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Charles Mathewes retweeted
The real implication here: the Kansas Supreme Court now almost certainly stay Democratic until nearly 2050.
Charles Mathewes retweeted
Update…. CNN reporting that UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump’s offer to become press secretary
Reactionaries in Disarray
SCOOP: Heritage Foundation ousts longtime policy scholar Robert Rector, father of 1996 welfare reform law. Amid Roberts/Carlson flap, Rector recalled William F. Buckley's drive to expel anti-semites and 'lunatics' from conservative movement. w/@dlippman politico.com/news/2026/11/07…
Charles Mathewes retweeted
If Mississippi gets called for Colom, Democrats will have won an election to the U.S. Senate in 43 distinct states since 2008. Republicans are at 35, by comparison.
Just a reminder, this Saturday after the midterms, of what some people have sacrificed for the United States. By no means only people in the military; but just one example.
Captain Dixie Kiefer in battle dress on the command bridge of USS Ticonderoga during the launching of aircraft against Luzon, Philippines, November 6, 1944.
He shattered an ankle and a kneecap playing football at the Naval Academy. A few years later, a pilot buzzing him as a joke shattered his elbow. Most men would have taken the hint. Dixie Kiefer kept going.
In 1924 he became the first pilot catapulted off a battleship at night, launching from USS California in San Diego harbor.
In 1942 he was executive officer of USS Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway. When Yorktown was abandoned at Midway, he burned his hands so badly lowering a wounded sailor into a raft that he couldn't hold the line when he went over the side himself. He fell and shattered his right leg and ankle.
He recovered and was given command of the new carrier USS Ticonderoga. On January 21, 1945, off Formosa, two kamikazes hit her. 144 men were killed. Kiefer took 65 pieces of shrapnel and a broken arm, and he stayed on the bridge for nearly twelve hours. To fight the fires, he flooded compartments to list the ship so burning wreckage slid off the flight deck into the sea.
His crew said he had so much metal in him that the ship's compass followed him across the deck. Navy Secretary James Forrestal called him "The Indestructible Man."
Ten months later, on Armistice Day, November 11, 1945, the war was over. Commodore Kiefer was a passenger on a routine Navy flight home to Quonset Point when the plane flew into Mount Beacon, New York, in fog. All six men aboard were killed. Searchers identified him partly by the cast still on his arm from Ticonderoga.
Forrestal, the man who named him indestructible, was born in Beacon.
Dixie Kiefer is buried at Arlington.
Charles Mathewes retweeted
The sobering reality that GOP probably doesn't want to grapple with is that between the course likely coming from @StephenM and the corruption revelations that D oversight will surely produce, there's no reason to think Trump's 37% approval rating in the Voter Poll was his floor
NEW Economist/YouGov: Donald Trump
% of registered voters who approve | disapprove of Trump
This week 36%* | 62%** (-26*)
Last week 39% | 58% (-19)
Start of term 50% | 46% (+4)
*2nd-term low
**2nd-term high
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ALT A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Approval and disapproval of Trump's job performance among registered voters." The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President? (% of registered voters)."
Charles Mathewes retweeted
Overlaying ‘26 results on #Va House, Senate districts suggests ‘27 XGR midterms could produce fattened Democratic majorities.
But - and it’s a big but: #Va has elex every year, and every elex produces different electorate.
And that can mean counterintuitive outcomes.
We still have provisional and late mail votes coming in VA, but @StateNavigate has calculated how each House of Delegates and State Senate district voted this year for the US Senate and US House using current results.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Charles Mathewes retweeted
Maggie Haberman shares her reporting on what drove Trump's chief of staff change and what's happening in the Trump adminsitrataion right now.
Charles Mathewes retweeted
I've seen versions of this cope and they all ignore how many seats Dems started with. The "smart take" was that it would be hard for them to crack 230 bc they had so many swing seats already - Rs entered the cycle with just two members in districts won by Kamala.
The biggest GOP House majority since the New Deal was the 2014 majority of 247 seats. Dems have already zoomed past that. And their big New Deal era majorities relied on Solid South conservatives who were replaced by Rs long ago. A majority of this size, where the most conservative member is Henry Cuellar (a pro-life Hispanic who's otherwise a normal liberal), is brand new.
Charles Mathewes retweeted
Not surprising!
(1) Bro’s dad founded the Gramsci Society😅
(2) Liberalism of mind—in its core, small “l” sense referencing an audaciously curious and epistemically open approach—breeds conversance with many, even/often mutually opposed, ideological groups’ beloved thinkers! 🔥
Charles Mathewes retweeted
I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.
His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.
I say that without reservation.
