"You let someone get into office..." That's a lot of responsibility to be dumping on people you acknowledge are already pretty close to you in beliefs. Instead of berating them, you might consider what you could do to appeal to them, since, like you said, they agree with you on 90% of things.

You can't win the presidency without winning the primary, but this is Booker claiming a primary lane that would hurt him in the general. And hell, it'll only take you so far in the primary—are 2028 Dems really going to be eager to relitigate the intraparty disputes of 2016–24?

This is structurally identical to a Da Share Z0ne post

"Does The Pitt know that Robby is lowkey a misogynist?" - the greatest conversation in the history of my apartment, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

No teen on earth is more goth than a normie preschooler.

It was great to speak with the Frederick News Post about my run for Congress in #MD06! My degree in computer science + 7 years of experience working on Wall Street prior to the 2008 crisis has left me stridently opposed to the construction of AI data centers. Learn more at ElectAlexis.org ❤️

A serial-numbers-filed-off version of the Succession theme playing in the background is a very nice touch.

It's one of the sets of FEC filings today I'm most curious about.

WaPo arguing, in a story I missed when it came out late last week, that Schumer may be giving up on Mills in Maine.

I was just thinking this—that Biden's withdrawal is the most relevant precedent here, not the Nixon (or Clinton) impeachment.

I have been pretty offline due to ongoing postpartum health Stuff but just popping up to say how grateful I am to live in a time when croup is a minor scary instead of a terrifying and frequently deadly thing. Vaccines and dexamethasone are miracles.

It's been over 11 years since this tweet of @angus.bsky.social's and I've thought about it often since Douglas's arrival

"We lost grandma yesterday." "Oh, I'm so sorry. Who took her?" "Stockard Channing." "Oh, well, at least THAT must have been fun!" "It really was."

I want every actress to have to do 1 day a year as a death doula and am willing to let them all out of jury duty in exchange. The rule: You don't know who you're getting until The Day and you have to accept whoever knocks. [Pounding on door] It's me! Gabrielle Carteris! Me: Dammit. Is it my time?

Good. Get Dems in primaries on the record, get Dems in the general on the record, push to pass it in January, make Trump veto it. And have it ready to go if Trump's GOP support keeps crumbling. Some interesting specifics, too...

Hello, Thalia!

Hypothetical Norwegian Crime Fiction Fan: "Oh, I see where you went wrong. It's a famous series of books. The protagonist is Detective Hole." Me: "His name is Hole?" HNCFF: "Harry Hole, yes." Me: HNCFF: "Anything else?" Me: "...no."

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

funniest possible next UK election result would be green replacing labour, reform replacing the tories, and the lib dems getting 10-13% of the vote and 30-50 seats, just like they always do

‘Lyman Paine’ came in later in the episode.

I feel like they've thrown in a few of these weird historical names before. It's definitely a show that's leaning into the whole semiquincentennial thing more broadly, in a way that seems to fit very intentionally into its earnest/corny politics.

Loved the cameo in the latest ep of The Pitt.

The Bill of Rights is, to a first approximation, a list of all the ways the framers could think of that the government might fuck somebody over, with "this is illegal" appended to each one.

This was supposed to be (and is) the most GOP-friendly Senate map in a long time. First pic from today. Second from 538 two years ago. abcnews.com/538/republic...

It is crazymaking to listen to the right claim Orban's loss means he was never an authoritarian when people in Hungary feared that opposing him would immiserate their families www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

“We stand unequivocally with our colleague, who showed extraordinary courage in coming forward to share her truth. We believe her.”

A letter signed by more than 50 former staffers of Rep. Eric Swalwell described recent allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him as “serious” and “credible,” while demanding he resign from Congress and drop his bid for California governor. https://cnn.it/47Vxjx2

Magyar won with an emphasis on corruption and the rule of law. Good lessons. It wasn't just "we will improve the economy". It was "these people are stealing from you and we will put them in jail."

no doubt these are critical. hungarian civil society orgs also worked relentlessly for 15+ years to litigate, advocate, & agitate for change all while resisting official harassment. without that, today doesn't happen.

Primaries, numbers, margins, mass mobilization.

Just kicked in. Do likewise if it feels like a good idea.

The folks who spent the week on this website saying Orban was conspiring with Russia to create a false flag attack to freeze elections are the very same folks constantly predicting doom here in the US too so🖕🖕🖕🖕

Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”

He’s announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

God, the accent battle scene between him and Cheadle writes itself.

i like to think they're up to Ocean's Twenty Five in the alternate universe where bernie mac is still going strong. timmy chalamet just joined the crew as a cajun airboat pilot to rob a riverboat casino

Me, every time I remember Kristol follows me.

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

The good news for all of us is that this is exactly what you do in the midterms if you're planning on running for president in the next cycle. So we'll get a lot of "Vance in Ohio" (or wherever) stories, AND a lot of "Vance gently discouraged from visiting Maine" (or wherever) stories.

Yeah. Some people would put RFKJ in that mix, but I think this is right.

It really is a very very good thing that Trump anointed such an anticharismatic, untalented, drippy little weirdo as his heir.

This is a very big victory in both practical and symbolic terms, made bigger on both fronts by Orban's quick concession.

oh but if you can deadlift 1000lbs, you can substitute that achievement in for whichever of the other awards you fail to get. the strong man's mercy, we'll call it.

I would also accept a Nobel Prize in chemistry and NBA defensive player of the year award.

One of them is walking on the moon, the other is, itself, earning a whole EGOT

A chess rating over 2k

Winning Eurovision

New EGOT just dropped.

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

To scholars of democratic backsliding, it is difficult to overstate how big a deal today's election in Hungary, a country of less than 10 million people, is likely to be as a narrative milestone for our age, regardless of which way it goes.