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yeah, I just feel like democratic moderates, who are a much larger group, are getting negatively polarized into being to the right of George W. Bush on Muslims by the fact that they cannot deal with the need to change policy on Israel

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.www.nytimes.com

one aggressive hardball thing I would like to see happen is blue states coordinating to have deliberately contradictory and difficult to navigate regulatory environments for hostile regime-aligned businesses such as X. what red states did with abortion pre dobbs.

The hilarious meta aspect of this story about used EV prices in the US rising is how long they take to reach the obvious (but repugnant to The Discourse) conclusion, that people really like the EVs that US carmakers don’t want to sell them www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/u...

EV prices aren't following the 'law of used cars,' analyst says — what it means for buyers and sellersThe prices for used electric vehicles have risen this year, which is unusual, experts said. Affordability and high gas prices help explain why, they said.www.cnbc.com

Not dunking but a number of people have this impression so let’s be clear: Haley Stevens is not only not Jewish, she in fact ran against and beat a Jewish member of the House for her seat

The media and political establishment howling that Mamdani violated sacred norms of moderation, fairness, sensitivity to all New Yorkers, and keeping a narrow municipal focus when he talked about war crimes was awfully quiet while all this other stuff was going on: hellgatenyc.com/how-mamdani-...

It is certainly true that the tech sector enjoys increasing returns. But it is *not* true that this is a difference from "traditional production industries" - increasing returns are ubiquitous in manufacturing. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Today is the last day of public comment on a rule that would force cancer and HIV patients to prove "significant impairment" so they can keep their exemption to Medicaid work requirements. This "will kill people, I’m literally living proof of that," said one patient with a brain tumor.

Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work - The American ProspectA surprise rule added to the Big Beautiful Bill could disrupt access to Medicaid for people with serious illnesses who thought they were exempted from work requirements.prospect.org

I think the way that the lab leak morphed from being about the CCP to being about Fauci was instructive

The thing about this is - the fact that this is even a goal for them makes it clear that SM are flat out just in the business of trying to humiliate a social minority. They just hate trans people, there's not more to their campaign than animus.