I’m gonna let Maine and Texas and every other state except Florida handle their own elections. I can’t vote anywhere else, and I’m not going to talk shit on their choices. There are no perfect candidates. Ever. Never ever. Suck it up and vote, because if we don’t, we lose.

If the pro-algae protesters cause him to stroke out, I am going to be forced to make some major updates to my personal theory of change

It’s the same reason Trump immediately lost interest in war with Iran immediately after the “shock and awe” wore off—narcissists hate knowing that people don’t think highly of them and want any evidence otherwise to disappear.

New York City’s Muslim democratic socialist mayor has an unlikely new friend — the archbishop Pope Leo XIV handpicked to lead the nation’s largest city. Inside the bromance between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Archbishop Ronald Hicks, drawn together by the Knicks and a love of the poor.

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

"The Indian is my wife" This is what I mean when I describe Vance as a 19th century racist

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

What? Absolutely not. These are the actions of a wildly unpopular administration that should be mocked, not feared. Don’t give these yutzes more than they deserve by making them powerful or scary in your head.

Here @pkrugman.bsky.social discusses how Trump corrupts everyone and everything in his orbit, including JD Vance becoming chief propagandist for his disastrous war and Marco Rubio debasing himself by wearing his oversized shoes. Check out our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Starmer’s resignation is a warning, but we’ve run this experiment at home. Sinema, Golden, and Fetterman made the same bet: that poll-tested moderation is a safe harbor. All saw their support crater. In a moment like this, tacking right isn’t the safe play, it’s the thing that sinks you.

the thing that matters aren't the specific cultural artifacts of gayness we were forced to develop to survive, it's our freedom and equality, and I don't care how any of us wants to live as long as they support the rest of us in getting there

"assimilationist" is just a crazy thing to use as an insult tbh. the point of gay liberation isn't to withdraw into our own communes, but to create a world that we can fit into!

Been stewing a little since yesterday I saw someone dismissively using “pushing strollers” as an example of something assimilationist gays do. Actually, gay people having kids and not having the state take them away or lose them in custody battles is pretty fucking radical

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! We have dealing with this event for a number of years now. Looks like the promoters want to test their luck again!

James Talarico Isn’t a Real Man and to Demonstrate This We Brought Out This Rabid Uncut Penis

His mouth is physically incapable of making him look like even the thinnest facsimile of a likable human.

i think this might actually kill him, lol

I will say, I expected some sort of decline into draconian tinpot dictator shit as he faces certain midterm inevitabilities. And if he wants to focus his confused rage on weaponizing the military against Algae Truth, I'm to some degree relieved he's settled in on this particular hidden enemy

This is no longer about pond scum. It's about a police state acting like a police state. Outlets like WaPo that "both sides" this and give the WH "theory" credence with ZERO proof are no better than the journalists at Pravada during the Soviet era. It's no longer funny or pathetic. It's scary.

It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Trump pardoned people who literally smeared shit on the capitol walls

This is Nolan. His humans have kissed all the color off of his face over the last ten years. Some seniors are silver foxes, he is a silver sweetie pie. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (FB: Alyssa Woznicki)

you really get the distinct sense that vance takes joy in nothing, which matters politically because voters like to know that you enjoy *something* about life

United States Mutant Ninja Turtles

Oh so the reflecting pool is on trend, then

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

This is an unfathomably evil act that will be a foul stain on our nation’s history forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

That’s also why they hate contraceptive programs that could reduce rates of abortion, ostensibly their goal

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

conservatives do not have a problem with racial or gender preferences or quotas. they just think they rightfully should go to white men, who are inherently meritorious.

merit, you see, is when you ignore the qualifications of an officer and deny them a promotion because they are black, and promote a less qualified alternative because he is white

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Nazis should sound weird. Nazi stuff should sound weird. Normalize the way they talk and you are by extension normalizing Nazism

Even once Nazi slang becomes popularized to the point of dilution of apparent Nazi ownership, there's still a problem. Which is that the kids using that slang are gonna look around and see Nazis talking using that slang and see it as normal rather than weird

Yes you can trace "based" back though a long history, and. It became internet slang by way of 4chan. And slang churned out by the Nazi meme factory is Nazi slang, even if it gets picked up by gamer bros

In possibly my funniest accidental feminist indoctrination to date, the four year old is confused by the fact that in books, daddies drive cars sometimes. I married a nondriver dude and now she thinks it goes against the natural order when men are permitted to operate a vehicle

And I'm being genuine, not flip, btw. I don't want to bother my Black friends penalizing them for a holiday by assigning them work educating me on race etiquette. At the same time, I have a lot of questions about appropriate (non)participation in local events.

Someone needs to pay someone to write a Juneteenth etiquette guide for white people

Talarico: I was required by law to report any indication there was abuse at home, and I would hope that the top law enforcement official in Texas would be held to the same standard as a middle school teacher. Ken Paxton had the opportunity to protect a child, but instead he protected a predator

i wish it wasn't the case but elon buying X seems to be one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of all time. he bet that people would be addicted enough to posting that they wouldn't leave no matter what. he was basically right and can effectively change how they think and act now!

but Matt Stoller said Trump 2.0 FTC would be a natural populist extension of Lina Khan's antitrust legacy

the position of the trump administration is any black student is one too many and that any method to diversify a class is suspect if it results in black students thecollegeinvestor.com/82214/doj-fi...

as i have been saying, no one likes or trusts vance and they are happy to make him the fall guy. it is, relatedly, why i think his odds of winning the nomination are decent. the country will be in tatters in 2028 and the GOP will be looking for a fall guy.

JD is the fall guy…. Congressional Republicans are already placing the blame on Vice President JD Vance for a "terrible" deal with Iran.