New, from me: Liberal democracies depend upon mutual tolerance. The nomination of Todd Blanche feels like a pure test of whether anyone in the GOP agrees. They are not just picking an AG; they are telling Dems which type of AG they should pick in the future.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democracie...

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

cabo verde held both world cup finalists to a draw across 90 minutes and almost took argentina to penalties, easily the best performance anyone has put up against either team all world cup

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Bluesky during England-Argentina

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

Not only very reminiscent of Renee Good but also Marimar Martinez who was shot six times in her car and remarkably survived.

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

My audible reaction to reading this was the Sickos meme. Can’t wait for Mike Lindell to be the Minnesota GOP nominee

People keep underestimating the “revenge” lane in democratic primary politics

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

ICE is reportedly pressuring the three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder—his brother and workers—to self-deport. In other words, get the only people who could contradict ICE's version of events out of the country.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

You're right. I was going to check the sources — but then I got high. And what's more, I was going to remove em-dashes — but then I got high. That's on me. Now I'm hallucinating — and there are several reasons. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🍁Because I got high 🚬Because I got high 🫩Because I got high

You might even say it ceased

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

You motherfuckers have Will Stancil posting about it now. The absurdity we’re gonna have to deal with now. The dumbest fucking posters on this dumb fucking site who hadn’t even heard of soccer until ten minutes ago gonna reverse polarize themselves into the most absurd soccer takes ever conceived of

here in Seattle it’s 71 degrees, the mountain is out, there’s a breeze, the birds are singing, not a cloud in the sky. Just sayin man I think He hates you

Pope : with mercy and love and deep regret, i must call this a schismatic act Half of bluesky with their shirts off and earrings out ready to brawl outside applebees : GET THEIR ASSES WOOOOO

I honestly do think it's pretty sad Trump has basically destroyed the celebration of the USA's 250th anniversary because he is incapable of not making everything about himself. 1776 was very flawed but also a genuinely important moment worthy of celebration!

In some ways, Bluesky is the Daredevil of apps (Catholic nerds, lawyers, grew up around sports)

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

the commutation was an abuse of power since she was utterly unrepentant and he knew it, it was timed in a way to foil the legislature responding which was another abuse of power and this is insult to injury, he should be impeached

so many people are genuinely convinced the insurgents on the left and right are the result of some sort of conspiracy when it quite literally comes down to the electoral institutions

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

Jealousy, by Edvard Munch, 1895

Untitled, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (slightly rotated), 📸 by Justin Setterfield

anyway, while i’m sure the shitforbrains liberal conlaw types will be rushing to offer Nuance here, law is fake and court-packing is a litmus test

my standing thesis is that voters do not actually give a shit about any judicial process story and rarely give a shit about any particular judicial decision so pushing hard on this stuff is ~free electorally

Congress "could commandeer" agencies? Wth does that even mean? Congress *created* the agencies, sets out their mission and authorities in statute, and appropriates money to do or to not do specific things. Whatever it is, it aint the US Constitution.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

Feeling for him right now

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money. Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

He’s an incredibly popular mayor who just proved he can be a kingmaker. Did all of the ny politicians supporting Cuomo for mayor think he was trustworthy, or were they afraid of his power being used against them? As long as Mamdani is popular, people will need his support.

the fundamental double standard in American politics is that any given Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Darializa Chevalier but no Republican will ever be pressed on Randy Fine, Brandon Gill, or Andy Ogles

"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score

Unrelated to our ongoing national humiliation, but nobody does sad eyes better than Michael Dorman. Both John in Patriot and Gordo in For All Mankind only work because Dorman is bringing the heat and giving an alltime “man can’t talk about his emotions but can emote them with his eyes” preformance

American elites seem genuinely baffled by the fact Iran wants to actually win the war.

it’s good, actually to attack the president for the humiliating sue-for-peace deal he did to end the moronic war he started. some people have way galaxy-brained themselves on this. the median voter does not want ‘a good deal for Iran’, give me a fucking break

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

OG Anunoby Sends Parade Crowd Into Frenzy With Celebratory Nod

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

early turnout gonna go crazy tomorrow lmao

Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one