I should probably stop talking about this, I don’t even like Platner and have no idea how I’d vote in the primary if I lived in Maine. But the attitude of the anti-Platner folks is insane, acting like evil scheming consultants are why a guy with Platner’s MANY red flags whipped the governor’s ass.

Occupy Wall Street be like

Deeply uncool opinion for Bluesky but whatever

You actually can tell, they’re mostly doing a good job of responding. Much of that has gotten swamped on here by Katz’s deranged communications with McDonald, but that is very notably not the part they had advance warning of.

Again, it would be helpful to think of Platner not as some conquering force, but rather as the vehicle for organized labor, and democratic primary voters’ frustration with gerontocracy and moderation.

Abolish Bedtime Leftism total victory

It’s amazing that after over a decade, Defector/Deadspin is still incapable of writing about the USMNT without taking multiple shots at MLS, including in the first paragraph

Fascinating conversation

KOTOR is really their one remaining card left to play

Eh the story is more like Schumer and the DSCC picked Mills, and then labor picked Platner and successfully stopped her.

Morris Katz is very obviously good at his job, something you should be especially convinced of if you think Graham Platner, the candidate who he steered to victory in the democratic primary, is particularly repugnant to democratic ideals and/or obviously unsuited for public office

“The New York Times has once again determined that a trans girl winning a sporting event is national news.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Pooba, the tubby little chubby all stuffed with fluff alien

may the Oklahoma City Thunder never ever make it to this round of the playoffs again

The big Platner news is he was trying to cheat on his wife? Am I missing something else here?

Really funny that there was one (1) lesson to learn from the last time an ambitious democrat tried primarying markey and moulton just didn’t pay attention

Tsamina mina, eh, eh Waka waka, eh, eh

Is that Rick astley?

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

Happy feast day to Joan of Arc! I love her and she is the best. Happy feast day of Joan of Arc to all of you. Here’s one of my favorite modern paintings of her, by Donato Giancola. She usually gets action shots, made really feminine, etc. This is different.

“AOC is right:The bigger ambition is to change the world, not just to be the one in the position to change it. To borrow from Hannah Arendt, action, “the political activity par excellence,” entails starting processes that, through the plurality & interconnectedness of humans, multiply consequences”

I don’t think we need to move so far left that Bernie is incredibly and disappointingly moderate, hes basically right on most things. We just have to accept he’s got an incredibly and disappointingly moderate position on israel.

How did this guy get any attention in this race, is bass just that beloathed?

Incredible post by Fuentes here

1. USMNT (s/o Cristian Roldan for carrying team likability) 2. Mexico (if they call up Obed Vargas) 3. France 4. Poland

Transphobic AND racist (and implicitly homophobic as well, lets be real here)

I understand this may be difficult to understand, but describing how things ARE != describing how I, personally, think things OUGHT to be I’m a socialist, you don’t have to convince me that its imperative to expand the safety net This is about the disconnect btwn sentiment & reality, not policy

The Brutalist

Don’t think poch is planning on sticking around after the world cup

Gonna be real with you: I don’t even think this was sincere transphobia, just a sociopath realizing his best change of getting away with assault was to pretend he was violently anti-trans

I’m very interested to see what happens to magneto now that the generation of writers raised on Claremont, the ones responsible for keeping him babyface the last twenty years, ages out.

In practical terms this is going to be true (except the peace deal will be more favorable to Iran) but I do genuinely think they went into this thinking they could overthrow the Islamic republic.

Team basketball

Jedi is a good film, there’s nothing structurally wrong with it and no bad performances. People are just embarrassed about the teddy bears.

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

The best song ever written about a superhero, by contrast, is “Batman and Robin” by Snoop Dogg and the Lady of Rage

Learning disturbing things about my team’s best player

Reverse-incorporating your antisemitism like this is so funny. I’m going to start pretending that the Baltics are also not real countries because they were created as ethnostates with little historical basis.

once again thinking of the b-1 battle droid from Boston, Massachusetts

These Knicks, baby

Lmaaao ESPN/Disney is making Chris Paul shill for Grogu

Voting for nonpartisan offices is extremely dumb. Sorry, George Washington, political parties are in fact an inevitable and essential component of democracy.

Aja Wilson getting the luxury suite of endorsement deals this year

That foul call was some BULLSHIT

Big Mitch OWNS the Cavs

Champions of England, you’d better sing that!