such a shame Nintendo wasted its straight Sinnoh remake on BDSP. would have been great for a Scarlet/Violet-style reimagining imo

suing Israel for a refund before an international arbitrator on the theory that they've been a terrible puppet state/protectorate

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

not the first to say this but everything we give to Israel should be given to Ukraine instead

"The Boy Scouts changed, not because any court told them to, but because people came to understand how wrong it was to exclude a kid for who he was. That understanding built slowly, over the years, because people like you refused to disappear."

got a pro-Russian anarchist farmer in my replies and man they are inventing new kinds of stupid people every day

MAGA really is a movement for ethnic cleansing. Lying about law and history to overturn birthright citizenship makes it plain. As do calls for "remigration." The counterargument is that these voters didn't want what their signs called for, and don't feel about it what their facial expressions show.

Israel and Russia are both engaging in genocidal wars of conquest and should be stopped.

I love my new-build apartment for being able to maintain a frosty 70 during a heatwave, my midcentury DC place would be unbearable in this.

people stopped talking about CA and only us sickos saw Mai Vang not just make the runoff but pass Doris Matsui

yeah this is the most humiliating incumbent finish of the cycle so far. Brad Lander was an extremely popular local politician before he dogwalked Goldman and that's a huge part of why he won by so much. Melat Kiros is literally just some lady and she held a scandal-free longtime incumbent under 40.

The Kiros-DeGette margin is getting Funny

Underlying unitary executive theory but really everything wrong about America's hyper-presidentialism is we act like the president has some unique sacred mandate as the voice of the people, to which Congress is at best a sideshow rather than our actual directly elected representatives.

IT CAN ONLY HEATSTROKE HAPPEN

honestly Netanyahu and Putin have more than a few echoes, as they're both freakish genocidal monsters who used US support to help climb the ladder domestically

I'm a card-carrying DSA member who thinks the United States should be arming Ukraine, and I vote

okay so who primaries Bennet in 2028. is it just Kiros or Gonzales, or do we have somebody else

remains an absolute travesty that all the normal Democrats in Maine went for governor. Shenna Bellows or Troy Jackson would be a genuinely top-tier senator!

I tend to believe Platner's victory was the embrace of the more exciting bad candidate in the absence of a good one, & I am appalled Maine didn't muster better.

"If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" -Diana DeGette, on weapon sales to Israel

I think DSA should disband the IC so that bad-faith critics have to admit they just dislike DSA

my mom would share things from her coworkers from Egypt and Israel and Colombia and Cuba and the Netherlands and India and you could just keep going, and apparently that is somehow a fucking problem according to the federal government

this is worth remembering too—yes, of course, Trump 2 has led to rapid growth for DSA as with every left-of-center group. but DSA also spent Biden fighting tooth and nail to grow its footprint and its power, with quite a bit of success

see the thing is that people like winning and now the DSA is doing that.

It's not just groping—it's sexual harassment. And he's not just a comedian—he's a senator. Impressive title. Big responsibilities.

Rep. Melat Kiros (b. May 1997)

if I were Peggy Flanagan I would probably be less dead-set on Al Franken emails as my major fundraising strategy given that I have been doing that and getting absolutely lapped by Angie Craig every quarter

I think the funniest DSA win on the table is Oliver Larkin, who in the best-case scenario is a one-term rental before getting primaried out or defeated by a Republican in 2028 but who also is running against a Democratic incumbent who has forgotten how to act like a Democrat

I would love, like, a group interview with the May-June class of House leftists (Rabb, Hamawy, Valdez, Lander, Avila Chevalier, Kiros)

america's boyfriends in shambles. he's set the bar too high (literal)

oh this drove me BANANAS. Darializa has made some dicey comments but "borders are modern" if taken to mean "the American border security regime is modern" is just flatly, factually true

insanely jokerfying seeing the right-wing turn against birthright citizenship. my at-the-time conservative parents raised me to believe immigration is a positive good and it is our duty as Americans to welcome new Americans with open arms and now a major political party is explicitly blood-and-soil

who do these people think the infrastructure has been built by since the beginning of this country. it's immigrants, it's always immigrants, Jesus Christ in heaven

negatively polarizing the coalition you scrapped together to win rather shabbily when you should've blown the doors off the hinges because you're convinced it's impossible for a realignment to negatively impact your coalition is a A Choice™

I'm fine with this framing because it means they'll be all the more surprised when challengers start attacking incumbents as disloyal Democrats for breaking with the caucus on this vote

so many paychecks depend on people refusing to understand that voters across the political spectrum strongly dislike wait-your-turn politics

Remember that establishment Democrats hate you and think your hatred for genocide and their complicity in it is merely "performative politics" or about "style."

If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...

Worst rendition of Billy Joel's "Piano Man."

mods asleep post smooth zohran

I'll save you a click and point out that it's JD Vance saying he "usually celebrates mass at home" that broke Kevin. As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Catholicism knows, that's not how it works unless you've paid a priest to be your personal chaplain.

DeGette's "Kiros is an outsider" ads were way more subtle than Espaillat's people just shouting "Haitiana" but DeGette also didn't do that great with Black voters (though tbf some of that is plain old diaspora ethnic voting since Kiros and many Denver Black voters are Ethiopian)

good morning. it is now 51-41 Kiros. with a little under 10,000 ballots left to count, this will end up a double-digit win.

the CBC and CHC have a somewhat disproportionate share of older safe-seat members and both caucuses are now guaranteed to see a bunch of turnover and new leftist members (and a new chairman for the CHC), with more primaries still to come

Yeah, I think a lot about this because I've covered elections for so long. Even in 2018, an insurgent candidate needed the MSM in a way he/she doesn't now. A long, substantive Hasan stream does you much more good than a cable hit where you are asked the same 4 questions.

that's...that's not...that...but...you can't...that's not...no?????

unless someone even younger gets in, Melat Kiros will be the new youngest member of Congress, taking the title from Maxwell Frost and becoming the second Gen Z congressperson (the first being Frost)

The snide riff about Uganda in here demonstrates why Goldman is a clown who deserved to lose his seat.