Folks...

What remains to be seen is whether or not these people actually come out to vote in the midterms. Furthermore, the way this ends is that one party creates a durable coalition. We'll see about that one...

In a world where both parties are hated, this could be the ballgame:

Another ICE "involved" shooting in Maine this morning. Details are sparse at the moment:

It's going to be really interesting to see who comes out of this Senate nomination convention in Maine. I'm still learning about some of the candidates, but I'll flag that Sen. Duckworth has come out against Nirav Shah

For my NY people out there, it looks like Lawler's days in Congress might be numbered. An internal Conley poll has her up six points:

2. I'm not sure that this is the vindication for Schumer's leadership that outlets like Politico say it is. That's because Janet Mills still lost to him in a primary, and that's because Janet Mills simply isn't the candidate for this moment in the Democratic Party.

For me, it's gotta be Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I know Mel Gibson is basically a terrible person, but Tina Turner's performance is iconic, and the movie is just jam-packed with so many weird ideas. I recently found out they cut roughly half an hour from the movie, which leaves a bunch of questions

He also doesn't really seem to know how to read. Like, he claims, Roberts and Barrett rewrote the Constitution today by abiding by the plain text of the document.

Meet the editor of the Federalist, Sean Davis, who wants to forcibly sterilize all visitors to the United States, lest they give birth while they're here.

The last thing I'd like to note, and this is really an aside, is this phenomenon of centrists claiming James Talarico as one of their own. He's not a DSA type by any means, but in the race against Crockett, he was definitely in the progressive lane.

There are also head-scratchers like this one. Like, it's strange that this insurgent group includes both the House and Senate leaders and think tanks that are more than 20 years old.

Looking through this Politico article on centrist Dems' "freak out" and wondering how much people even really believe this. The thing about Republicans is that they don't need something to be true to use it as an attack against a candidate.

When you dig into the article, Rep. Richard Hudson cites the fact that Democratic Socialists are supposedly less likely to work with Republicans in Congress as a reason voters wouldn't support a Democrat.

I've been reading coverage of last night's primaries all day, and this article in Politico is one of my favorites:

I'll toss another new poll out there today, ARG has Trump at a record low 30% approval. We'll see if other polls confirm this low of an approval rating.

A new poll out of Iowa has Democrat Josh Truek leading over the GOP nominee, Ashley Hinson, 47% to 45%, which, if accurate, would mean there's been a major pro-Dem swing there. Trump won the state by 9 points in 2024.

While I'm interested to see the crosstabs on this one, it's amazing that people see such a divide between the haves and have-nots in today's society.

Interesting poll from CNN and SSRS this morning. I'd be curious to see how feelings about tech oligarchs have tracked with Trump approval in the second term

When one of Tano's colleagues on the commissioner court raised the concern that Monarch Tracking might end up being way more expensive than some of the other options, he brushed those concerns aside. He even commented on how unusual it was for him to do this "re-ranking."

Exclusive: The GOP nominee for a very competitive race in South Texas really wanted to give Monarch Tracking a fat government contract for GPS devices for county vehicles. Suprise! The company's CEO is a donor of his.

Curious to see whether this proves to be the kiss of death for the Stevens campaign

It might also be a good opportunity to let Section 702 die and see if it really matters:

Wondering if the NY Post will consider whether Trump cursed the Knicks by attending...

Considering Villegas' lead is growing as more ballots are counted, it's probably a good time to highlight that this race will be a big deal in CA-22:

I had some photo from the visit:

OK, last photo from the Ms. Rachel visit