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I have a new feature on the history of neonicotinoids, a widely used insecticide that is pushing butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees and other forms of insect life to the brink of extinction interc.pt/2NFwdMC
I don't think the average California liberal understands the degree to which state environmental review laws are used to block/inflate the costs of solar build-out, high speed rail, even carbon removal tech teapawt.net/rpyers/status/21199550…
Missed this earlier, but environmentalists using CEQA to successfully block a carbon capture project is kind of perfect.
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This research firm deserves credit, they used publicly available Singaporean business filings to pretty much nail the entire Alice Huang / Chinese front company buying NVIDIA chips scheme back in May teapawt.net/CulperResearch/status/…
3) $NVDA vouches for Megaspeed - its largest SEA chip buyer, under U.S. and Singapore investigation - as having no Chinese ownership and free of diversion concerns. We uncovered documents, however, that suggest Megaspeed was financed by Alibaba through a Singapore shell company.
From 2017-2022 I would say things along these lines, the most comically uncontroversial positions 95% Americans agree with, and online leftists (and Intercept coworkers) would have weeks-long meltdowns over it. Glad Mamdani is making it okay to be normal again on the left
Mamdani and Trump have both experimented with gov equity stakes in next gen technology. You could see it threading the needle for Democrats to embrace AI and robotics if the public shares in the wealth. Removes the need for new taxes if there's a public dividend from innovation.
College-educated Trump voters remain pro-Trump. But non-college white males, especially Christians, are leaving the movement, w/ many now agreeing w/ Dem policies and candidates. Huge shift if it continues teapawt.net/ScottWRasmussen/status…
🚨Among White Male Voters, the number preferring a candidate who advocated Trump-like policies fell from 49% in January 2025 to 32% in October 2026.
✅Roughly half of those White Men leaving the Trump base now prefer Traditional Republican policies while the other half prefer Traditional Democratic policies.
✅The decline in Trump support included 25% among White Men without a college degree, 6% among those with a Bachelors Degree, and 3% among postgrads.
✅Among White Male Evangelical Christians, the decline was 25 points (from 69% to 44%).
✅Among White Male Bible Believing Christians, the decline was 28 points (from 67% to 39%).
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Hilarious shift. Marc Andreesen spent much of his career demanding the outsourcing of American jobs. Then he saw an opportunity to deregulate crypto scams via Trump, so he switched to performatively supporting MAGA. Now slinking away again. teapawt.net/BigTechAlert/status/21…
🚫 @pmarca is no longer following @DoDeportations
Still followed by: @basedmikelee, @palmerluckey
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I am glad Virginia Foxx lost her seat because she's a corrupt ghoul who used her office to help predatory lenders prey on veterans and defraud our education dollars. Her letter here to a child is just funny, who cares teapawt.net/swd2/status/2117992466…
This take is basically right. But misses that Elon also unintentionally ruined Republicans by making Twitter into a platform that amplified the craziest voices on the right in the exact same way old Twitter helped breed poisonous wokeness on the left. teapawt.net/jarvis_best/status/211…
1. Twitter was the epicenter of wokeness
2. Twitter allowed the left to live in an echo chamber that both rewarded their worst instincts and persuaded the institutional libs to go along with them
3. This locked elected Dems into a Catch 22 where if they were normal about something Twitter would get mad at them; but if they acted Twitter about something, normal people would be annoyed.
4. Elected Dems weighed their options and decided to appease the terrorists
5. Everyone got pissed off at them because they were crazy
6. Elon bought Twitter and turned it into X
7. The left self exiled to BlueSky and secret caves outside of Kabul to regroup
8. Elected Dems and hopefuls felt liberated to signal that they were normalsauce by wearing jeans and hats and eating meat and stuff that would get them literally not figuratively crucified under Woke 1.
9. The exiled left coalesced around a few radicals in terrorist enclaves like NYC and Minnesota and Michigan and told the libs that if they opposed them they’d blow up their cars
10. Free from strict woke constraints imposed by Old Guard Twitter the libs and the left and the rube centrists joined forces and won every single race in the world including the usually right leaning race for assistant comptroller to the garbage collectors union of Swinefister, Nebraska after the candidate wisely deleted a bunch of old tweets about how he wanted to drown every single cop in a vat of acid to free Palestine.
11. So really this is all Elon’s fault.
One of the most enduring "luxury belief" dynamics centers on Israel. The average working class voter thinks it's insane that Israel gets to dictate U.S. foreign policy and forced us into war with Iran. Yet we get lectured by the elites in media that this is somehow a great idea.
Twenty years ago, Blue Dog Dems meant supporting the Iraq war, corporate bailouts and generally pro-big business. The wave of moderate Blue Dogs elected this year are functionally center left on major issues, pro-worker. Overton window radically shifted. teapawt.net/nicholaswu12/status/21…
Interesting to watch Democratic races play out across the country, with random no-name teachers, farmers, and veterans winning huge upset elections -- and in San Francisco, it's a tightly controlled machine with insiders and party bosses selecting successors teapawt.net/sfstandard/status/2118…
Congressman-elect Scott Wiener on Thursday endorsed Assemblyman Matt Haney to succeed him in the California Senate.
📝: @allaboutgeorge sfstandard.com/2026/11/06/sc…
Make this issue go away, keep immigration levels and crime low, and progressives sweep the country. Democrats should embrace every effort to move past the 2020 culture war they inflicted upon themselves. teapawt.net/DecisionDeskHQ/status/…
Decision Desk HQ projects Yes wins the WA Initiative Measure No. IL26-638 Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Nonpartisan Ballot Question
#DecisionMade: 9:04 PM EST
Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/rac…
Two of the bigest Democratic upsets of the year were James Talarico, who quoted the teachings of Jesus from the Gospel every day on the campaign trail, and Adam Hamilton, senior pastor and founder of the Church of the Resurrection teapawt.net/lhfang/status/19745364…
