Day after the midterm election, I saw a house with all sorts of menacing horror figures out front from Halloween, now proudly holding a very large American flag. It sure did send a message, lol.

No, but only because I’ve helped run a website recently and you underestimate just how much wasted traffic is from scrapper bots. On our limited bandwidth, it was practically a DDOS attack all the time.

A bit of a nothingburger story because shit just hasn’t changed. It was a 10 point margin a week ago at 74% counted and like 9.5 point margin at 75% counted. AP won’t call it because that missing 25% is a few million votes.

And trust me I’ve checked every day, it’s just really slow and uninteresting until it’s counted. I’m not hopeful of course, but seeing Prop 42 (which worries me more) go from 8 point margin to 5 gives me pause at the very least.

They’re fine. We talk about cooking before class on occasion and my students tend to be pretty on top of that, and baking. This is especially true of women who take care of their siblings. Honestly, it’s on par for the age, but there is one more unique aspect and that’s reliance on Tiktok or IG for recipes.

That means that I’ll sometimes run into people who love cooking but they’re often making what’s popular at the time. But… my cohort, millennials, aren’t too different in using our online recipes. They’re just a little less… creative, compared to what you see on Tiktok. Plus, video format is trash for cooking, but that’s my own opinion.

Probably not too far off at this rate… I’m watching billboards light up from people’s headlights. It’s only a matter of time.

Iirc, technically there are two Republicans on that ballot so… no. Lol

To add, a majority of those voters discontent isn’t gas, too. They murdered school children, y’all.

It’s not a majority of all Americans, but murder of Iranian civilians and Gazan civilians does break through to many people not on a 24/7 propaganda loop. That mattered in 2024 as it mattered in 2026, to obviously different outcomes.

I actually thought about this the moment I saw all the state wins. Everyone around me completely fixated on Congress and forgot how important state politics are.

I’m glad to see a little validation, although these people still don’t seem to care even after I tell them that! Lol

Believe it or not, the colors were reversed or kinda random for a long time actually. Dems were red, GoP blue. Iirc, that didn’t shift until 2000, lol.

Totally, although if anything money and party backing didn’t seem to stop people in some races. I bet we see a democratic Florida within the decade if momentum holds or Congress does something about Citizens United or other things that corrupt the system. But that’s somewhat wishful thinking.

Honestly it gives me hope and it’s weird we finally get to show just how purple every state really is, though.

True enough. There was a spoiler worth about 2% which is a bigger deal. In any case, I learned they don’t even really have a recount procedure so it’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Got a bit of a push closer to DSAs but… yeah.

Living in CA, I’m used to the latter; conservatives use propositions to pass bullshit, since they can’t get elected themselves. It often does get overturned in democratic courts, though not always.

Yup. Agree, especially in regards to Biden and Dems being ineffective; it’s kind of weird to hope Trump set a new standard for what happens when a Dem takes office because I very much do not want to see ineffective leadership like that again.

Also, I have a close friend in Missouri and he expressed a similar sadness about that. I hope you and him are mistaken, but I know how short term memory voters have. None the less, there are Democrats everywhere, other states are a nice reminder of that.

Of all times for this to even happen… I check, and it’s literally still within 10 to 100 votes different between a Dem getting elected senator there.

I hope this gets all the investigations needed. Mississippi Blue fucking turned out and if they won, they deserve to be up there with the likes of Kansas, South Carolina and Texas.

To be fair, Trump made overnight changes; this has just been one of the least active Congresses in the history of the county which includes ignoring violations. Basically being effective by being ineffective.

But I’m with you on this one… between Senate filibuster and presidential veto, they go back to the whine approach we’ve had in the past. I hope not, but I’m not quite as enthusiastic as others. (But I am excited to see state legislation change for once, that might have long term ramifications!)

At least with a decent majority, they won’t have to rely on Turek (or the other transphobes) on every vote, so you may still see some gains for trans rights at the national level. It also helps that some house races came out very pro-trans, so these issues may be taken up seriously at committee and even without a majority there can be some vote trades to get better civil right protections for trans folk.

So yeah, take what you can get- it’s still a great night.

Out of the loop, I checked and yes, you’re right. Fyi for others, it’s the Voter ID law. It’s harder to remove now, basically.

If I had to pick two, you still got something big to celebrate. And if today is any indication, Voter ID laws couldn’t stop this tsunami.

I don’t like him, but the good news is a big enough lead means we don’t need him on every issue (trans rights, cough cough) and can trade that with other tight issues with other senators who might have to avoid a vote that hurts their state but it’s a greater good.