Philip Bump

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Pete’s got that triviality well in-hand.

Trump won more votes in states Biden won in 2020 than in states he himself won. Four years later, Harris won more votes in states she lost than in states she won.

Opinion | Red v. blue is too simplistic — America is mostly made up of purplish states Philip Bump: Election results in Texas and North Carolina have Democrats dreaming big about “turning” red states blue.

Talarico winning won’t “turn Texas blue.” But that sort of fixed designation doesn’t really make sense for a lot of states anyway. Allow me to demonstrate. www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

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Everyone knows he only ever had one quote.

I think the answer is that there is a type of person who wants to build consensus and there is a type of person who wants to be a boss. Mullin wants to be a boss.

thanks tracey

Oklahoma senator challenges union head to fight during hearing "Stand your butt up."

Mullin is the guy who tried to fight a witness at a Senate hearing. www.axios.com/2023/11/14/m...

I'm sure Lewandowski, committed to the department, will remain as a close adviser to Mullin.

Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

Analysis | When Nazis rallied in Manhattan, one working-class Jewish man from Brooklyn took them on The story of Isadore Greenbaum, who faced down 22,000 Nazi sympathizers in Madison Square Garden.

I know. www.washingtonpost.com/news/politic...

This way madness lies, but you knew that It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...

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Contrast with current news about the Scouts. (NYT, 1939)

Al Capone, at an international conference: "You're dealing with a lot of law enforcement in your own country, I'm sure. You have my permission not to listen to them."

because there is not a perfect way to place the states as equal-sized entities in a US-shaped arrangement that doesn't require some tradeoffs

Unfortunately, you'd have to read to see, and that's just not happening.

Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

Sometimes I honestly wonder how I ended up on the text-message lists I'm on.

To annoy you, personally.

Honestly, the payoff here is when he imitates what he assumes people are reading when they read. He assumes it is about pirates.

square-cut-ass ohio shit

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation.

We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order. Lt Gen DP Pan... @LtGenDPPan…. • 18h Our watch gets over when the Ship leaves territorial water. Not till they get home. Their country is at war. They should have stayed in shelter of India. In international waters, they had Not sought an escort from Indian Navy. A... 11:05 PM • Mar 4, 2026 • 2.4M Views

fwiw here's the sourcing I saw at 1am about the US sinking of an unarmed and knowingly unarmed Iranian Navy ship x.com/KanwalSibal/...

Between cinnamon chili and this, Cincy is taking credit for a lot of things it might not want to.

From NRO's Audrey Fahlberg: SCOOP: Trump's furious that Noem said under oath in her Senate Judiciary hearing that the he had advance knowledge of the $220M DHS ad campaign & approved its release He's privately floated Markwayne Mullin as prospective replacement, @NRO has learned

Looks like DHS isn't getting more trustworthy any time soon. This does explain Mullin's TV tour — or maybe the tour explains Trump's interest in him.

I mean, Vance is not exactly the poster boy for intellectual consistency.

Opinion | Red v. blue is too simplistic — America is mostly made up of purplish states Philip Bump: Election results in Texas and North Carolina have Democrats dreaming big about “turning” red states blue.

Will Texas turn blue in November? Well [takes a long drag off of a joint] what does “blue” even *mean*, man?
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

[me, a drug addict] give me more weeds!

The “you’re done” music for the Midi should be different than the Mini music.