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Jim Stalnaker 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Burkean small-l liberal. Finance guy. Tampa sports.
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Want the ballroom razed and people jailed? I present to you, son of Dark Brandon.
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Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:
Quick preview of numbers being released tomorrow… special for my Bluesky peeps:

Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)

2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)

Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%

Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
Tariff Christmas+Healthcare premiums going through the roof isn’t gonna make for a fun winter rolling into a midterm year.
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
Honestly a little surprised the right is still talking about No Kings. It got in their heads.
Drones have really shifted the advantage in war to defense so Russia has to do meat-wave assaults to capture tiny slices of territory. It’s a question at this point of what is going to break first, the economy or the military.
Tbh I’m more convinced than ever that Russia is screwed. Ukraine is increasingly self-sufficient in equipping itself and they have dispersed a drone manufacturing network throughout Europe. Russia has proven it can’t defend its energy industry which is being methodically picked apart.
Weird how Trump is a populist but refuses to take the popular position on Ukraine.
NEWS

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile meeting on Friday, warning Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.

The meeting between the two descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time.”
Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
on.ft.com
Small but non zero chance the GOP gerrymanders their way to holding the House in 2026 but loses the Senate anyways.
New BGSU/YouGov Poll of OH registered voters N=800 MOE +/-4.5 (sample weighted Trump+10)

Trump favorability (41-51) -10

OH Senate -

49/48 Brown/Husted

OH Governor-

50/47 Ramaswamy/Acton
49/47 Ramaswamy/Ryan

Tons more on Epstein, Kirk, ICE

www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sci...
BGSU Poll
The BGSU Poll conducts regular statewide polling in Ohio to better understand citizen views on a variety of issues and political preferences. A team of scholars
www.bgsu.edu
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Arizona’s 7th congressional district does not get to be represented in the House of Representatives because of the President’s friendship with a dead pedophile
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
“The protesters were all white boomers so it doesn’t matter.”

Some tremendous and ironic cope going on amongst the right.
Pretty apparent why the GOP was worried about this.
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the irony is that even though trump secured a plurality of the popular vote, the immediate capitulation came from the elites; the public had a much keener sense of what time it was right from the beginning
Yeah I do think the various attempts to will elite capitulation into being were briefly a successful bit of self-fulfilling prophesying but for various reasons are failing now - huge protests, university's rejecting the compact, the press refusing to go along with Hegseth's new pentagon policy, etc.
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.
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They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit
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Scenes from the ‘No Kings’ anti-Trump rally in uptown Charlotte.

📸: Khadejeh Nikouyeh

#nokings #charlotte #trump #protest