“... designed to be maximally disruptive and incomprehensible, cloaked in layer upon layer of irony.”

“We’ve never seen anything even approaching this level of interference with the day-to-day job of prosecutors.”

"... life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is. I had been living a life that was pretty stacked with stuff for a long time ..."

“... America’s first Euroskeptic president.”

“He said, ‘Well, I’m starting this thing, it’s called Turning Point. And it’s going to be for conservatives on college campuses.’”

“In Trump’s first administration, people would say, ‘This isn’t right — we need to tell the White House.’ There’s none of that this time. Why would I do that? This administration isn’t interested.”

From @kimwehle.bsky.social: 5 Reasons the Supreme Court Might Change Its Mind on Same-Sex Marriage.

“Republicans have no desire to pander to the Black community, but do I think they could be doing a little bit better of pandering? For sure.”

“It’s no doubt the case that it’s harder for Democrats to do this right now than Republicans.”

“They weren’t his plans. They were their plans.”

Death of shame.

Ran three years ago today.

Writes @adamwren.bsky.social: The 2028 cycle has the potential to be the first post-cable TV election, heralding the dawn of a post-literate era in which technology fully displaces reading and consumption of news from traditional outlets.

POLITICO Weekend.

“Right now we’re pursuing every tactic imaginable except for the obvious one, which is taking positions that are more in line with the people we are trying to win over,” says @adamjentleson.bsky.social.

“... voters won’t be able to escape it.”

"The Kirk assassination is the most consequential assassination of an American political leader since the 1960s."

Ran eight years ago today.

“Discord, 4chan, Twitter, Bluesky—these things are really hacking our brains and hijacking our agency. The worst of humanity is in our pockets.”

“One of the goals of political violence is to totally transform civic culture. If you’re not holding public events, you’re kind of doing the work of those who are kind of promoting political violence.”

“If there’s one thing I know how to build, it’s a grand ballroom.”

Smart piece here.

10 Political Violence Experts on What Comes Next for America.

“There’s a whole bunch of studies on violence in the news, documenting the fact that people’s emotional cognitive reactions early on are high, and then as time goes on, the more you are exposed, those cognitive emotional reactions lessen.”

“It’s a shame you have hard-working people who need labor, and a group of people who are willing to work, and they have to look over their shoulder like they’re criminals. They’re not.”

“We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

“This won’t automatically translate to support for Democrats, but there is a huge opportunity to turn what was a liability into a positive. There is an opportunity here for Democrats to show an alternative.”

“They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine-to-zero map.”

To read on September 11.

“It’s clear that there is some backlash against Trump and MAGA Republicans generally. The survey also shows that we’re probably entering a period of Democratic enthusiasm. We can tell just based on response rates that Democrats are really eager to participate in the election.”

“No one wants to hear your pity party.”

Ran nine years ago today.

“Members have to decide when they’re either done with this place, or quite frankly, when this place is done with them,” says @repmoskowitz.bsky.social.

“I think every Democrat over 70 should make this their last term,” says @amandalitman.bsky.social.

“We campaigned on transparency issues like ‘release the Epstein files.’ And all of a sudden there’s this hard stance coming from the Republican leadership and many of the members and the administration, and I’m shocked by it. And I think it’s a major misstep.”

“There’s not anything standing out to me to say it is a forgery, meaning not written by Donald Trump. As to whether it’s cut and paste or original, I have no idea.”

“We should embrace this time in the wilderness,” @jamestalarico.bsky.social tells @elainegodfrey.bsky.social. “It’s where new leaders and new movements come forth.”

Worth the read.

“If Los Angeles is the NIMBY capital of California, then the Pacific Palisades is the NIMBY capital of Los Angeles.”

“The path through the courts has always been an uphill battle. Litigation is slow and cumbersome and not anybody’s first best option ever.”

“I’m hoping to push the boundaries on our political discourse. I’m hoping to bring people together in shocking ways, and I’m hoping to build a big enough tent that can actually win in a difficult area.”

“This is not a joke. This is not normal.”

“If we keep an entire class of people away from our legislative institutions, they’re not going to do a very good job understanding working people’s problems.”

“I ran with strippers, club owners, Beatniks, hustlers, gamblers, entertainers, and other assorted characters. You can learn a lot about people in those circles.”

SLOBS vs. SNOBS.

“Demographic collapse has become the global warming of the New Right.”

“... it is going to be something that Republicans want to talk about in the midterms.”

“I’m going to fucking beat your ass.”

Fourteen years ago for Grantland.

Watching today’s match? You should read @girinathan.bsky.social’s new book.