It appears we have reached the end of the primary battles. Massachusetts was the last one, and - from my vantage point - there weren't any big surprises. Ed Markey is going to keep his seat, despite his advanced age (not pounding McDonald's every day probably helps, health-wise). Other older democrats also fended off younger challengers.

There's something else, though, I'd like to put forth as a hypothesis. It has to do with domain knowledge and expertise...
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 09/02/2026 22:29:51 by Will_in_Ca)

It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defence. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's The Kennedy Center.
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 08/31/2026 14:10:50 by Raine)

Its been an exhausting week -



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We are about done with the primaries. Yesterday mainly saw runoffs in 3 states...
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 08/26/2026 13:33:27 by Raine)

Washington DC currently has around 3400 sworn officers in its metropolitan police department (MPD). For a little over a year, the administration decided our capital was a hellhole of crime (it is not and was not) and declared an emergency to invoke sending the National Guard to the city. Most are from red states. Right now, the number of guard troops deployed in DC stands at 4700.
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