I’m going to be honest, I am not quite understanding the strategy here, “we are directly fucking up your travel, blame the other guys” seems to be missing a couple of steps

This is going to be an absolute disaster and they could stop it by ending the filibuster

Sure buddy

I don't think Will is coming out of that pressure cooker undamaged. And I think there's a lot more people there who /think/ they're doing some sort of good, but don't have nearly the mental fortitude and intrinsic high-conflict nature for it. And every one of them that stays encourages the others.

And I don't mean this as an issue of mere desire, as Will acknowledges here, you're dealing with an intensely hostile media environment, and trying to eke out a tiny corner of the mindshare of what people's default internet experience is. So who, other than Will Stancil, is suitable for that job?

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con. Please.

I don't think she'll vote for Democrats. (We're still the abortion party to her.) But I think she can stay home.

An evangelical preacher's wife from my hometown is lib posting about it. I remember voted against Harris because of abortion. She's adding a lot of caveats because her followers are mostly MAGA, but the videos are really upsetting her.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

NYT Writers WWE Wrestlers 🤝 Weird belief that the broken, large, and influential legacy institution they work for gives them a platform from which they can create the kind of change said institution tirelessly works to destroy.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

this is how I feel about guys who can't handle when their female partner makes more money than them brother what are you doing that's the dream!!

“It’s time to play America’s easiest game show…” youtu.be/ZxJKLkcG114?...

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible

Checking in on these dudes, brb.

Oh boy, caught my first guy who insisted that Mamdani is here to Build Communism and Destroy the Constitution (laudatory). He is the mayor of New York City.

I love how ICE agents dress, talk and act like they're busting major crime rings and instead they're dragging working moms out on the street in front of crying children.

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Gen Z has a hard time contextualizing how aberrant Trump is because he's been the focal point of US politics for a decade at this point. Like I have a bunch of fully adult coworkers who don't really have much political consciousness that predates 2015.

"my state backed attempts to suppress someone's free speech made that person famous" yeah actually.

because he is

what he doin ova der

I don't mean this snidely, more with a little awe, but: Instagram has changed the world

presumably if he's in the room with any dead body it's really hard for him not to eat it, so this is just a matter of prudence

even Trump gets up and moves towards gordon!

why does RFK just zoom off instead of helping the dude

If this lady wins higher office I'm blaming the media for rehabilitating her. A lot of them played around with Trump in 2015 because they thought it was funny that he was attacking other Republicans and they are doing this again now with her.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

NYT: A Trump Administration staffer collapsing during a press conference leaves a lot of questions about Joe Biden's health.

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

The economics are pretty crazy and very different from what we're used to. Electricity won't be "free", delivering it will still be expensive, but they'll be so much more of it than we can use most of the time. Except sometimes there will be a lot less of it than we want, too

heritage foundation sounds like a great place to work and I hear there's openings

one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin

Neoconservatives were a load bearing element of conservatism not degenerating into fascism. Not the only one missing (hence the neocons’ own catastrophic fuckups), but a really important one nonetheless.

and, as a flip side, kneejerk anti-colonialism is our own vulnerability on the left, which is a big reason I push really hard for the inclusion of ex-neocons in our coalition. "freedom isn't worth fighting for if someone can cite a cultural tradition" is also toxic to the liberal project

There’s a common misconception in some circles (ones that want to blame the left for stuff) that Manchin-Sinema would’ve abolished the filibuster for a standalone partisan gerrymandering ban. When you worked on the gerrymandering ban provisions, you know it’s absurd

This isn’t true. I was there. (from The Argument)

man the argument is dumb

living the dream

this isnt the point of this, but reminded me: sometimes i wonder how WI can send both tammy baldwin and ron johnson to the senate at the same time, and then i remember WI sent joe mccarthy to the senate and the red scare was at peak at the same time milwaukee elected its 3rd socialist mayor.

Flashback to 2023

political journalists don't criticize republicans for being unaware of the world around them because they themselves view lack of awareness of the world as a virtue

"Now that war comes to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace"

This is the most Gorsuch thing to ever Gorsuch.

I think it's pretty clear that there's simply not enough actual centrist swing voters out there these days. The center right will vote for maga before they vote for anyone in the Dem tent, so president general elections come down animating your left flank, and discouraging right wing infrequents.

Biden and Harris did everything reasonably possible to court centrists, including 4 years of pathologically bipartsan bills, obtaining endorsements from 200 high ranking Republicans as the centerpiece of the DNC, campaigning with THE Dick Cheney. Betrayed and lost the support of the groups.

I am so naturally sympathetic to the moderation line of thinking, but, I just can't look at the results over the last 18 months and see anything that supports it. The electorate in VA bit their tongues on Tuesday and elected a dude that wants to "put 2 bullets in the head" of the GOP house speaker.

Also on this point, something that a lot of folks don't appreciate is the fairly large swath of people who would qualify as "natsec liberals" who are now fully radicalized onto a "fuck the state of Israel entirely, not just Likud" platform It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists