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One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

Today’s the day America. Get out there and send a message to the radical left that we don’t want their bullshit. We have an amazing slate of Republican candidates nationwide, it’s your job now to make sure they get elected. Make a plan to vote, bring a friend, and let’s win this thing.

Sam Altman says its bad that everyone's personal computers are using the world's limited supply of memory chips. "It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAMs sitting in their own computer, and being used 5% of the time. Like, you want maximum utilization."

🚨 BREAKING: Matt Gaetz is being sued for participating in an alleged sex trafficking ring.

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Introducing Xbox 360 ⇄ PS3 ⇄ PC Crossplay. Unmodded Consoles. Online. Coming Soon.

Release Notes for today are up: store.steampowered.com/news/…

🚨 New ranking reveals all 10 of the worst states for women are run by Republicans.

We messed up. Our collaboration with RuneScape is a passion project that brought together people from across 100 Thieves to create a celebration of OSRS and RuneFest. Last night, we teased one of our concepts - one we were particularly excited about. The design clearly had AI in it and we missed it. We first started conversations with Jagex to work on this project in July. We were beyond excited, and we took on this collaboration knowing we had to deliver this with a little more than a month’s time to design, review, approve, and manufacture the apparel. To speed things up, we worked with multiple graphic designers to ensure we hit the deadline. However, during the last phase of the tee design, one of our designers used AI to hurriedly edit the piece and we pushed a sample to production for our photoshoot. 100 Thieves was built by designers, artists, creators, and gamers that pour their soul into defining what gaming culture should be. AI has no place in our apparel design. A principle we share with Jagex, whose games and artwork are built on the creativity and craft of human artists and developers, and would not have approved of the use of AI in this. Old School RuneScape is cherished by many of us at 100 Thieves. Including our Content team across esports, our Partnerships team, our Apparel Leads, our Marketing Leads, and Social Managers. Many OSRS veterans came together to make this collaboration happen, and even more of us had our eyes freshly opened to the world of Gielinor and RuneScape. Unfortunately, it is now overshadowed by our failure to create something both of our communities could be proud of. Sorry to the OSRS community and to our fans, we clearly did not live up to our own standards. We are actively working with Jagex on the collaboration as we look to make things right.

Breaking: Trump's Education Department is cutting off student loans for degrees that don't pay off Programs failing: - Cosmetology - Massage therapy / bodywork - Culinary arts - Medical / dental assisting - Religious Studies - Social work / mental health counseling - Fine and studio arts - Music - Graphic design - English literature - Early childhood education Takes effect 2027

I want to sincerely apologize for making anyone uncomfortable with my behavior. I have reached out to the people I made uncomfortable with my actions directly and my plan of action is seeking professional help. Since I'm committed to this I'm going to start by donating to a woman's SA charity. I'm taking a break from social media to focus on my mental health and work on being better. I know the people who know me best know this behavior isn't the real me. Still, it hurts knowing I let down the people I care about, and I am deeply sorry for that.

Shout out to the folks passing around out of date developer acct lists and using AI programs to track devs in matches for ruining a good thing. ✌️

McLaren got a rebrand

Rendez-vous aujourd'hui avant la Grande Finale pour découvrir la nouvelle ère de Rocket League. 🔥

This is how I make my client’s face look better in thumbnails Here’s the tutorial ↓

A Windows on the World worker falls or jumps from the top of the North Tower. A photograph of the fall:

Valve just violated like 1000 NDAs with this new Steam leak all of the games on this list have had their full achievements leaked, this is fucking horrifying