Kamala out today voicing support for EC and SCOTUS reforms, much more in line with a candidate running on systemic and structural change Harris is still the early front runner in the polls so it’s very good and important she is laying this down as it can help influence the whole field

Our media is not *us*, and it's only going to become more important to reassert this as the current brittle grip on power slips

Good on these DSA members for organizing toward *some* kind of consequences theintercept.com/2026/07/10/d...

DO NOT put your peers down because they believed someone earnestly wanted to inspect the structural integrity of your wallet and was willing to return it to you

A big part of the issue is the people who were actively promoting him thought that his various flaws were actually assets, until it got a little too close to the sun.

Chris Hayes could resolve the outstanding Pod Bro/Platner/tune Inn low stakes conspiracy theory if he had the courage

What if this is the one that’s right

Maine Democratic Party just announced how they're picking a new Senate nominee

>excesses during MeToo

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

If you're wondering if this is just a Ryan Grim thing, this is the Drop Site social person

*journalist/pundit left. It's the ones with Substacks and podcasts that feel a need to perform their disdain. Understanding the economic incentives pointing toward this on social platforms is an exercise left to the reader

insecure cosmopolitanism is one of the defining pathologies of our political elite, we are in a ten fucking year crash out from a specific set of urban cosmopolitans very insecure about the fact that they are urban cosmopolitans and I'm so sick of it.

it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

status-anxious misogyny is the main unifying characteristic, though Stoller and Greenwald at least are also white supremacists

Snoopy (Commodore 64, 1984)

When I was a kid I wished people were a little more familiar with Turkish culture and Turkish people, bc I didn't know anybody else from the same place as my dad. And then the monkey's paw curled a finger

A lot of leftist men were — and seemingly still are — willing to accept Graham Platner's many many faults because they have a sneering, condescending belief that working people in this country are white townie oafs who will only listen to other white townie oafs. www.garbageday.email/p/the-curdli...

The infinite money trick in SimCity (SNES, 1991) did generational harm to civically-minded youth

you'll note that they don't even have any specific demands or issues with what the party is doing. you do not have to trust the democratic party in this or think their choice will be honest or fair to see that this itself is just more of the same graft with a coat of self-righteous pro-rape paint

Anti podcaster graffiti

New video from Maine Dem Party says Platner's team is trying to "put their thumb on the scale" of what the process for picking a replacement will look like. "We have repeatedly reiterated to Graham Platner's team that they have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate"

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

I didn't even know this. @ddayen.bsky.social also regularly publishes Stoller. Don't read the American Prospect, people. It's a problem. I was just looking at Tkacik's Twitter page. She's an enraged, spittling, hateful lunatic. Like Matt Stoller. And (I have to believe at this point) David Dayen.

After 16 years of Viktor Orbán's rule, Hungary's state television has suspended its news broadcasts for restructuring. The main state TV channel, M1, displayed a black screen with the following message: "Public media must not lie. We apologize for doing so for many years."

People will cope how they need to but “Look, some people pushed a candidate who is elderly, others pushed a totally unvetted rando with a known Nazi tattoo who turned out to be a rapist, I think we can all agree there are no clean hands here” is an objectively hilarious line to take

This is the bar right here. Not just retweeting other people's observations like Wajahat/Klippenstein, not doubling down like Tracey/Cenk, not blaming the ppl who got it right, owning the stuff you said and owning your endorsement Anybody with a platform who doesn't meet this bar didn't mea culpa

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

It was always very weird that they put Platner in the center here. Not as weird as what they did to Jasmine Crockett's pic though

The most frustrating thing about the intense parasociality of this political moment is that this wasn't exactly a maneuver only a genius could figure out, but the in-group loves to militate on whether you've endorsed the right candidates and said the magic words

Obsessed with this slop account on Instagram called Chefdaddyog, just an unc using AI to put himself in situations where he's spitting facts to Kingpin and the Avatar guy

People love asking other people to die valiantly online

some of you people would best serve the political causes you care most about by literally never being associated with them

Hard to feel grateful for America when every day I see new footage of families who can't even afford duct tape to close their windows in a blizzard, or level 99 hitmen who get demoted back to level 1 just for hitting on the boss's wife once.

It’s easy to be cynical about America and what America means, especially when that question has been perverted by bad political actors for the entirety of your life, but if you want to know why America is a unique place, and has the potential for good, look at the people who choose to come here.

Smoking on that shit that makes you Gary for the rest of your life

This is the end for Taylor Swift, according to residents of NYC, the only place that exists

This is kind of a lot of security breaches for a publication that built its reputation on publishing leaked documents

There are exactly two types of people who makes the type of complaint being referenced here and it’s 1) fuck-ass mad right-wing blue collar workers who want to teach the libs a lesson in suffering for gender reasons or 2) deeply gender-insecure leftists and liberals

Glad I brought the bottle I bought on Oct 1 2020 with me on the move. 🙏

Two things we need to internalize, quickly: 1. People are getting an ENORMOUS number of their ideas about the world from short-form video 2. These apps aggressively promote some of the worst ideas in the world because they’re reliable emotional triggers, the only criterion that matters for the app

I've held the key tenets of advocacy organizing are: Authenticity: Do ppl believe you are who you say you are? Relevance: Are you asking the right person to do something? Efficacy: Will the action you're asking people to take matter? So much propaganda is designed around undermining those ethics

ezra's politics seem to be largely "bill maher for people who post about being introverts"

Smart observation on the filibuster: It turns real votes that actually improve people's lives into no-stakes "messaging" votes that can't pass

On my new city's bus system for the first time

I’m an old enough to remember when John Roberts and Sam Alito were specifically asked about this at their confirmation hearings.

Checking in about six weeks after this to note that Moe Tkacik is still being published at @ddayen.bsky.social's @prospect.org, still podcasting with Dayen