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I’m one of the Black professors on Kirk’s watchlist of professors he smeared and wanted to have fired. How is that doing things exactly the right way? Grieve his death, yes. But don’t whitewash his life.
Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct."
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What did that Christian Charlie Kirk say after George Floyd was murdered or while Palestinians were being killed in Gaza?
UPDATE: More footage from Dave Chappelle’s show shows him joking “I’m sure Charlie Kirk is looking up at us right now, laughing so hard he can’t breathe”, implying he went to Hell.
This is the most sickening thing you can say about a Christian who was assassinated for his beliefs.
It’s not even comedy…
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Matthew also said El-Sayed would easily beat Mike Rogers if they were facing New York voters, but they had to face voters in Michigan. The implications of that comment are clear. Not sure why he’s denying this. It’s odd.
On the contrary, what I wrote in August was that El-Sayed would probably win while running somewhat weaker than a generic Democrat which is exactly what happened.
A question to ask is why progressives are dedicated to lying about this?
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History Made 🏀
Victory over Campbell gives head coach Gayle Fulks 145 career wins, making her the all-time winningest coach in program history!
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Victory over Campbell gives head coach Gayle Fulks 145 career wins, making her the all-time winningest coach in program history!
#ShareShootStifle
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In Jan., had you argued a Muslim man saying abolish ICE, rethink aid to Israel and not sell it defensive weapons because of Gaza while fending off Islamophobia and attacks from moderate Democrats could win Michigan by 7, the @mattyglesias crew would have mocked you ceaselessly.
HAPPENING NOW: Congresswoman Haley Stevens joins Mike Rogers at church in Detroit this morning.
We have a state to save, Michigan.
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Reminder that Israel is banning mobile shelters, prefabricated homes, or even shipping containers from entering Gaza & is heavily restricting the entry of tents; all for no reason other than inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about Gazans' physical destruction; i.e. genocide
🚨 HORRIFIC SCENES IN GAZA: Displaced families’ tents are completely submerged in floodwater. After Israel destroyed their homes, families are now left with nothing but flooded tents, with nowhere else to go.
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I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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Please follow my account. It has become heavily hidden from people, and my posts are no longer reaching the audience as they used to.
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This is a serious problem, and the demise of national newspaper chains has marks the end of regional reporting in DC.
This is, I think, indicative of the hollowing out of local-news organizations. It’s arguable that these were Washington-centric stories, and thus out of the reach of reporters outside D.C. But it also reflects the fact that the locals no longer *have* reporters in D.C.
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This argument is used against anyone who isn’t a straight white male, FYI. So the solution is to understand that there are ways to overcome this supposed deficit - like has been shown plenty of times - or just run straight white men every time.
Most voters thought Trump was more moderate than Hillary in 2016 and more moderate than Harris in 2024. That is the reality Democrats have to contend with.
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In August, Matthew suggested El-Sayed couldn’t beat Mike Rogers because he had to convince voters in Michigan, not New York. Since then, he’s moved the goalposts to margin of victory. Once we can agree he and others did that, we can pivot to more important issues. But they won’t.
Once we all agree that the mod electability advantage is real, albeit smallish, we can move on to the real debate which is about the electoral benefits of trying to pivot the whole national party brand in a more moderate direction rather than running outliers in key races.
Community note
Yglesias wrote in August on both his Slow Boring website and in a New York Times opinion piece that El-Sayed would probably win while running weaker than a generic Democrat. Which is, in fact, what happened.
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This is a strawman. No serious person is saying it makes sense to copy one specific candidate. That’s silly. Political environments change from place to place and from cycle to cycle. Matt is trying to spread the falsehood that a progressive can’t win. He’s wrong. 1/
The reason I harp on this relative performance stuff is that we have top political consultants and major journalists telling the world that we need to copy one specific candidate to learn how to persuade young men, but young men swung more in AK, IA, KS, MS, NC, OH, and TX!
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And these candidates did not go into Tuesday on equal ground. Take Talarico and Nixon. The former was respected my mainstream media, treated that way, and had full support - including dollars - from Dems up and down the party. Nixon had none of that, and still nearly won. 2/
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I was there Thursday night when this happened. Beautiful moment. Go Wildcats!
The smile as Sylvie Jackson took the court in her return 🥹👏
Jackson missed the remainder of the 2025-26 season after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in December. (📹 @Davidson_WBB)
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Anything unusual happened in the Jackson and El-Sayed races that make apples-to-apples comparisons difficult? Like maybe a late-race change because of a Nazi-affiliated tattoo, and a moderate “ally” endorsing the Republican at the last-minute (not to mention the Islamophobia)?
The Economist found a 1-point & inconsistent penalty for progressives this year, with close to zero effect in the House. According to them Melat Kiros and Claire Valdez beat expectations, while Troy Jackson and El Sayed fell short. Turnout fx much larger
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El-Sayed is not DSA. But he was a Muslim running headlong into a hurricane of Islamophobia AND his moderate Democratic “ally” endorsing his conservative Republican opponent.
It's possible that if there'd been a more moderate candidate that wasn't weighed down by their association with the DSA, they could have won. That she got close in a pro-Dem wave doesn't tell us much if anything about her quality relative to other potential candidates.
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People can be as snarky as they like, but it doesn’t change the truth. If the stats and correlations were so clear, why weren’t all these dudes jumping up and down before the election saying Dems would have 56 Senate seats and 260 in the House? 1/
No we just like things like math, correlation, statistics, etc. I know that’s tough to deal with when you’re dealing in vibes and delusions
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