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Not a pretty sight: Trump’s ‘beautiful’ Republican men flop at midterms

President spent weeks praising his favored candidates’ physiques, from their jawlines to their shoulders – but most of his hot guys lost ​It was either a last-ditch considered strategy to win votes, or the ramblings of an increasingly unhinged and increasingly amorous party leader. Either way, it…

Will Pete Hegseth be the blue tsunami’s next victim? | Arwa Mahdawi

The ‘secretary of war’ and his shameful history are facing bipartisan scrutiny Can you smell the schadenfreude in the air? Watching some of the worst people in the world get their comeuppance this week has been deeply satisfying. And the show isn’t over yet. While the midterms have wrapped up, the…

Flip voters discovered that Trump’s racism and xenophobia are expensive

Maga’s regret voters were all-in for Trump’s racism. Then they found out they couldn’t afford it For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami . Wins that held ground for already blue…

Israel took a beating in the US midterms | Judith Levine

In a reversal of longstanding assumptions, strong criticism of Israel’s actions may have helped put candidates over the top “You took a chance on the unlikeliest of candidates,” Abdul El-Sayed told a Detroit crowd on Wednesday, declaring victory in Michigan’s hard-fought, often ugly, Senate race.…