“A family from Mexico arrives this morning legally has as much right to the American Dream as the direct descents of the Founding Fathers.”
Bob Dole accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1996.
In an effort to get immigrants to self-deport, DOGE tried to get the Social Security Administration to mark 2.7 million living people, including many who were American citizens, as dead. They're just such bad guys.
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US tech sector employment is down 43k over the last year in data released this morning—that's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions
Why did leftists decide that manifestly low conscientiousness is a mark of "authenticity"? They did it with Fetterman, it blew up in their face, and now they've done it again with Platner: falling in love with an obviously unreliable underemployed weirdo. https://t.co/cid5VoEtsW
Every profile of “swing voters” indicates they have a bunch of non-sensical, contradictory ideas that don’t fit into a partisan category and also are kind of anti-social. Not a coincidence that Trump, Platner, and Fetterman appeal to these voters.
Yesterday, the Census Bureau published a county-level map of air-conditioning in the US.
It's basically as one expects. The mountainous areas, and places on the West Coast, which is mostly mild year-round.
@USAP_COG@mattyglesias Our best chance of winning tight races is to peel off some people who often vote Republican, but don’t like MAGA bc it’s filled with lowlifes. Running a Democrat who is a lowlife is a terrible strategy.
@ZacharyDonnini@LinkofSunshine People whine about states that take a long time to count the votes, but it’s great sport for the the spreadsheet inclined