Democrat Alex Holladay is projected to win the special election to represent Arkansas’s House District 70, edging out Republican Bo Renshaw, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Arkansas is clearly one of the nation’s more reliably red states, but Holladay was running in a politically quirky area: According to calculations from The Downballot, Donald Trump carried this district by 4 points in 2020, but Kamala Harris won the same district by 2 points in the 2024 cycle.

Arkansas is a difficult state for Democrats to win for many reasons. However, just like with any other red state there are purple and blue pockets. One of those purple districts was Arkansas HD-70, which MVP Harris won by a +2 margin in 2024. The GOP incumbent won this seat 51%-49% at the same time.

It seems that class takes a backseat in discourse, even in Marxist-Leninist spaces. Also, it seems that the reliance on "civilian groups" seems to backfire a lot, especially in American politics, since it allows corporate influence, as well as other opportunists, to take control of certain services and departments of the government. I will say that the German government during the 1930s seems just as incompetent as the current fascist movements today... but that they can still get into power and subdue other bourgeois factions is noteworthy.

Also, yeah, the Nazis are portrayed as more "competent" than how they actually were.

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Military clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued for a fifth day Tuesday, in a conflict with potentially major implications for South Asian and world geopolitics.

Pakistan has carried out waves of air and missile strikes, including on Kabul and other targets deep inside Afghanistan, since it announced last Friday, February 27, that it was launching “open war” on its smaller, northwestern neighbour. Pakistani forces have also attacked numerous Afghan positions along the 2,640-kilometer (1,640 miles) Durand Line, a British Empire-imposed border that Kabul has never recognized.

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has countered with drone strikes and cross-border assaults. Both sides are boasting that they have killed hundreds of rival soldiers. Kabul is alleging Pakistan’s aerial war has resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties.

Most foreign governments, including those of China, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have appealed to the two sides to immediately cease hostilities and negotiate a settlement.

The United States led by the would-be fascist dictator Donald Trump administration is not among them. Endorsing Islamabad’s war narrative, the US State Department has declared Washington’s “support for Pakistan’s right to defend itself against incursions from the Taliban, which is designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization.”

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In an incredible, bittersweet success story, Croatia has announced it has freed itself from the scourge of landmines, 31 years after the country’s civil war.

President Donald Trump ominously said on Monday that the U.S. has the weaponry to fight “forever,” as the administration’s refusal to state a definitive timeline or end goals for its war on Iran sparks worries of yet another prolonged, disastrous U.S. conflict in the Middle East. In a post on Truth Social just before midnight on Tuesday, Trump said that the U.S. has a “virtually unlimited…

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Maybe humans just need to hibernate through February and March, I dunno man.

This lengthy interview, originally published in Gamer Handbook, captures a high-level meeting of the minds between Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and author Seikou Itou. Conducted a few months after the release of the original MOTHER, the conversation quickly turns to philosophical (and comical) musings about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids and gaming, and Miyamoto's visionary notions of how gameplay will evolve in the future.