Political Messaging and the Candidates We Want | Explainer from yesterday’s Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXqgaA-MoJo

The organizing director for the Platner campaign just quit the Maine Democratic Party. These people are in a cult of personality and I'm starting to wonder if black sneakers and a wayward comet is involved.

This is a common belief, but the reality is that our system is messed up because parties over the past 50 years have become weaker.

We all know men like this. Men like this are a dime a dozen.

And there you have it.

I don’t have any information that isn’t public about the Siders case. I’m gutted and sick at the thought of all of that suffering. But I have learned quite a bit about generational poverty and abuse in Northern Appalachia. That’s what I want to talk about today. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

It was as if some being in the sky had seen our ritual and was responding in kind. The clouds came in from the northwest, incandescent with their own electricity, sparking orchid and orange in the twilight. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

“Servants of Christ the King?” I whispered. “The Charismatics?” “Yes,” he said with a smile. I ran for my life. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I hope and pray that all who have been hurt by this wickedness find help and healing. I want to build a Church that protects the vulnerable first of all, as Christ Himself did. The first step towards this, is honesty, and I’m thankful for all who write about abuse. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Really is an unavoidable part of this story that Mills was a uniquely bad choice for the establishment to coalesce around.

MontCo PA Visibility Brigade got TONS of honks/support from 422 commuters this morning! NO DATA CENTERS ON THE SCHUYLKILL! Moratorium NOW! Oaks, PA 7/8/2026 @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @kmuth.bsky.social @governor.pa.gov

I’ve been begging folks across the political spectrum to internalize this. Up to and including even Title I and IDEA: Everything we think know and can rely on with federal K12 funding is changing. The latest👇

THIS SHOULD ALARM EVERYONE Trump’s DOJ is sending election monitors to Detroit, Lansing, and East Lansing for Michigan’s August 4 primary. The real target isn’t just the election. It’s public trust in blue cities.

I feel like ”he just says shit and sometimes it’s an order with the weight of the presidency and sometimes it’s not and there’s no way to know 100% until it happens for anyone including him” is not a sustainable state of affairs.

The Pentagon is running out of money Defense officials asked for more than $67 billion in supplemental funding. But Congress hasn’t approved the money yet, in part because of frustrations over information about the war with Iran, sources say. | NBC www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.

Right after @ejeancarroll.bsky.social wins against Felon Trump & the judge enters an order directing the Clerk to release $5 million to E. Jean, Trump files a Notice of Appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. He is such a cheap, judgment-dodging SOB. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What a fucking embarrassment on the world stage. #25thAmendment

What a communist.

Freedom 250 isn’t done with its 250th anniversary events — and many of them seem to be more about Trump than the country as a whole. We sent FOIAs for communications, internal guidance, and donor information that could show how Freedom 250 is funded. americanoversight.org/america250-f...

We are so excited that the @wnba.com will host several marquee events at the Obama Presidential Center’s Home Court as part of the AT&T WNBA All-Star 2026 weekend!

This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

Same people promoting this are screaming about Mamdani's grocery stores as "communism."

Of all the gaslighting from the Platner campaign the argument he's a strong general election candidate/his politics are working in Maine is among most pernicious. As I show 👇he's one of the weakest battleground gen. election candidates of last 3 cycles 2/ www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/some-thoug...

Friends, no serious campaign/party committee would ever commission a poll like this. They would do in depth testing of bios, messages, etc to assess the various candidates' strength, particularly w/a well-funded opposition and that close association w/Platner could now be toxic. Would disregard. 1/

Here's my boilerplate and tip jar. If you like my writing, leave me a tip when you can, because it's very hard to afford anything with all these high prices. Thank you! www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

He came to the US 35 year ago. He worked in construction and built a small business. He sent 3 kids to college. Now he's dead at the hands of ICE. They claim he "weaponized" his car against them. Sound familiar? @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the latest casualty of Trump's deportation regime.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

ICE murdered another person.

I don’t have any information that isn’t public about the Siders case. I’m gutted and sick at the thought of all of that suffering. But I have learned quite a bit about generational poverty and abuse in Northern Appalachia. That’s what I want to talk about today. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

It was as if some being in the sky had seen our ritual and was responding in kind. The clouds came in from the northwest, incandescent with their own electricity, sparking orchid and orange in the twilight. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

“Servants of Christ the King?” I whispered. “The Charismatics?” “Yes,” he said with a smile. I ran for my life. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

I hope and pray that all who have been hurt by this wickedness find help and healing. I want to build a Church that protects the vulnerable first of all, as Christ Himself did. The first step towards this, is honesty, and I’m thankful for all who write about abuse. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

Poor Platner. Poor, POOR Platner, losing his "dream" of being a junior Senator all because of a little rape and another little rape and a Nazi tattoo. Boo hoo hoo.

I found more eggs and a couple more nymphs. I gave the squash another soap bath and hand-scraped the leaves. Squash bugs make a truly disgusting sound when you, ah, squash them. But so far, we're holding our ground.

Trump has lost control of this war and his flailing in Ankara shows just how completely adrift he really is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Grandpa has had a sustained meltdown this morning in Ankara at the NATO summit. It's all over the news around the world. And in the US, it's hardly being reported, other than by Aaron Rupar. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...

Non-citizens can’t vote. Full stop. It’s already illegal in federal elections and extremely rare…noncitizen votes made up just 0.0001% of ballots cast in 2016.  1/2 #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/212838/...

Hugh in late May: "I appreciate" Trump putting national security over the midterms by continuing Iran war. Hugh in late June: Trump is ending the war because GOP midterm success is "critical to the national security." Hugh last night: "Kudos" for new strikes. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb Article: zurl.co/Juc68

Trump looked like he could barely get up the stairs while boarding Air Force One (He's not on the Qatari bribe jet he rode over to Turkey for unspecific reasons that likely have to do with security)

"But lest we be tempted to rate this effort a failure, let us judge it on its own terms. Trump was able to snatch congressionally allocated funds, commingle them with cash from corporations seeking favor from his administration, enrich his buddies, and throw himself two spectacular birthday parties"

This is unacceptable. Four babies became ill and two died after consuming formula produced at an Abbott plant that FDA inspectors later found had serious sanitation failures. This was not a minor paperwork violation.

Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.

Dan Kleban, brewery owner in Maine and a candidate that a lot of Dems like, says he's ready to make the run in Platner's place:

Yale Law School.

When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/when-yo...

If this punk loses us the Senate...