I know very little about this, but an upset? You’re telling me the internet guy was favored to win in a fight over the professional *fighter*?

Biden ran a point and a half ahead of House Dems generally. But more relevant: you know what winning a seat by 13 points instead of 8 points gets you? Absolutely nothing. Even if Casten traded away a few points he didn't need anyway in order to go further on whatever issue, that's rational behavior!

NYT: Ramaswamy Challenges Surging Bigotry on the Right the actual speech: unamerican transgenders murdered charlie kirk and we all love to hate them don't we folks

As I suspected, the Epstein Files Transparency Act does not appear to contain any civil or criminal penalties for its violation. You'd think Congress (Dems at least) would have learned by now that all laws are optional to this administration.

Had a dream last night that the office building I was working in just started to collapse while hundreds(?) of workers were in it. I barely escaped, but most didn’t. If I had to interpret this, gun to my head, I might guess I’m a little stressed at work here at the end of the year. But who can say?

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

I truly believe there was a time when Yglesias would have expressed (genuine) concern about the welfare of other humans. He now would condemn Garcia to torture (maybe death), and disparages CVH for not doing so, in service of his ideological project and ego. He is certainly a monster now.

Bongino's whole thing... his whole reason for getting into the FBI... was to uncover democrats in the Epstein files. The fact that he got in, saw the photos, watched the footage, and read the list of names, then said "oh!" and resigned immediately... is telling.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

It's hard to believe anyone hired by the DNC to produce such a report would be worth listening to anyway, so... meh.

As both the House & Senate look to repeal Section 230, I'm curious who they think should be held liable for the comments they've left open on the Epstein photo dump...? Them? Dropbox? Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?

he's re-running birtherism on the powerless

Being in a wheelchair, even when you need one, is often a very frustrating experience, especially because of our built environment. The idea that more than a tiny number of people would even consider doing it for the modest imagined convenience is absurd.

This is not a bad post; I just can't understand why you'd publish it in the nazi newsletter.

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This is embarrassing. I’ve somehow gotten used to regular people getting Section 230 and what it accomplishes exactly backwards. But I expect more from elected officials.

This is so fucking wrong. We are in serious trouble with people like this leading the *opposition* party.

Guys this was literally just a bit in the new knives out The rage bait isn't even creative anymore

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

Everyone’s excited by the needle drop of All The Things She Said in Heated Rivalry but I’m all about My Moon My Man by Feist which has now colonized my mind for a couple days. Perfect song for that montage, too.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Finally, indeed. The moment we’ve all been waiting for.

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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor. This is grotesque fear-mongering.

Obviously mental health problems are also very real, but since this is how people often dismiss them, is Nacua under the impression that a concussion, because it affects the brain, is not *physical* damage?

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btw

I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally. By David Brooks

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

every time I log on I see posts that are like "Trump's giving a speech... to distract from the Epstein files!" "they're going to declare war... because the Epstein files are coming out!" that's not why they're doing this stuff!

It’s become clearer and clearer over the last few years that Jeopardy! definitely has some queer people in its writers’ room. Which makes me happy.

If we have a Democratic president in the future they could just pay everyone the amount of their student loan debt instead of doing a clearly unconstitutional debt forgiveness.

We talk about the House having the power of the purse but in practice budget bills are part of the exact same legislative process that requires both chambers and the president. A good amendment that a Congress might actually pass & states enact would be to remove the president from budget bills

I think every grandpa should be allowed to get on tv and yell for an hour

To be fair, I don’t know if the “THINGS ARE FUCKING AMAZING YOU UNGRATEFUL FREAKS” approach has been tried with this much zeal before so… we’ll see!

Nancy Pelosi moved heaven and earth to get Henry Cuellar installed and keep Jessica Cisneros out. He was one of the three (D) defectors here. Everyone who ever stuck up for either of them is a dog's dick with a separate, smaller dog's dick for a brain

The “keep me signed in” checkbox on websites is made by the same company behind the “close doors” button on elevators.

the holiday season is when my mom and I really connect through texts like “can you pick up ham” and “ham tuesdsy ok?” and “ok ham tuesday”

I can’t believe that dude didn’t bother, just as a strategic matter, to have *any* public writing that wasn’t about the terribly unfair plight of young white men. Even just a fig leaf so supporters can say, look, he can write! But then I guess if he could, he’d actually have a writing job.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

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Unitary executive theory is anti-constitutional nonsense, but it is not inconsistent to support it & also support a completely checked out president. It’s the unitary president’s power to delegate, so he can do that. But it *is* inconsistent with the GOP court’s non-delegation doctrine re Congress.

Randomly stumbled onto Perez Hilton’s (!) YouTube channel and I just have to remind myself… time takes its toll on all of us.

These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

I know Emirates is an airline, but since it's also a country, it's weird to have it in a North American sports trophy name. Next year I hope the World Series winner gets the 2026 Air Botswana MLB of U.S.A. and Canada Commissioner's Trophy.