And that somehow bankrupted a casino

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

At this point the 5th circuit really does just need to be entirely shitcanned and start afresh, there’s simply no reasoning with terrorists.

SO READY FOR UPDATES

I would like to request one crush with my head right between those thighs plz

This is a BFG to get the endorsement of the CA State Assembly Speaker.
Let’s go Becerra Era! 💙🗳️

What’s behind Xavier Becerra’s sudden surge in California’s governor’s race | Opinion The Democratic Party has become so data driven that it has lost connection with real people.

EXCELLENT article on the grassroots momentum Becerra has gained in the CA governor race. A multi-racial cross-section of the working class showed up in HUGE numbers for his LA forum proving that his campaign, not the DNC, has a pulse on what voters are looking for.

www.fresnobee.com/opinion/arti...

I’m feeling more and more encouraged by the day that Becerra will at least make it through the primary to the general, whether that’s against a Republican or Steyer heading into November.

In the cross-tabs he also gains the largest share of Betty Yee’s supporters after she dropped out this week.

Extremely reliable IVP poll of 3400 Californians has Becerra surging to number one in the governor race. All respondents were drawn from the L2 CA voter file who’d participated in at least 3 of the last 4 statewide elections including at least one primary and one general.

ivn.us/posts/breaki...

They don’t though, because so many of them never travel themselves and realize how much of a bubble they’re in lol

My favorite is the warnings when I travel abroad still, in my mid-30s mind you, even though the US is far more dangerous than almost any other country I’ve visited lol

DIVA DOWN

X post by Xavier Becerra: "Steve Hilton appears in the Epstein files. I'm sure he'll explain himself." Screen shot of email from July 24, 2011 from Jeffrey Epstein to Ian Osborne, asking if David Cameron could be at a meeting - the email quotes Osborne who asks if Woody Allen could be present at a meeting with Epstein and Rohan Silva, head of then Prime Minister Cameron's policy unit and Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy.

🧵With @becerraforca.bsky.social surging in the polls, & @realtomsteyer.bsky.social doing well also, this is a good time to remind Californians that Brit Steve Hilton, Brexit fan, Fox News personality, & Trump endorsed, also appears in the Epstein files! No MAGA Gov for CA!

Robert Garcia endorsing Porter who’s clearly stagnated in the CA governor race instead of his fellow Latino progressive Becerra is legit bonkers and wildly out of touch.

an elderly woman in a pink dress is opening a door ALT: an elderly woman in a pink dress is opening a door

“I can’t see taps.”
“I can’t see albums.”

Okay well diva with all due respect, I can’t see why we’re having this conversation then.

It’s almost quaint how Thomas is so certain they’ll either still have control or he’ll be alive 8 years from now with his recent spate of hospitalizations given every SCOTUS member in recent memory has died in their early 80s.

Gm let’s get this bread (literally though, I just ate a bunch of the sourdough I baked earlier this week) 🥖😋

It’s kinda giving homemade Hamburger Helper, and honestly I kinda fuck with that. Sounds super nostalgic and tasty 😋

Not interrupting his peacemaxxing

I don’t think they have based on the groundswell of support Becerra has been getting in the past week. Seems more like all of Steyer’s money was able to juice the polls in his favor, but he’s hit a ceiling.

Quick somebody ask Tom Steyer what he paid in taxes this year, and what his commitment is on a CA wealth tax for billionaires like himself who can blow through $120 million in personal ad spending on a vanity campaign for governor with zero political experience.

I wanna swing him around by that stupid little goatee like Ms. Trunchbull and launch him into the sun.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Tom Steyer can buy all the ads he wants, but he can’t buy an election.

I’m gonna hold onto my ballot and if we get to June and Steyer is somehow still leading, I will hold my nose and vote for him to keep Bianco and Hilton from clinching both spots, but the momentum is definitely with Becerra right now heading into the debates.

Spending $120 million in personal wealth on a vanity campaign is insane when there are qualified people he could help elect, and all that money could be going to candidates around the country to end MAGA control. We don’t need billionaires buying elected office, even if they claim to be progressive.