The caveat to this is that sometimes people should run for high office as complete neophytes because nobody with more experience is willing to step up to fill a partisan or ideological lane that needs to be represented. This wasn’t the case in this race, though.

Fun fact about Marsha Blackburn is that decades before she made headlines for asking Kentanji Brown Jackson, "What is a woman," she notoriously insisted on being called "Congressman" back when she was in the House in order to not normalize terms that imply women are equals to men.

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning. We talked for 20 minutes about how he should stay in the hospital for the rest of his term so that there’s one less vote to confirm an Alito replacement.

On the one hand, this is Grade A trolling. On the other, the status quo is good because Republicans are one vote down in the Senate every day that Mitch isn’t dead. What would be wild is if he’s in a coma and Dems refuse to vote for expulsion. You need 2/3rds to do it.

The DAR being based as fuck was not on my bingo card.

It’s worth noting that a Lance Bottoms victory kills any near-term effort at GOP gerrymandering in the state. And if she can hold on in 2030, Republicans wont be able to unilaterally draw congressional or state leg maps.

As an aside, it’s absurd we don’t have this standard for cops.

I’ve gotta give the Facebook algorithm credit, it’s finally figured out to show me models with broad shoulders in their ads.

I’m rather guilty of not always setting the AC to 78. But it if the mayor asked the community to for the sake of the power grid, I’d probably at least do it when I’m not sleeping, and then finally get off my ass and install blackout curtains so less AC is required.

Supreme Court coverage doesn’t focus on plaintiffs, and I really want to express how much I respect Becky Pepper-Jackson. She could’ve had a much easier childhood by just switching to drama club or debate, but she fought an incredibly important battle instead. History will remember.

I actually wanna give Glusenkamp Perez some credit here because later on in the clip she talks about how trans kids playing sports is polarizing because college being unaffordable causes parents to have false hopes of their kids getting an athletic shcolarship, something more Democrats need to say.

Also, the NCAA has already categorically banned trans women (even ones who never went through testosterone puberty), so this isn’t even an issue. What the hell are we even doing here?

To give the libs (some) credit, they dispute the majority’s finding that sex in Title IX need be sex at birth. Sotomayor’s opinion dodges by saying BPJ didn’t ask for a different interpretation, Jackson more explicitly says she’s open to another interpretation. Neither goes far enough. /1

Dude, don’t speak on things you don’t know about. Jesse Singal was doing harm to trans kids before Merriam Webster added the word “woke” to the dictionary.

These are the situations where you run ads with voters saying to camera, “I used to like Susan Collins, because she was a moderate. But DC has changed her, and she’s become too MAGA.” These ads are, of course, a lie not because she isn’t too MAGA but because she’s never been a moderate.

All of my cis friends say there’s no reason to celebrate 4th of July, and I’m like tbh I am very much celebrating the fact that I’m not a subject of TERF Island right now.

Like, call me crazy, but I don’t think lashing out at the *Vice President* because you’re pissed about something she said or did means you should be expelled from the Democratic Party forever.

Was going to get philosophical about whether somebody who didn’t support the Dem nominee in 2024 ought to run as a Dem one cycle later. Turns out that’s irrelevant because Chevalier didn’t say this in 2024, she said it early in Harris’ Vice Presidency and deleted her account before Twitter became X.

Comparing the success of lefties in New York against AIPAC versus the fact Adrian Boafo won in #MD05 with AIPAC backing, it feels like the conclusion isn't "AIPAC is irrelevant." It's more "AIPAC can be beat," but it requires massive mobilization of resources.

My band is learning Boys of Summer, and the most fun part of this song is deciding which band’s sticker we saw on a Cadillac.

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

The one sincere upshot of the influencer/creator economy is that it has the potential to propel people who genuinely care about stuff into the public eye sometimes in a way purely corporate media will never

Rachel Accurso is a modern civil rights hero, and decades from now, we will be talking about her advocacy in history classes.

49% of potential Dem voters have a favorable opinion of socialism and another 18% hear the word and think, “Liquor!? I hardly know her!”

Two things can be true simultaneously: Zohran Mamdani is by far the best conceivable human who could be elected NYC mayor. And also if you are mad that he hasn’t taken more radical steps to protect access to GAC for minors, you should say so because the Overton Window doesn’t move itself.

Refusing to sell execution cocktail drugs to states is perhaps the most successful example in modern US history of successfully fighting an unjust system through naked obstruction, rather than trying to change public opinion about it. We need to learn from this and do it more.

I don’t know how many times I need to say this, but ballots are processed by people and people being able to go home to their families at night is more important to me than immediately knowing the results of an election.

What if (and hear me out), Democrats merely displaying the political will to pack the court forces the acceptance a more "moderate" solution like term limits.

He just thinks the existence of trans people in public is inherently funny, which is why @nytimes.com pays him to write about them.

Let me help you out, buddy. If Sotomayor croaks in 2027 under a GOP Senate, it will unleash a hell that you can’t even imagine. Likewise, if Thomas and Alito go on a bender and sail Harlan Crowe’s yacht into a hurricane under a Dem Senate, it will be MUCH easier to restore democracy.

It’s unfortunate people in Maine don’t know who Josh Gottheimer is because if they did, this would make a great pro-Platner ad.

The Cleveland Clinic’s administrators are absolutely thinking to themselves, “That $2 million for de-transition care for minors without insurance will never get used because you need insurance to pay for transition care in the first place.” The message it sends is still dogshit, though.

Absolute perfect email from EMILY’s List. No notes.

i’m reviewing the Los Angeles primary results and i’m sorry but it is obvious that there was voter fraud. if you take the results at face value they show that 25% of voters voted for **Spencer Pratt**, an almost completely illiterate reality show moron. investigation NOW.

Matt Stoller is what you get when somebody thinks their ONE NEAT TRICK will fix democracy. Monopolies are a major contributor to fascism, and Stoller could be a powerful contributor to the movement, if he wasn’t so fucking dense that he sees Josh Hawley as an ally and “HR ladies” as an enemy.

Shoutout to my fellow Seattle ladies for exercising impeccable judgment and doing their part to keep our communities PUA bro free.

If you’ve ever wondered if cis-men are going to self-ID themselves as trans women to gain access to women’s spaces, ask yourself… do teenage boys *actually* pretend to be gay so that their girlfriend’s parents will let them sleep over? Or is this perhaps a trope made up by straight TV writers?

Not a theologian, but *if* I believed in a religion centered around nuclear family, it seems obvious that god created queers to have people who will adopt instead of procreate. Also he knows you will fuck. He said straight and gay recreational sex is sinful to remind you how hard Jesus had it.

Seth Moulton watched the Joe Kennedy campaign flop and said to himself that looks fun let’s do it again but even worse.

Every time some dudebro is like, “Women’s sports aren’t popular because we only want to see the best play the best,” I’m like sure buddy, people definitely don’t pay billions of dollars every year to watch a football league where the national champions would get smoked by a 3-13 NFL team.

One of the more fascinating things about working on this campaign is how much its backers live in a fantasy version of the 1950s that never really existed where every child gets yearly physicals by a family physician their parents trust to do genital exams. It doesn’t actually work like this. /1

One thing I desperately hope people remember from this era is that the sane “pro-life” movement that spent decades claiming an anti-eugenics cause was totally down to be in the same political party as Elon Musk.

First past the post is the kind of system you maintain if you think a political party’s primary function is to maximize the number of patronage jobs and political favors it can offer its supporters.

Brands and establishment politicians, please hire me to explain BlueSky to your social media managers. I could save you so many ratios.

Homer Simpson wears a suit when it’s appropriate because even though he’s canonically written as an incredibly stupid person, he very much understands code-switching.

Can we get shirts for the, “I desperately more than almost anything in the world want to not have Donald Trump be able appoint another Supreme Court justice, but my god every day with this guy is another nightmare,” club?

The designated hitter rule is the worst thing ever. I want to see people who make millions of dollars a year be comically bad at a part of their job.

The ST3 Ballard debacle has me thinking about how incredibly broken the United States is as a country. We’re the world’s currency, we can easily borrow money (at the federal level), and yet we refuse to invest it in things that are 100% guaranteed to have a net positive ROI.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe that Thomas Chatterton Williams isn’t actually an AI created by lefty writers and podcasters in order to produce the perfect content for them to dunk on.

Anyway cis women please give us legal protections needed to just exist in society, and I promise we’ll file lots of novel sex discrimination lawsuits that make your lives easier.