🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen

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[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

Thank you @AndrewYang and @joinnoblemobile for sharing your earnings on X. Bought pizza for the Gabrielino High School Mock Trial Team last night and turned it into a conversation about Universal Basic Income. Grateful for the work you are still doing. 🍕

[Team Hakeem @teamhakeemhq]

🚨 Leader @HakeemJeffries calls for ending Citizens United:

“We have to end Citizens United. There’s been a series of Supreme Court decisions over the last 15 years that have decimated our democratic fabric — from the decimation of the Voting Rights Act, to declaring partisan gerrymandering fair or giving the president complete immunity.

We’ve got to unravel all of it, but Citizens United was the first.

We support the full repeal of Citizens United. You can bring that about in two different ways — either a constitutional amendment or a change in the Supreme Court. We’re open to aggressively pursuing both.”

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Ok about time for an update on this, with subjective categories:

All but certain:
🔵 Andy Beshear
🔵 Cory Booker
🔵 Pete Buttigieg
🔵 Rahm Emanuel
🔵 Ro Khanna
🔵 Gavin Newsom
🔵 JB Pritzker
🔵 Josh Shapiro

Seems pretty likely:
🔵 Mark Kelly
🔵 Wes Moore

Clearly considering:
🔵 Ruben Gallego
🔵 Kamala Harris
🔵 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
🔵 Elissa Slotkin
🔵 Chris Van Hollen
🔵 Raphael Warnock

Says they’re not considering running but no one really believes them:
🔵 Jon Ossoff

Wouldn’t be surprised, and get well soon:
🔵 Chris Murphy

Haven’t closed the door, but unlikely:
🔵 Gretchen Whitmer

People will speculate that they will run but it’s very difficult to imagine they will turn around and run a national campaign after being Senator or Governor for only like 3-6 months, everyone settle down:
🔵 Abdul El-Sayed
🔵 Rob Sand
🔵 James Talarico

Potential lefty choice if AOC doesn’t run:
🔵 Shawn Fain
🔵 Sara Nelson
🔵 Jimmy Williams

Potential celebrity vanity run:
🔵 Don Lemon
🔵 Jasmine Crockett

Resist Lib fantasy:
🔵 Jon Stewart

[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

@icemyeyes A better model is Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

@wachfox @Dr_JLJohnson thank you for your public service. Running for public office isn't for the faint of heart. May God restore you as you recover from this election. May the joy of the Lord be your strength.

[WACH FOX @wachfox]

Democrat Jermaine Johnson says he’s exhausted after facing obstacles in his unsuccessful campaign for South Carolina governor.

Full story: https://t.co/l2aUCQRTyt

[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

Thoughts?

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

Democrats won the Senate by winning voters outside our party. In four states where we flipped Republican seats, independents gave Democrats a big lead, and Republicans who crossed party lines helped turn that lead into a win.

Here’s what the exit polls show.

Kansas: Adam Hamilton won nearly two-thirds of independents and persuaded 12% of Republican voters to back him. He won by 5 points. Had those Republicans voted for the Republican nominee instead, Hamilton would have lost.

South Carolina: Annie Andrews won independents by 31 points and drew 11% of Republican voters. She won statewide by just 4.5 points. Those crossover votes were enough to turn a Republican hold into a Democratic pickup.

Iowa: Josh Turek won independents by 23 points and drew 7% of Republican voters. If those Republicans had voted for his opponent instead, the statewide margin would have swung by about 5 points, wiping out his 4-point win.

Texas: James Talarico won independents by 31 points. That advantage alone added about 9 points to his 12-point statewide margin. He also won 11% of Republican voters. Together, those two groups turned a competitive race into a decisive Democratic win.

That’s the Senate mandate our party must hear.

Centrist Democrats won tough races by giving independents and Republicans a reason to vote for them.

The DSA and the far left kicked up plenty of dust but did nothing to help our party nationally.

The candidates who flipped the Senate seats showed us how to win. Now, we should follow their lead by distancing ourselves from far left radicals and pursuing common sense policies improving the lives of all Americans.

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.

They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

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[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

@washheights44 @AndrewYang ❤️❤️❤️

[AF Post @AFpost]

Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay.

Follow: @AFpost

[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

If @AndrewYang Yang and the @Fwd_Party want to be more relevant, it's my view that he should run for Congress, pass some of his policy ideas to create a track record of legislative leadership and meaningful change for the American people. What are your thoughts #yanggang?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

If you’re confused about what’s happening with Nvidia right now…

Basically Jensen Huang, the guy who runs Nvidia, which is the company that makes the chips basically every AI company on earth needs, just sent an email to his entire company admitting he cheated on his wife, and that came right after the New York Times reported that US intelligence believes a woman who got close to him was secretly passing information to the Chinese government, and to understand how we got here you have to go back to June 2024, when this Chinese businesswoman named Alice Huang, who also goes by Huang Le and isn't related to Jensen at all, they just have the same last name, gets photographed at a party in Taipei sitting right next to him, and then about a year later her company, a small Singapore company called Megaspeed that almost nobody had ever heard of, reportedly sets up a deal to buy around $2 billion worth of Nvidia's chips, which is a crazy amount of money for a company that small, and the Times even pointed out it was an unusual amount of business for a firm like that, and people already had questions about where all those chips were really going, but Nvidia looked into it and said everything checked out, so for a while that's kind of where things sat, until October 29, when the Times reported that US intelligence had concluded Alice was passing information to Beijing, and that it wasn't some new discovery either, because Trump had reportedly been briefed on it about a year earlier, and the officials involved apparently believed Jensen didn't know what she was up to, but here's the strange part, nobody ever told him, because there's this thing called a defensive briefing, where counterintelligence people basically pull someone aside and say hey, a foreign government might be targeting you, be careful, and Jensen never got one, even though the whole time the government was still watching her, so you have the head of the most important AI chip company in the world apparently being targeted, and the people who knew about it just let it keep going, and then everyone starts denying it, Nvidia says the Megaspeed allegations were already investigated and debunked last year, China's foreign ministry says the whole report is baseless, and Jensen says the business with Megaspeed was totally normal, just a customer buying chips like any other customer, but Congress doesn't let it go, and three House Republicans who run national security committees ask Jensen to come in and explain himself in a closed-door briefing, which means a private meeting away from the public and the cameras, and then on a Sunday, out of nowhere, Jensen sends that email to every single employee saying he had been unfaithful to his wife, that it hurt her and their children, and that nothing excused what he did, and he doesn't say who it was with, but you can imagine where everyone's mind went, and right after that, Nvidia's board, which is the group of people who are supposed to oversee the CEO, announces it's setting up an independent committee with outside lawyers to investigate, but at the same time says it has no reason to believe any national security secrets or company secrets were compromised and that it still has confidence in him, and then a company spokesperson comes out and says none of this is going to slow Nvidia down and Jensen is going to keep running the company without any interruption, so basically you have a suspected Chinese intelligence asset who got close to the CEO, a $2 billion chip deal, a president who reportedly knew about, a CEO who was never warned, a confession about an affair, an investigation, and a company insisting everything is fine, so that's pretty much where Nvidia is tonight.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Hold on, folks. Can we talk about Hakeem Jeffries for a second?

He spent four years in the minority with no gavel, no subpoenas, and no committee chairs. And he still got results. He forced the vote on the Epstein files, and it passed 427 to 1.

He forced a House vote on extending the ACA tax credits, with three Republicans signing his petition. He forced a vote to restore union rights for a million federal workers.

He helped get Ukraine aid through. And he ran months of war games to prepare for every dirty trick this regime might pull on the midterms.

Three days before the election he told a rally: “One of the first things we’re going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town.” That doesn’t sound like a guy without a spine to me.

He’s said “accountability” in dozens of speeches. The subpoena power arrives January 3rd, and you’d better believe he plans to use it.

I get it. We’re all hungry for hearings. So am I. But responsible leaders don’t promise revenge on camera, they build cases that hold up.

Speaker Emerita Pelosi made the job look easy, because she was insanely good at it, and she is precisely who has showed him the ropes.

That job seems hard as hell to me, and that's probably why whenever "popular" Democrats are asked if they want it, they're like "Nope. And I will be voting for Leader Jeffries."

An overwhelming majority of Democratic members of Congress plan to back him as Speaker, but he hasn’t even been sworn in as Speaker yet. Let him do the job before we cut him off at the knees.

Republicans would LOVE it if Democrats did their dirty work for them, knocking out our FIRST Black Speaker of the House in history.

JFC, even the horrible, lying jackass Mike Johnson got TWO FULL YEARS, and he accomplished NOTHING for the American people.

Affordability. Accountability. That’s what the MAJORITY of voters asked for, and he’s laser-focused on both.

Give the man a chance.🙏💪

[New Progress 🧢⬆️🍎🦉🇺🇸 #HumanityForward @NewProgressUSA]

And universal basic income, which will do the most to help people with preventative care.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Gary Chambers of Louisiana deserves accolades for the years of advocacy and organizing in the Black community to galvanize political power and turnout the vote. He has pointed out there should be a new Southern strategy with a call to action for the National Democratic Party. With 30-40% Black population in the Southern States these midterm elections was a demonstration of the work paying off. This is a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. While Stacey Abrams deserves praise for the organizing that brought on this Blue wave in Georgia, @GaryChambersJr has been doing the same in Louisiana. With no resources from the National party, we were 2 points from winning the Senate seat, 2 seats in a runoff on December 12, and the attention of the nation, in spite of the Voting Rights Act being destroyed in Louisiana v. Callais. When evil people plot, good people plan. Gary Chambers reminds us to exercise our right of self determination. Vote 12/12

[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

@CNNSOTU

[🧢 Pastor Eric P Chen @ericpschen]

@Dr_JLJohnson Amen!

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

a 7-book crash course in strategy:

1) Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.