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Kurt Shaffer

@kurtwshaffer

🇻🇦🇺🇸🇭🇷 Midwest diaspora. Grad Student. Handballer 🤾‍♂️

 Denver, CO
Joined January 2019
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My newest: American trucking is changing. Thirty years of trends are done. What comes next is anyone’s guess. I don’t feel good about it.
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There is one holy grail which can fix this. It's called "governing well" and is outlawed within a 20 mile radius of Washington, DC's borders.
James Eisen 🇲🇪 (@JamesEisen1891) profile pictureJames Eisen 🇲🇪@JamesEisen189116h
There will never be a two term president again. If you haven’t magically halved the price of Chipotle in 2 years, the vooters will freak out and make you a lame duck.
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Last night was a generational elimination of this type of guy's political power. You're 40, buddy
Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) profile pictureFugitive Caesar
@ThomBrady512h
I would say we just need a little brutal honesty around here for a while.
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We do not need to nationalize the railroads. We need to restrict the rail companies from owning both railways and rail cabotage
Jacobin (@jacobin) profile pictureJacobin
@jacobinNov 1
A new poll shows significant support for nationalization of health care, railroads, and artificial intelligence among Democratic voters. Public ownership can be part of a winning pitch for addressing the cost-of-living crisis. jacobin.com/2026/10/national…
Public Ownership of Key Economic Sectors Is Popular

Public Ownership of Key Economic Sectors Is Popular

A new poll shows significant support for nationalization of health care, railroads, and artificial intelligence among Democratic voters. Public ownership can be part of a winning pitch for addressing...

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I am actually surprised about the corruption thing. It's good to see Americans care about this
Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) profile pictureTim Alberta
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National exit (sample: 79,668) -- Importance of issues to your vote: GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION Crucial/Major - 90% Minor/No factor - 10% COST OF LIVING Crucial/Major - 89% Minor/No factor - 11% IRAN WAR Crucial/Major - 74% Minor/No factor - 26% IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT Crucial/Major - 73% Minor/No factor - 27% AI & DATA CENTERS Crucial/Major - 56% Minor/No factor - 44%
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Kab X (@KabraxFX) profile picture
Kab X
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The market is absolutely doomed under the Democrats - you've been warned 🫵
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Trump literally promised $5,000 checks if Republicans win
Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) profile pictureOilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando17h
We brought in a gazillion foreigners who will vote for whoever gives foreigners free shit, registered them to vote, and you’ll never guess what happened next
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Tom Wood (@thomasjwood) profile picture
Tom Wood@thomasjwood13h
The Democratic party might infer something from the respective strength of their senate candidates to determine a new policy agenda. The strongest battleground senate candidate: Talarico. The weakest: El Sayed.
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Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) profile picture
Joe Weisenthal
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The first post-social media election also happened to be the first election in years where moderates in both parties overperformed. You should take this question seriously.
Will Manidis (@WillManidis) profile pictureWill Manidis
@WillManidis5h
does anyone have a rough estimate of the number of ballots swung via chatgpt/claude conversations? had to be a meaningful % of voters using right
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Sell everything (@yoshispeninsula) profile picture
Sell everything
@yoshispeninsula14h
98% White counties in Appalachia have swung 30 points to the left, GOP grifter class on here really fighting an amazing battle trying to claim election results are due to immigration lmao
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Taxes are not the main way we need to contain wealth inequality. Very 2000's Dem policy point. Hopefully this new generation is serious about antitrust.
Alex Mas (@AMLabEcon) profile pictureAlex Mas
@AMLabEcon13h
The wealth tax is being soundly rejected in the bluest state in the bluest of years. This is a very unpopular policy.
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If you're scrolling the timeline and find a right-wing account unable to say "we lost because of inflation and the war in Iran", unfollow and mute them. They are stuck in the eternal 2016 and the world has simply moved on.
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But those aren’t Republican policies anymore. Not in any serious respect. Republican policies the past two years have been tariffs, tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, and bombing Iran. There has been nothing else
Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) profile pictureCrémieux
@cremieuxrecueil16h
Voters agreed with Republicans on every policy at issue and then voted Democrat lmao
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Truth nuke.
Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) profile pictureSaagar Enjeti
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This is cope: 760k net people moved to Texas since 2020 Even if EVERY SINGLE ONE voted Dem it would not account for the 1.2 million margin that Talarico is winning the state by This was a *Texan* referendum on the entire GOP
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Romlib 🎄 (@romlib_) profile picture
Romlib 🎄
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Only took Americans one decade to realize Trump is retarded
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DSA aligned candidates did not do well last night. Worth noting
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Personally I’m shocked tweeting about Star Wars didn’t work
ettingermentum (@ettingermentum) profile pictureettingermentum
@ettingermentum5h
Every single element of their insipid masturbatory communications strategy was designed around what young men supposedly liked. No single group shifted more to the left.
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Benito Tortellini (@cartoon_magoo) profile picture
Benito Tortellini@cartoon_magoo12h
Today's results are better understood as a left-center wave, not a woke one. Trump lost big but so did a lot of far left ideas. - Billionaire tax failed in CA - Transgender school sports restrictions passed in WA - Increased penalties for fentanyl dealing and even possession passed in CO - Wiener won over Chan in SF Nationwide the electoral mood was normie lib wine mom, not far left. A victory against the horseshoe.
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- win something - accomplish an objective - fulfil a goal - achieve a victory condition - do not permanently spike inflation 7 months out from an election
lovie (@lovierebuilt) profile picturelovie@lovierebuilt13h
How can a war go smoother than ~20 casualties and no boots on the ground? 6 weeks of actual war-fighting, the rest an extremely effective blockade. You would think by the results tonight we lost 20,000 troops.
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It wasn’t smart to run off of a “we’re going to make things affordable and be a leader on the global stage” movement and then tariff everything, bomb Iran and spike oil, and not win anything on the global stage
Meredith (@Opportunitweet) profile pictureMeredith
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The Republicans lost because people are not smart. I'm sorry I don't know how else to say it.
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A few numbers from last night: This is the most house gains for Democrats since 1974 This is the largest house majority for any party since 1990 This is the most Senate gains for Democrats since 1958
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