Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics
Alastair Campbell argued Democrats must win at least 5 of 7 contested Senate states — Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Alaska, Iowa, Texas, Ohio — to take the Senate.
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Rory Stewart raises the spectre of Jeremy Corbyn: that the existence of radical figures on the left, however reasonable their positions might seem in a European context, will be deployed by opponents to define the entire party. He reveals that when he tried to explain to his son Sasha why Mamdani's positions would frighten American swing voters, Sasha replied that he agreed with everything Mamdani said and couldn't understand the problem. [1] — Rory Stewart "The existence of some people out on the far left will be used to brand it and it'll be seen by people like Trump as a gift because they'll …" 08:44 This generational gap in political perception is, Rory suggests, itself part of the story. He also notes that not all Democrats are following the same path — Ritchie Torres won his Bronx primary by 50 points on a pro-Israel platform, and the Democrats' candidate for New York 17 is a combat veteran, reflecting the party's simultaneous pull in opposite directions.
Pro-Israel Democrat Ritchie Torres won his primary in a poor Bronx district by 50 points against a radical left challenger, showing Democrats are not uniformly moving left.
Democrats need to win at least 5 of 7 key Senate states to take the chamber, including Maine, Michigan, and North Carolina as likely pickups. But the fact that Alaska and Texas are even being discussed as Democratic possibilities is itself extraordinary evidence of how unpopular Trump has become.
Kalanick estimates that a decade ago, 90% of media coverage of tech business was negative, treating companies like political targets.
2024–2025 marked the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder in the US since 1937.
From 2024 to 2025, violent crime decreased 9%, property crime decreased 12.4%, and motor vehicle theft decreased 23%.
California's Ebony Alert Program, designed for the swift recovery of missing Black youth and women, officially went into effect on January 1, 2024.
Andrew Santino discovered that American tourists now need to pay $20 to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit the UK, starting January 2025.
Kay Classman, a 28-year-old woman, was arrested for repeatedly enrolling in a Bronx high school posing as a 16-year-old student across multiple school districts.
A poll around 2011 found that 16% of Americans believed 9/11 was an inside job, illustrating how viral misinformation had already embedded itself in public opinion before social media peaked.
Andrew Wilson offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theory, but she refused.
According to the podcast, only 11 people were killed by the coordinated Israeli pager attack on Hezbollah operatives, despite widespread detonations.
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