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Ethan Stone retweeted
Lakshya is right, of course. The reason we shouldn't nominate Kamala isn't because she's a black woman, not at all. It's because she has -15 approvals, a deep association with the Biden administration, and is seen by voters as a California coastal elite liberal.
Jain: After the 2024 election, a lot of donors told me I think we have got to nominate a white straight male as the next Democratic nominee because we cannot afford what happened to Kamala Harris.
I said if you are focused on that, you're definitely going to lose. There is not really any evidence anywhere in all of the analysis we have done in any cycle to suggest that minorities are less electable or women are less electable.
Women did better than men in battlegrounds. Anytime you hear of a sex scandal, it’s very rarely a woman politician in trouble.
Crowd Member: Boebert
Jain: So yes, Boebert, and she lost. Point proven.
Ethan Stone retweeted
Finding out that FanDuel spends as much money lobbying as AIPAC is a tactical truth nuke
Ethan Stone retweeted
Everyone mad about the 11 Dems not being there are being ridiculous. We NEVER had the votes because only ONE Republican voted with the Dems. Republicans would have just kept the vote open until they had the votes to defeat it. They can keep the vote open for as long as they want.
This is just an attempt to undermine Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker by saying he's a bad leader for not getting the 11 Dems there in time. Total nonsense.
We'll impeach Pete Hegseth the right way when the Dems take over in January.
Ethan Stone retweeted
I don’t really see the case for her
She’s closely tied to the unpopular Biden admin, comes from a noncompetitive state notorious for bad governance, and has always been a weak electoral performer
Why would I vote for her?
NEW: Harris’ allies have urged her to decide on 2028 by January, warning that a drawn-out call is unfair to the 20+ others expected to run. She hasn’t agreed to a deadline.
One former: “I want her to be president now. I’m not sure I want her to run again.”
washingtonsun.com/campaigns/…
Ethan Stone retweeted
By Claude's estimate, and factoring in delinquency rates by credit score, a 10% credit card cap would mean everyone under an 800 score loses access to credit cards.
Let’s cap credit card rates at 10%. Take action on affordable housing. Protect rural hospitals. End price gouging.
Democrats have the bills ready.
@SenWarren says now it’s up to Trump to work with us and get things done.
Ethan Stone retweeted
It’s really underdiscussed how much of American conservatism is based on the premise that only conservatives are allowed to wield power and that the will of the voters is something to be worked around if not outright ignored
Ethan Stone retweeted
U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one vegetable/day (55% to 63%)
Ethan Stone retweeted
Looks like Israel is set to have its first Mizrahi prime minister. Some things to hope for:
1. Oct 7th inquiry and corruption trial finally fucks Netanyahu into his political grave
2. Raam joins the government and Arab participation in Israeli politics becomes a constant feature. It can’t be the case as it is now where so many Israelis spend half their time boasting about Arabs having voting rights, and the other half dreading the thought of those Arabs ever getting any power
3. The police and finance department (which Smotrich has used to fleece West Bank tax payers for years) will be out of the hands of fascist terrorists who should never have been allowed near a government position to begin with (fun fact, even AIPAC once condemned the government for bringing in Ben Gvir and Smotrich lol)
4. The E1 settlement project should be ended and Western allies should make a priority of aggressively holding Eisenkot to this if he allows it to continue
5. Palestinians in Gaza might finally be presented with a future that is neither the suicide cult of Hamas nor the colonial dystopia that Trump and Bibi were championing
6. There’s some evidence that the recent election has led to a growing interest among Palestinians in East Jerusalem to pursue Israeli voting rights. This would entail them applying for citizenship - a lengthy, humiliating and sometimes dangerous process - but one that would force Israeli leaders (including Eisenkot) to reckon with the fact that the status quo there is an unsustainable delusion. If they really don’t want their actions to look like ‘apartheid’ or ‘ethnic cleansing’, the only options left are to give voting rights or to leave.
Of course, none of these are set in stone. Eisenkot is by no means a left winger, even by Israeli standards, but his coalition will be one that will be more receptive to Palestinian leaders and to fair criticism from Western allies. Palestinians and Israelis have needed better leaders for a long time and maybe this can be a small start
BREAKING: Israel’s president picks opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot to form a new government, in a setback for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. apnews.com/article/israel-el…
Ethan Stone retweeted
Most voters thought Trump was more moderate than Hillary in 2016 and more moderate than Harris in 2024. That is the reality Democrats have to contend with.
Ethan Stone retweeted
AP: Chris Mann (D) wins the Kansas attorney general race, defeating incumbent Kris Kobach (R-KS).
🟦Democratic flip
Ethan Stone retweeted
It's official: Colorado Democrats have supermajorities in both the state House and Senate for the first time ever.
Here's are the districts they flipped to make that happen: coloradosun.com/2026/11/06/c… #copolitics #coleg
Ethan Stone retweeted
A future prediction of mine is that if Puerto Rico (or DC) becomes a state the 50 star flag will become a *huge* culture war issue. Like cons will refuse to update the flag in protest
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NEW: @RepDavids, one of the few elected Native Americans, is "breaking with her party’s leadership to demand swift action on critical permitting reform," her office says in press release. Davids, a member of @NewDems, adds she is working with negotiators to "fix" NHPA provisions
Ethan Stone retweeted
The last 10 years are probably the most remarkable low-unemployment period in American history—punctuated, ofc, by the crazy, destabilizing pandemic.
The three years before COVID were the then-third longest streak of under 4.5% unemployment and the five years and counting since we recovered from COVID are the longest, and counting. (via @jasonfurman)
Even in periods of intense technological anguish, public anger, and whiplashing political change, at least some things are just quietly and consistently good.
Ethan Stone retweeted
people are going to spend the next century writing about how to prevent future backslides in democracy, but I'm calling it now, the answer is:
- cheap housing
- pretty much everyone can read at a high school level
- rich dipshits go to jail when they do crimes
Ethan Stone retweeted
The Democrat factional fighting is a relic of 2016. This election points toward a new liberal fusionism, candidates who combine leftist economic populism with centrist pragmatism. Talarico and Ossoff offer a model on this. The factional stuff is old news, beltway chatter.
Ethan Stone retweeted
I want to remind everyone that Hamilton wasn't recruited by Schumer or any national org and the field wasn't cleared for him. This was an entirely organic campaign that the Hamilton campaign started building without any party apparatus supporting him initially.
Ethan Stone retweeted
i think "moderates did better on tuesday" and "anti-rich vibes used to be identifiably 'left-wing' but they've become fairly normie in the last few years" are both accurate takes, altho i expect a lot of discourse warfare between these positions in the next few days
