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Tabby days and Mondays always get me down …





“I think she’s preparing to exit the stage,” said a House Democratic leadership aide.

“I wish she would stay for 10 more years,” said one House Democrat from California. “I think she’s out. She’s going to go out with Prop 50 overwhelmingly passing, and what a crowning achievement for her to do that.”

Ed: Hey, I wish she’d stick around too! She’s been great for fundraising for both Democrats and Republicans. I’m not sure she’ll retire willingly, though. And I’m not sure Democrats really want her to go, either. She controls a lot of fundraising for Democrats in Congress, and a lot of that may disappear with Pelosi, and this isn’t the best cycle for that to happen. 

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Politico: Most Americans expect political violence to keep growing in the United States and believe that it is likely a political candidate will be assassinated in the next few years.

Widespread pessimism about political violence is a rare, grim point of consensus in a country riven by political and cultural divisions.

A majority of Americans, 55 percent, expect political violence to increase, according to a new poll from POLITICO and Public First. That figure underscores just how much the spate of attacks — from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this year to the attempts on President Donald Trump’s life in 2024 — have rattled the nation.

Ed: I feel the same way. I think we need to dial down the vitriol, but in order to do that, the less vitriolic need to assume positions of power in the various political parties and movements. Unfortunately, one side in particular is going in the opposite direction. 





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Ed: Come and see the dog whistles to violence in the Democrat system. She’s an absurd demagogue, and if she leaves office, she will have to know just how badly Trump defeated her. 

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Axios: A group of centrist House Democrats and Republicans on Monday unveiled a proposal that they believe could finally cut through the partisan impasse that has kept the government shut down for more than a month.

Why it matters: The rare bipartisan coordination is the latest signal that lawmakers in both parties — particularly moderates and those in battleground districts — are growing fed up with the extended shutdown.

Ed: Great! Reopen the government and then bargain over the budget. That’s how it’s supposed to work. But this is absurdly premature, since the House won’t come into session until the Senate passes the clean CR. 

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“When my home was swatted multiple times with my innocent toddler inside, you being gay couldn’t save me.”

Nicki Minaj is getting a taste of who the far-left really is, isn’t she?





Ed: Minaj later deleted the post, but Eric got the screen grabs. Too bad Minaj got intimidated by her own fans and put their TDS ahead of the issue of Christians being slaughtered in Nigeria, but kudos to her for initially standing up for what’s right regardless of how she feels about Trump. Maybe the scales will fall from her eyes on the nature of her allies these days.  

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Matt Welch at Reason: For those of us on the outside of Team Blue, and for the other 332 million U.S. residents who don’t live in (and are sick of hearing about) the Big Apple, here is the tell to watch out for in the coming days: Which prospective victory will Democrats be more fired up about Wednesday, Abigail Spanberger flipping the Virginia governorship away from the GOP, or Mamdani flashing his pearly whites in Gotham? The former is by far the more consequential indicator of the next two years in major-party competition; the latter tells you more about what’s percolating under the Democratic hood.

If Mamdani wins the intra-Democratic beauty pageant, then hold onto your wallets. Populism, at least as channeled professionally through major-party politics, demands not results but proof of marketable concept. Why, you can win a high-profile election simply by smiling on social media and promising stuff even Saturday Night Live finds laughable? Get ready for a rent-freezing, billionaire-taxing, teachers union–fluffing, restorative justice–loving socialist near you. And keep the local U-Haul on speed dial.





Ed: Matt nails this in more than one way. People think Mamdani is a unique figure because he’s a socialist about to win a mayor’s race, when that is more the norm than the exception. Matt cites Fidelita Karen Bass, but you can add Brandon Johnson, Omar Fateh in Minneapolis, practically every mayor in Seattle and Portland over the last couple of decades, and so on. Mamdani is unique because the national party has largely played down the rise of those mayors, but they’re getting thrills up their legs (as Chris Matthews would say) with Mamdani. 

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Ed: There’s also a video of this woman angrily reacting to being expelled from Gold’s Gym for objecting to a man in the women’s locker room. Notably, this woman tells us that she’s a lesbian and not “transphobic,” but is sick and tired of men encroaching on women’s spaces. 

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Spiked (UK): On Saturday, women’s rights activists gathered in central London, Edinburgh and Cardiff to demand the full implementation of the UK Supreme Court’s transgender ruling – which affirmed the biological definition of sex in law. The protests were organised under the slogan ‘199 Days Later’ – to emphasise just how long it’s been since the Supreme Court ruling. …





All this umming and ahhing over a ruling that could not have been simpler to understand is telling. There was no such hesitation when organisations and institutions were letting hairy-chested blokes muscle in on lesbian speed-dating events, or making them the face of feminine hygiene brands, or awarding them Olympic medals for dominating women’s sports categories. It is only when institutions are asked to protect female spaces that the bureaucratic handwringing begins.

After years of sidelining women and bending the knee to the new, full-glam face of misogyny, institutions are unwilling to give up gender ideology so easily. The fight, it seems, is far from over.

Ed: It’s far from over here too, but at least the Trump administration takes it seriously. The UK is lost. 

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Rational Sheep: Grab a tissue, if you are a J.R.R. Tolkien lover:

“Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.”

Now, if those lines put a tear in your eye and a lump in your throat, you are probably a rightwing traditionalist of some sort who poses a threat to peace and progress in our evolving modern world.

That’s the logical implication of this recent headline in The Telegraph, describing a development in at least one academic institution in England, the land that inspired Tolkien to write his epic myth. That bold headline: “Students shall not pass unless they accept Lord of the Rings is offensive.”





Welcome to the “Decolonising Tolkien” project at the University of Nottingham.

Ed: There is a whole class of Grima Wormtongues dripping poison into ears in this generation. “How did it come to this?” It came to pass when we stopped remembering who we are and forgot the rich foundation of Western civilization that brought us to all of the achievements in freedom, culture, and faith. Tolkien knew it could happen and wove it into LOTR in the character of Theoden, a man who forgot who he truly was and what his birthright meant until it was almost too late. 

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Ed: Maybe Trump should assign Habba to Chicago next year … 

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The Spectator: In rare form, Trump did not in fact shoot himself in the foot. He didn’t go off on obscure tangents that appear inexplicable or scary to a CBS viewer. At the same, O’Donnell didn’t lean into the media’s most divisive attacks that have been used to demonize Republicans in the Trump era – Nazism, white supremacy or egregious “gotcha questions” designed to impart racist vitriol. She simply kept to the good old fashioned liberal bias.

Is the world healing? Are we returning to the days of civility politics that self-declared centrists so longingly yearn for? Is Trumpism now so dominant that it can govern as a milquetoast status quo? It’s surely too soon to say.





Ed: Andrew Malcolm and I discussed that in our upcoming podcast episode, and we both think Trump has gotten much better at discipline in the second term. He’s engaging reporters every day, and he’s become more strategic with that engagement. And of course, CBS had about 16 million reasons to behave itself this time around, too. 

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Ed: Gettin’ dusty in here …

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