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Trump got a lot of voters to flip to him in the 2024 election, including flipping some traditionally Democratic districts in South Texas that are close to the border with Mexico. These areas have much higher than average proportions of first and second generation immigrants. Between the current state of the economy and immigration enforcement tactics that somehow surprised Trump voters, they are significantly less popular nationally than they were in 2024, and the candidate is also well known and deeply unpopular with his own string of corruption charges and scandals. This race in particular is a statewide vote in Texas, so even in the best of climates a win for a Democrat was going to be a long shot, but it’s close enough to scare them. So to answer your question directly, I think in this case they are just hoping to keep enough of their previous voters to still win.

Science literate as ever

Leon Black, the billionaire investor, escalated his fight with a congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein and his network of powerful associates on Thursday, when he refused to show up for a scheduled deposition.

Instead, Mr. Black filed a lawsuit challenging two subpoenas that the panel served him in June.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, said that the subpoenas were “invalid” and that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had exceeded its authority in seeking information about nondisclosure agreements that Mr. Black might have entered into with women.

Mr. Black’s lawsuit said unnamed women and others “whom he has or may have agreements” with had “bargained for confidentiality.” These people, the lawsuit said, “want no association with the Epstein scandal.”

The Oversight Committee issued the subpoenas after Mr. Black refused to answer the panel’s questions during a voluntary interview in June about nondisclosure agreements he had signed with women. The committee believes some of those women may have been linked to Mr. Epstein, the now deceased financier and notorious sex offender. The subpoenas required him to turn over the so-called NDAs and testify under oath on Thursday — both of which Mr. Black refused to do.

This is the first time anyone called to testify before the Oversight Committee in its Epstein investigation has gone to federal court to challenge its authority. Mr. Black’s lawsuit against the subpoena raises the question of whether the committee, led by Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky, will vote to hold Mr. Black in contempt of Congress.

Mr. Comer said he supported doing so. “I would hold him in contempt right now,” he told reporters at the Capitol.

Right? Anyone else would be subjected to a detainment center for 10 months and then shipped to a country they have no connection to.

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I trust corporatists to overhaul social security like I trust my dog to overhaul the refrigerator.

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I think the whole health/fitness tech world is a great example of what’s wrong with capitalism. A lot of this stuff is genuinely really helpful and can extend lives, but you can only use it if you’re willing to let them sell incredibly detailed and personal data to whoever that want.