Rafael Jacob

Ph.D., @TempleUniv. Chercheur associé, Chaire @RDandurand.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Publié le mois dernier. Le choix a visiblement été fait : la première option.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Si les choses continuent sur cette voie, le président des États-Unis aura un choix fondamental à faire : reprendre la guerre, ou larguer Israël.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

"In both the UK and the US, the rise in reports of mental health problems has been much higher in young people than old, and in those on the political left than the right." This graph, wow: https://t.co/54dW4Lk7kG

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

The 2026 Dem insurgency is a new tea party on steroids.

Fewer Dems approve of Dem members of Congress (47%) than the GOP did of GOP members at this pt in 2010 (52%).

More Dem House members are going down in primaries (5 so far & likely rising) than all of 2010 for the GOP (2).

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

I love Maine that Graham Platner news is not surprisingly dominating the Most Read stories on @bangordailynews — but No. 1 most popular is about hummingbirds.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Et ensuite demandez-vous comment Trump peut être élu et réélu quand c'est ça de l'autre côté. Demandez-vous.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

SUPERCUT!

Dems explain why Nazi tattoos & sexually aggressive behavior are fine actually

[Luke Thompson @ltthompso]

Look, if you’re completely amoral, this is the optimal strategy. Platner drops, his reputation is ruined forever and the party can discard him like a bad habit. But if he holds out for a week, most of them will ultimately cave and get behind him.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Avec tout ce qui se passe à l'intérieur des É-U, p-e aussi important de ne pas oublier que pour la 1ère fois, le président s'est envolé pour un sommet international à bord d'un avion payé et ''donné'' par un autre pays ne faisant pas même partie de l'alliance tenant le sommet.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Rappel important sur la dynamique au Parti démocrate: en mai, lorsque l'élu Jake Auchincloss est devenu un des rares du parti à dire publiquement que le tattoo nazi devrait disqualifier Graham Platner, la personne qui s'est faite attaquer a été non pas Platner, mais Auchincloss.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Le Maine, ou : quand les puritains choisissent une brute en pensant qu'il leur permettra de (re)conquérir les plébéiens.

[Yemisi Egbewole @yemisi]

Emma sweetheart, you are not getting off that easy.

Not only did you believe his lies and let this man gaslight you politically, you attacked people who had common sense and two eyes and could see the warning signs from a mile away.

I do not need to be paid, and I certainly was not paid, to get on TV and say that as a Black girl who comes from two working-class immigrant parents and grew up in the South, I do not believe a white man with a Nazi tattoo and a history of allegations about aggressive behavior toward women is going to connect with real working-class voters.

Do you know why? Because working-class people have values. They work hard for what they have. They dream of giving their kids a better life than the one they grew up with. They do not stoop down for every shiny penny.

You were so wrapped up in your hatred for the Democratic Party that you backed a candidate who has now put us in a worse position to gain the Senate majority.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

P-e l'histoire politique la + importante de l'été aux É-U est ce qui se passe au sein du Parti démocrate.

La situation au Maine est rendue intenable. Soit le Parti demeure celui de "Il faut croire les femmes", ou alors il cautionne un type maintenant accusé d'agression sexuelle.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

La meilleure raison de célébrer les 250 ans des États-Unis https://t.co/sVrqTdK6iu

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

The proper interpretation of the Trump Administration is that this is a horrifying example of executive overreach and excessive delegation from Congress that we should rein in. But that is very much not what we are going to do.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Dernier de la saison!
https://t.co/8EsthlyuIj

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Si les choses continuent sur cette voie, le président des États-Unis aura un choix fondamental à faire : reprendre la guerre, ou larguer Israël.

[Rafael Jacob @RafJacob]

Le 1er jour de la guerre, j'ai dit catégoriquement que le pays qui la voulait était Israël.

110 jours + tard, après signature d'entente entre É-U & Iran, les émissaires des 2 pays annoncent qu'ils remettent à + tard les négociations prévues.

Parce qu'Israël bombarde le Liban.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

To the idiots on both sides who said, "Process doesn't matter. This terrible deal is why process DOES matter.

Iran's an awful, dangerous, repressive regime.

But going to war on one man's whim - rather than after a full and proper Congressional debate and with the support of the American people (if that support was forthcoming) meant that our military, as good as it is, had ONE CHANCE to accomplish regime change, from the air alone, a strategy that has never worked in the history of airpower.

Guess what? It didn't this time either. And once it failed, Donald Trump could not escalate. He didn't have the political mandate to do so. I'm not even sure if he could have legally. All his threats were bluffs, as Iran well knew.

So he was negotiating from weakness -- barely negotiating at all, in fact. And the fecal sandwich of a deal we got reflects that.

Now one of the world's worst regimes is more powerful than it was, and the rest of the world knows how easy humiliating the United States can be.

Whether or not you think the risks of going to war against Iran might have been justifiable (I'm on the fence but lean no, as much as I dislike the regime), whether or not you think preemptive war is EVER justifiable, this is the worst possible outcome, and it rests entirely on one @realDonaldTrump and his insistence that he and his whims are more important than Congress, the Constitution, and the American people he is supposed to serve.

Hope that cage match Sunday was fun.