There will be people who argue that Democratic candidates should "ideally keep religion out of politics", and there will be people who argue that Democratic candidates with religious values should foreground them to set up a long overdue contrast with the GOP. The latter is strategically smarter.

"What happened?" Me learning in 2026 that Donald Trump doesn't always tell the truth.

Imagine how this would be covered if a wartime Democratic President were presiding over this shit. There would be editorial boards calling for impeachment.

Southern Republicans working on "election reform."

RFK Jr. is Hell's version of Steve Irwin. I cannot think of a benign reason that a member of Cabinet has been repeatedly spotted grabbing animals.

Because the easy way was the Strait of Hormuz just being open before the war and that's never coming back.

The Atomic Energy Commission was dissolved in the mid 1970s.

I am literally a senior AI engineer and I really struggle to parse this vague statement into something that has business value.

Have there been Senate Democrats who voted to confirm Donald Trump's judicial nominees who have refused to acknowledge Joe Biden won the 2020 election? Unfortunately, yes.

Donald Trump views the entire United States military as lower in caste. He's still participating in events that honor them (even today), but ideally, if he had unlimited power, he'd stop because he thinks honoring those lower in caste is literally beneath him.

A reminder of what Donald Trump's most anti-war and only anti-war position is: personally serving in one. That's it. That's as far as Donald Trump being genuinely anti-war actually goes. "Happy" Memorial Day.

"He is seriously looking for an off-ramp in order to save face." For the record, this is the wrong read of a malignant narcissist, regardless if that malignant narcissist is a toxic person in your social circle or the President of the United States. They are 100% on-ramp.

As an addendum to this completely accurate assessment, the United States under Donald Trump did not manage to permanently deny Iran's ability to develop and/or acquire nuclear weapons in the future. This was the main strategic goal of Donald Trump's War with Iran, and he failed at it.

Mocking people's pronouns is not going to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Polis is not representative of the Democratic Party in general (the man praised Donald Trump for nominating RFK Jr.), but a good way for other elected Democrats to remind people of this is to call on Polis to resign.

If you're going to write an article about Donald Trump's bewildering behavior towards NATO, at least mention the fact that he's repeatedly threatened to conquer multiple NATO allies somewhere within it.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured democracy for Black women voters in the United States. Donald Trump was born in 1946. That's how young multi-racial democracy in the United States actually is, and that's why there are people today who remember people who died to secure it.

In 2016, Republican Senators deliberately kept a Democratic President from filling a Supreme Court vacancy. This was a long-term strategic victory for Donald Trump's Republican Party.

As someone who used to have three cats, I can guarantee that they basically want every door open to them the way the Strait of Hormuz was open before Donald Trump's War on Iran.

"Democrats must be able to win the middle...and they can do that only with a combative centrism that rejects identity politics" Claiming we should "reject identity politics" while Republicans are trying to turn the South into a white supremacist dictatorship is certainly a choice.

DONALD TRUMP: Children can have three dolls and five pencils at the most. ALSO DONALD TRUMP: I need a Qatari 747, a White House ballroom because "national security", and a scheme that allows me to avoid IRS scrutiny forever. Also, I never think about gas prices. Voters don't like this. Shocking.

Just gotta ignore Donald Trump repeatedly threatening to conquer territory that belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark. Otherwise, NATO is fine.

Can't wait for the Republican counterargument to simply be "No, they aren't. Fake news."

Before you think about reading one word of this piece, bear in mind that a New York Times op-ed about how farmers and/or rural folks need to understand the lives of people who live in cities will never at any point be written.

STORY: Trump endorses Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn ahead of Texas Republican Senate runoff www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

A Democratic governor (Janet Mills in Maine) vetoed a statewide moratorium on data centers. There's literally no excuse for allowing Nancy Mace to outflank you on this issue (or on any issue really).

I can't imagine remaining on X while its arguably in violation of Apple and Android app developer guidelines and European regulators have contemplated banning it. Say what you want about BlueSky, but it doesn't have these problems.

Just my personal opinion, but maybe you should care about the politics and the optics of working with a President with a track record of trying to have his own former Vice President lynched as part of a failed coup attempt.

You should read the enumerated list of grievances against a British King in the United States Declaration of Independence and find a way to proceed with the understanding that a United States President's abuses of power are going to completely dwarf this list.

In case you're not sufficiently alarmed by this development, here's when the Permanent Joint Board on Defense—an advisory body on the continental military defence of North America—was established by both the United States and Canada. 1940. This is pre-NATO.

Again, never want to hear “Women are too emotional to be president” ever again. Not when Donald Trump’s war doctrine is posting to cope with the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is still not open.

I know that this sounds like a nightmarish scenario that I might be accused of making up, but Cuba has completely run out of oil.

Just when you thought scanning QR codes with your phone just to see a menu was the most annoying restaurant practice.

"When our dictator turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American." —Dorothy Thompson, first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany

Can't wait for Donald Trump's approval among white Evangelical voters to drop to 80%.

We're fundamentally where we are because too many people cannot admit that they were wrong.

It's actually a lot bleaker than this: some day, you might grow up to be a male social media influencer who will have influence over who Donald Trump's Secretary of War/Defense kills.

Replace Ryan Grim's name in my political assessment with Briahna Joy Gray's name, and my assessment will still be ruthlessly correct.

The Iranian group behind the LEGO videos are so much better at wartime propaganda than this. 😭

Before anyone thinks this is too harsh, white southerners view Donald Trump as a centrist.

Count the number of Iranian flags in this slop.

Again, these same people were presented with the information that there was vaccine to a viral pandemic that was killing people, and they were confused about what to do next.

A lot of mental gymnastics and pretzel logic to avoid saying "Russia's war of imperialist aggression in Ukraine ultimately poses a serious security risk for the European continent."

"Democrats would give up Black voting power to beat the GOP" This is like saying "We're giving up nuclear weapons to beat a nuclear power."

How do I know that Donald Trump has it within him to preside over a botched United States Special Forces operation? Because that literally was one of the first things he did during his first presidential term (Raid on Yakla).

Donald Trump has a historically low approval rating as President of the United States, and if you had to guess his approval rating solely based on legacy media takes, you'd never arrive at that conclusion.

To be clear: Nazis are why my grandfather (who fought at Utah Beach) ultimately drank himself to death. They completely ruined his life. I don't care if I'm ultimately fighting a losing war: Nazis are not allowed in the Democratic tent.

All allies to the US, regardless of their overall economic contribution to this nation or to the global economy, deserve our moral commitment to defending them. That being said: if Donald Trump ruins US-Taiwan relations—either accidentally or on purpose—this is the catalyst for World War III.