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SOME CAMPAIGN SIGNS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN OTHERS by John Darkow

[John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years, spending the last 10 as the staff cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.]

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  1. Jamie, here’s more on the most fitting sign (appropriate name for that which is full of sh*t) of the times you told us about yesterday:

    Someone in Canada decided to name public toilets after Trump. #Canada #Trump
    JustInTheNickOfCrime

  3. he’s baaacck!

    Jimmy Kimmel Recaps Trump’s Crazy Summer, Our Country Still Being a Mess & Our 4,000th Show Sep 8, 2026
    Jimmy returns from his summer vacation, thanks all of our amazing guest hosts, and talks about Guillermo starting rehearsals for Dancing with the Stars which premieres next week, this episode being our 4,000th show, the country being a mess when he left in June and everything still being exactly the same, the Reflecting Pool being a big green slop hole, Trump’s new hair color, his crazy Labor Day post, the McFlurry of A.I. generated slop he posted over the weekend, his brand new terrible idea to rename New Mexico “New America,” an unexpected distraction at the U.S. Open, our inexplicable trade war with Canada, and we put together all the best/worst Trump moments that Jimmy missed over the summer.

  4. and here’s Jon’s take on other signs…perhaps sign of Dodo’s senility?

    Trump’s delusions have him amping up his trade war with Canada, renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” denying rising food and gas prices in the U.S., and winning the Iran War again and again. But as the president’s poll numbers sink, loyal acolytes like “human printer” Natalie Harp glaze him into a comforting alternate reality, and Jon Stewart wants in. #DailyShow #Trump #Canada #TradeWar

  6. signs of deterioration
    Trump’s latest ‘manic’ binge evidence of ‘neurological decline’: psychologist
    On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”
    Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he’s having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that’s combining phrases. He’s having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”
    In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I’m going to campaign like I did for myself and I’m going to hope that people think that I’m on. And if I’m not on, if they don’t go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we’re going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he’s saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he’s saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”
    Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there’s too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it’s not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.
    The White House claims that Trump has no such issues, so Garrison says that if we can take them at their word, there must be some other cause. “One would be stimulants,” he asserts. “They can certainly make your eyes dilate. Another would be if there’s some sort of neurological impairment. There are certain types of brain injuries that can disrupt pathways that control pupil dilation. While there may be a number of reasons why his eyes may be dilated like this, they’re all going to have to do with the functioning of the brain, whether it’s medication or something else.”
    Finally, Garrison turns to questions of “grandiosity and poor judgment,” noting Trump’s “absurd” social media posting binge over the weekend. “Right now, his grandiosity is fixated on expansion,” says Garrison, pointing to Trump’s “completely insane” posts about renaming Lake Ontario. “Even if he was doing it just to agitate people, it does show a distinct lack of judgment. It shows his inability to think through the consequences of what he is doing…His behavior on Truth Social has truly gotten strange.”
    According to Garrison, Trump’s posting spree was an explosion of “outright mania” indicative of “perseveration,” in which a person repeats something uncontrollably. “The obsession with and the perseveration on everything being his or being America’s is only growing by the day,” says Garrison, noting that Trump posted about renaming New Mexico to “New America” seven times within an hour. “Talk about grandiosity, mania, neurological issues,” says Garrison. “This is what it looks like. The grandiosity combined with the perseveration means that he cannot get off of this idea, the idea of expansion. He just cannot neurologically get past this, so it repeats over and over and over again.”
    “He is truly hyperfixated on these ideas,” Garrison warns. “And because you lose insight when you have neurological issues, he’ll be the last person to know. If you tell him he’s doing it too much, if you tell him that this is excessive, it will not compute with him because for him it’s not excessive. It’s exactly what he wants to do because to him, this feels normal.”
    “We’re now getting involuntary vocalizations,” concludes Garrison. “We’re getting more confusion. He continues to struggle with his verbal skills. And as you can see from his Truth Social posts, he is having some type of episode. We are talking about grandiosity and obsessiveness and perseveration that is off the charts.”

  7. Another Big Blue Wave

    New Hampshire Democrats just extended the 2026 pattern of unusually strong Democratic turnout, adding another data point to the evidence of elevated Democratic enthusiasm heading into November.

    Democratic turnout yesterday has already reached at least 137,324 votes with counting incomplete — more than 33% above the state’s 103,024 forecast. That also puts 2026 above the roughly 118,000 cast in 2024 (a presidential year), and 96,000 in 2022. Although yesterday’s incomplete turnout numbers dont yet top 2020’s 155,000 it is already above 2018’s roughly 126,000 when Dems netted 41 House seats.

    After a year of unusually strong Democratic turnout—from special elections to primaries, now including New Hampshire—the question increasingly looks less like whether there is a Democratic wave and more like how high it runs. A Blue Mirage remains possible, but the turnout evidence increasingly points toward a Blue Wave environment.

    The House is clearly within Democratic reach; the Senate requires a much bigger surge.

    If November turnout approaches the “Blue Tsunami” end of the spectrum, even that difficult four-seat Senate climb becomes likely.

  8. Like I mentioned last night, the only thing I really took from the NH results last night was Dem turnout was much higher than Republican turnout, by around 35%. Now, it could be a result of the lack of tension in the top races; face it, neither Ayotte nor Sununu were challenged. Regardless, more Dems were interested enough to show up and vote, and that’s what it will take in November to flip a house or two in DC.

  10. from NYT Will Trump’s Midterm Convention Help or Hurt Republicans? 5 Things to Watch.
    At an unusual gathering in Dallas, some of the party’s top candidates will be forced to decide just how tightly to tether themselves to an unpopular president.
    By Reid J. Epstein
    Reporting from Washington
    Sept. 9, 2026, 5:06 a.m. ET
    The two-day convention that Republicans are holding on Wednesday and Thursday is the first of its kind in nearly 50 years. President Trump has summoned members of his cabinet and a few dozen of the party’s top candidates to Dallas to celebrate him and promote his administration’s accomplishments heading into midterm elections in which he is not on the ballot.
    If Mr. Trump were popular, this might be seen as helpful for fellow Republicans, but polls show that many Americans have grown unhappy with his leadership on domestic, foreign and economic issues. This event is perhaps his last big opportunity before November to convince Americans that he has the country on the right track.
    Republicans, despite some private grumbling, have mostly gotten publicly on board with Mr. Trump’s convention extravaganza. But do not expect significant critiques of his administration from the stage in Texas.
    Here are five key questions for the president’s Republican midterm convention:
    Is a two-day Trump rally helpful for Republicans?
    Mr. Trump’s approval ratings are quite bad — 38 percent in the New York Times polling average.
    In a pre-Trump era, candidates in battleground races would not want to tie themselves to a president with such poor numbers. But Mr. Trump has positioned himself as the sun of the Republican Party’s solar system, and the party’s midterm candidates drift away from him at their own political risk.
    Mr. Trump has immense financial power over Republican campaigns — “this is my money that I control,” he said last week of his super PAC’s hundreds of millions of dollars. He has also shown little inclination to allow fellow Republicans to oppose his agenda.
    Just a few of the convention speakers announced by the Republican National Committee are in battleground races. They include three of the party’s top Senate candidates: Senator Jon Husted of Ohio, former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Michael Whatley, a former R.N.C. chairman running in North Carolina.
    By this point in their campaigns, all three have tied their political prospects to Mr. Trump so tightly that it might be a better bet to attend the convention and hope to consolidate Republican base voters than to skip it and risk the president’s wrath.
    How does Trump spin a record that many Americans have soured on?
    Do not expect a sober analysis of economic data.
    For months, Mr. Trump has promised that gas prices will drop as soon as the war he started with Iran ends.
    “Three Dollars a gallon, but ultimately, below Two Dollars a gallon,” he wrote on his social media site on Monday. “It will all happen quickly, and Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon.”
    He has also said that his tariffs, which have led to surges in prices for many goods, would increase the country’s prosperity.
    Expect Mr. Trump to do what he often does: sell himself and attack Democrats as extreme and too dangerous to run the country. He and his allies have begun trying to paint the entire Democratic Party as in thrall to democratic socialists and a pro-transgender agenda.
    Will this be a kickoff to a JD Vance presidential campaign?
    Mr. Vance is scheduled to speak on Thursday night in remarks that are likely to have his largest audience and most intense scrutiny since the 2024 presidential campaign.
    Neither the vice president nor any other prominent Republican has announced a 2028 presidential campaign. But at least for the moment, Mr. Vance is widely viewed as the party’s front-runner and the most likely heir to Mr. Trump’s political base.
    If Mr. Vance does run for president, he will have opportunities to create some space between himself and Mr. Trump, but this convention is probably not the venue to start such a project.
    Instead, the speech is Mr. Vance’s chance to show Republicans — especially Mr. Trump — that he can deliver in a big moment.
    Will other Republicans celebrate Trump or focus on themselves?
    A normal quadrennial party convention is a four-day advertisement for the presidential nominee. Other speakers (with some notable exceptions) typically use their remarks to make the case for why their party should be in charge of the White House.
    But Mr. Trump is not on the ballot this year. And with the convention’s focus on promoting him and his political standing, there is a risk for his party that the goal of electing Republicans becomes a bit of a side project.
    Candidates who speak at the convention will have to make a choice on how much to extol the president’s record versus seeking out political space for themselves. And really, how many people are tuning in to watch Representative Mike Lawler of New York talk about his record in the Hudson Valley?
    That is likely to leave Mr. Lawler and other Republican convention speakers who are in tight races in a bit of a pickle.
    How they approach this challenge will be a key story line of the two-day confab.
    Which Democrats will become the focus of speakers’ barbs?
    This may wind up being a long list.
    Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance have never stopped attacking former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., even though he is long gone from the White House.
    Expect to hear a lot about two categories of Democrats: democratic socialists and those who would defend the rights of transgender Americans. Mr. Trump has already seized on both lines of attack.
    At the convention in Texas, where Islamophobia has become a staple of mainstream Republican politics, one target for G.O.P. speakers may be Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, who is Muslim. And Texas Republicans have already tried to paint James Talarico, the state’s Democratic nominee for Senate, as too far to the left on gender issues.
    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a leader of the party’s left wing, has long been a right-wing boogeywoman, and her name may well come up.
    Several House Democrats are actually going to Dallas in an attempt to drum up some attention for themselves. Representatives Robert Garcia of California, Jason Crow of Colorado, Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California are planning to hold a news conference in Dallas on Thursday to counter the G.O.P. messaging. Time will tell if the Republicans inside the arena pay them any mind.

  11. Now let’s compare Republican turnout to itself in NH…
    NEW HAMPSHIRE: REPUBLICAN PRIMARY TURNOUT

    YEAR    GOP VOTES
2014    121,454
2018    100,590
2020    147,237
2022    147,501
2024    135,000
2026    115,000*

    *2026 estimate based on the incomplete statewide count; final Secretary of State total pending.

    THE PATTERN: If the current count holds, Republican turnout is headed back toward the lower levels seen in the 2018 midterm when Dems posted big gains, rather than the elevated 2020–24 levels. That’s especially notable because New Hampshire Republicans had competitive statewide races on yesterday’s ballot.

    Next: MAGA turnout nationwide

  12. THE MAGA TURNOUT QUESTION: WHERE ARE THE VOTERS?

    One of the biggest stories of 2026 may be the turnout gap between the parties.

    2022: Republicans had the turnout advantage. Pew found 71% of 2020 Trump voters returned for the 2022 midterms, versus 67% of Biden voters. Nationally, Republican primary turnout reached its highest level in at least 15 years.

    2026: That advantage has reversed in the elections held so far. A Washington Post analysis found turnout increased over 2022 in 93% of comparable Democratic House primaries, versus just 57% of Republican primaries.

    CNN’s midyear analysis found 57% of primary votes in 20 comparable states were Democratic — 10 points more Democratic than in 2022 and even 3 points more Democratic than in the 2018 blue-wave year.

    Special elections tell a similar story. Ballotpedia found Democrats retaining about 38% of their previous general-election turnout, Republicans only 28%. An independent precinct-level analysis of 2026 specials found an even larger gap in Trump-won precincts: 38.6% Democratic retention versus 25.9% Republican.

    BOTTOM LINE: This is not evidence that Republican voters have disappeared. It is evidence that the GOP’s powerful 2022 turnout advantage has, so far, not carried into 2026. The Republican coalition increasingly includes lower-propensity voters attracted by Trump, making the November test straightforward: will those voters turn out when Trump himself isn’t on the ballot?

    Sources: Washington Post, CNN, Pew Research Center, Ballotpedia.

  14. My adwatch monitor is picking up up a round of Elon Musk ads hitting now — and they are narrowly focused on transgender issues. Here’s an example in Texas where Musk’s “America Pac” spent $1.5 to run this mostly on digital platforms…

    $1.5 million might sound enormous until you put it in Texas. It’s pocket change in a state where a week of real saturation runs roughly $8 million. The significance isn’t the size of Musk’s buy — it’s what he’s testing, in Texas and elsewhere: whether highly targeted anti-trans messaging can wake up low-propensity MAGA voters without paying to reach everybody else.

  15. Rick and I both voted Blue (I have to as I’m a registered Democrat). We both voted for Chris Pappas as we both thought he had the best chance of keeping Jeanne Shaheen’s seat blue.

    We are leaving for a few days this morning to go to Ogunquit beach in Maine. Not sure I’m gonna take my iPad. Just want to sit on the beach… hear the waves… smell the ocean. If the world blows up… oh well. We’ll be back Friday afternoon.

  18. Today in the Diner…
    Elon Musk Ads & Netanyahu Oct 7 Warning
    Why Lawrence O’Donnell Says Trump Is Insane
    Trumpapalooza & The Texas Senate Shakeup

    Elon Musk is dropping millions on Super PAC ads targeting James Talarico and Sherrod Brown while Democrats prep for Trumpapalooza in Dallas.

    We are tracking the massive spending spree by Elon Musk as his Super PAC floods Texas and Ohio with digital ads. He is specifically taking aim at James Talarico and Senator Sherrod Brown in an attempt to sway the young male gamer demographic. Meanwhile, down in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott is sweating the upcoming midterm convention as Democratic nominee Gina Hinojosa looks to capitalize on the chaos to defend Democracy from what the GOP is proudly calling Trumpapalooza.

    Over in Michigan, Mike Rogers is deploying a completely desperate smear campaign involving Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, and we are calling it out. Plus, we dive into Lawrence O’Donnell rightfully calling out Donald Trump for posting insane memes with Natalie Harp, and break down the escalating tension between Joe Scarborough and Donny Deutsch regarding Benjamin Netanyahu and the October 7 intelligence failure.

    Finally, we wrap up with some true crime talk, looking at the recent jury interviews from the Lindsay Clancy trial before officially declaring a moratorium on the subject until the new trial begins.

    Live Chat: https://trailmix.cc/chat
    Website: https://trailmix.cc
    Alerts: https://trailmix.cc/alerts

    00:00 Intro
    01:53 Gina Hinojosa Challenges Greg Abbott
    04:45 David Maxwell Backs James Talarico
    10:47 Mike Rogers Smears Michigan Opponent
    13:45 Fake Ads Target Doctor Amy Acton
    20:20 Donald Trump Posts Insane Memes
    21:40 Benjamin Netanyahu Oct 7 Intelligence
    29:50 Elon Musk Ads Target Sherrod Brown
    35:05 Lindsay Clancy Trial Jury Fallout
    44:20 Donald Trump Approval Rating Drops
    58:10 The MAGA Team Parody
    — Human Prompted and Edited. Machine Drafted. (Gemini Pro)

  28. hitler didn’t have nukes drones and ai powered surveillance

    i’m having a hard time seeing how this ends well

  29. It would be nice to have a complete timeline for all of the lies Trump has told about 9/11, but here is what MSNOW put up for now.

    As a GOP candidate in 2016, Trump routinely referred to 9/11 on the campaign trail, usually as a way to justify his proposed Muslim ban, but as The Washington Post reported 10 years ago this week, “several of Trump’s statements about what he witnessed that day appear to be greatly exaggerated or false.”

    This week, a related HuffPost report added, “He’s claimed he lost ‘hundreds’ of friends that day, but never named any. Shortly after the towers fell, he bragged that he now owned the tallest building in lower Manhattan, which was both insensitive and untrue. He’s said he witnessed people jump from the Twin Towers from the windows in his apartment in Trump Tower, which was four miles away. And he has insisted — falsely — that he saw ‘thousands’ of Muslims ‘cheering’ the attacks in Jersey City, New Jersey.”

  34. https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/08/vivian-wilson-hits-out-at-ai-and-estranged-father-elon-musk-in-new-desigual-fashion-campai

    Vivian Wilson hits out at AI and estranged father Elon Musk in new Desigual fashion campaign

    Illustrating the campaign’s title, ‘Born to Disobey’, one clip sees the 22-year-old using a robot as a golf tee, walking it like a dog on a leash, and trying to teach it to say “Desigual”.

    Throughout, the robot malfunctions, leading Vivian to the conclusion: “Some things aren’t meant to be fixed.”

    Per a press release, the campaign aims to “send a clear message: the greatest rebellion is no longer about fighting against the system but about refusing to be part of it. When everything invites you to obey, the answer is attitude, irony and the freedom to be yourself.”

  35. Watching the first round of speeches at GOP midterm convention. Main takeaway: they are really doubling down on transphobia (that’s what we need to call it).

    TRANSPHOBIA (Transphobe, Transphobic)

    • Merriam-Webster: “irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against transgender people.”
    • Cambridge Dictionary: “harmful or unfair things a person does based on a fear or dislike of transgender and non-binary people.”

  38. Yep Jamie, and what they don’t blame Biden for, they blame Obama.

    I’ll be interested if this thing stirs up the MAGAts to our chatroom tomorrow. They’ve been losing steam lately.

  40. Slipped a bit. Need to confirm, but it looks as if there are people only in the immediate left, center, and right seating. everything any farther back or to the sides are empty.

  42. Mandami’s graceful compromise for not attending at the 9/11 memorial

    Today, I was proud to join New Yorkers for the 9/11 Day of Service at the Intrepid Museum.

    September 11th is a day we remember the terror and loss our city endured. It is also a day we remember the extraordinary courage, kindness and generosity New Yorkers showed one another.

  44. They’ve expanded their transgender surgery claims to saying Democrats want taxpayers to fund them in foreign countries??? I am eager to see in the polls over the next couple of weeks whether this transgender focus has reached its political expiration date. Hasn’t seemed to move the needle on Talarico and others so far, but they are really working it overtime to fire up the base.

  48. What❓❗️That’s UP ❗️I keep hearing 33 and that’s way too high.

    TRUMP APPROVAL
    Approve 37%
    Disapprove 61%

    The Economist/YouGov poll · ±3.4%

  49. I won’t be visiting that planet tonight. It’s not going to change my thinking or my voting plans. I’m waiting to see if I get my ballot.

    I declined an offer of a vacation trip, in part because it crossed over election day. I plan to be available to vote in person if it becomes necessary.

  53. I asked ChatGPT to watch the speeches and summarize. not a bad job for a Cub robot reporter:

    The rhetoric is already extremely hot. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer framed the election as “common sense and communism” and portrayed Democrats as essentially anti-American. Rep. Brandon Gill went after Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s Christianity, saying he wears it “like a skin suit.”

    The culture-war/transgender theme we noticed earlier is indeed part of the planned GOP message. Reporting on the program specifically identifies transgender youth/sports among the convention’s culture-war issues, alongside immigration, taxes and crime. What’s striking so far is how much of the argument is “Democrats are extremists” rather than “here’s what we’ll do about prices.”

    Trump just supplied a rather convenient explanation for all those vulnerable Republicans staying home: he says some aren’t attending because the arena doesn’t have room for them. “Everybody is coming,” he said, before explaining that they have room particularly for candidates in close races. That clashes rather awkwardly with reporting that vulnerable Republicans including Susan Collins, Dan Sullivan and Tom Barrett deliberately chose not to attend.

    Perhaps the biggest substantive omission: The Iran war isn’t featured in the convention agenda, even though it and the cost of living are two of the political problems hanging over Republicans. That’s potentially a useful Digital Diner angle: the things they’re talking about versus the things voters are talking about.

  55. Craig, it’s well enough for me to hear about it through a trusted source (that would be you). Thanks for doing that dirty job, somebody’s gotta do it.

    As for my voting Plan (A) and Plan (B), I’m following my motto, Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape.

  61. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-would-ai-actually-kill-us-all-what-to-know-about-the-ai-doomsday-debate-034270d1

    Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week, saying his former employer and its rival OpenAI are racing to build technologies that “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

    In case anyone thought Coxon was alone in his views, a current Anthropic employee chimed in minutes later to confirm. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” wrote Evan Hubinger, whose job at Anthropic is to lead research about steering and controlling future artificial-intelligence systems. Hubinger put the extinction risk over the next decade at over 10%.

    Their concerns fall mostly into two buckets: loss-of-control and human misuse.

    There are also catastrophic scenarios that fall short of extinction, such as massive cyberattacks that take down power grids or financial systems and lead to a breakdown in the human social order.

    *Climate change might get most of us before rogue Ai or evil humans.

  63. https://newrepublic.com/post/215181/elon-musk-millions-midterms-tricking-people-personal-data

    Elon Musk’s super PAC is stealing voters’ personal information—again…America PAC has launched an aggressive advertising campaign directing them to Vote Safe, a website claiming to provide users with information they need to “vote with confidence.”
    But all the while, the site is secretly collecting some information of its own, Judd Legum reported Tuesday on his substack Popular Information.

    Any visitors to the site will unwittingly hand over their full name, birthday, home address, email address, cellphone number, IP address, browser, location, voter registration status, and district, not to mention every link they click on and every page they look at.

    The website previously had a privacy policy barring America PAC from sharing this information with advertisers, political organizations, or third parties, but it removed that language last month. Now America PAC is permitted to sell or share your personal information with “our business partners.” That personal information includes not only where you are registered to vote but also the “inferences” the data makes about you.

    The business partners include Facebook, Google, X, an advertising firm called the Trade Desk, a tracking company named Increment Data, and Iterable, an email and text-massage marketing company, among others.

    In the last week, America PAC has spent more than $180,000 promoting Vote Safe, Legum reported. Musk has pledged to spend more than $100 million on the midterms.

  65. https://www.alternet.org/trump-rnc-lgbtq/

    Gay dating app Grindr goes down in Dallas during RNC’s Trump-a-Palooza

    *Why there are empty seats; the GOP convention is also a hypocrites convention.

    Downdetecter, which logs and maps user problems on websites recorded the collapse of the dating and hook-up service Grindr Wednesday evening, just as the Republican National Committee was hosting its first-ever Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, at the American Airlines Center.

    It also mapped the biggest red splotch indicating an outage in and around Dallas.

    The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in 2024 that the Grindr app in Milwaukee had crashed during the Republican National Convention in that city, despite Republicans kicking off the 2024 Republican National Convention with attacks on LGBTQ Americans, at times invoking religion, to raucous applause and approval from the GOP delegates.

  73. Trump just promised a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans keep Congress.

    Cost: roughly $1.23 TRILLION.

    That’s nearly ONE-QUARTER of everything the federal government collects in an entire year.

    He offered no details on how to pay for it.

  75. Let’s see, that’s $5k DOGE + $2k tariff refund + $5k GOP victory check + $9k if you are married and mommy stays home with the kids, all payable by the Bank of Narnia.

  76. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/article/paxton-readies-gop-speech-talarico-counters-food-22423047.php

    As Republican Ken Paxton prepared Wednesday to make one of the most important appearances of his Senate campaign, Democratic rival James Talarico handed out groceries in Dallas.

    Talarico’s “Love Thy Neighbor” grocery drive was designed as a counterprogramming effort to Paxton’s speech at what Talarico called the Republican Party’s “billionaire ball.”

    He said “while corrupt politicians and their billionaire mega-donors pay $20,000 a ticket to the billionaire ball,” he and volunteers had collected over 20,000 pounds of groceries for middle-class families.

  80. take the $20 billion he’s grifted, traded, and extorted, + my 5k

    that’s $20,000,000,005,000

    now fuck off 🇺🇸

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