Rate shocks like this were political poison during the Obama years. Odds are they still are.

Lots of worthwhile talk about whether Dems have moved too far left. Not enough worthwhile talk about this.

Florida has nearly 3 million SNAP recipients. Texas has 3.5 million. All those deep red Southern states have huge SNAP populations.

Dems are the precipice of delivering a yuge electoral blow to Trump. They lead in NJ-GOV (only close one), VA-GOV, & NYC Mayor. Trump's way underwater in all 3 places (like he is nationally) & is drag. Historically, a sweep of NYC-NJ-VA means Dems win the House the next year.

Top five issues for Virginia voters in this election: economy (47%), health care (21%), immigration (12%), education (10%), crime (6%). Transgender rights didn't make the cut. (via NBC News exit polls)

Update: this has happened. Dems on track to win at least 64 (!) VA House of Delegates seats, w/ two races still outstanding. Massive Dem night.

In the Biden White House, we also decided to point to our opponents’ extremism rather than laser focus on rising costs and affordability. I’m sure it’ll work out a lot better for the NRCC though.

Finally something all of DC can get behind

There are a lot of MAGA people online admitting that Trump is betraying them and if you dunk on these people you are very likely terrible at politics. Politics is about addition, not subtraction.

"The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol," washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

I still laugh out loud every time I see this

People aren't focused enough on the word "denaturalize" here The President says that he will revoke the *citizenship* of Americans who weren't born here if he and Stephen Miller determine decide they need to go. Denaturalization is a rare and legally difficult process that Miller

Please don’t make me agree with Chip Roy

The NYT is now projecting that Republicans win #TN07 by 8.6 points - a 13.7 point shift left from 2024. If every state shifted that much in 2026, Democrats would flip all of these Senate seats: Maine North Carolina Ohio Florida Alaska Iowa Texas

More Biden: "There are young people sitting alone ... wondering literally whether...they’ll ever be loved, would ever marry, will ever have a family, ever truly be accepted ... My message to young people is this - Just be you. Be who you are. You are loved."

This is so so deeply Un-American

given rising global populism — and tendency to demonize people with little power in society — worth reflecting that the hero in Australia's mass shooting was a Syrian refugee, and the key witness in the Brown University shooting was a homeless man

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

Some of ChatGPTs best work

"No one should retire at 65" is the thing you say when you're in your 40s and your job is yelling into a microphone, something you can easily imagine doing forever - and not laying carpet or working in a department store or being, say, a cop or firefighter