the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

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Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

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Remarkable story here from @mtredden.bsky.social and others at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nava...

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Striking: Dems growing optimistic about sweeping all four of the big House races in South Texas. If doable, that's seismic. DCCC's Madison Andrus tells us on the pod that internal polling has Trump -23 in TX-28, which he won by 10 points. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

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“He's gunna go up to the Upper Peninsula and get a pretty cold welcome.” And the UP said…

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