William Lindsey Sep 10, 2025

"Tonight, Democrat James Walkinshaw easily won the special election to replace the late Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA). According to Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers, the district has swung 16 percentage points toward the Democrats since the 2024 election."

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2025

September 9, 2025

As Joe Perticone outlines in The Bulwark today, Republican lawmakers are greeting the release of the lewd letter in Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book depicting the outline of a child and apparently signed by Donald Trump either by saying they don’t care or by denying the signature is Trump’s.

Letters from an American
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Sep 10, 2025

"Sinking poll numbers take a toll on Trump. It’s one thing for Republicans to go along with a president polling in the mid-40’s; it is another when a president is languishing in the 30’s in several polls and losing on every issue, even immigration."

~ Jennifer Rubin

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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-exploit-trumps-weaknesses

How to Exploit Trump’s Weaknesses

Democrats must bring the heat

The Contrarian
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"Despite the USTA’s panicked plea to broadcasters to suppress any negative reaction, the boos exploded through the microphones of ESPN and ABC.

'Clearly audible,' was how one reporter put it. Sort of like a Giuliani fart during a hearing to try and swipe an election in Michigan."

~ Cliff Schechter

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https://www.blueamp.co/p/boo-heard-round-the-world-trump-loses

Boo Heard Round the World: Trump Loses the Crowd, and the Match

Watch now | Thank you for supporting our Soundcheck Fund to lift up independent media!

Blue Amp
Sep 10, 2025 at 3:10pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Sep 10, 2025

Last night Trump decided to go out for dinner in DC, and it went horribly for him. He was booed as he walked into the restaurant. Inside, a small group of protesters started chanting: 'Trump is the hitler of our time. Free DC. Free Palestine.'

Trump smiled awkwardly as he walked toward the protesters, tilted his head and jerked it back and forth wildly. He was obviously smoldering mad. Good."

~ Scott Dworkin

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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/truth-wins-trump-spirals-vaccines

Trump’s Defense Is a Joke. His Economy Is a Dumpster Fire. And We Are Taking Him On In Every Way

We don’t just counter Trump’s lies. We crush them.

The Dworkin Report
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Sep 10, 2025

About Trump being booed at USTA, Marisa Kabas, who was there, reports something I haven't seen said elsewhere: she suggests the reason crowds were kept waiting a long time to enter the stadium was to assure that the stadium was relatively empty when Trump appeared — to mute the boos and catcalls:

"This was obviously strategic:"

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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-open-my-experience

Why I had to see Trump at the US Open with my own eyes

Staring straight across the court at a fascist is bad for the soul, but certainly instructive.

The Handbasket
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Sep 10, 2025

"Trump was expected to be back out on the balcony for the National Anthem and an emptier stadium would dull the potential negative reaction that USTA had anticipated. 5,000 people couldn’t be nearly as loud as the full capacity of nearly 24k."

Shame on USTA for helping stage this farce, if that's what actually did happen.

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