there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Everything Trump touches dies.

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS

What was the point of the years of naked corruption if we're gonna get screwed like that?

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

"Sure the U.S. Constitution says one thing, but on the other hand, a Wall Street Journal op-ed (2026) and the lawliberty-dot-org blog (2026) say another"

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

Laughed until I (actually) cried at this

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

the woke liberal media refuse to give donald trump any credit for filling the reflecting pool with delicious mountain dew.

The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.

Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up

I don't like Newsom to begin with, but this disqualifies him all by itself. Anyone who leave a brick standing that Trump put in place is just inviting the next authoritarian to do the same thing. Destruction in this case is cleansing.

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

It took Mamdani five months to get rid of the NYC deficit and oversee a Knicks title. 🫡

CONGRATS KNICKS!!!!

REEEEEEEEBOUNDDDDDD

holy shit this game

Whether it’s Donald Trump turning the White House grounds into a trashy UFC shithole or Jimmy Carter wearing a cardigan to a fireside chat, both men degraded the presidency.

Bryce Harper’s stats with the Nationals and #Phillies: Nats: 927 games .279/.388/.512 (139 OPS+) 27.7 WAR Phils: 927 games .280/.385/.525 (145 OPS+) 27.7 WAR www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/ha... __ @thegoodphight.bsky.social

I do blame Trump for the Knicks stuff by the way. He’s such a unique vibesmonster. Just a succubus of any and all joy. A sleep paralysis demon that takes anything that looks like light and turns it into the visage of death. He is intent on haunting anywhere happiness appears for even a second.

the total value of the bribes in the teapot dome scandal aren't even $10 million in today's dollars...

I kinda get it from the Knicks’ perspective, I mean, I, too, thought I was doing pretty well and then Donald Trump forced himself into my life and the vibes have gotten a lot worse and I feel like the winning has ended.

The Western Hemisphere should never be allowed to host the World Cup. The whole point is to be able to get to work and watch soccer all day until I need to pick up my kids from summer camp. I should be watching Ghana-Uzbekistan at 9am.

it's certainly interesting to watch every single person in the oil industry repeat in a monotone “we are 3 to 6 weeks away from the worst energy crisis in history”, supply chain people with thousand yard stares, every single macroeconomist I know is benchmarking against 2008, etc and then meanwhile

Hormuz open next week is the new infrastructure week

It should be much more controversial for American politicians to march with Bezalel Smotrich, a wanted war criminal, than it is for them to protest such an event. Any parade that chooses to feature Smotrich at the head holding the banner has gone far beyond generic celebration of a country.

On this day in 2007, the Fair Minimum Wage Act was signed into law, raising the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. A child born that year is now old enough to drive in 2026. The minimum wage is *still* $7.25. It's long past time to increase it.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

agree, agree, agree. spanberger has a chance to be a hero here

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Today in good news, we're gonna beat climate change.

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.