People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

As for the men wondering why women wait so long to come forward: because it's humiliating, you dumb fucks. Not because we did anything wrong but because of the way society views survivors and the fact that we're always put on trial too if we report it--as if we're also the perpetrators

The Coward Matthew Yglesias

Today, we're rescinding our endorsement of Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner and calling on him to immediately withdraw from the race. See the full statement below.

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

I don’t know how much we’ll have to repeat — we will govern as we lead, we will lead as we treat each other. We cannot make each other the acceptable trade off for progress. It will always, always, always end like this.

If only there were signs, like signs literally tatooed on his body.

Washington, DC has never looked as bad as it has in the past few months—and it’s not just the reflecting pool

I think if your response to Graham Platner being accused of raping someone is, "But we need to beat Susan Collins" you should probably get a grip on your own misogyny

Sounds like the annoying and shrill pro-DEI ladies who said that perhaps running someone who in adulthood knowingly had Nazi tattoos inked to their body was not a great idea were right...

A 41-year-old Maine woman has accused Graham Platner of rape. Her account is corroborated by contemporaneous emails to her therapist, by a boyfriend she confided in about the alleged assault, and by messages she sent to another woman warning her about Platner. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.

Wasn't there like, a third Dem nominee in Maine whose platform was "I don't have nazi tattoos and I am not Janet Mills?" This is like when the first two quarterbacks get injured, so the person with the conspicuously clean jersey gets to line up.

They spent millions trying to buy our election in Illinois. We're not letting them buy Michigan. That's why KAPOW is heading to Michigan to knock 12,000 doors for Abdul El-Sayed from July 8 - July 13. Come knock doors with us in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids: https://kapow.works/abdul

Anthropic is accusing other companies of--get this--unfairly copying their work. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/t...

If Platner were to drop out by July 13, the Maine Democratic Party would be able to replace him on the ballot.

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

and there's the rape allegation he's gotta go he should've been gone a long, long time ago but he's gotta go

blogged it aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

Layoffs are a failure of leadership.

My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Since October 2023, the destruction of Gaza’s cultural institutions has accelerated, prompting a team in the occupied West Bank to build something they hope cannot be seized or erased: a digital archive of Palestinian memory.

A lot of folks at XBOX are impacted by layoffs today, some of whom I know are majorly involved in accessible gaming. Hire them.

I don't think it failed.

Our insurance doesn't want to cover my daughter's dental visits anymore. Apparently, she doesn't qualify for a pediatric dentist anymore because she turned 8 🤦‍♀️ It seems like they are making up stuff. Her last visit was also when she was 8 and they didn't complain then. I hate insurance companies!

Over the weekend, Democracy Docket tracked its 100th court victory of the cycle! Total Active Cases: 195 Active Voting Rights Cases: 154 Active Redistricting Cases: 41 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 76 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 74 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 28 www.democracydocket.com

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?

this is a nice thing to see at the end of a job posting, more of this please.

“Democratic socialism can’t win in purple states” say the guys who just lost a presidential election in *every single swing state*. So definitely listen to them, they have the secret plan for winning.

“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.”

Reminded that Trump was the one who originally wanted to ban TikTok after kids on TikTok reserved a bunch of fake seats for a rally, leaving an empty stadium. And then the Democrats handed him the ban (because they were upset that kids were saying mean things about Israel) for Trump to "save."

If you have any info about what's going on w/ Mitch McConnell, text me via Signal at 202-510-1268

How could we not also include banning Tik Tok and teenager's social media access? This will absolutely get us the youth vote.

The Republican Party is a big tent, consisting of people who are pedophiles and people who protect them.

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests thereallo.dev/blog/claude-... #claude #AI

For those of us who aren't tyrannical A-type sleepers... Whenever they say "get up a couple of hours earlier and you get much more writing done!" think "go to bed a couple of hours later..." instead and you get roughly the same effect but without the destruction of your sanity and quality of life

Firework cleanup at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool this afternoon.

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

Can't believe the not a doctor smear didn't work?

Honest mistake.

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

"birthright citizenship is destroying this nation and everyone who benefited from it should be denaturalized and deported except this one guy, temporarily, for sports reasons" about sums up this administration

Establishment Dems continue with the absolutely unhinged rhetoric. McMorrow is asked if her attacks on Hasan Piker backfired as Abdul El-Sayed is surging in the polls, and she responds by invoking a terrorist attack against a synagogue in Michigan, implying Piker is somehow implicated?

ai doesn’t work if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, episode 6 zillion or so, but i will say: before we do another round of stem vs humanities discourse, remember that all the worst people in silicon valley are humanities and social science majors

Shout out to every enslaved, indigenous, and marginalised person in these occupied lands who lived and toiled and died free. They have held the ideals of what it means to *be* free together with white knuckled fists, against far worse odds. I only aspire to follow their example, in solidarity.