "try to hold it" seat for 2028.

This doesn't make sense as an argument. "Support goes down if you tell people it's funded through increased taxation" But the support goes back up when you tell them the policy eliminates premiums, deductibles, and copays.

He co-sponsored the Medicare for All bill in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Majority of Americans support Medicare For All, as well as a majority of Hakeem's caucus as minority house leader.

(it's bad that some liberal types might take the below as vindication and not realizing that supporting AI is an economic dead-end)

Excuse the below looking cracked out, I still have no idea how to best lay out the below info, but I wanted to try and lay out the endorsements this cycle for progressive candidates. Money, I think, still is the largest factor, but I do find it hard to look at the below and not think endorsements play a key role in momentum. The below is the same info but sorted by race type (ie: is it an open primary in a blue district, is an incumbent being challenged in a blue district, is it a GOP seat) because such is the real pattern of behavior for how already-elected progressives do or do not engage and endorse. It's hard to take people wanting insurgent candidates to avoid using Hasan's platform seriously when he seems like the only resource so many of these candidates have, especially when already progressive elected officials refuse to endorse them! (Poor Kat having more progressives explicitly endorse against her in an open seat than endorse her )

@Hasan now is the time to get Karishma on stream and help her continue Angie's momentum!! We have three weeks!

WAIT I didn't know THIS was Angie! @dabunique

Turns out wanting to bully and harm trans kids is unpopular, actually.

Also seems funny to point out. In all three races below, the Democratic establishment explicitly endorsed moderate white candidates against black candidates. FL-20 FL-21 (Kamala endorsing the random white Coast Guard veteran?? ljnkjn ) FL-Senate

I'm not sure this is the case in the votes so far. Preliminary reporting is saying she's only getting 35% or so of the black vote in the district? The voter guide linked before was really helpful in breaking down the on-the-ground vibes. The district seems to have much more ethnic distinctions than ideological (think NY-13). Manley could be likely losing most of the black Caribbean parts of the district to Holness? Though doing almost as bad as the felon is?? ddd The real L tonight would be efforts going to Manley when it seems like Bernard Taylor is only 350 votes under in FL-21 right now. (It cuts both ways tho, as Taylor could have likely tried to do events with and gotten in on Manley & Larkin's joined campaigning - from the progressive caucus report, both Larkin and Taylor and did some campaigning together apparently?)

@DSCC it's time to give Angie Nixon the exact same amount of dollars you gave Val Demings.

Interesting - candidate with lots of campaign funding that Pete Buttigieg, Mark Kelly, etc. in FL-12 lost to a local candidate. (Not sure of her politics dddd but have been keeping an eye on who Bootygag has been endorsing across the country)

Oliver doing much better than Elijah is kinda dddd. Though DWS being under 50% shows she would have lose against a singular black candidate. I don't know FL geographically so no clue if Oliver's residence was anywhere near it but I wonder why he didn't try running in a place like FL-22. The huge Jewish population of Boca Raton felt like a ceiling of 40% which he seems to be getting close to. His campaign will have definitely set ground work for helping progressives locally.

Oh wait if Angie wins the senate nomination. Bernard Taylor is possibly going to take FL-21 too.

I mean, isn't he also the best friend of one of her ex-boyfriends? That seems like a more direct connection.

No one is saying you can't discuss pop culture on a pop culture forum. People are saying it's embarrassing you're so easily scandalized. "BUT SHE GOT A TATTOO TO MATCH HIS???" Sis had like 7 with Pete about 3 weeks in. She has the word "Court" on her knee for Courtney. She still has japanese bbq grill on her hand. She has tattoos for everything from Eevee to Harry Potter to tattoos for Mac Miller's dog. Get with the program. Edit - That you think "triple digits" means 30 and not that she's closing in on 100 tattoos.

Tomorrow girls. We can possibly go 0/3 cause Florida is the hellmouth but I choose to #believe. I think the likeliness for both the primary and general would go: FL-20 >> FL-25 >>>> FL-Senate. Elijah's hurdle will be there being one white Jewish candidate versus 4 black candidate. He urged them to consolidate but the other candidates refused. Oliver's hurdle will be that the district skews old and is like 25% Jewish (phonebankers for Hasan's stream reported getting cursed out by some voters ddd). Angie's hurdle will be that the Florida Democratic Party is basically a moderate-ran mafia who rather keep losing than ever progressives make inroads and run it apparently like a fraternity / sorority. **** Alex Vindman's racist ass and his ugly transphobic twin brother in Congress!! Not sure how to add to or even articulate what any of the below means, but the first link was a fascinating read (though the OP clearly has biases against DSA and... poor grammar ddd). It's an interesting data dump for every district in Florida.

Well it's official! The first Democratic Primary for 2028's presidential nominee will take place 523 days from now.

I think the issue is that the scene is essential to the message of the song and video for Ariana. I think it's clear that she wants people to be uncomfortable in retaliation for all she's gone through. The entire theme of the album is basically "look what you've done to me". I remain adamant, despite everything being uncomfortable to navigate now, the title track and its video will be seen as central pieces in her discography once time has passed. There's not a pop girl single that sounds anything like "Petal" nor does it sound anything else she's really put out. The message being apparently too soon for the masses doesn't mean she wasn't clear in trying to send a message.

Also not even the centrists now rejecting Abundance. Ezra Klein right now:

Another one, thank you. Need to make sure her, Mai, Aisha and Randy win in November.

*spotlight dawns on a bedroom in Los Angeles* Normie Dems, two paths lie before you... do you pick the pragmatic socialist just happy to vote blue no matter who, or the angry accelerationist moderate willing to throw control of the Senate away and purposefully sabotage a candidate in Michigan because they don't want a Muslim in Congress? The choice is yours, etc.

I'm sorry but there's never going to be a way to look like a good-intentioned skeptic interested in academic integrity when this man's loudest critic was a race scientist who largely proclaimed that race was real and that it determined a sliding scale of intelligence where (white) Jews were the most naturally dispositioned for higher intelligence and black people to be most naturally to have low intelligence. Someone who believed in something as disprovable as race science should have had no platform to even make such allegations against anyone else on the basis of academic rigor.

Him believing M4A and Abolish ICE are too extreme yet Abolishing the Electoral College is not..