According to the new NBC News poll, the only major figure in America more popular than Taylor Swift is ... Tim Walz. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Why do I owe people I despise time in front of my eyes? I don’t. Why is it whenever the left makes a home for themselves that gets a modicum of popularity you weirdos come in to whine that it’s an echo chamber? Go to Threads or wherever. We’re not changing for you
What? Trump is MAGA. Project 2025 is Trump. Ezra tries to paint Trump has somehow less radical than his people. No, he is their vector. The MAGA Movement Has Become a Problem for Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/o...
The former president’s problem in the 2024 election is that he can no longer run as if he is a man alone.
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Autocracy, Inc. Book quote Autocracy, Inc. Book quote, p. 41: To stay in power, modern autocrats need to be able to take money and hide it without being bothered by political institutions that encourage transparency, accountability, or public debate. The money, in turn, helps them shoure up (1/2)
Our own culturally astute polisci professor Meredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.socialabcnews.go.com/538/taylor-s...
Taylor Swift’s fans largely lean Democratic, but her support of Kamala Harris could boost engagement.
Chief Justice John Roberts sounds delusional. Not insane or hallucinating. But so out of touch, so high on his own supply, so deep in a bubble that he—according to this NYT report—thought that his terribly reasoned, wildly un-American immunity ruling would be well received by the public and history.