Stephen Webb

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BREAKING: Boeing, $BA, agrees to plead guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy charge related to fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, and agrees to pay $243.6 million fine

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Michael Tae Sweeney

There's another strong option with progressive chops and a strong governing record, but closer ties to key Midwest states

I dunno that seems really not great for a country with this demographic violin plot

Economist estimates that "between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers were out of action by mid-June—more than Russia’s estimated invading force in February 2022." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?www.economist.com Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone

Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

Way ahead of you, @pbump.com

He pulled this shit with the Nick Fuentes Mar-a-Lago dinner www.axios.com/2022/11/25/t...

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

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Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣

Seeing some discourse about old buildings vs new buildings and like, 1) yes most old buildings are built very solidly. no that's not because they used to build every building very well, its because the 98% of buildings from 100 years ago are gone and only the well-built ones made it

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

We had a gubernatorial election with anti-abortion Trump-annointed Heidi Ganahl versus incumbent Polis 2 years ago

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer

Exactly. We had a primary and that was a time for a true alternative to build a national campaign apparatus and build name recognition and support, and instead we got this guy faceplanting by sixty points to write-in campaigns. There is no third option, there is Biden or Harris.

*Yoda voice* no... there is... another

Go into your photo roll and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud.

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Faine Greenwood

Well, call me an asshole

That's quite a fundraising gap in the Michigan Senate race apnews.com/article/mich...

*tapping the movie*

it's infuriating! but it also means the problem isn't "trump wins a majority of the vote", which nobody thinks is likely, nor is it "we have to play defense in california". it means this, oddly enough, is an odd but not impossible biden-winning map.

similarly, if dobbs is a d+5 national swing from 2020 that the polls are having trouble capturing for some reason, this is the map

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Stephen Webb

2/ the baseline for this election is 2020. normally "the last election" might not be a perfect baseline, but it's the same guys with the roles reversed. both are quasi-incumbents, and we have a four year record for the both of them, with some recency bias for biden. here's that map