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It's good for Biden that there are strong candidates for Senate in many of the swing states that he needs to win, since there's not much ticket splitting anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u4k6BUoDxA

With midnight end of session deadline the Democrats just forced through a mega omnibus bill and Republicans are absolutely losing their sh**t. This is Taiwan sh**t. Never seen anything like it.

This is what the opposition is most hoping for:

https://www.ft.com/content/c832e0cf-9fbd-43b5-a8b7-2685634f1454

Then I hit the campaign trail, alongside a group of 20 media colleagues with whom I have covered 32 Indian national and state elections over the past 25 years. This time we tracked the campaign from the east coast to the west, traversing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra. And as is often the case, the conventional wisdom did not survive the road reality test. Nowhere on this 2,000km, eight-day route did we hear the sounds of a wave.

We heard no backlash against the prime minister either. Just a return to an India before Modi mania, focused on local issues and leaders — with events in New Delhi an afterthought. The urban middle-class stir with pride at Modi’s base case for a third term — that a roaring economy is raising India’s global stature. But many rural voters do not.

https://twitter.com/hdagres/status/1792214140099981530

Can’t imagine that Iran is looking forward to holding elections in 50-odd days, assuming the constitutional order is followed, a little over a year after the rebellions.

Not that any legitimate or even halfway decent reformists will be allowed to run in all likelihood.

I am hearing that as his helicopter tailspinned over the mountains of Arasbaran, President Raisi received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, Mohammad is his prophet and Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq his rightfully chosen successor!

Aaaaaaaand, it's official.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1792413152581144906

If he's still alive, better.

But his pick for VP if he does die would have a huge sympathy vote I don't think Harris will necessarily get, just because Bernie would be an icon.

2022 would probably have ended up more lop-sided rather than tit-for-tat.

Aye

First Minister: Spiral

Parlament:
1. ASV
2. Shua

Crickets from the Western media.

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1791651579939963194

This dude is a tankie apologist for the Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and Syrian governments who claims that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons is a hoax, has been denying the existence of China’s genocide against the Uyghurs, refers to Israelis as “Judeo-Nazis,” has compared Israel to ISIS, and made numerous false claims to minimize the 10/7 massacre including suggesting that it may’ve been an Israeli false-flag operation.  He’s not a remotely credible sources, but it says a lot about you that you seem to think he is.

Is anyone who condemns the genocide in Gaza suddenly a tankie apologist or antisemitist?

You even called Amnesty International antisemitist... Or Jeremy Corbyn or Rashida Tlaib.

1) What’s happening in Gaza is objectively not a genocide.  Words have meaning.  This is simply a statement of fact. 

2) I have called them anti-Semitic and I stand by that.