Gee I wonder why

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.

yep. and while it isn’t the whole reason Schumer and Gillibrand also share this belief

thing: [occurs] me: this is in some ways about catholicism, which I don't condone, of course,

they fired his editor btw. need to say that

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

Abolish the cop in your head who takes the administrative data needs of the state as a given. Bill Maher (fuck him btw) is banking on people thinking, "Of course we need sex on birth certificates and it would be loony liberal overreach not to put it!" OK, sure, like, maybe, but why?

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Boston Globe has gone from outing pedophiles in the Catholic Church to giving one a column

'Kelly acknowledged that “emergency docket orders often are preliminary judgments from the Supreme Court without the benefit of robust briefing” and thus have very limited precedential value. '

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

This is an administration by and for sex traffickers. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

I'm going to start calling these Alito raids since he's all about religious freedom when it comes to bashing LGBTQ people but not when it's armed gestapo bashing in the doors of churches on Christmas.

The thing about the latest news in the Nuzzi/Lizza story is that RFK cost the nation its measles elimination status.

I guess "modern American masculinity is a neotenous emotional state where the culture permits, and even cultivates, juvenile developmental qualities into adulthood" is just a fancy way of saying "everyone is twelve now"

"People often, often people" oh her editor hates her

it's so fascinating to me that Jake Tapper is mad at Vance's office not issuing a disavowal of Nick Fuentes while the Vice President's other connections to New Right thinkers is completely unmentioned on cable news

Listen, I laughed at the caption

I've seen a fair amount of "if you take a nuanced approach/give them the benefit of the doubt/provide lots and lots of context" in defense of both the New York Times and the national Democratic Party and I guess my question is, what have either done in the last decade to earn that?

It’s going to be awesome when the scheming viziers show him ai slop perpetuating from Seattle and he cancels Argentina vs Norway via truth social

The compromises ofc being "supporting children dying from vaccine preventable diseases" and "allowing supplement companies to grift the nation"

So @50501movement.bsky.social is circulating a video of a guy saying candidates "are being paid to be Israel first, to be loyal to the Zionist project and not to their constituents, not to the American people." Which is just a hairs breadth away from saying "Zionist Occupied Government." Not great!

Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere

Ruby Bridges is 71. Emmett Till would have been 70. The Civil Rights Act is only 61 years old. Loving is 58. Less than a generation ago.

* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET @reuters.com #QuietTime

It's not just the prose, it's the self-pity. All she has done in this excerpt is go hiking in Malibu. Most people who lose their jobs for appallingly bad judgement cannot afford to rent a house in LA and faff around in the hills all day!

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.

The only thing I've gleaned from this is she's an exceptionally bad writer, with no real interior life and thus nothing to actually say.

"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes

I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion

Megyn Kelly is trying to distract everyone from her support of pedophiles by attacking trans people.

It could be buy one get one free shrimp bhuna at your local Indian restaurant

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

man, what the fuck is in these files that would a) be worse than anything we have ever learned about him, b) make him willing to risk a maga civil war over it, and c) have him desperately calling half of the republicans in the house and begging them to vote against their release

Has he ever defended Usha or his kids with such passion?

Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration? Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:

lol last night was a rerun

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism