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Im wondering if, to the extend the Latino swing to Ds this year endures, if Texas might get bitten in the ass by their new gerrymander. That would be glorious.

I want to see that.

Im way old school, really prefer scrolls. Never really took to the codex. So switching to ebooks was easy for me.

I can’t read books anymore, by which I mean codices. I’m too spoiled with my kindle and its control over font size.

At the moment I’m reading the new Chernow biography of Mark Twain. Very much enjoying it.

Nice find. I'll give that cleaner a try.

@wtg said in It's either time to stock up...:

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Apparently it's only some brands.

Yea, but it's basically all the big ones.

@jon-nyc said in It's either time to stock up...:

(We could all do with less pasta anyway.)

Speak for yourself.

I'm among the exceptions. I'm constantly battling to put weight on and I burn crazy calories exercising.

Apparently it's only some brands. (We could all do with less pasta anyway.)

More and more content is obviously AI generated. So many fake videos on Facebook right now. And of course bots on Twitter.

The silver lining is it should reduce my use of it as I get increasingly fed up with it.

Nature is healing.

True that.

I still think it could be a political win for the Dems, when the premiums rise. (Putting policy aside, obviously)

This is not at all a surprise.

The side that wanted a clean CR has literally always prevailed over the side that wanted to use the shutdown as leverage for their policy position.

In all previous shutdowns (at least in my lifetime) it has been the Dems pushing the CR. This is the first time it was reversed.

Pee-wee German.

Some perspective:

Zohran Mamdani and Abigail Spanberger, both victorious in yesterday's US elections, offer two competing visions for the future of the Democratic party. His background is affluent and highbrow; her parents were a police officer and a nurse. His worldview is just the combination of blame-Israel-and-America-first third-worldism and modish socialism you'd expect from a child of privilege; she, while decidedly liberal, is far nearer the political center of gravity and, for instance, supported Trump's bombing of Iran.

Mamdani has never really had a career outside politics; Spanberger was an operations officer with the CIA, giving her credibility on national security, as well as a concrete sense of how the real world works. He, for all his genuine charisma, could never be elected outside a deep blue metropolis like New York City; she just won statewide office, and will succeed a Republican governor, suggesting her brand of politics has real crossover appeal. He openly embraces the "socialist" label, anathema to most American voters; she has openly called on Democrats to avoid it like the plague. And so on. In other words, Spanberger's model of political success is one that can and should be transferrable while Mamdani's victory only proves that any number of toxic views and associations can be overcome, if you have the good fortune to run against deeply compromised opposition in one of America's most left-wing cities.

Only 6k sq feet? Prolly need to buy 2 and combine them.

I remember that. Seems so ancient watching the clip.

Oops

He’s not wrong.

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1978111065872269640?s=46

Or at least a cease fire. We’ll see.

It seems too early to judge, but a cease fire with hostages released is obviously a win regardless of what happens later.

What I find encouraging is Hamas’ supporters in the West are sad and so are Smotrich and his kind. That doesn’t mean the deal is good necessarily, but of either of those groups were happy we would know it’s a horrible deal.

There is very, very little trans participation in high school sports

Then we can at least agree it’s not worth losing elections over, right?

It seems to me there is no other way back to being a national party. We need to publicly recognize that there are instances where trans women’s desires conflict with biological women’s rights and the latter must prevail. Or at least be considered in a democratic process.

Gavin Newsom, for all my complaints about him, has figured this much out.