First task: assessing whether having co-leaders is efficient

I see we're gonna do that thing were people cheering on Elon/DOGE (1) find an NIH study that costs a relatively insignificant sum of money (2) frame it as an insane expenditure to research some absurd concept, (3) while masking the actual real scientific purpose behind it.

We’re a week in and Donald Trump has handed the US government to the richest man on earth, begun the process to purge generals who won’t swear personal fealty to him, appointed a sex trafficker to run the law enforcement system, and appointed a Russian spy to head US intelligence

My God. This is what the NYT's first pass at the Tulsi Gabbard news looks like. Treating this as totally normal. Just amazing.

In Russian state television, the debate is whether Tulsi Gabbard should be referred to as "our agent" or as "girlfriend."

What I’m hearing privately from a few key GOP senators: yes, they’d prefer to not have a messy fight over Gaetz. Not their favorite. But they also don’t have a lot of energy for pushing back. Trump runs the show, they say. If Gaetz can reassure them, they’re open to backing him.

Look at this graph and explain to me why you think I should read this as a measure of consumer confidence rather than partisanship.

Harris lost all seven swing states, but in five of them - Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin - she's ending up with more raw votes than Biden got in 2020. If you still think all those swing state mail votes in 2020 were fake, idk what to tell you.

It seems timely to repost one of my favourite tables: cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-m…

Publicly demanding a cover up of a Republican-led ethics investigation into the Attorney General nominee doesn’t suggest much confidence that it will exonerate Gaetz

This is true

Come the fuck on

Some pundits would rather revive old grievances than do any self-reflection. After VP Harris’s loss, we should be talking about how we bring people *into* our coalition, not who we kick to the curb.

Regardless of its historical context it also looks like shit

I'm sorry, the old Nancy can't come to the phone right now.

Since the election, the percentage of Republicans who say that they're financially worse off than they were a year ago is down by 15 points lmao

In Oregon, Democrats have a shot at supermajorities in both legislative chambers. They've got the Senate. In the House, it comes down to one seat—and they're still curing ballots. Democrat Lesly Muñoz has a tiny lead over Rep. Tracy Cramer. On Nov 15, just 34 votes. Now ~123.