I do hope the NWSL can find a way to have home-field championships in the future. I understand the challenges, but a neutral site final takes away so much

Don't think I've seen a team failed by bad coaching in a big moment as bad the Spirit tonight in quite some time

This shit is so dumb. If you really don't want to vote against this simply don't show up! It's very easy to message that this is a fake, meaningless thing that wasn't worth showing up for.

Honestly the most bizarre thing here is this is from a video the official White House account posted 3 days ago (not to mention occurred in front of the press in the first place). Why did it take People Magazine posting this 3 days after the fact for anyone to highlight it?

In my job search I've already come across multiple private companies in the DC area that also ask this loyalty question about which Trump executive orders you're passionate about.

I still tend to think a Katrina-type event in the next 3 years will be a defining moment for this administration as it was for Bush, and likely the fact that this year's hurricane season was tame makes a catastrophically bad response more likely in the long run.

I hoped schisms would emerge that would lay bare the fragility of the Trump coalition, but this is several extremely consequential years earlier than I would've expected

This is flatly untrue given that Landon Thomas was emailing Epstein from his work email. The NYT has had access to these emails since the moment they were sent.

Sure would be nice to have an open seat in Pennsylvania to fill in the midterms

Maybe some self reflection is due if you completely missed the single most important angle of a story that you and 11 people worked on for 7 years.

100% chance the GOP gives him a nice payday to switch parties if the Dems get 51 seats in the midterms

Not surprising, but my god is the Fetterman interview on NPR abysmal. I know there's a risk he switches parties if you push him too hard, but there's gotta be repercussions for continually selling out your caucus to the media like he does

Like with Schumer and the DC budget in March, it's somewhat unclear whether he's actually stupid enough to believe this or just thinks we're stupid enough to not understand

It's essential to tear down the current democratic leadership because there are many things that need to be done when back in power that the current caucus doesn't have the stomach for (e.g. packing the court, abolishing DHS, imprisoning Trump admin, DC statehood). Now's the time to clean house

Running out of time, but another earlier wake up call for the centrists would be actually normie, qualified candidates launching primary campaigns instead of politely waiting their turn. Dem Tea Party is happening one way or another, the only question is the candidates

Imagine when there's actually divided government in 2027

If this actually is the deal then Democrats somehow managed to find the only way to outright lose the shutdown. Impressively pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

They finally took the Trump banner off of the Department of Labor

She completely rolled over for Trump at every moment and it still won't save her. DC desperately needs someone who actually cares about the city. Anyone but Bowser in 2026

It's so striking how Zohran unabashedly defends his values compared to democratic congressional leadership feebleness in the face of Trump

Trump managed to endorse Cuomo before Schumer could decide if he supports the democrat

Bowser must go

I really don't like how Democrats frame things as "distractions." It should be framed as the Trump administration is distracted, not that they're trying to distract voters. If you tell voters something is a distraction, you're telling them it's something not worth noticing or being energized about.

The most striking thing about elite punditry, from Douthat to Ezra Klein and all the rest, is that even a year removed from the election, it's as if it's still November 2024 for these people. To elite pundits, absolutely nothing of consequence has happened since November 5, 2024.

Bowser must go

I love Scherzer, probably my 2nd favorite player of all time, but good lord I can't imagine having to rely on him in game 7 of the world series in 2025

Best WS since 2016

Day 1 of the next administration the entirety of DHS needs to be dismantled and these guys sent to prison.

This entire postseason has been a great demonstration of why ABS is necessary. Absolutely brutal

I continue to believe the main impact of this type of talk from Trump will be to prevent a Republican primary from occurring. Absolutely no candidate is going to so much as form an exploratory committee as long as Trump answers the third term question like this.

I understand why Bezos is intentionally killing the Post, but it's wild that people like Lewis think they're pursuing some kind of ideological project but lack any strategic vision. His approach has zero chance of making in-roads in the right wing media ecosystem, and also alienates everyone else.

Best case scenario in the next few years is a whole lot of voters who for some reason can't seem to remember who they voted for in 2024.

Yamamoto has been so much fun to watch this postseason

If not for the dismantling of USAID, staff would already be mobilized to respond immediately after the storm and relief supplies would also be provided immediately. International relief at anything even remotely approaching that scale now is sadly impossible

Can't comprehend how there's no one around her able to convey that it's time to resign. A bunch of people to feckless to confront reality and assume the personal risk of having a difficult conversation.

Whole administration of irredeemable freaks not ready for when they don't have top cover from Trump

Dem leadership continues to ignore the base at their own peril. To the extent there are any candidate quality concerns with the change candidates, that's a problem of leadership's own making.

While a lot of the "greatest generation" narratives in the 90s around the 50th anniversary of D Day felt a bit overly sanctimonious at the time, it's impossible not to connect the rise of nazism perfectly coinciding with years that last members of that generation have mostly passed on

Straightforward from here. Trump pockets the bribe money, cancels the Clark/AECOM contract, next dem admin inherits a construction site, and we get the Jake Tappers of the world tsk tsking when a democratic admin needs taxpayer funding to clean up the mess

A bit odd that the press keeps referring to a "partial" demolition of the east wing of the white house when it's quite clear the entire thing is in the process of getting razed to the ground. Don't need to be a construction expert to see that nothing is being salvaged

Incredibly high on their own supply

absolutely heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

I'm generally of the "nothing matters" persuasion, but would be surprised if they don't pull Ingrassia's nomination before the Thursday hearing.

Inevitably when a democrat becomes president in 4 years, they're going to inherit a useless, half built structure with no funds to finish it since Trump is using a bribery slush fund that he'll surely pocket.

Seems like someone with sense gave the national guard the day off in DC, or put them far away from their usual spots downtown and on the mall

Strong indicator that this administration is just murdering random people in the Caribbean

What a performance by Max. Look forward to 5 years from now when he becomes the first Washington National in the hall of fame

Instant cycle watch for Ohtani

Incredible how many deep games there have been by starting pitchers this postseason for all of the discourse in recent years about the death of starting pitching. Things that seem like irreversible trends in the moment may in fact not be permanent changes to how the game is played.

One brightside is for all the flagrant illegality of this administration, these acts will probably prove to be the easiest path to pursuing serious jail time for Trump cabinet officials when we come out the other side.