#Via Jon Cooper
@JonCooper
8:42 PM · Mar 24, 2026

"Democrat Brian Nathan has just flipped a Republican-held Florida state Senate seat. This is despite the fact that his GOP opponent Josie Tomkow had a huge fundraising advantage over Nathan, with a political action committee worth more than $3 million aiding her effort."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116281343752661759

I saw this in the wild. The Google discover feed showed me a headline for a 4h-old Guardian article where the Google link/headline said the Iranian leader Khamenei had been killed by a US bomb strike and I thought "Wow! Already? He's only just taken over for his dead dad!"

And that really would have been news except that wasn't what the article was about at all. It was about the US not knowing who to negotiate with now that they've overturned the anthill. It only referenced the killing of the _elder_ Khamenei at the start of the war a few weeks ago, and that reference was more than 3/4 of the way through the article, in background information. I was gob-smacked that Google would do such a thing. It's awful, a full betrayal.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 56,703:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/volume-in-stock-and-oil-futures-surged-minutes-before-trumps-market-turning-post.html

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