I'm stuck on this—the WaPo editorial board uncritically repeated a lie that right-wing rage merchants manufactured by selectively editing a video then splattering it across X. It seems these guys' brains have been so cooked by Elon's algorithm that they can no longer identify MAGA-manipulated slop.

I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.

I am enormously grateful to Hunter Biden for the way he is talking about addiction and I will never forget the beltway assholes who made sport of it as they tried to push him off the wagon or off a bridge.

CENTCOM said the pilots shot down were rescued at 7:33 PM ET within 2 hours after they were shot down. Trump boarded the helicopter from Bedminster to go to the Knicks game at 6:57 PM ET. So he was on his way to the game after they were shot down and before they were rescued.

Over on Elon's website @rokhanna.bsky.social is pouring gasoline on rightwing's paranoia and conspiracies around California's election. This is not just idiotic - this is disgraceful stuff from a Democrat.

JFC

If a Democrat had a 67% disapproval rate <among independents>, the only thing you would read or hear about in the national news is “Jimmy Carter” & “failed presidency.” But alas, He is One Special Boy & a Republican.

The Trump Game!

Boooooooo

Friend waiting to get in to MSG reports that when the motorcade rolled by Trump was waving out the window to “the loudest set of boos I’ve ever heard”

Good one, Dick.

The United States is so embarrassing my god. Wouldn’t let the Iranian team stay here for the World Cup so they’re in Mexico wearing pins to honor the kids we slaughtered.

Dude at Trader Joe’s told me Spurs win in seven. When I said I was surprised to hear that, he informed me Wemby will be taking off his human suit tonight and it will be all over after that.

The fuck are we doing?!

#Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox on security at MSG: “I think the president being here just makes it inconvenient for everybody else. ...We’re getting screened like it’s TSA. It’s a little inconvenient for the people that’s got to play, but it is what it is.”

Monday in America: * Hegseth screws the pooch * Albanians are pissed * Ditto Mormons ...and so it goes. Big thanks to @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social and @samyoungman.bsky.social for keeping us in the loop. Meet the Press Prez Pi$$es Pants open.substack.com/pub/adampark...

One of our newsletter readers reminded us of the jingle Sam and Coach used to remember facts about Albania. It has been stuck in my head for four days now.

The "I'm dying from a cancer that might be getting cured if Trump had lost...but at least the woke kids aren't getting trigger warning now" thing is a gag but I found one in the wild.

Ravid has established himself as Trump's most dedicated stenographer.

Every effort Bari Weiss has made to leave her bubble & affect the real world in some way -- her "university," CBS News, this race -- has completely blown up in her face.

Spencer is now free to do whatever the fuck it is that Larry Elder does all day.

First Ben Savage loses and now this.

They could have gone badass and enjoyed the exclusive: NBC CONFRONTS TRUMP ON ELECTION LIES Instead they went with: SIR WE’RE SO FUCKING SORRY WE UPSET YOU WE DIDN’T MEAN IT WE SWEAR

One thing that happened during the vote-a-rama: A Van Hollen amendment to prohibit people who beat up cops or who have molested children from getting paid a reward from taxpayers. 46 Republicans killed it. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Media sanewashing in action: "tense interview... ended suddenly." Erm, no. It was a madman screaming at a journalist, saying he won an election he didn't, going red (orange?) in the face, calling the journalist "crooked" and "darling", calling every media outlet "crooked", and then walking out.

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

Remember when calling a reporter stupid merited a headline and an apology?

If some of these reporters start to realize that confrontation brings more eyeballs than kissing ass, then we might have something. Until their corporate overlords replace them

I know Jake Tapper gets a ton of crap on here, but I like to remind people that his co-author, Alex Thompson, is wayyyy more obsessed with Joe Biden and has barely written a word about Trump since the Inauguration. This is is literally his last post on X:

They’re still going to honor his 1st Amendment support at a fucking dinner

I read about this and then I saw it. It was a lot more impressive before I heard all the “please sir.”

Love the Knicks, but a reminder of how the Garden’s ownership approaches security.

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

So Butler was a total hoax. (I don’t actually believe that but fuck it let’s ride)

Goddamnit KAT don’t make me cry watching the nba finals

Not the shot of the sad nun!

Brunson is 4-17 and Knicks are up 8. Tough, tough team.

It is long past time for the KAT slander to end.

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

While you were asleep, Senate Republicans voted to give your money to pedophiles and cop-beaters.

ummmm...what?

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Grateful that the shine off my massive forehead didn’t blind this beautiful man

Aren’t we at war?

Trying to figure out the number of times Biden could have slumped over in meetings before Democrats would have heeded the call of the New York Times to force his resignation. There were a couple of times he was accused of it, but I think only once conclusively. Compared to… almost daily?

Ohhh look at me I'm New York City. I have an awesome basketball team with likeable players and a mayor that cares about making life better for every citizen man fuck you

The thing with the press coverage of Biden is it establishes they are capable of treating presidential cognitive health as a matter of national concern. As Clinton established they don’t always keep presidential affairs as an insiders open secret. Choices are made.

I’m so hooked on this www.82-0.com

My best one: 74-8. www.82-0.com/share?id=JSk...

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