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Alan Warms retweeted
Mariam Odeh, a former staffer on Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign, is currently facing federal charges alongside 11 other anti-Israel activists accused of vandalizing the homes of members of Michigan’s Jewish and pro-Israel community and plotting to poison and murder them and their families.
Jars containing noxious chemicals were thrown into family homes. Windows were smashed. Homes were marked with the Hamas red inverted triangle, designating them as targets for death.
One of the accused allegedly threatened to slowly poison a victim once he became a doctor.
This would never happen, but imagine if a Jewish staffer for a Jewish candidate targeted Muslims like this. There would be national outrage and we wouldn’t hear the end of it. It would be the end of their campaign and career.
Unfortunately, the extreme violence and terrorism of the pro-Palestinian movement and the threat of Islam have been completely normalized in America.
Alan Warms retweeted
First post in two years is to support an antisemite who campaigns with literal Communists.
Alan Warms retweeted
Obama lost 63 House seats in 2010. Clinton lost 54 in 1994. Trump lost 41 in 2018.
Midterms can deliver a brutal message to the party in power.
Republicans who think tomorrow will take care of itself should take another look at those numbers.
Alan Warms retweeted
If this actually comes to fruition (it probably won't) the Iran War will go down as one of the worst presidential mistakes of all time. Literally tanked Trump's entire second term.
NEWS: The last Senate polls of 2026 from NYT/Siena:
From me and @RuthIgielnik
nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/po…
Alan Warms retweeted
The thing is, at this point, Dems can absorb a modest-sized polling error and win the Senate. Not a large one. But they have leads of >=3.0 points in states totaling 5 flips, plus in all their own seats.
Alan Warms retweeted
Atlas Intel, which was the most accurate pollster in 2024, just dropped a D+15 Generic Ballot poll. Dems now lead in the RCP Average by 8.9% - the largest of the cycle.
realclearpolling.com/polls/s…
Alan Warms retweeted
Increasingly this will be the new job description for a lot of roles, not just coding. We’re clearly moving from a world where agents help us do our work incrementally better or faster, to us helping agents do their work.
This turns everyone in one of these positions to that of a manager of a team of agents, instead of an individual contributor with just some added leverage from AI. The biggest areas of impact will be information-heavy jobs, like coding, cybersecurity, legal work, biotech, engineering, and many other fields.
And as a result, in these jobs your leverage will begin to be decoupled from the normal ratio of hours spent working to output generated. For essentially the history of knowledge work the main variable you had to play with was hours of work done (assuming fixed level talent/coordination/strategy).
Now we’ve separated these variables because agents can parallelize work for us, to in theory execute as much as we need to pull off whatever goal we’re trying to accomplish. The people and organizations that discover this sooner, and orient their operations around it, will see compounding gains in their workflows.
Alan Warms retweeted
No matter where you live or what races are on your ballot, this is the number one issue in the world today. From “News Items” from @EllisItems (substack.news-items.com)
“9. China has three aircraft carriers, with a fourth on its way that Western experts believe will be nuclear-powered. They’re part of the world’s largest navy, which now has a battle force of more than 400 ships and submarines, according to official U.S. numbers seen by The Wall Street Journal. That means China’s fleet is around 35% larger than the American Navy by hull count. It is one of the largest peacetime naval buildups in modern history. On any given day, as many as 100 of China’s navy ships are out on some of Asia’s busiest trade and transportation routes—pressuring rivals and training for a potential conflict with the U.S. The larger and more sophisticated vessels in its fleet also routinely push further out into waters long dominated by American forces. The Chinese navy’s rise has been powered by the country’s rapid emergence as a colossus in shipbuilding and as the biggest sea-trading nation. (Source: wsj.com)”
The security of the U.S. and thus the free world and those countries which aspire to join it depends on controls of the seas. Republicans are serious about funding the vitally-necessary expansion of the fleet and its support ships. Democrats are not.
It is that simple if you want to continue to enjoy the benefits of not kowtowing to China as well as of international trade across free and open seas.
Alan Warms retweeted
I feel sad for Haley Stevens, who is finding out today something Aristotle wrote about several thousands of years ago regarding what he called mere "friendships of utility." She meant absolutely nothing to these people outside of her political usefulness to them. It's gross.
I know @HaleyforMI way better than most people on X. She and I came into Congress together in 2018. She was co-Prez of our freshman class. She was incredibly kind to me when my late partner died; she organized a big group of our class to come to the House floor to support me when I spoke about his suicide. We were roommates in 2023, after my wonderful first roomie lost her election; both my adult kids know Haley well and are on a texting basis with her. We’ve socialized and we have good friends in common. While she and I differ on one impt issue, specifically Israel and AIPAC support, I’ve never publicly challenged her on those things, because I felt that her good points outweighed the issues I disagreed with her on. Today, that changes. 👇
Haley’s endorsement of Rogers in the MI senate race is appalling. Not because he’s a Republican, but because what he stands for is what she, and I, and our caucus has fought so hard against. Rogers is a 100% anti-choice politician. He is a Trump loyalist. He’s shown his Islamophobia in his many remarks against @AbdulElSayed, and with this endorsement, Haley has shown that she agrees with his positions. I’m shocked by Haley’s endorsement. I’m terribly sad and disappointed. I’m furious and will be more so if we lose the MI senate race. So many people in the Democratic Party have shown so much support to Haley over the years, and she has betrayed them all. If this is because of her new relationship (about which many of us were so happy for her after she lost the primary), all I can say is that any woman who abandons her friends when a new guy comes along is no friend at all. The fallout for Haley won’t just be in Dem politics; she will be a pariah among her friends in the Democratic caucus in Congress. Only she will be able to decide whether it was worth it.
Alan Warms retweeted
I sure as hell don't want a country with leaders that dismiss violence against Jews, associate with known terrorist sympathizers, Jew haters & communists, and is pretty clearly an antisemite.
So yes, opposing El-Sayed is earnestly putting country over party
Alan Warms retweeted
The thing is that it is clear that Stevens couldn’t abide the antisemitism radiating from El Sayed and his surrogates and eventually gave up hope on a pivot.
Call that Country Over Party or just having a conscience, but if you think otherwise, I don’t know what to tell you.
Alan Warms retweeted
Superb question by Ross Douthat and his dismissiveness of the El-Sayed go-to party trick —asking a question instead of answering one— leads AES into a meandering and absurd answer which leaves everyone aware that he will support boys in girls’ sports.
.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.
Why?
“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”
Completely unacceptable.
Alan Warms retweeted
The quintessential political X dot com: I post something critical of Obamacare, and dozens of accounts that I have never seen before come out of nowhere arguing that I should believe their talking points and not my own health insurance bills that I have been paying over 20 years.
Alan Warms retweeted
He's a batshit insane Islamo-Marxist.
.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.
Why?
“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”
Completely unacceptable.
Alan Warms retweeted
100% support from Cleese
Islamophobia, a word much bandied about by Sadiq Khan, is used by Islamists to stifle legitimate criticism
of their culture
It should be replaced by the more neutral word 'Islamoscepticism'
🚨BREAKING: Jeremy Clarkson is facing fresh calls from the left to be CANCELED after he weighed in on the Muslim grooming gangs scandal and said it is not racist to investigate a rapist.
His exact words: “It’s not racist to investigate a rapist! We need to remove the shackles of political correctness from the police.”
In his column, Clarkson argued that police must be freed from the fear of being labeled racist if they pursue these cases. He wrote that a young girl could report being raped by a gang of Pakistani men only to be dismissed because officers know they risk cancellation for reporting it.
Clarkson said another public inquiry is unnecessary because the problem is already clear, and the real obstacle has been the refusal to confront the ethnicity of the perpetrators without being accused of bigotry. The comments have drawn sharp criticism online from activists who claim he is stoking racism, with some calling for advertisers and platforms to drop him.
This is the same pattern that has followed Clarkson for years whenever he says something "politically incorrect".
Alan Warms retweeted
To those attacking Stevens, this is what you are defending.
As if you didn’t already know.
Asked about the indictment, @AbdulElSayed defended the perpetrators: “It's a lot more about what you're advocating for that gets you indicted or not indicted, rather than what you did.”
Sure.
When asked about the one who worked for him, the campaign story/dates changed 3 times.
Alan Warms retweeted
The failure here isn't Abdul Al-Sayed. The failure is the entire media complex who has decided they are not going to
question him on such things. This is a failure of journalism.
He has never been pushed on his family connections for the Muslim brotherhood, because journalists don't want to be called Islamaphobes. He has never been pushed on biological males competing in women's sports because the media doesn't want to approach that issue, and he has never ever faced any of these questions.
This is a failure of journalism.
.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.
Why?
“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”
Completely unacceptable.