On several fronts today.

We can all agree that if it happens after midnight, we're still considering that the 4th right?

Yeah, I’m not feelin it

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

There are few things Rs love more these days than children's genitals

i mean, the basic answer is that the states where the center-right party collapses/get eaten by the far right are all shitshows and i have not figured out how to get people to not be reactionary.

Chief Justice Warren worked for months to turn a divided court into a 9-0 ruling announcing unequivocally that the 14th amendment bars racial segregation. 72 years later, Chief Justice Roberts wrote the decision affirming another bedrock principle of the 14th amendment—and the vote was 5-4.

The iron laws of bluesky discourse: all messaging is directed at you, personally; and politicians always share their deepest feelings, unless it's one you don't like agreeing with you in which case they're lying.

PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

He's a bad politician! A very bad one! This is an achievement anyone with two braincells would claim, even if it helps you only marginally right now.

it's almost surreal how Trump puts two hands on the shovel and digs himself further under ground every single day! Like he could not be worse at the politics, messaging and projection of being POTUS if he tried

Curious!

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

"Trump keeps bringing up the number 22." Taking out 22 ships in Iran war. 22 fountains. A pool built 22 years ago. A flight 22 hours long. A story on NYT's page 22. 22 specialists at Walter Reed checkup. 22 Nobel economists. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Talked to @therickwilson.bsky.social about why trump went to camp david youtu.be/6UeBaG2h8b0?...

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Lol “act now, this deal won’t be around for long!”

oracle of delphi voice

Guess they really are just giving up

if real we get literally nothing in exchange for sanctions relief and $300b we should take it tbh but it really underlines how stupid this whole exercise was throughout

This is basically a deal to buy the Trump admin some quiet through mid-August, at which point this whole thing will kick back in for the run-up to the midterms. Three-dimensional 52-card pickup.

The most humiliating military defeat this country has suffered since Custer's Last Stand

Trump gingerly goes down the Air Force One stairs

Last week he claimed that his "secret mission" moved 100 million barrels of oil and 200 ships through the Strait. Now, they are just "starting to move." He's obviously having dementia-induced difficulty keeping track of his lies.

Trump, his hand visibly discolored, looks every bit of 80 as he poses with Dana White

Yes, and fuck you

In the zombie apocalypse this little worm gets eaten first

STEPHEN A. SMITH: “.. The brother wasn't awake. If it was that important for you to be there, why did you look like you were asleep? Didn't you call out former President Joe Biden, 'Sleepy Joe'? Well, what should we call you?” @espn.com

Out like a light

He is not long for this earth, and he is not long for the presidency. One day soon, either nature or the Constitution is going to take him, and when it does, there will be rejoicing throughout this planet that we have not seen in 80 years... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/take-heart...

More like Prattfall amirite?

Trump looked swollen and unkempt during his pre-recorded Meet the Press interview

Gah ‘twas fun while it lasted

Los Angeles continues to move hard in Steyer’s direction with each new batch. If that trend were to continue at its current pace, he would likely win. That said, the recent rate of movement is so strong it may not be sustainable over time.

Steyer is getting excellent drops around the Bay Area. Many of these counties had not reported late-mail batches yet, so comparisons are limited, but they are starting very blue. Alameda hit his benchmark on its first drop, and San Francisco moved in his direction.

JUST IN: Democrat Richard Pan is now in 2nd place in #CA06 congressional race, behind incumbent Kevin Kiley but ahead of Republican Michael Stansfield. Sacramento updated its count for 1st time, & Pan nets 2800 votes over Stansfield in this large batch of ballots. He's ahead of him 23% of 21%.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Trump is now sitting back in his chair and dozing off

Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement

Lol Pratt is cooked

also, like, making medicaid a live wire political issue six months before a midterm while your party and your president are tanking in the polls and gas might get above $5/g is strong evidence that there’s no coherent strategy or coordination here at all, viziers are just doing whatever they want

So, just fyi, the ballots coming in today and for the next 3 days are D+31 And I think R's are actually underperforming their earlier party reg by a good number, so there are a lot of Dem leaning indies but the blue shift volume will depend on geography...

I'm already seeing a lot of analyses of the Los Angeles early numbers are though those are close to final. Again, analyze away, but do take recent history into account for hints of how the count will still evolve!

The early vote in CA does skew older, some of you need should probably put a time delay on the ardiuno you have keeping the garage door open or closed based on returns.

Honestly the weird performative hatred of Steyer on here is so weird, every positive thing about him is "I can't believe Steyer is good on this" and every negative on Becerra is "I can't believe he's worse than Steyer on this" Why would you expect an empty suit to be better than a rando outsider?

Trump really has remade the whole conservative movement in his image. Weiss is just like him, a petulant power mad imbecile who can do literally nothing right and gets incandescent with rage anytime she is questioned, but also too much of a chickenshit to fire people to their face

lol