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Spending $30-50 million on a single race and losing by ten or more points may be the death knell for AIPAC's perception as some kind of electoral heavyweight.

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images.

Going outside this morning

We may not have always agreed on everything, but he was a decent, kind man

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

It is very cunning of Lindsey Graham to die to divert attention from Mitch McConnell.

guy who uses the phrase “party apparatchiks” in his withdrawal video: I’m just a dumb ignorant guy and had never heard of a totenkopf

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

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Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

5-4 on "is the constitution constitutional" is a real hell of a judgement

Supreme Court rules Führerprinzip is real but does not apply to brokerage accounts

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party