Me Too did not go far enough.

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

This is not remotely a “shocking breach of journalistic ethics.” She told him not to come to her house, he came anyway, let himself in and (allegedly) raped her. The texts don’t change the basic parameters of the story.

A note for John Sauer: You don't need to file a ludicrous motion for rehearing to satisfy the President. You can just quit.

2022

I heard Biden was old

When I said JD Vance’s racist lies about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio sounded like inciting a pogrom, that isn’t a word I use lightly.

There is nothing funny - alive, dead, or otherwise - about Mitch McConnell, one of the most relentlessly destructive malignancies in American political life for decades.

"Dem HR ladies" is such a misogynist turn of phrase, I'm still kind of speechless about it.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

emmanuel is so ruthlessly cynical that this is basically telling you where the typical democratic voter is on american aid to israel

Dems have dumped Swalwell and platner Republicans have nominated Ken Paxton

A stronger "HR lady" element in Dem politics would've nuked Platner sooner but instead a bunch of credulous & insecure dolts with podcasts & substacks just had to let their masculinity issues give Dems a candidate who imploded less than a month after winning the primary.

An interesting thing just happened ... and while my full account will appear in CJR Friday, I want to take note of it now. Start with this NYPost/Fox story that ran Sunday. Note the headline (including typo). Illegal immigration caused house prices to rise 30%! web.archive.org/web/20260705... 1/

"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"

I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)

The threat isn’t over and likely won’t be maybe… ever? The party has declared its mission on this. I’d bet they’re in this for the long haul

I’m sorry, but I tend to think it’s a waste of time for scholars, journalists, pundits or anyone to argue about whether the U.S. is quintessentially good or quintessentially evil. This is pretty much never an interesting or answerable question.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.

This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.

All these things can be true: 1) The U.S. gov (esp. Trump) intervening is and looks bad. 2) FIFA has a history of corruption and selectively applying rules. 3) Lack of transparency makes FIFA look worse. 4) Balogun’s red was given due to the ref misapplying VAR rules and should have been overturned.

My first thought too.

Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.

It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere

Come on people. If Trump had really struck a deal with FIFA, Balogun would be suspended for the next two years, Belgium would be given a 2-0 lead to start Monday's game, and we'd all have to pay FIFA $10 to watch the game.

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

“We are all made in the image of one almighty god” centers God—heavily implying the speaker’s conception of God—and casts people as subservient. Worshipful. “All men are created equal… endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights” centers people and their rights. A world of difference.

So you are telling humans literate in history, culture, arts, and writing are better at conceiving ideas than people getting all their ideas from the same box that also drives them insane?

Is 2026 the most embarrassing year in American history? Not *worst*, in terms of hardship or bloodshed. But if we're talking straight-up Mr. Bean buffoonery? Have we ever shown our national ass this blatantly and this often? Weight in, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The security guard at the door:

A pretty good encapsulation of what the 4th of July represents for the Black American.

Free link... Nearly 1 million people who bought President Trump’s memecoin have lost money through the end of June, according to a report by the cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. Their losses total $3.81 billion. (with David Yaffe-Bellany www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

What kind of fascist hellscape is happing on Pennsylvania Ave at the Eastern Market Metro stop? These guys—seemingly all white, all men—have their faces covered, are carrying shields, wearing brown …

There’s a technical term for “the most senior Catholic in the U.S. government.” In the Church, they call that a “layperson.”

Takes a lot of chutzpah (an ancient Latin word that roughly translated means “gall” or “nerve”) to try to call the manager on the pope.

Getting back to this was always the goal of Republicans which is why they’ve been the traditional party touting a return to federalism. The Democratic Party turning to the same system in the hopes of “lowering the temperature” is literally the compact northern lawmakers made with southerners.

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

The main challenge of the last 20 years is that people no longer face repercussions for being dumb. There’s always a bubble you can exist in where your dumb shit is average or higher.

InfoWars is now live.

“I can’t even imagine what statute Congress would enact protecting racial equality in voting, especially when it comes to dilution, that would survive a Supreme Court judgment that will rely on Callais,” said Professor Bertrall Ross to @motherjones.com: https://bit.ly/4oXR4ey #BerkeleyLaw

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

We should make room in our definition of "scandal" for the things that the Founding Fathers wrote in the constitution prohibiting because they believed it to be so scandalous: self-dealing, self-enrichment, and corruption. prospect.org/2026/07/02/p...

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate