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New: A deep dive into the big business of welfare and means testing.
Deloitte has made a fortune on error-prone eligibility systems for programs like SNAP and Medicaid. We went to Arkansas and talked to folks struggling to get help in a system designed to break them.
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SC modeled party is at R+1.9 but that is significantly worse than 2024 at this period of EV where it was R+28.8.
Modeled Dem turnout is +7% vs 24 and modeled GOP is -45% vs 2024
147K Black turnout is near even vs 24. Share is 29.5% of ballots cast vs 21.3% in 2024 #scpol
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Average Matt Yglesias post
Joe Mazzulla believes Joker is misunderstood:
“I don't think he was as bad as people made him out to be. I don't think Batman was as good as we made him out to be.”
(via @whitenoisepod_)
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SpaceX and Louisiana officials used NDAs and codenames to keep details of its massive Starbase project secret.
A new lawsuit claims that many of those actions in Vermilion Parish were illegal.
@alexlubben scoop:
They put Obama in this chair for three days and wouldn't let him get up until they finished filming ads for 200 different Democrats
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Breaking: Jonathan Miller, the Libertarian Party nominee for a Cary state senate seat, was taken into custody this afternoon with no shots fired. #ncpol
He called WRAL during the standoff and spoke about what happened.
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It’s notable that Turek polling well behind Sand gets much less attention from the chattering class than AES polling behind Benson
New: Iowa Democrat Josh Turek is running a radical Senate campaign ... to the center
- Opposes impeachment
- Supports Laken Riley Act
- Criticizes Dems for blocking Husted data center bill and farm bill
- Ticks off all the ways he can work with Trump
“Politically, the term moderate can be pejorative. And I say that I’m proudly a moderate," he says in an interview.
His opponent, Rep. Ashley Hinson, says Turek is "going to be voting with Chuck Schumer 100% of the time." But she too is running toward the center, distancing herself from Trump on Iran, Russia and Vivek ad
Turek: Hinson’s “masquerading. I mean that’s a problem for me. I’m genuinely a bipartisan person,” he added. “She has been partisan. … Just be who you are.”
On the throwback race in Iowa, where “They expect us to represent Iowa interests and not just the interests of whoever’s president of the United States," according to Chuck Grassley -->
semafor.com/article/10/25/20…
If you told me six months ago this would happen because everyone agreed *Ager* is going to win, I would have laughed in your face.
House Majority PAC pulling money out of #NC11, where I'm told they feel good about Democrat Jamie Ager's chances over Republican Jennifer Balkcom.
via @AdImpact_Pol:
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NEW —
The super PAC for DATA CENTERS has arrived.
Meet Building the Future. The group is spending millions for Darline Graham in the homestretch, a preview of fights to come in 2028.
With @ELaserDavies:
nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/po…
New rule? The Schumer rule?
It is quite possible that the new rule — the Schumer Rule? — will be that if one party has the majority, it will _never_ hold a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee from a president of the other party, no matter how much time remains until the next election. Democrats talk a lot about expanding the Supreme Court, but if, God forbid, there’s an unexpected vacancy in the next two years, they may well end up shrinking it temporarily.
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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The last thing you hear before it’s announced you’re gonna get drafted
Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers tmz.com/2026/10/25/nicki-min…
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NEW: public school choice may have a place in the policy toolbox, but what happens when choice just reshuffles familiar barriers to quality and access?
I sit down with Princeton’s Jen Jennings, whose new book The Scarcity Loop explains it all.
The raw numbers of GOP 18-29 year olds voting are so low that it genuinely could be 20-30% groypers who are not voting for Republicans
There’s actual research showing that Muslim candidates suffer a far greater electoral penalty than people from almost any other group, and 45% of Michigan voters said they wouldn’t vote for one as president. Your blinders are on
If Rogers wins the MISEN in 9 days, the pundits and the DSA-lefties will point to Islamophobia, and Rogers HAS run an Islamophobic campaign. But AES is unpopular with a wide swath of voters because he's an immature, dislikable jerk. @murphymike has hit on this, and he likes AES!