A two party system where both parties believe - one in public, sneering, the other in private, whispering - that women are unelectable, is a system where the proud rapists will keep winning and the moralistic misogynists will keep losing. P.S. that doesn’t mean vote for the rapists.

Hi, it's me.

Just a heads up. If Collins wins in Maine, the only person to blame is Platner. He should have dropped out earlier. End of story.

Evergreen.

It's tedious to have to litigate every disclosure of sexual violence against a powerful or hell even not-powerful man in terms of "credibility" and "corroboration," when everyone knows that what's at stake is not whether the specific allegation is true but whether it matters.

Really glad I got off the possible rapist train at the possible Nazi stop. :)

More examples of victim blaming I’ve seen today: “Where has she been?” “The timing is suspicious” “But she had consensual sex with him before” “Why didn’t she call the cops?” STOP IT

First storm cell brought a good bit of drama and a brief power outage. Waiting for the next round now.

In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you.

Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.

Happy Fourth. On this day, I like to revisit Frederick Douglass’ “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” and in particular, this video NPR produced a few years back of portions of the speech being read by Douglass’ descendants. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

This is an important piece. Infuriating, and important. prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...

Look: for MAGA, every straw is the last straw. Everything must be seen as an existential threat. Now that it has made quote clear that he wants to legislate and terrorize trans persons literally out of the country, perhaps American liberals could start acting the same way about actual extermination?

C'ville folks: I've got two tix for the Monticello 4th (745 a.m. shuttle time) that we won't be using because of the expected heat. Happy to pass them on to someone who will use them (it's showing as sold out). www.monticello.org/events/2026-...

C'ville folks: I've got two tix for the Monticello 4th (745 a.m. shuttle time) that we won't be using because of the expected heat. Happy to pass them on to someone who will use them (it's showing as sold out). www.monticello.org/events/2026-...

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

No thank you.

Centrists: The people want unity. The People: We are desperate for affordable housing Centrists: They want bipartisan solutions The People: We need livable wages Centrists: Arms across the aisle is what they want The People: We want to organize our labor Centrists: WILL YOU SHUT THE FUC

It’s cool that they’re going to push the most uniformly unpopular positions as necessary to “win elections” and when that doesn’t work they’re just going to turn up the fearmongering as high as they can.

Please sign my petition to Congress to pass a law that if you manufacture something as banal as a remote control, it must take either AA or AAA batteries. This post brought you by the A23 battery that my ceiling fan manufacturer thought was a good choice instead.

It happened on July 4th for Adams and Jefferson. We can only hope!

The Supreme Court doesn't think Rastafarians enjoy the same religious protection for their hair as other Christians enjoy for their bigotry. To get there, The Court launched a frontal attack on the foundation of civil rights laws. I explain in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Well said.

Nearly all of the books I read are from libraries, so that also removes the sunk cost fallacy that would lead me to push through a book I'm just not into.

one thing i respect about the UK is they’ll choose a prime minister and then almost immediately turn around and be like “actually we fucked up, this guy sucks”

Homemade peach ice cream = summer perfection.

A senile Republican narcissist surrounded by grifters and drunks just led our nation to the greatest diplomatic humiliation in its history. Here’s why my next five Atlantic pieces will be about the dangers of woke.

One of the best, now 90. I saw him on Friday when I was his ride home after 6 weeks of hospital/rehab center after breaking his right ankle. We talked on the phone this morning and I'll see him again at the end of the week to ferry him and Mom around. Payback for all the chauffeuring I got as a kid!

Happy Father's Day 🖤

One of many cool things about public libraries is that you can request that they purchase an item. I asked JMRL to add this one to the collection a few months ago when @tressiemcphd.bsky.social mentioned it. Just finished it and it's a fascinating one!

Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Really really enjoying my newly re-stuffed chair cushion (shout out to Danny's Quality Upholstery north of C'ville for quick turnaround at a very fair price) but I will be even happier when the offgassing phase is over!

Went to the Reflecting Pool this morning. Here is what I found (algae) www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

This entire Iran disaster has made it never clearer that it’s much easier for legacy political media to pretend Trump is playing some wacky version of 4D chess because they’re too scared to point out the obvious: that all he’s ever done is shit on a checkers board and threaten those who call it out.

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

If a used car salesman told you that an automobile had fundamentally never been in an accident, and was fundamentally well-cared for its previous owner and had an odometer that was fundamentally correct, you would know with certainty that the car had gone through hell and was for shit.

This is a lovely thread.

Set the algorithm loose by pulling up Hindu Love Gods cover of Raspberry Beret and I have been introduced to some truly unexpected covers this afternoon. People more into Patti Smith than I probably already know this, but damn she's done some epic covers.

Whether you're a fascist or someone ineffectual at resisting fascism, everybody can dress like an asshole!

How I spend Friday mornings, even when it's hot AF: ensuring that patients seeking healthcare at Planned Parenthood feel welcome and safe.

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

Ichiro during his first season with the Mariners.

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

If you're wondering how my day is going, I just pulled what I think was a tick out of my hair while I was driving home from Trader Joe's. Pretty sure it got a bite in before I noticed. 😨

The jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.

"Translation and summary: I was hard at work in the Both Sides Factory, both-sidesing a one-sided story in the normal, acceptable way, when my new corporate overlords imposed upon me a demand to perform this utterly odious task in a way that went beyond the industry-standard pale.”

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...