The Talarico campaign is 100% focused on the kill shot here. And nice work, whoever made the ad -- there's one creepy courtroom clip of Hoffman replayed multiple times to good effect, while every shot of Paxton looks like he was just caught trying to fuck a poodle at a PetsMart.

🎵Millions of peaches, peaches for me Millions of peaches, peaches for free...🎵

Loving Scott Pelley more than ever. This is delicious.

Been in Europe for two weeks. Pro-Palestine [NOT Pro-Hamas] flags, banners, stickers are all over the place. Dublin, Rome, and Lisbon - they’re everywhere! Not scientific. But Netanyahu has done so much damage… it’s hard to see how any support for Israel comes had. Oh Trump’s is a joke,

world leaders don’t agree on much. opposition to the iran war is one thing pretty much everyone agrees on. @gzeromedia.com

A rough past? He’s legit fake “middle working class.” He has Nazi tattoo. He worked for Blackwater. He’s said and done A LOT of terrible shit! It doesn’t mean he’s an irredeemable human. It does mean it’s insane he’s a Senate candidate. And HE and his crew should know that!!

@alagai.bsky.social 🙈

“Greatest deal maker in human history!” - one of Trump’s servile sycophants

And the market keeps whistling on… How many Econ/business articles start with the line, “When/Once the Straits of Hormuz are open.. “

congrats to jared polis once again

My latest in @thebulwark.com

"What struck me was the implicit assumption that the United States can prioritize one challenge without the others demanding equal attention....prioritization is not the same thing as exclusivity." @markhertling.bsky.social on the Pentagon's China fixation:

@progmil.bsky.social does a really nice job critically analyzing these recent writings on various aspects of the current nuclear weapons debate. Strongly endorse his assessment.

Jesus Christ. Only 9% of Americans approve of putting Trump's name on government buildings while he's in office. NINE PERCENT. But lucky for us, President Ozymandias is desperate to establish his legacy with vanity projects like that, even if it means destroying the GOP.

I’m sorry. When did “transforming into economic powerhouses” become the primary objective of institutions of higher education? Did I miss a meeting?

There's always a debate on nuclear weapons issues, even as most of the national security community ignores the topic almauroni.substack.com/p/the-nation...

It’s possible to explain why any particular administration might choose to retrench in East Asia. It’s a little harder to explain why this administration is doing so given what it’s previously said about China. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

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WAT!!?!

No ever accused this racist little twerp of being a math guy…

Once again, this has to be said clearly: Statements like these are lies. Complete and utter fabrications. Untruths. There was no “growing risk from Iran.” Full stop. End of statement.

Which customers should not be allowed to use - under any circumstances - WITHOUT FUCKING HEADPHONES! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Jeremy Konyndyk, who led the U.S. government's response to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, says this one "is going to be exceptionally difficult to contain."

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has called the deadly protests in #Bolivia "an ongoing coup d'état." In a @bloomberg.com exclusive, I asked President Rodrigo Paz about the relationship between the US and Bolivia, and how the crisis ends:

The sacrifices I make for friends… Since I let @jonatomic.bsky.social down with no pic of my Thursday lunch, I returned for one more great meal before leaving Rome this afternoon. Ravioli stuffed with “Cacio e Pepe” with a saffron sauce - hence the amazing color. Bellissimo!

As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Received my author's copy of Stephen Herzog, Giles Arceneaux, and Ariel Petrovics (eds.) "Atomic Backfires: Why Nuclear Policies Fail." Thanks to @herzogsm.bsky.social for ensuring its safe arrival in Norway! Check out the Open Access edition here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

WAT??? Jesus - NPR is really working hard to live down to all the garbage it’s opponents have lobbed at them over the years… This is preposterous! DHS - “Bureaucratic Land of Misfit and Castoff Toys” is the best thing that could ever be said of DHS.💩

Once again - more moronic, ignorant nonsense from a walking, breathing disgrace to his office and this nation.

“Many are asking…” Lololol

(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....

Gonna be tough…, But it really is the single thing this administration excels at!

Okay @jonatomic.bsky.social - so this was the beef involtini at the same place a few years ago. Today’s was slightly different - a few smaller “medallions” over pasta (vs the larger cut. Epic.

And for any Dems that can’t message their way out of a wet paper bag… this is free advice: The correct answer to the Trump administration’s bullshit “security rationales” for any military action against Cuba should be simple, clear and something even they can do: Hysterical, mocking laughter!

Narrator: “There was/is/will be no universe - or alternative time line - where Cuba posed/poses a military threat to the US.”

At the moment they can’t be “deterred” because the don’t possess anything approaching a capability to deter! Of course @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social’s point is 100% correct but this emerging line of argument from the administration is just ridiculous - wholly unserious - and completely baseless.

On a thus-far amazing European excursion in Europe after a very long year. But work must continue, but perks of the job include getting to read excellent pieces like @jjjcameron.bsky.social’s recent chapter on MIRV in “Atomic Backfires” over lunch with some amazing wine in Rome.🍷

They just continue to make shit up outta thin air! And don’t get called for any of it!!

JFC - these are the lines you’re trying to draw?! Come on Maine - this type of pathetic, vacillating, moral cowardice should be more than enough to retire this bumbling buffoon. And it shouldn’t require a phony “working class” hardo with an effing Nazi tattoo! Get your shit together.

Introduce yourself with 10 band/musicians you’ve seen live! Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Guns N Roses Public Enemy Pearl Jam Soundgarden Neil Young w/Booker T & the MGs Wilco The Pixies Bad Religion Nine Inch Nails

I can do a #DemocraticAutopsy at least as useful as the 192p nothingburger which the DNC commissioned, then hid, then partially released (with the key parts still hidden). After spending many, many hours of phone-banking and canvassing in swing states, here's my autopsy: 🧵

Trump going to China, kissing up to Xi, asking for help with Iran, and not getting it is another sign of America's decline. But that doesn't mean China is about to take over. What's replacing US global leadership is... Nothing. Which is very dangerous. Read my latest, in @liberalcurrents.com:

More “winning!”

I am very honored to be part of this event with @thebulletin.org and excited to share the stage with @radiofreetom.bsky.social and Mari Faines and @atomicbell.bsky.social pages.thebulletin.org/2026-0528-to... Join us.

More monumental stupidity from one of objectively dumbest human beings ever to hold a cabinet post serving in an administration that is actively making the country less wealthy and far less attractive to the world.