Looking at the results from Virginia last night with the nominees clearing the majority in each, one lesson is very clear: You can’t just post and coast through these primaries on social media and speeches alone. You gotta invest in a ground game with field and paid media early.

Guess those “cool kids on the internet” were right. This goes to show the massive shift to the Left in the electorate post 2024 as well as the toxicity of AIPAC in voters’ eyes in an electorate like Michigan, even with the spending advantage.

Tonight every contested Democratic primary in Virginia produced a majority winner. Luria 80.6. Perriello 78.7. Beyer 67. Taylor 52.7. Powers 50.7. Virginia Dems are locked in and ready to win in November. Let’s go flip this house.

Tonight every contested Democratic primary in Virginia produced a majority winner. Luria 80.6. Perriello 78.7. Beyer 67. Taylor 52.7. Powers 50.7. Virginia Dems are locked in and ready to win in November. Let’s go flip this house.

The New York GOP ran on one man’s checkbook. Ronald Lauder: $13M into House races in 2022, $5M to MAGA Inc. last year. This year: nothing. Super PAC idle. Staff dismissed. The state Conservative Party chair, asked who replaces him: “The simple answer is no.” Not a movement. An account.

That’s not the defense you think it is, guy.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

They were ready to convict a 67-year-old American citizen of a felony rather than admit a $14.6M no-bid pool job was botched. Their own court filing says botched. This morning the President said he disagrees with his own prosecutor 100%. The charges are gone. He is still making them.

Virginia’s governor restored voting rights to 66,085 people in six months. Her predecessor: a few thousand a year. The constitution strips the vote for any felony unless a governor personally acts. November’s ballot: an amendment making it automatic. So the right never depends on who wins.

DOJ dropped its case tonight against the former Olympian it accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Its own filing: the damage was “flawed installation by the contractor” and the rush to finish before America 250. That contractor had never held a federal contract.

Then you live next to them

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

MAHA tells you to eat “real food” but you can’t eat: - Leafy Vegetables and berries because of explosive diarrhea - Eggs because of salmonella - Bacon because of ??? - Salmon, deli foods, cheeses, for reasons.

Trump Quixote 🤝 Dons who hate windmills.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Trump: "Any time you see windmills, you see a failing country"

The administration asked SCOTUS Monday to unblock its mail voting order. 99 days out. The order: no mail ballot delivered to anyone not on an approved federal list. The government’s own filing says it must happen “as soon as early to mid-August.” Not after the courts. Before the voters

Harvard study: one Sterling data center’s permitted emissions, 3.4 to 6.5 early deaths a year. Virginia’s DEQ director forwarded it to seven staff in under five minutes, asking for a “defensible critique.” A staffer: “We aren’t qualified to do that review.” Published it anyway.

People will call for this when their candidates are winning or the incumbent and then will call for a more formalized policy platform when a more progressive or further left candidate comes along that they disagree with who gains popularity.

Virginia’s eastern groundwater study was due in January. DEQ denied the AP’s request for it. The governor’s office released it Thursday night, six months late. The aquifer is declining, regulators can’t reject industrial water permits, and the state can’t measure what data centers use.

“President Trump is here too, just out of frame.”

The DNC has chosen Virginia for the early window of the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries. Our diverse population, proximity to the Capitol, Southern culture, and history as the Mother of Presidents make us the most strategic last stop to vet our candidates. We vote on leap day.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. It took 37 years of vaccination to eliminate measles. Eighteen months of MAHA to bring it back.

So…are we gonna talk about what’s going on in 2026 with a particular kind of guy in entertainment or no? Because it seems to be happening…a lot…

The official government site for the CDC now features misinformation on the “link” between autism and vaccines. We are inevitably about to face a generation of unvaccinated kids never before seen and we are not ready for that pandemic when it comes. Beyond cooked.

Trump told a rally last night that “affordability” is “a word made up by the Democrats.” Fourth time since December: “con job,” “hoax,” “fake word,” now “made up.” Inflation is at a three-year high. Seven months arguing with the word instead of the prices.

It’s a femininomenon

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "It's a new phenomena. It's a phenomenae."

I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film a Lord of the Rings adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original text and delivered in Sindarin Elvish.

Dominion’s own filings: data centers drive ~68% of its $7.59B transmission plan. This case asks customers for $1.58B of it. Microsoft’s lawyer told the SCC it shouldn’t examine who causes the costs. Your bill already pays the line item. The SCC rules by August 1.

The DOJ subpoenaed phone records of NYT reporters’ families. One reporter’s mother. Two spouses. Two of the subpoenas reach back to January 1, months before the articles they claim to be investigating. They are not hunting a leak. They are mapping who journalists talk to.

Mitch McConnell is dead but Woke is alive

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 3w ago

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ grossed ~$51.2M on its domestic opening day 💰 • Biggest opening day for a live-action film this year • One of the biggest ever for a Rated-R film

The first thing Nancy Mace posted right after Lindsay Graham died was acting like Michael Corleone getting reluctantly “pulled back in.” Started exploring the seat within hours. Nine days later: “I’m not chasing another title.” Turns out nobody was pulling her back in.

To be clear: when we said more politicians should “reach across the aisle”, this is NOT what we meant.

Everyone is technically registered as “No Party Preference” in Virginia…but congrats on being such a unique maverick or whatever. The man “who spent twenty years calling balls and strikes” just registered for a category that does not exist in his state.