Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai

The lede is like something a soldier might have written decades after storming Omaha Beach, and having lived long enough to tell his grandchildren about how he somehow survived that fateful day.

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

Name a film you watched at a drive-in.

Primetime was surprisingly not very harsh on Chris Hansen. Like yeah, he comes off as an obsessed narcissist, but the movie also portrays him as genuinely believing he is doing battle with metaphysical evil

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

CLAY TRAVIS: Do you think there's a role for you to try to broker peace between baseball owners and players to make sure we don't have a prolonged work stoppage? TRUMP: I've settled eight wars. India-Pakistan. Lots of very good wars. I'm working on Russia-Ukraine.

This is actually hell, right?

JD Vance obliviously decries "grown men who seem to be pretty obsessed with trans children" as an attempt to smear Talarico

There's long been talk about Mullin but it's the first time I've seen it in the national press. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines

(Politico ) - The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices .. @politico.com #ExportBan ⛽️ www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

With all this bullshit news about President Trump renaming things after himself, I’m curious- what’s something you’ve always wanted to be named after yourself? For me, it’s a parasite that gives dolphins GI distress. I’d love for those blubbery jerks to go “oh no, I’ve got the Shiffmans again!”

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

“This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?” Ocasio-Cortez said with a laugh. “That doesn’t make it impossible, but to act as though it’s not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 18-21: The midterms Among likely voters, Democratic congressional candidates lead Republicans 52% to 38% — a 14-point edge, the largest of the cycle Among all registered voters the Democratic lead is 7 points (45% to 38%) yougov.com/en-us/articl...

what is happening here

new outdoor oven (large enough to bake bread in!), first two pizzas. very excited to work on my skills here.

PUBLIC ENEMIES (Mann, 2009)

it's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty)

plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI

chat is that good

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

People on BlueSky are absolutely convinced that I’ve been refuted about this but immigration is still Trump’s best issue and raising its salience is still counterproductive to the goal of beating Trump so we can change immigration policy.