zach blackburn
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the human trampoline
Thomas J. Smith raised no money, nabbed no notable endorsements, dropped out of the race, and actively told voters to support someone else. He woke up this morning with the GOP nomination in MI-08
Do not tell the vegan police that James Talarico is eating meat to win Texas
This Washington Post headline looks eerily similar to a DSA agenda item
Without much spending or a county line, we wondered how GOP Senate primary voters might make their decision. Looks like the slogans have sway!
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka declares a curfew for the half-mile area surrounding the Delaney Hall ICE facility. A daily 9 PM-6 AM curfew “until further notice”
A young, sizable crowd in Trenton this morning for NJ-12 candidate Adam Hamawy, who is rallying with leftist streamer Hasan Piker
Attorney General Jennifer Davenport confirms that state troopers have indeed left the area surrounding Delaney Hall for the time being
Big morning. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport says she’s investigating World Cup ticket sales, and Gov. Mikie Sherrill is announcing a “comprehensive” data center plan in about 10 minutes.
The internal DNC autopsy is littered with statistical errors and unsourced claims (classic passive-aggressive edit here). Public pressure forcing the Democratic Party to put an unpolished product into the limelight? Is this a metaphor?
I get why Ken Martin didn’t want to put this out. Unsourced data and claims throughout. Shockingly little discussion of the content of the primary
I was gonna crack wise about the new Theo Baker book being the modern God and Man at Yale, until I saw the NYT review pretty much beat me to it
Some might remember David Scott as the congressman who cussed at a Politico photographer who took a picture of him in a wheelchair, and whose staff later threatened to go to that photog’s editor
Early in the stages of Apollo planning, there was some dissent on what the lunar surface would be like, so the engineers just winged it
Stopped by the FDR library this weekend. That first edit has got to be the clutchest edit ever