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Nerd and music lover

Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
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This is a classic Clip Risk. Talarico used to say that “the border should be like your front porch — with a welcome mat and a lock on the door.” Rs just clipped out “and a lock on a door” and insisted Talarico wanted to open the border. Didn’t beat him but any two part answer can become a one part problem.
We are not ready for the 2028 Clip Wars.
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Alright America, it’s time for us to fly back home to Germany. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 We can’t lie, we’re really, really sad to leave. What an incredible trip this has been. So many new experiences, so many places we’ve visited and so many amazing people we’ve met along the way. We’re just incredibly thankful that we even had the opportunity to do something like this. We know that being able to travel for this long is far from normal and we don’t take any of it for granted. This entire trip turned out to be even better than we could have ever imagined. We’ve been talking about how much we’d love to just keep traveling. Another few weeks on the road, Christmas in America, going to the College Football Playoffs. If we could, we’d do it without thinking twice. A few people have asked us whether it ever gets tiring. Driving for hours almost every day, constantly changing hotels and always being on the move. And the answer is: Not at all. Even after all these weeks, we were still just as excited about exploring this country as we were on day one. There wasn’t a single point where we felt like we’d had enough. We genuinely enjoyed every part of this adventure. We also really hope you guys enjoyed following along as much as we enjoyed sharing everything with you. Meeting so many of you at stadiums, on campuses and in random places across the country made this trip even more special. Those are memories we’ll never forget. And then there’s college football. What started as something we were simply curious about has turned into a sport we’ve completely fallen in love with. My two travel buddies are even seriously considering joining an American football team back in Hamburg now. One wants to become a kicker, the other a cornerback and start intercepting passes, haha. We’ll see how that goes. I don’t really know what else to say. These past weeks have just been incredible and I wish we could do it all over again. Thank you to everyone who welcomed us, helped us, showed us around, gave us recommendations or simply followed our journey. You made this trip even better than we could have ever imagined. Until next time, America! 🇺🇸❤️
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“That’s Senator Talafreako.”
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Anthony retweeted
A lot of Americans have an intuitive sense that political power flips back and forth between the parties, but this doesn't line up with history at all. Rs were dominant from the Civil War to FDR, then Ds up until around Reagan. Current situation is an anomaly.
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Anthony retweeted
If polls were herding, I kind of get it because if I got a Talarico +12 poll I would never release that shit.
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🤘🏾What happens here changes the world🤘🏾
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The scale of James Talarico’s victory is simply astounding. He still wins if you remove Dallas, Travis, and Harris counties.
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Trump just named the head of UFC his new Press Secretary.
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People need to realize the drawbridge only went up due to the hardware limitations of the N64. It used the GGD-chip* which had flaws like this. This was the original artistic intention of the developers that they can only now do thanks to the power of the Switch2.
Drawbridge no longer raises at night, it seems like. It's more convenient but I'm not a fan of the change
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Anthony retweeted
Replying to @AbakpaJob
Waiting until after 9 pm to call someone because then your minutes were free.
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You've just ordered Pizza Hut and a 2L Mountain Dew. You've loaded up Ocarina of Time. No school tomorrow. Your parents don't care if you stay up all night long. A perfect fall night. You are 36 years old. The year is 2026.
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There’s a real irony in Republicans hoping that the late mail votes in Mississippi will rescue Cindy Hyde-Smith — just months after the RNC sued to void Mississippi’s ability to count late-arriving votes and lost at SCOTUS, 5-4.
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Democrats won overwhelmingly on a message of affordability and the first move by the incoming Speaker is to try to weaken a bill to reduce energy costs
SCOOP: Jeffries spokesperson says Senate permitting bill “falls short,” calls for more House input before they can support it: "[It] falls short in several areas, including the manner in which NEPA reform is undertaken and the failure to adequately protect tribal sovereignty.
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Anthony retweeted
The incoming amount of companies, law firms, institutions and people who will pretend they never placated to this administration will make your head spin.
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The size of the wave has delayed/complicated the Democratic fight over credit/ideology. But the Blue Dogs won’t let people* forget that Dunlap challenged Golden from the left then lost a Trump+9 seat while better candidates were flipping Trump+15 seats. *including Ro Khanna
An incredible subtweet
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JD Vance and Ted Cruz suddenly sounding like Yale and Harvard Law grads instead of MAGA memes is very, very telling.
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Agree with all this. Moderate vs progressive is not the right axis to evaluate candidates (and it’s not how most voters understand themselves.) They want people who will solve their problems competently and who can speak to their emotional reality, not gaslight them by saying “no, you’re wrong, the economy is good” or “that’s a distraction.”
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.
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"The MAGA movement looked at Texas as their own private law firm, which happens to have been publicly funded, which I would call corrupt,” the incoming Democratic Texas Attorney General Nathan Johnson told me. “My approach will be quite different.”
NEW: MAGA's "own private law firm" is going to be run by a Democrat. I talked to Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, who plans big changes that will have nationwide implications: nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
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Recent Texas cycles each had a regional story. In 2018, Dems surged in the suburbs and the rural wall saved Cruz. In 2020 and 2024, the RGV and South Texas lurched right. This year, it's everywhere. All 254 counties moved left:
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NYT: Winners of top statewide races in Texas (1994-2026)
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