It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

Treating a one-point lead like a sprawling chasm of security is really funny. Pack it in boys, we're up by a whole entire point against the team that keeps surmounting gigantic leads of one or even two points because it has the best player ever. What are they gonna do, score once or even twice

Thomas Edsall is 84 years old and has never worked on a campaign in his life. This is one of several columns he's written centered on imaging what the official 2028 Democratic platform should say, a meaningless document no voters read and which has no effect on what positions candidates campaign on.

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

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The chair of the Maine Democratic Party said on @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social last night that each day that passes where Platner doesn't drop out makes it harder for them to execute a good and fair plan to replace him. What a fucking asshole.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:

If Platner were to drop out by July 13, the Maine Democratic Party would be able to replace him on the ballot.

ill never understand the kind of hubris it takes to run for office when you know there are massive skeletons in your closet. not only do you look sick, your family has to deal with all of it.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.

Wash Post subscription dollars hard at work to fan the flames of white nationalism

He’s right. Vote like he’s right.

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

I cannot fucking believe that birthright was 5-4! On whether the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship!

Lot of bad rulings today, but realistically this basically drags U.S. youth sports into a perma-AAU setting. Don't want your kid's dick and balls checked by the state because he grew his hair out? Sorry, the cops can just do that now. Ruling will just privatize and make expensive kids playing ball.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

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Cannot stress enough what is happening at SCOTUS right now, and all of the legislation and hyperbole and rigamarole that preceded it, is all in the service of ruining the lives of about twenty people, most of whom are children.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

This is so utterly fucking stupid. Basically we have a monarchy except when the king tries to fuck with the money, then the bankers get to say no. Unprincipled garbage by a bunch of robed imbeciles

As cathartic as #2 might be for some, it will only expedite the collapse of American power and capabilities. You can't recreate the Federal workforce very 4-8 years and govern effectively. Hate on the "administrative state" all you want but without it we don't win the Cold War.

Gov. Mike DeWine on the Mullin v. Doe: "It's not in the U.S. interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, who are buying houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses — and yank them out…That is a huge, huge mistake."

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

This is typically great. Ken will be fine. It’s our loss. www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-t...

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Dolezal is the Republican I’m running against for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. He is an election denier and has to be stopped. I just won the primary and became the Democratic nominee last week. My website is joshforgeorgia.com - would love to have you on the team.

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

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Treaty of Versailles you say. What, Munich wasn’t available?

If you help fuel one of the right wing's moral panics, *even if your own motives are pro-social*, you really should take some responsibility, especially since you can see the catastrophic consequences all around us. There's no plausible way to claim innocence any more. The dynamic is very clear.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Mamdani: "Oftentimes this kind of unity comes in moments of tragedy. And to see it coming now in a moment of joy, it's something I've never seen before across our city."

And they owe it all to the Atlanta Hawks...those 2 losses, the Knicks "never again"!

(before the series) this will be a fun competition between two likable, entertaining teams (Game 5) let us stamp out any remaining joy in the heart of victor wembanyama, a man i hate in real life

They called that exact foul ON JALEN two games ago. But now that Fucking Wemby does the exact same fucking thing, they swallow the fucking whistle

The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.

Wow, Kornet got away with the most blatant goaltend of all time and then Wemby goes down and touches the ball above the cylinder on offense.

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