Will McGrew

geopolitical economist. journalist. louisianist. idea pluralist. researcher for @SteveRattner. founder @TeleLouisiane @Ecole_PAC. FR-GAL-ES-EN-عر.

[Will McGrew @Will_McGrew]

@KatTimpf They left out this part of the quote:

“You should be home”

[Qué más da @flotontino]

Pedro Sánchez es un fenómeno de la política.

Por eso la extrema derecha franquista, le tiene pánico.

Esto a Jordi Wild, es de Champions League.

[Strxwmxn @strxwmxn]

"You're not talking to someone who woke up a loser."

This was an insane clip, even before Jensen was caught in a CCP honeypot.

[⚜︎ @carmilith]

south Louisiana needs a reliable, fast, and maintained passenger railway system

a boy can dream

[Julie O'Donoghue @JSODonoghue]

This is basically how weddings are done in New Orleans. When I visited NOLA venues for my wedding, every single caterer and wedding venue owner told us so. No assigned seating. No servers. (We had plenty of tables. Just no formal seating chart.)

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Netanyahu Grabbed Trump By The P*ssy

Our most urgent task after the midterms is to create a list of everyone who supported the Iran War so we’ll know who to never, ever, ever, ever trust again. Pending a full accounting, here are the top two: Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, and Rupert Murdoch — still alive as of this writing — patriarch of Fox News and The New York Post.

It may be unfair to blame Netanyahu, since it obviously doesn’t matter who the prime minister is. Israelis overwhelmingly support the war and worship Trump for pursuing it.

Let’s see how much they love this: eighty percent of the party that’s about to control Congress has an unfavorable view of Israel. (And the other 20% is fanatically anti-Israel.)

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and closely affiliated United Democracy Project (UDP) spent an estimated $45 million to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan—who famously refused to answer whether Israel or Iran was a bigger threat to the U.S. That money became toxic, driving support for El-Sayed. He will now be the first Muslim United States senator.

As some of us warned you from the beginning, the war was going to be very bad for our country, bad for the GOP—and bad for Israel. That’s why a lot of people who appreciate Israel’s core values were among those issuing this warning. But war supporters apparently felt their strongest counter-argument was to scream about antisemitism.

Mark Levin, whom Murdoch has given his own show for some reason, called war opponents the “Woke Reich” driven by a “hatred of Jews” who are “ok with Iran and Putin” and act as “the modern-day appeasers of Hitler in the 1930s.”

Even Ben Shapiro, who unlike Levin was never kicked in the head by a horse, denounced libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie for opposing the war, as well as foreign aid to Israel—or to anybody else, for that matter—accusing him of harboring a “not particularly subtle antisemitism.” (Sorry, Ben! You’re almost always right, but this is a really annoying argument.)

And look what happened. Previously, most Americans never thought about Israel, and those who did—evangelicals and neoconservatives—unreservedly supported it. A Pew poll this spring found that 60% of Americans now hold an unfavorable view of the country. In a Quinnipiac University survey, 60% of voters said they disapproved of the U.S. sending military aid to Israel. This matched other surveys, such as one by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Today—for the first time since 2001—more Americans sympathize with the Palestinians than with Israel, according to Gallup polls. Support for Israel used to run in the double digits. ...

While the media are determined to convince us the blue tsunami was about the public’s hatred of ICE, Elon Musk, tariffs, “voter suppression,” Jan. 6, and that monkey business at Bonwit Teller, voters have consistently said it’s the Iran War and its consequences.

October polls:

· AP-NORC poll: 80% want the next Congress to make “cost of living” a top priority; 70% say ending the Iran war is the top priority.

· NYT/Siena poll: Voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on two issues: gas prices and “foreign wars.” Trump’s worst issue was gas prices, with 73% disapproving.

· Fox News poll: 75% “extremely” or “very” concerned about the Iran war.

· Gallup poll: 47% called the Iran War “extremely important,” and 42% named “gas prices.” Only the economy and healthcare narrowly edged out Iran as extremely important at 50% each.

And so on. Virtually every poll shows that the top election issues were the Iran War, gas prices, and the cost of living. And the reason gas prices are high is because of the war; the reason the cost of living is high is because of gas prices.

FULL COLUMN WITH LINKS HERE:

https://t.co/WQ5M64zR6o

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Mike Rogers claimed El-Sayed as someone who believes America deserved 9/11. He never said it. Meanwhile two Rogers strategists are registered foreign agents for Israel. Hard to lecture anyone about loyalty after that.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

I disagree with El-Sayed on a lot, but Republicans defamed him. He ran against the Iran war: why spend on bombs, not health care for Americans? That’s MAGA. Republicans should ask the same about illegals. Why are we paying for their medical care, housing and food?

[David Billiot Jr @DCBilliotJr]

New Orleans gets crapped on nationally a lot, but…

The fact that they had a tanker ship crash directly in to a cruise ship with 150+ people on board and many of them end up in the Mississippi River, only for the leaders to step to a microphone just 4 hours later and be able to report 0 loss of life is frankly amazing.

Every single person involved with that incident today deserves credit, because that could have been disastrous.

[Josh Rainer @JoshRainerGold]

Sara Jacobs, a Jewish congresswoman heiress granddaughter to the billionaire founder of Qualcomm, is in a relationship with a Palestinian-Mexican American who keeps running for office and losing who is the grandson of a Palestinian terrorist that was a leader of the PLO and orchestrated the 1972 Munich Massacre where 11 Israeli olympians were executed.

Man that’s a crazy sentence.

[𝗘𝗟 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗕𝗔𝗦 @ElMiticoBarbas]

"Pedro Sánchez va a intentar huir de la entrevista"

El puto Pedro Sánchez:

(Jordi Wild has been Psoed)

[Elaine Godfrey @elainejgodfrey]

Not to make everything about Iowa (lol sorry) but this is something I heard a lot from Democrats who were voting for Rob Sand — that maybe, in a few years, more young people will want to stay in the state, instead of moving to Chicago or Minneapolis or Denver

[Ella Maulding @ellamaulding]

Democrat Scott Colom, who just beat 8-year incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in my state of Mississippi, is pro-border wall, pro-ICE enforcement, and opposes H-1B visas. He wants a temporary ban on data centers, wants communities to have the final say on building, and opposes federal efforts to remove local authority over their development. He described himself as the only candidate not “beholden to the pro-Israel lobby." He's called for the removal of Flock cameras. He is against the Iran War. He is against trans men in womens' sports and gender transitioning for minors.

“President Trump has done a good job securing the border. The Democrats have failed at that. (Companies) firing a bunch of American workers and hiring foreign workers… those jobs need to be in Mississippi.”

Our Democrats are better than half of Republicans nationwide, lol. I know a lot of RW people in my state that voted for him over "pick another protein," do-nothing Cindy Hyde-Smith. Can you really blame them? Best of luck, @scott_colom. Please put Mississippians and Americans first.

[Maine @mainey_maine]

Scott Colom is your average Black male from the South. Center-right

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Quoting St. Francis, Iowa Gov.-elect @RobSandIA told Democrats in Denver today:

“There is nothing that felt better to me as a human being, as a Christian, than to hand the microphone to someone that the whole world is telling me is my enemy.”

[Rodolphe Sambou @RodolpheSambou]

France has lost a true friend. I have lost one too.

State Representative Mike Bayham’s love of France, passion for history, and unwavering commitment to Franco-Louisiana friendship stood out. Above all, I will remember his kindness, decency, and humanity.

Repose en paix, Mike.

[Michael Thomas of Sharon 🌳🌳🌳🐑🐕🏡 @MichaelTG09]

I love how Catholic Louisiana is.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is a message for @realDonaldTrump.

Donald, this is on the table. Guarantee healthcare for every American, from cradle to grave.

[Julie O'Donoghue @JSODonoghue]

Mike Bayham was honest, hardworking and extremely insightful about politics, especially in Louisiana. He gave a lot of his time to the political journalists of this state. I'm grateful for all of our interviews and conversations. #lalege #lagov

https://t.co/AkGtW0NSEr

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Zohran Mamdani is defending his decision to attend an October 7 vigil, arguing that politics should never determine whose deaths deserve to be mourned.
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"There must be room in our politics to mourn everyone who has been killed," Mamdani says, calling for universal compassion and opposition to all war crimes.
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He insists that recognizing human suffering means refusing to pick and choose which lives deserve sympathy.

[J. Miles Coleman @JMilesColeman]

RIP. We both collected Louisiana political memorabilia, and I always thought he had the coolest office.