Highest on-court earnings, NBA history (via @BobbyMarks42): 1. Stephen Curry - $652M 2. Kevin Durant - $598M 3. LeBron James - $592M 4. Kawhi Leonard - $543M 5. Paul George - $519M 6. Joel Embiid - $515M 7. Donovan Mitchell - $514M 8. James Harden - $510M

A true legend of the Bay, here to stay. The Golden State Warriors have signed four-time NBA champion and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry to a contract extension.

The three largest GOP super PACs have combined to report more than $70 million in new spending tonight.

RAJU: So you're not planning to help Paxton fundraise at all? CORNYN: That's correct RAJU: Why? CORNYN: This is the way majority parties become minority parties -- by nominating candidates that are less than appealing to a general election electorate RAJU: Does he deserve to be a senator? CORNYN: I'll let the voters decide that

Feels like GOP learned wrong lesson from the success of the Trump They/Them ad. Point was Harris was focused on cultural issues when you’re worried about the economy. GOP flooding the zone with these type ads and voters could start asking why they’re talking about this instead of gas, groceries, housing or the war

Y’all aren’t ready for the world where 1/3 of Senate Dems are from Trump states. So much power to accomplish things with, and yet inevitably so much lefty whining when the various double-digit Trump state Dems/Indies break with the party non-stop.

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.

Trump is heading to Durant, Oklahoma, for a midterm rally on Oct. 1, the RNC announces

Artificial intelligence without human wisdom, discernment, and judgment will be catastrophic. We have three urgent tasks: keep the worst-case predictions from becoming real, stop the harms already hurting us now, and make sure the benefits of AI lift the all the American people — not just a handful of billionaires and trillionaires.

okay fine I wrote a rant instead of taking my zen from atoning today thefunsinthefight.com/p/camp…

From the NYT Opinion focus group of a dozen Trump 2024 voters on the Texas Senate race nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

It’s hard to watch this video. A reporter asked Cindy Hyde-Smith a serious question about Nolan Wells' tragic passing, and she chose to run away and call security. At the very least, she could have acknowledged Nolan’s family and offered her condolences for their tremendous loss. For everyone who knew Nolan and loved him, this is deeply disappointing. No matter your politics, there should always be some basic humanity when talking about someone who lost his life — especially from an elected official. Mississippi deserves better.

Yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error, if you’re in a +10 district you’re underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006. I slept on whether to share this publicly, because I don’t want to cause anyone to black pill. But this morning I ultimately decided the truth should be shared while there is still six weeks left to do something about it for the good of the country. Because if the environment is this bad in my home state, where Trump has been the most popular political figure over the last decade, I can’t imagine where it is everywhere else. Whatever we’re doing or not doing in Iran/Hormuz has become a 2020 Covid lockdown level of political albatross. This is approaching TARP bailout levels of unpopular in my home state. We are risking what’s left of the Trump presidency on this, because if Democrats take control the legislative branch the Trump domestic agenda we all voted for will largely cease between what a Democrat Congress will do and the courts have already been doing. Not to mention what it will cost individual states like my own, which we have worked so hard to make so red these last 20 years (with Trump’s help). This whatever/kinda/sorta/but not really war has become an existential misuse of political capital. Many of us never thought it was worth it, and more and more it appears voters agree. We have to save our own country and our own way of life first before we can save anyone else. We have to save America before we can save the world. If a plane is endangered, you are told to put on your mask first otherwise you’re of no use to help save anyone else. I desperately want us to win. I desperately want this presidency to fulfill all the great promise it had coming out of the 2024 election. But whatever this currently is, isn’t it. We don’t have to just sit here and take the L. It doesn’t have to end this way. We can still win. There’s plenty of ammunition to hammer the Democrats with. We need the president out on the stump asap. We need better and way more aggressive messaging. Stop running fake and gay ads about how often so-and-so shows up for votes, and instead mercilessly hammer Democrats on the wickedness they’re voting for. Articulate specifically what the mission/victory is in Iran/Hormuz, because out here in the cheap seats it feels like another Middle East War quagmire regular folks are paying for on both ends all over again. And for heaven’s sake, make sure Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are getting the finest healthcare in America.

Also in the newsletter: The Senate Leadership Fund is reshuffling some of its advertising in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race, canceling about $522,000 in reservations boosting Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins in recent days. It says the move is part of a routine rebalancing of its buys to maximize viewership, not a retreat from the Republican nominee. #gapol ajc.com/politics/2026/09/chu…

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Polls for Republicans are just getting worse by the day in a way that isn't actually all that common in midterms. It's gotta be mostly the gas prices, although maybe AI anxieties are also reverberating negatively for the GOP. Model update out soon.

Polls for Republicans are just getting worse by the day in a way that isn't actually all that common in midterms. It's gotta be mostly the gas prices, although maybe AI anxieties are also reverberating negatively for the GOP. Model update out soon.