Oh now that tHefRumiNveStor said it it's for real
At this point I'm not as much invested in who wins control of which chamber as much as I want a massive polling miss in Texas.
תהלים צ״ז:י
The language on both sides is painful and problematic...so much Torah is being learned, so much of Klal Yisroel is back in Eretz Yisroel, so many mitzvos are once again being performed that were lost for generations in obscurity, such a shefa of ruchnius and gashmius keeps descending on us...and yet the Beis Hamikdosh seems further away than ever.
לא מצא הקב"ה כלי מחזיק ברכה לישראל אלא השלום
We never seem to learn.
Can't wait for the spicy mayo.
Hellmann's mayo
McCormick spices
Cholula hot sauce
Frank's RedHot
What do these products have in common? One company could soon control them all.
I have concerns that McCormick and Unilever's $45 billion merger could increase YOUR grocery prices.
Talarico will probably get ~47%
NEW QUANTUS INSIGHTS TEXAS SENATE POLL | October 13, 2026
Our latest survey finds Ken Paxton and James Talarico essentially tied in Texas’ U.S. Senate race, with 23 days remaining until Election Day at the close of fieldwork.
📊 U.S. Senate Ballot
🔴 Ken Paxton (R): 47.2%
🔵 James Talarico (D): 46.7%
⚪️ Ted Brown (L): 2.2%
⚪️ Undecided: 3.9%
— Paxton +0.5. Neither candidate reaches 50%, with Brown’s support and the undecided share totaling 6.1%.
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Demographic Results:
📊 Gender
• Women: Talarico +10
• Men: Paxton +12
📊 Age
• 18–29: Talarico +33
• 30–44: Talarico +13
• 45–64: Paxton +4
• 65+: Paxton +17
📊 Race / Ethnicity
• White: Paxton +23
• Hispanic: Talarico +18
• Black: Talarico +72
📊 Party
• Republicans: Paxton 87% /Talarico 7%
• Democrats: Talarico 95% / Paxton 2%
• Independents: Talarico 52% / Paxton 37%
📊 Geography
• Urban: Talarico +26
• Suburban: Paxton 50% / Talarico 45%
• Rural: Paxton +34
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📊 Candidate Favorability
• Paxton: 45.8% favorable / 51.8% unfavorable
• Talarico: 48.6% favorable / 46.8% unfavorable
📊 In Step With Texas?
We asked whether each candidate’s views and values are in line with most Texans or out of step:
• Paxton: 48.6% in line / 47.7% out of step
• Talarico: 45.5% in line / 48.3% out of step
📊 Social-Circle Vote Perception
Who do voters think their friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors will support?
• Mostly or almost all Paxton: 43.1%
• Mostly or almost all Talarico: 41.7%
• About evenly split: 4.5%
• Not sure: 10.6%
— Paxton +1.4 in perceived support.
📊 2024 Presidential Vote Recall
• Trump: 51.5%
• Harris: 41.1%
— Trump +10.4.
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October 9–11, 2026 · 854 full sample · 839 voters-only ballot base · MoE ±3.6 percentage points
Full report and methodology:
quantusinsights [dot] org/polling
I mean, appreciate it and everything, but it's like $25 for the median American adult.
Good things happen when you actually target @GarrettWilson_V
See, but @MarkHalperin still won't reconsider his other objections about others currently being called anti-Semitic by those very same people which means he's learning absolutely nothing.
Zohran Mamdani’s tweet on Oct. 7 “has caused me to drop my objection to people calling him anti-Semitic because he’s not a stupid guy,” says @MarkHalperin. The mayor’s statement denouncing Israel’s role in Gaza “ignores the fact that Hamas puts its offices in hospitals and where civilians are. Hamas is the reason that this has happened. And like I said, if people want to call that guy anti-Semitic now, it’s okay with me. And that’s a big change for me.”
“ושמע האמת ממי שאמרה.”
One should accept the truth from whomever says it.
Maimonides - Introduction to the Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics.
JPod is probably smarter than him too.
Raboisai please just stop with this kind of stuff
My two cents:
Equating any criticism of Israel as being "Tucker" is exactly the sort of behavior we really should be talking about.
It's also precisely what allows Tucker to continue to operate.
When everyone is an anti-Semite, nobody is an anti-Semite.
I will just say that @willchamberlain has been a great ally who has pushed back against antisemitism and the unhinged and irrational anti-Zionism that has swept a corner of the right. I have no doubt what he is saying comes from a good place in his heart. But with respect, I think he is being too charitable here. Jewish conservatives don't go around accusing everybody of being antisemitic willy nilly, which is the message from speakers that NatCon choose to promote on its X feed (I confess I did not watch the whole conference). We have very specific and detailed criticisms. So when we see antisemitism exploding, it puts us in a terrible bind in which we either ignore all the lies and let the worst flare up of antisemitism that any of us have known in our lifetimes spread further, or call it out and be told that calling it out is what is truly causing the antisemitism because we're just a bunch of woke scolds. Tucker gets to make the case that the world would have been better off if Hitler won WWII, but when we point out why his argument is not only morally twisted but historically illiterate, these people will say "those Jews are out to silence Tucker because he is a critic of Israel." In reality, they are the ones trying to hide the truth and silence intellectually honest people from calling out what is actually happening. But we won't be cowed into silence.
I'll just come out and say it.
Judge is a great baseball player but:
He seems to care more about letting the players wear facial hair and city connect jerseys than he does about the face he disappears at times in the playoffs.
Yankees are 31-34 during his career in the playoffs.
Jeter's first 65 playoff games: Yankees were 48-17.
Jeter, O'Neill & Bernie all had higher OPS during than span than Judge during his.
He becomes Stanton on the basepaths and an average fielder.
He's essentially playoffs A-Rod - just on a team where he needs to carry the load more.
None of the three I mentioned before would just accept the losing - and his performance in those losses - the way he does.
Aaron Judge was asked if he thinks the Yankees' front office has gone all-in enough:
"It's tough to say. I want to trade for everybody, sign everybody every single year, but I know that's not realistic. They give us a winning team every single year, but that's not good enough here in New York. We're the Yankees. You've got to go out there and expect championships and go all-in every year. I'm excited to see what they do."


























