yeah exactly. while Cornyn is a terrible human being by virtue of being a Republican politician, he’s not truly depraved like Paxton, and so he doesn’t have the diehard support of the Republican base of bigots and rapists
IIRC Trump said he didn’t want a runoff and would endorse someone, and I’m assuming that would be Cornyn
is there still a runoff if Paxton drops out?
yeah i think Cornyn might actually be the candidate Talarico wants (and will get) because he doesn’t have the same base Paxton does of the worst voters in America
full offense to the NY Times but this is not, in fact, an “open question for regulators, bankers, and the Trump administration”. it stopped being a question anyone was asking in January 2025
this is by design. the point is that these stablecoin issuers, and this administration, want fiat-backed stablecoin to be too big to fail, so the US government will be forced to intervene if there’s a depegging event, for example
yeah but they’re basically reacting to non-specific and noncommittal statements from various governments that they might intervene to lower oil prices without any of those governments actually doing anything
articles about Dynacom suggest their owner has a higher risk appetite than basically everybody else. i also wonder if Prokopiou skirting Russian sanctions helped his business here b
open question whether they just laid off everyone with subject matter expertise or what
very cool that the money guys are this in the tank for Trump lol
Unfortunately when you elect somebody who is aligned against your interests based on competence you empower a competent enemy. You can't cleanly cleave the competence from the Gaza.
I do not trust Laura Fine to be aligned with my interests because people who are not aligned with my interests are spending a vast amount of money to ensure that she is aligned with theirs
if you believed this you should be fired on the spot because you are one of the dumbest people alive
Trump’s slanderous accusation that Iran and not his own government committed this horrific atrocity in Minab was obviously going to be untenable, and it’s already falling apart in a way that will tarnish America’s reputation around the world.
Now everyone wants Ukraine's help.
* ZELENSKIY SAYS SOME REQUESTS FOR UKRAINE'S ASSISTANCE IN COUNTERING 'SHAHED DRONES' HAVE ALREADY BEEN MET WITH CONCRETE DECISIONS AND SPECIFIC SUPPORT
* ZELENSKIY SAYS UKRAINE RECEIVED 11 REQUESTS FROM COUNTRIES NEIGHBORING IRAN, EUROPEAN STATES, AND U.S.
we basically did a party-selected candidate in 2024 and people would not shut up about how undemocratic it was, even though the VP is on the ticket almost entirely for that purpose and a lot of those same people expect the DNC to mandate party-wide message discipline
ABC NEWS: “.. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday that he worries the current war with Iran could drag on for years.”
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why would non-white voters care that he’s straight lol
Who knew? @rooseveltinstitute.org
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The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
@wsj.com
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i wasn’t that close, but from what i could see, i was surprised no one else got a penalty from that fight
like genuinely I think they’d impeach Trump before that happened
girl what
Trump has said so many insane things over the past two weeks that would be career-ending for literally anyone else
*WTI OIL RISES ABOVE $100/BARREL FOR FIRST TIME SINCE JULY 2022
POST EXCLUSIVE A classified report completed by the National Intelligence Council a week before the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran found that even a large-scale assault would be unlikely to oust its military and clerical establishment
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honestly I’m not sure they’re telling the truth about this, since I’m not sure the people making decisions on the U.S. side understand…anything
The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.
But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC
I suspect she knows this and she knows that who she voted for would not be well received and so is pretending this is about something else
A video released by Mehr News, and geolocated by Bellingcat, shows the missile hitting a building near the school. This image shows a comparison between the Tomahawk missile seen in the video and a Tomahawk missile flying over Tehran earlier in the conflict.
