Tony Wartinger 🥧

Born, raised, and residing in the Heart of It All. Co-founder and designer at Jetpack.

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I’ve switched my Twitch username to Mozzafella and I’ve never felt better about any decision in my life.

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Man this DCU shit sounds like a fucking mess.

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@midnight_oily This just feels like a misaligned layer in photoshop. The cut feels too clean to be an AI mistake IMO.

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Goddamn she’s 100% right…

[progupdates @progupdates]

AOC: A note for Gen Z. If you want to understand millennial cringe, what you all call millennial cringe, this earnestness, imagine all the seats we flipped last night. That feeling, plus, on top of it, electing the first Black president ever. And on top of that, you did it the first time you ever voted. That hits generationally. You’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.

And because you did it the first time you ever voted, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we can change the world. Why not? We did it the first time. Let’s just do it again.’

[JD Vance @JDVance]

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

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Fuck yeah!

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - 98% of the money musk spent in the midterms went to candidates who lost yesterday

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We might win fucking Mississippi!?

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@baddate @VivekGRamaswamy Hopefully he doesn’t take it personally that everyone hates his fucking guts.

[tyler oakley @tyleroakley]

they’re calling it a bluekkake

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@ritujoon2j Her hand is on the hip, we are seeing a lower angle from the side of her body.. The line on the body is her shoulder blade. we re basically looking at her armpit.

It's a very weird illusion but I hope that helps.

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@kathrynnnelaine Ain't no way that baby is old enough to vote! ;)

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[FactPost @factpostnews]

Fox: Why are you here this morning?

Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.

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@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN My man!

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Wildwood was pretty darn great, truly stunning and much darker than expected. Some kids may find it a touch frightening and some parents may object to the often brutal violence, but as neither, I was thrilled to be swept away into its rich and complex fantasy world. @LAIKAStudios

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Feeling pretty good about my Top 12 of 2026 (so far)

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@appledsign "Sound on" and it's playing the Home Alone score over a video of a Harry Potter book.

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A part of me really enjoys this kind of branding bullshit.

[Apple Music @AppleMusic]

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@baddate @ElizabethHolmes All time tweet.

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@snowbikemike Looks like a bunch of jabronis and one man, myth, legend, SnowBikeMike!

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@baddate Pokemon Goku to the Polls!

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@DiscussingFilm Where the fuck is Shang-Chi!?