if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

Red Sox always keeping it interesting

The coal industry has been shrinking for a reason: Coal is no longer cost-competitive. There are more students enrolled at say Penn State than there are workers left in the coal industry (about 40k).

You guys. No Do better

The Ryder Cup was the first live golf tournament I went to (1999 the Country Club in Brookline), it’s appalling that this is tolerated or even encouraged.

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

Hegseth is practicing defense policy as it should be.

The only thing I got from that bizarre speech is that I think Hegseth jerks it to dudes.

Do not dismiss this as a joke. This is terrifying. Even to say out loud. He has the right fire them, that’s civil-mil 101. Doesn’t mean this is normal or ok.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job. Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

Waiting for the very serious NatSec Republicans to critique this…

hegseth was one of those guys who jerked off to russian propaganda videos before the ukraine war. "look how big and manly they are, surely ukraine doesn't stand a chance"

Also Henry Knox was the first secretary of war. Minor quibble but he was a bookseller in Boston who taught himself artillery tactics in his spare time. Giving hope to all us nerds that we too can rise to the occasion when called upon.

The DEI secretary of defense.

The number of times I’ve heard very serious Republicans in DC proclaim the joys of coal and then hand waving away rejoinders about how the market actually led to coal’s decline is astounding. It was mean old Obama and his war on coal!

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Looking forward to all the Republicans who have championed the Hmong community to step up and fix this situation.

If you can’t see this for what this is or think that the Democrats somehow lost the battle on immigration, I truly think you’ve lost the thread. This is cruel and unAmerican.

As a lifelong visitor to Block Island, this is a great summary of how much the windfarm has changed the island for the good. In a region like New England that relies overwhelmingly on LNG (putting it at the whims of the spot market), wind offers a safe, reliable alternative. bit.ly/427PtZx

Bobby Jr was always the weak link, but it’s truly sad that this is where the Kennedy family ends. Joe III may still have a career ahead of him, but god say what you will about JFK, RFK, and TK, but man this is sad.

Good reminder that Mace is absolutely batshit insane. As Jackson said of South Carolina: too small to be a country, too big to be an asylum…

Googling “which president negotiated crappy exit agreement with Taliban”

One of the best books I’ve ever read on World War II. If you haven’t read it, do yourself a favor and buy it (audiobook otherwise). You won’t look at the war in the same way after…

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades. This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.

And he’s supposed to be the “respectable” appointee at State.

Keep seeing/hearing news reports of MAGA fury at people celebrating Kirk’s killing (just now, NPR cited Stephen Miller’s outrage about this). But I have yet to see/hear a single example reported of such “celebration” —nothing close to Kirk’s own vile celebration of Paul Pelosi’s hammer attacker.

Practicing politics as it should be…

Great reminder that Laura Loomer apparently has a veto over the people who can serve on the National Security Council.

That’s one word to describe it.

This story about 9/11 is one I read every single year. It takes a giant, complex, extremely emotional symbol and breaks it down into a simple story about two people who found — and loved — each other. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Sir, this is an Arby’s

Warfighters being lethal at the Department of War. Feels like a bad Dr Seuss book.

Others have pointed this out, but the ahistorical nature of this change is mind boggling. The Defense moniker comes from the unification debate post-war when the War and Navy Departments were merged (plus a soon to be independent Air Force). This is just so, so stupid.

This 👇🏻

It’s hilarious that equally plump Republicans are doubling down on the JB Pritzker is fat line. Ted isn’t exactly slim…

Correct take here. The idea that Bowser can somehow triangulate this is absurd no matter what the beltway punditry thinks.

New blog. The World Bank’s New Local Labor Procurement Rule: Mostly Ineffective, Marginally Harmful, and Considerably Craven. Adding more sludge to World Bank bureaucracy to pander to a few shareholders. Multilateralism not at its finest. www.cgdev.org/blog/world-b...

CC: @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Maybe it’s time to ditch those “distraction” talking points and take this head on? Seems like the people can see more clearly what Trump is doing than you two can.

History is hard, Part 75… But I’m sure Vance will have some smarmy come back about how all the elites misunderstand his point and are just committed to globalist lies, etc etc etc.

Radicalized Bill Kristol is my favorite Bill Kristol.

Remember when Charlie went to prison for tax evasion and other assorted crimes? Good times.

History is hard for some people.

Salty New England mariners-turned-heroes of the Revolution, Silas Talbot and John Glover would prove crucial to General Washington when it came to transporting the troops. bit.ly/40NdowH

If you know anything about power in New England, this project makes enormous sense. As someone who has watched this go up over the past two years, is a huge win for the region. But, of course, this decision has nothing to do with facts.

What a joke.