It’s not just that due process doesn’t apply to political candidates—it’s literally the opposite of the evidentiary standard for political candidates. The burden is entirely on *them* to prove to *us* that they possess the integrity and good sense to hold office.

wsj is killing it on foreign leaders' break with the US "In private phone conversations with Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, Trump had threatened to scrap the 1908 agreement delineating their shared border. 'I tear that up and your whole country unravels,' " www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I really wish claims like this would then look at America and ask: okay, when did this all coalesce? And the honest answer would need to be “around 1965, and was met with immediate hostility.” Then the problem looks a bit different.

Edsall discusses comments and interventions from an interesting range of intellectuals and scholars, including some excellent ones. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...

The list of people who falsify this statement is long... but at the end he says that who he has in mind is MATT GAETZ , elected as a GOP Rep three times after the allegations came out, *then* initially chosen by Trump as his AG nominee. The Republican Party took *no* action against him.

The dean of Yale Law School and some members of its faculty are trying to stop a settlement between the university and the Trump administration, warning that an agreement could jeopardize Yale’s independence, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.

breaking my attempt at concentration to share a tidbit about Klippenstein, which is that he was a key vector of harassment 6 years ago when the internet decided to come after me for a bad Washington Post article. I haven't forgotten, or forgiven anyone

Marvel Netflix Universe fans: Give us a Night Nurse movie! [events] Marvel Netflix Universe fans: no not like that

"McConnell dies" is the top trending story at X on the basis of a Grok hallucination, with no underlying news account, as far as I can see.

I still feel like a newcomer to parliamentary systems after 20 years. I guess I get the mechanics of triggering a snap byelection for one's own seat, and I get the reasoning, but it's weird, right? This isn't something people do in the normal course of events?

This book of reflections on the 250th from Harvard Law professors has 64 contributors for 324 pages. In < 4 pp per author, it "does nothing less than advance the core conversations necessary for a thriving polity, both at this historic moment & for decades to come." mitpress.mit.edu/978026206043...

You know what else doesn't move that fast? Historical scholarship. morninganswerchicago.com/randy-barnet...

God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

agree. to add: it would be cool in general for online culture to self consciously cultivate a couple middle gears between totally writing off the value of a person and nihilist total impunity

You can see via the Platner/MTG throughline the skeleton of what is going to be a very effective red brown coalition in 2028. Barely veiled antisemitism uses enough Zionist/AIPAC language to draw in left wing voters.

you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to the space laser lady.

So much slowness to respond to global illiberalism stems from liberals struggling to find their feet after (as) the political ground shifted (shifts) underneath them. Today @liberalism.org, I suggest a framework for understanding what's happened and thinking about what to do next.

Conference at McGill next month

Do we have our answer?

I agree with @jacobtlevy.bsky.social and the late David Boaz that any right-of-centre organization that isn't actively fighting drift to the new right is likely to be swallowed up by it. At least Canada is capable of starting new parties.

every time i see him... every time

I would like my new country not to follow my country of origin into ridiculousness please

In addition to being illegal and immoral, this is also how you get increasingly radicalized and disruptive protests. If an entirely legitimate and peaceful protest gets punished anyway, no reason not to go further.

Again if someone had only listened to bluesky about platner. Maybe mainstream media wouldn’t be so disconnected from voters and reality

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

your comment has been flagged as "too gen-x." please report to the nearest processing plant where you'll be turned into feed and feed byproducts

Na na na na Na na na nazi Hey hey hey

I love that people say “Montreal-style” to explain and advocate pedestrian streets in Canada (in this case, extending Vancouver’s World Cup pedestrian street to the whole season).

The World Cup looks like it is morphing into March Madness geographic regions: The Francais region (France vs Morocco) The North Germanic region (Norway v England) The Habsburg region (Spain v No Jinx but I’ll say they like Waffles) And likely South America (Argentina v Colombia)

I want to say something snarky about the stream of posts blaming AIPAC for what's befalling that poor poor nice white populist Nazi rapist fellow in Maine, but it's just too grim.

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

if people are processing politics though male insecurity, you really can't point it out to them

Lol "More recent reporting based on SSA data for 2025 states that the name [Donald] fell further to #690, its lowest recorded ranking."

Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost.

gofundme to provide Janet Mills with an endless supply of espresso and vitamin B12 shots for four months?

It’s just [chef’s kiss] that the INET/ everything we know about economics is wrong guys single out Graham Platner as the truth-teller. newrepublic.com/article/2115...

hey look at that

I’m just gonna put my head through a wall www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

*taps sign* The government running party primary elections instead of letting parties pick their own nominees in the manner of their choosing is a weird American thing that eviscerates the fundamental purpose of political parties and it's bad, actually.

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In his speech, which will be delivered in Tel Aviv, he says Israel is now widely considered to be a pariah state and that the days of Democrats fretting or vexing over Israeli policy while maintaining unconditional, unshakeable support are conclusively "over".

Rahm Emmanuel, considered one of the most pro Israel members of the Obama admin and a 2028 presidential candidate, is going to deliver a speech on Wednesday where he will call for an end to all taxpayer funded aid to Israel and sanctions on people, banks and companies engaged in settlement activity.

Ideal ceremony length in total is 12-15 minutes. That’s the sweet spot.

Taylor and Travis’ wedding vows were supposedly 20 minutes each and as a wedding officiant that’s done hundreds and hundreds of weddings I don’t think you’re realizing how fucking long that is in wedding ceremony time.