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TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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In Texas, breaking down cumulative turnout by precinct buckets paints a pretty stark picture.
In precincts that Harris won by 30% or more, we're at 101% of turnout compared to this point in 2024. 100% of turnout in the 15-30% bucket and 102.5% of turnout for the 0-15% bucket.
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“Brady was a good player for us who played hard for most of his time in Ottawa. He also isn’t a generational talent who left. If we want to debate the future of the Sens, it starts with being honest about what Brady was, what he will likely be, and what his time in Ottawa meant”
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You can tell that kid at the townhall was a plant because Rogers had talking points and media hits designed to use AES's response as a talking point. When Abdul immediately disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, Rogers and his team have to just pretend like that didn't happen.
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florida being the first big state we get on election night is so awesome. if it goes good, we can expect the rest of the night to be just as good if not better. if it goes bad, we can reasonably come to a conclusion its because its florida
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These are the economic numbers going into the midterms:
Inflation when Trump took office: 3%.
Inflation today: 3.7%.
Wage gains when Trump took office: 4%
Wage gains today: 3%
Real wage gains when Trump took office: 1%
Real wage gains today: -0.7%
Cost of a gallon of gas when Trump took office: $3.13
Cost of a gallon of gas today: $4.33
Average monthly job creation in 2024: 122,000
Average monthly job creation since Trump took office: 39,000
Unemployment rate when Trump took office: 4%
Unemployment rate today: 4.2%
GDP growth 2024: 3%
Most recent quarter GDP growth: 2.2% (2026 average so far: 2.3%)
Deficit in 2024: $1.83 trillion
Deficit for 2026: $1.99 trillion
National debt 2024: $35.5 trillion
National debt 2026: $40.1 trillion
30-year mortgage rate when Trump took office: 7%
30-year mortgage rate today: 7.45%
Defense spending 2024: $874 billion
Defense spending 2026: $966 billion* (current OMB estimate)
Republican defense spending request for 2027: $1.5 trillion
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I reached out to Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers for their thoughts on the Detroit Red Wings.
Here's what they had to say:
octopusthrower.com/what-each…
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SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero
TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.
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DHS raiding a member of congress's home to search for immigration paperwork filled out decades ago by her now-deceased father really checks all the fascist police state boxes.
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NEW: We obtained the full six minute audio of the Lindner recording. The employee there repeatedly denied anyone named “James Talarico” was in her system at all. Only towards the end did she say someone had checked out that day.
via @willsommer
thebulwark.com/p/maga-james-…
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“I’m looking through my names—just let me double-check,” she says. “Okay, I don’t have it there. . . . I don’t have anyone by that name [Talarico] on my list.”
NEW: We obtained the full six minute audio of the Lindner recording. The employee there repeatedly denied anyone named “James Talarico” was in her system at all. Only towards the end did she say someone had checked out that day.
via @willsommer
thebulwark.com/p/maga-james-…
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my mom repeatedly asked to come out in my baby’s first month because she “wanted the experience of holding a grandchild when they were that small.” she also floated being in the delivery room because she “thought it would interesting to see someone give birth.”
the frame was “what can i get out of this?” no consideration of what might be helpful or desirable by me. i think somehow a lot of boomers got this idea about grandkids? they see grandkids as a prize, pure upside with zero responsibility. it’s a total abdication of their ongoing parental responsibility to their own children.
It's fascinating that many Boomer grandparents seem to want to be more involved in their kids/grandkids lives—but only insofar as they are the ones being entertained and catered to.
I saw a post from a grandmother who moved away from her son and his young family. She felt they weren't spending enough time with her to justify living close, so she moved away and now spends her time traveling.
Many grandparents in the comments also lamented that their adult children are "too busy" for them, and that they never get invited to stuff. That their children don't "make time" for them.
I found this so interesting, because these are largely the same people who insist they shouldn't have to be "babysitters" (hot take: it's not babysitting to watch your own grandkids).
So instead of recognizing that their adult children are busy, and offering to help ease their burden by watching the kids and coming over and help clean or cook, they just huff that they aren't being entertained by their busy working children whom they refuse to help (by spending time with their own grandkids).
Incredible stuff.
