"I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars" is the hardest hitting line I've heard in a long time and I would crawl over people to vote for someone who says this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 39m ago

El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "

I'm sure that now we've voted to not raise sales tax, Kehoe will leave the issue alone and respect the vote of the people. Just like the Republicans did on Medicaid expansion, and Paid sick leave, and Banning Puppy Mills, and Right To Work, and Abortion Rights.

New York is such a focal point of power that Mamdani deciding who can access him, the reigns of power, and ladders to climb, it will have much needed downstream impacts across the country.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Is he staring at Mitch McConnell?

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 10h ago

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

Eager for Jamie Harrison to weigh in on Michigan because he should know a lot about millions of dollars being wasted on a Senate election.

Katelyn Zach is in the same boat as Betsy. She's absolutely going to flip this seat.

Angel of the Ozarks@angeloftheozarks.bsky.social · 7h ago

SD 30 is going to be handily flipped by Betsy Fogle in Nov. People in this SD had no reason to grab a ballot other than your party affiliation. Most offices were unopposed. I did have a reason to grab a R ballot and am happy to report Rex Sinquefield wasted millions on a primary backing Curtis.

SD 30 is going to be handily flipped by Betsy Fogle in Nov. People in this SD had no reason to grab a ballot other than your party affiliation. Most offices were unopposed. I did have a reason to grab a R ballot and am happy to report Rex Sinquefield wasted millions on a primary backing Curtis.

Imagine waking up and asking oneself "how can I lose the midterms even more?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

Trump: "I think any community that turns down AI is making a big mistake ... data centers, if you look at the state, everything is good around them"

Many people use "sociopath" and "psychopath" interchangeably but the two are very different and actually easy to tell apart. Psychopaths have broad, U-shaped snouts where the lower teeth are typically not visible, while in sociopaths the snout is narrow and V-shaped & some lower teeth *are* visible.

I fail to see why winning elections is hard.

State of St. Louis@stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 19h ago

Predicting @angeloftheozarks.bsky.social will win her primary for Greene County Auditor by a landslide

When you tickle my son he often says "Oh no!" with such fervor that I lose it.

There's always gotta be one county. The fuck Warsaw, MO?

Missouri voters have overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 5, the GOP-backed plan to phase out the state income tax and replace it with higher sales taxes

Missouri voters reject Amendment 4. The Republican-backed measure, designed to make it far harder for citizen initiatives (like abortion rights, marijuana, etc.) to pass by requiring majorities in all 8 congressional districts, has failed. Simple statewide majority rule stays.

I am prone to hyperbole, but 4 and 5 aren't just going to lose. They're going to lose in historically bad fashion. #FullCollapse www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Now I just waste my night hitting refresh on election results.

Renaming my Roomba James Carville because it sucks.

Wow listening to Max Miller is incredibly triggering.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Hi I'm on the ballot in Greene County. I'm uncontested on the Democrat ballot, so feel free to grab a Republican ballot. You'll have a second chance to vote for me in November.

Jason Rosenbaum@jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy Election Day, Missouri

We call it sausage milk gravy.

Cezary Jan Strusiewicz@ostrichson.bsky.social · yesterday

In my recent quest to try every American food that I've been seeing in movies and TV for years, I recently had southern-style biscuits and gravy and I have just two questions: 1. Y'all eat this for BREAKFAST? 2. How do you not eat this for every meal of the day?

The Michigan Senate primary and the Missouri CD01 primary tomorrow are going to be a huge indicator of what to expect in Nov.

He bought stock in Scott's today. Watch the price of SMG go up.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

The President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.

I have half a book left of Dungeon Crawler Carl and my God what a journey it's been.

My healthcare organization's hospitals had to make additional ICU beds in the PACUs, in the cath labs, in the SDUs... fuck him right in the face with a dead raccoon dick

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Every morning RFK Jr and Stephen Miller text each other their body count, but the bodies they're counting is how many people their policies have killed.

Tuesday is going to be a fucking wild election day.

MO at least we didn't elect Eric Greitens to the Senate, a man who assaulted his wife, blackmailed a woman with nude photos, and hit his toddler son so hard that he lost a tooth Ya know, someone Trump proudly endorsed Moreno should be in jail, not the Senate, for the abuse of his wife and toddler

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Sen. Moreno claims Fauci "killed seniors" and calls him a "smug SOB"

Did Fauci throw scalding water on your daughter, though? Did he put a gun to her head? Did he break your granddaughter's collarbone? Has your daughter just put out a restraining order against Dr. Fauci? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Sen. Moreno claims Fauci "killed seniors" and calls him a "smug SOB"

I really want to believe The Good Place finale got it right and these people have to go through the simulation over and over and over again until they finally reconcile their awful behavior and do better.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 5d ago

establishment dem candidates really love going full islamaphobe after a couple polls showing them getting decimated by their more progressive primary opponents. very gross. get your house in order