we need to stop pretending that Israel's leadership will be any more eager to grant statehood or citizenship to their oppressed neighbors than Botha was. and we also need to stop pretending that makes a solution impossible.

Look, I'm not telling anybody else how they should spend their weekend. All I'm saying is that there's a large number of Gene Hackman movies available on Prime—I count sixteen—and some of them are among the greatest films ever made. So...yeah.

Perjury prosecutions will be needed.

This cannot keep happening!

"“Communion,” far more than “Hillbilly Elegy,” is the work of an inveterate opportunist, one who appears torn between the urge to camouflage his careerism—Vance’s true religion—and an equally strong desire to be admired for how well and how profitably he plays the game."

He also should ignore the part of the law requiring a same party appointment as contrary to the 17th amendment.

bibi and the gulf arabs have discovered that their big rich friend who gives them expensive cars to drunk-drive is also a drunk driver

Yes Sir! Dont be cowed into not celebrating on Saturday either. Im making a layers cake!! (Tune in later for pics of the likely disaster)

Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas

lol

If McConnell were to die before Jan 2029 Beshear should 100% say that the KY law mandating a same party appointment is unconditional and appoint a dem to force SCOTUS to acquiesce or uphold the law when it would advantage Republicans.

It’s actually very enlightening to understand that trans rights are an existential issue for us and a very literal glonzo for the other side, which is made up of people who have never actually interacted with a trans person but blame them for all kinds of imagined issues

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Periodic reminder that polling misses happen both ways.

What the fuck?!?

I don’t think you should go to this but if you aren’t used to heat like this and are going to be outside for any length of time: drink more water than you think you need to! If it’s 117 out and you are feeling thirsty you’ve already fucked up

D+6 environment this is not...

Georgia Senate 56-43 D+13 Georgia Gov 52-47 D+5

Uh Fox News has a Iowa Poll of Senate and Gov showing both Dems leading Senate 50-46 D+4, very motivated voters 56-41 D+15 Gov 53-44 D+9 Trump underwater 42-55

Here is the video of the interview newrepublic.com/article/2125...

"Just like we’re trying to transform the Democratic Party through primaries, we’re also trying to transform the media and think-tank environment around the Democratic Party. We want to be a big part of that. That’s what we’re trying to do." newrepublic.com/article/2125...

NICE

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

This is true, but also given how the Biden Presidency went and the nature of the current media ecosystem even when you can do the substantive you neglect the performative lane at your peril.

POLITICS IS A PERFORMATIVE ENTERPRISE

The nonsense like this is one reason why I think you could get Rs to go along with some kind of procedural reform to the article V process. So many of them are convinced they represent a silent majority. cc: @hurricanexyz.bsky.social

He means this instead of "Zionist" and I am inclined to agree. Additionally, the focus on "zionists" makes it a weirdly domestic issue, trying to identify the impure among us rather than help the Palestinians abroad.

The Dem establishment and Dem centrists can wring their hands and complain about the results in Colorado. Or they can learn a lesson: Their repudiation was in large part about their perceived unwillingness to stand up firmly and unhesitatingly to Trump. So start doing so!

It really is norms all the way down

I mean...if Josh is in the boat I think this ship is going to sail

Iran state television says a ship has run aground in the Strait of Hormuz after not traveling in Tehran's approved route.-AP

WHAT?

Annie Andrews internal has her only down by 3pts 48-45 against Lindsay Graham in South Carolina’s Senate race

You can just pack the court

This! We are in the prisoners dilemma and the other side defected in the first round while we cooperated. Time for retaliatory defection.

Justice Jackson’s concurrence is dead on: “The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims— may be an even greater threat."

The law is just words on paper without normative reinforcement. Dems need to engage in the real game that is being played or see everything crumble to dust.

Yes, also an important point is that what it means for republicans to "win elections" is not itself a static concept. The make up of the parties and their governing agendas are not fixed.

I think I aged several years in the past 30 min...

Those fools damn near wrecked the 14th Amendment and a lot of pseudo scholarship in the legal academy was used to nearly get there. Should be a badge of shame in a just world.

The Thomas/Gorsuch dissent is a real head scratcher. It purports to ground the 14th amendment citizenship language to a domicile requirement but then does not appear at all to engage with how that would operate vis a vis the executive order text or why undocumented aliens are per se unqualified

Christ, Kavanaugh joined the judgement but dissented on the Constitutional question... meaning that the vote is only 5-4 that the 14th Amendment exists.

I cannot fucking believe that birthright was 5-4! On whether the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship!

Jesus Christ the Constitutional holding was only 5-4. Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh should be impeached. This is an unconscionable level of incompetence

Jesus Christ

Guys...I shouldn't get this right???

This is not to gripe on Mark who is excellent at what he does, but if this opinion still has purchase a decade from now on actual federal policy we will have clearly failed to do the necessary reconstruction work and there will be many worse problems than AI regulation.

Return....

Whoa. New NYT poll has dead heat in Texas Senate race. Talarico +27 among independents. This will push Dem groups to spend big there, now that it's clearly in play.

The reason to have him on is so that we his enemies understand his ideas clearly and accurately so we can defeat them. Many do not agree with this and think we can win by suppression and IMO that path has been tried and it failed.