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[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

Texas might be more likely than Maine.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

A2 Insights poll | 6/23-6/28 LV

US Senate Texas 2026
🟦James Talarico 48.4%
🟥Ken Paxton 46.1%

Favorables (net)
❌🟦James Talarico (-5.6)
❌🟥Ken Paxton (-23.5)
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President Trump approval (TX)
❌Disapprove 47.9%
✅Approve 41.3%

Link to poll: https://t.co/IXNtATuWZs

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@aseitzwald @SeanTrende She was first elected in 96 when Dole got 30%.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

By now, everyone knows Susan Collins won Maine +9 in 2020 when it went +9 for Biden (so 18 pt net net overperformance), but don't sleep on 2008, when she went +23 against a SITTING CONGRESSMAN while Obama won Maine +17, for a whopping 40pt net net overperformance. Just wow.

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

The trans atheletes case was about whether states MAY ban trans participation in women’s sports under 14a—but the opinions are almost all about the next case: whether states MUST ban trans participation in women’s sorts under Title IX.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

I’m sorry, “sterilize all foreigners” is the funniest possible thing a politician could run on, so I kinda hope it becomes a plank in the GOP platform.

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

They ran him off Twitter for this 😡

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

Bill Clinton argued about what the word is means.

[Rae Alex Williams @RayAlexWilliams]

You will ascend when you realize the statement “trans women are trans women” doesn’t contradict the statement “trans women are women.”

We can in fact have our cake and eat it too by recognizing both the fundamental immutable differences and phenomenological overlaps between cis women and trans women and not freak the fuck out just because conclusively providing necessary and sufficient conditions to define a sociologically complex concept such as womanhood is always going to escape exact precisification.

The only reason GCs refuse to acknowledge any phenomenological overlap at all is they have a prejudice against mtf transsexuals and just irrationally hate troons, likely stemming from repressed and internalized shit they haven’t dealt with in their own life and unhappily project upon sexual minorities under the virtual signaling guise of fighting degeneracy or whatever.

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@SeanTrende @yeselson Isn't it well known that Thomas wants the record? There is no way Sotomayor retires with Trump in office.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

The psychos drove him away.

It's the internet in 2026.

Hard to think it wasn't the right move for him personally though.

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@yeselson @SeanTrende It doesn't seem crazy that she pre-write a retirement story before the June opinion tsunami.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

At any rate, my unsolicited advice to the trans movement is to look for some cases (like parents rights) where this Court might be more sympathetic to your cause. Sports was always going to be a tough spot.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

If what I’m hearing is true and some pathetic cowards doxxed Freddy’s identity on a Reddit thread, forcing him to delete his X account—you people are absolutely disgusting, vile pieces of shit who should be ashamed of yourselves. It’s beyond sickening.

Are you really that jealous that Americans are showing him a good time while he’s visiting our country? Get a damn life, you miserable losers.

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@MF_TROON @labubu_funkopop It's only an insult if they're denying it.

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@SeanTrende Is Totenberg the person he'd leak to rather than Crawford?

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@neeratanden @GAMPbian Dorgan was actually pretty left wing on economics

[⚾ ⚾ Dan ⚾ ⚾ @algore_rhythms]

@TeelaWild It's always boring.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Supreme Court upholds a century old interpretation of the 14th amendment. “They’ve destroyed America! There’s no saving us now! My panties shall never be unbunched again!”

[History Calendar @historycalendar]

How old were some of America’s Founding Fathers in 1776?

🇺🇸 Thomas Jefferson — 33
🇺🇸 Alexander Hamilton — 21
🇺🇸 James Madison — 25
🇺🇸 John Adams — 40
🇺🇸 George Washington — 44
🇺🇸 John Hancock — 39
🇺🇸 Benjamin Franklin — 70
🇺🇸 Patrick Henry — 40
🇺🇸 Samuel Adams — 53
🇺🇸 Thomas Paine — 39

The United States was founded by a remarkable mix of young revolutionaries and experienced statesmen.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

My view is that both parties to this conflict have adopted unhelpful uncompromising stances that have made things worse.

Today, though, throughout western progressive politics you’re supposed to have an uncritical view of the Palestinian national movement.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

One way or another, though, the collapse of public support for Israel that we were worried about happened.

So now my same views that were way to the left of AIPAC’s positions 15-20 years ago are now seen by half the internet as right-wing extremism.