this is why previous presidents rarely attended big sporting events outside carefully managed stuff like ceremonial first pitches fwiw — a security nightmare and huge inconvienience for the other fans

Very savvy of Trump to go to Game 3 because it seems like right now what Knicks fans want is to be greatly inconvenienced and distracted while their team is playing

Nichols and Frum for Stoller, Kirn, and Junger is a good trade in the post-2016 realignment. Adios.

the Trumpification of our political culture was never going to be unipartisan.

I don’t know what it’s going to take for enough Mormon voters to break with MAGA for Democrats to finally start winning Utah. But if a shift happens suddenly like in 2016, Republicans may regret fighting so hard to keep gerrymandering a 4-0 House map shutout instead of conceding one seat to Dems

wtf

yes

the story here is that Platner was probably a right-winger at the time.

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

If you subtracted the immigrants and sons of immigrants from the invasion the Nazis would have won

It’s great that strong voter repudiation of this regime and its lackeys is contingent on high gas prices.

just enough info to rile up conspiracy cranks on each edge of the horseshoe, nice.

You’re telling me that the guy running the halal cart on the corner isn’t a real New Yorker? You’re failing a quality check on your opinion.

Why do we have to have D-Day discourse? It was a good and necessary thing. Let's all be proud of it.

Roy Moore’s past was also “weaponized.”

We need a recession for educational purposes istg

Hanging out with Gen Z folks and they’re complaining about the job market - “Yeah, Starbucks pays well, but they’ll only pay for your bachelor’s degree and then they’ll try to move you to something boring like HR” - anyway my Great Recession millennial self wants to walk into traffic

Graham Platner looks like a guy you have to assassinate at an inn in Whiterun during the Dark Brotherhood questline

This is a much better Democratic environmental message than “If the earth’s temperature rises a half degree celsius by 2030, there will be worldwide chaos and mass casualties.”

Iowans should be able to swim at the beach without concerns for their health. https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-beach-swim-advisories-ecoli/71403188

Whatever else you can say about Platner, pro or con, he is not an "everyman"

80% of the reader comments on that NYC piece yesterday amounted to “Hey, he’s nowhere near as bad as 1/6ers or the people in the Epstein files! The Republicans win with shitty people all the time, why shouldn’t we? These effete establishment PURITY TESTS are just killing us..”

"What about Hegseth?" isn't the argument *for* Platner that some seem to think it is.

It's coming

I don't live in Alabama, but I had some strong views on Roy Moore and Tommy Tuberville. I bet you were okay with that.

did Trump forget to lie about opening the Strait of Hormuz today?

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

"from before I was a public figure", i.e. from before August 19, 2025. no shit.

We got rid of Swalwell, we can get rid of Platner, because we have standards.

LOL I had no idea that CNN was producing social media content like this where they have their long term anchors like Dana Bash talking to us in their cars appropriating the visual style of the rando crazy person ranting at you

it bolsters talarico’s own persona and it allows him to say things like “weak men lie to you, they steal from you, they cheat you.” put that over a montage of paxton being a scumbag and baby you got a stew going

Yo @benstiller.redhour.com in the front there lmao

my initial read of this is that it's functionally the worst case scenario for maine - awful, should be disqualifying (he should have been disqualified ages ago, obviously, but here we are), and probably not enough to convince him to drop out because the allegations aren't swalwell-level

We're getting close to seeing him slide right out of his chair onto the floor. Maybe he pitches forward and bonks his head on the Resolute Desk on the way too? It's going to be hilarious watching the lackeys behind him panic trying to decide if they should help or pretend they didn't see anything.

Save Time with the Fenelon Place Elevator. Dubuque, Iowa

Save us (deep, heavy sigh) Jared Golden

Rubio just denied ever seeing such a thing to @tedlieu.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social

A reason not to nominate someone with a Nazi tattoo is that THEIR PROBLEMS TEND NOT TO BE LIMITED TO NAZI TATTOOS

A thing I wrote about Platner last fall smotus.substack.com/p/why-is-our...

on the one hand he’s a lying misogynist drunk, on the other hand he has no relevant experience and seems to totally lack any discipline

The thing people really need to internalize is that dodgy people are consistently dodgy. You learn one ugly fact about someone, maybe it’s a one-off. Once there are enough data points to constitute a pattern, it’s only a matter of time before more come out fitting the same curve.

FWIW it sounds like July 13th, not the day of the primary, is the deadline the Dem nominee can drop out and be replaced on the ballot by the Maine Democratic Party

This has become an anti-Trump, anti-Platner feed, which sort of makes sense, since they both have cults who believe that shitty character and zero qualifications for an important job are beautiful signs of authenticity.

From the jump, Platner was a mess and his campaign was headed straight for a cliff. It was so fucking obvious. Many of us told you.

I hope the inevitable (further) disqualifying Platner scandals land in time for Maine Dems to rethink this foolishness.

Boy who could have seen this coming

Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Cause/Effect