They'll be able to get away with funnelling a little money to a few favored right wing orgs, but the programs themselves can very easily be shut down by the European host nations.

Platner discourse will die the way it lived: completely ignoring anything that actually happened in Maine.

People mad at Netflix having the derby as if ESPN wasn't just sending out Berman to yell back back back back back for 20 years

Most wild time on social media was KHive calling people racist for wanting Harris to be president instead of Biden.

Democrats always talk like they're trying to appeal to center right median voters in the Midwest, even when addressing an audience on bluesky. Imagine an elected Republican going to truth social to talk about how much they respect a recently deceased dem. Not happening.

Perhaps Switzerland will pull something unexpected off, but this is about as little tension as extra time in a QF could have. Feels like everyone in the stadium knows it's just a matter of when not if for Argentina

Always a bit silly that the standard for a second yellow is much different than a first yellow. No one would have a problem with that being a first yellow, it's ridiculous to object to the call just because it was a second yellow.

Always jarring how many big accounts on here are just shamelessly racist towards Arabs. It's just completely normalized and accepted.

Coco is the most perplexing tennis star. I could easily see her winning only one more slam for the rest of her career, or going on a run and winning 10+ slams over the next decade. No shame in losing to Muchova, but Coco's inconsistency means she needs to convert often when getting deep in a slam

It's at least encouraging that no one is pushing for Janet Mills to replace Platner

It's unfortunate RI will be stuck with Reed because of the same dynamic of Democrats being too feckless to do anything other than wait for people to die in office

US should try playing defense at some point

Assuming McMorrow is interested in running for national office again the question for her endorsement is simple: will the democratic party in 5 years be closer to Stevens or El Sayed? I don't know how anyone could think Stevens represents a party wing that is anything but in decline.

I pretend I do not see the Mountain Goats NIMBY arc

I know there was the whole discourse that it's dooming to say the Democrats won't reform the court. What's clear is the current democratic party won't, which is why it's an urgent necessity to get rid of as much current party leadership as possible before 2029.

This poll still has Janet Mills with worse unfavorables than Platner, so anyone thinking the top lines would be better if the outcome of the primary was different are kidding themselves.

Locking in my Wimbledon predictions: on the men's side Sinner over Fritz. For the women, could be anything, going to say Pegula finally gets one over Rybakina.

The NBC baseball broadcast has the same problem the Roku broadcast had of being overly positive. I'm a Sox fan, but we don't need to be pretending that a team 10 games under .500 on June 29 has any chance of doing anything this year. Entertaining game, but come on.

Crazy stuff. Wouldn't exactly be hard for McMorrow to play her cards right by dropping and endorsing to set up a future run, but appears she'd rather self immolate

El-Sayed is going to win

Glad I kept my expectations for the Nats low enough that the bullpen implosions don't hurt too much

I will admit I thought Marco Rubio would at least make an attempt to sabotage this arrangement from the inside and pull the US deeper into a conflict, but he just went along

Will always be painful when new humanitarian disasters occur knowing how many things were solved problems that now need to be solved from scratch with the elimination of USAID.

Depending on the exact flight path used, might get multiple mid-game flyovers over Nats Park during the game tonight.

A year ago this centrist crowd would've lashed out at anyone suggesting the dems weren't fighting back, now they're conceding that actually it's true they weren't fighting while still sneering with contempt at anyone who had the audacity to point out what was plainly obvious at the time.

The throughline in centrist thought during the second Trump administration is people who simply do not understand the moment they're living in. This is not 2018-2020.

Hopefully this cycle encourages more primary challengers in 2028 and more retirements of incumbents afraid of being humiliated by primary challengers.

lmao, whole 250 celebration in DC is a complete mess

Continues to amaze me that at the peak of DC summer tourist season it's been completely impossible to access basically the entire national mall for over a month. Absolute insanity

Much of the dem tea party discourse elides the fact that no one actually gets to choose to initiate it, it just happens. The one through line is the democratic base is clearly shedding its risk aversion and wants a changing of the guard.

Not really any reason to believe this sample is skewed unreasonably, so this is basically over

All due respect to the people stuck in lines, but I don't understand how this happens when everyone gets a ballot automatically mailed to them. Sometimes I still vote in person for the fun of it, but DC makes it as easy as possible to not do that

This remains true, also for the people wishcasting a Collins win there's only actually been one poll showing a narrowing race (people have been misrepresenting other polls that show a static race) so this remains likely D.

Really sucks that the national mall has been completely inaccessible for like a month now

Whatever that was for the UFC thing was the loudest thing I've ever heard in DC

Mariners might need a players only meeting after getting blanked by Mikolas

Wanted a game 6 but the spurs deserve to lose this one. If the knicks actually played the first quarter it wouldn't be close.

It's pretty funny if Collins really is just going to run back the Mills campaign beat for beat, I imagine she'll have just as much success

negative polarization is a hell of a drug

Kind of getting lost in the last few minutes, but Wemby missing both free throws enabled a lot of that down the stretch

With all of the alt-casts that ESPN has for big games these days, would be nice if they just offered an uncensored alt-cast where the audio isn't dropping out constantly

Pundits like Weigel or Tapper think there was some kind of cover up of Biden's decline when all they really mean is he didn't talk to the press as much as they wanted him to, whereas this White House is clearly deliberately covering up serious medical issues.

A key to staying sane on social media is pausing when you see a video like this from a random engagement bait account that doesn't seem to exist elsewhere. Among other things, the video is notably lacking the context that this is about data centers as claimed by the post.

Stuff like this should just get your license revoked instantly

The voters who will decide the 2028 election won't be able to accurately identify Joe Biden if shown a picture of him in 2028. Trump, meanwhile, will remain the center of attention everyday of the 2028 election, of course he'll be a salient issue

Incredible that all the same people are still doing this.

Last thing on Janet Mills now that the primary is over, but she's lucky all discourse focuses on Platner because an incumbent governor going down the way she did really is one of the most abysmal performances in modern politics.

As a Nats fan, I had this experience walking around outside Nats Park before game 5 in 2019 seeing the secret service set up for Trump's attendance and simultaneously getting a push notification that Scherzer was hurt and being replaced by Joe Ross as the starter for the game.

Reading the replies to this or anything like it, it will never cease to amaze me how many people on this site adamantly believe Platner is a literal Nazi but completely stop short of interrogating the broader implications of that outlandish belief if it were true.

The confluence of the pitch clock and Sunday night baseball shifting an hour earlier to 7pm has meant baseball is typically done by 9:30 on Sunday these days, so it's kind of a nice throwback to have a game that's only in the third inning at this time of night.