On my way, Clacton.

I wrote a piece about Moraff, who worked here in Pittsburgh, and how he tried to get me to delete published quotes to help a candidate of his. Shady character paydayreport.com/platners-gur...

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

Interesting to see a reference in this article to Daniel Foliard 'Dislocations: The Photography of War in the Middle East' (London: Verso, 2023) - a book that sounds incredible but which doesn't actually exist. Wonder what else has been hallucinated...?

I’m a simple country historian, but if I had been as laughably wrong about Trump’s fascism in the run-up to the 2024 election as Haselby, Steinmetz-Jenkins, Robin, Moyn, et. al., I would simply delete my accounts, log off, & leave the historians who got it right alone for a decade or two

People usually complain that my work focuses on the uglier aspects of American history -- segregationists, religious nationalists, etc. -- and my last book was an edited collection targeting these exact myths, a volume that deliberately led off with a critique of American exceptionalism but, uh, OK.

celebs walking muppets: thread

Matt Taibbi, Cenk Uygur, Glenn Greenwald, and Bill Maher also made sure to make clear that they’re still on board with the rapist. It’s exactly all the guys you’d expect.

Enjoyed my conversation with the great Heather Cox Richardson. You can watch or listen here.

New video from Maine Dem Party says Platner's team is trying to "put their thumb on the scale" of what the process for picking a replacement will look like. "We have repeatedly reiterated to Graham Platner's team that they have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate"

Hi Senator. I’m the guy whose healthcare pie chart you held up at a Town Hall here in Michigan last year. While I’m glad you FINALLY found the time to tell Platner to drop out, you of all people should really, REALLY sit this one out.

Mitch McConnell was in Congress during the Terri Schiavo case, so in a way it does feel like an act of delayed karmic justice if it turns out that it is in fact his turn to have the GOP puppet his corpse around to score political points rather than allowing him a peaceful exit with some dignity

We spend a trillion dollars on Defense. None of it makes it to the people doing the fighting.

Excellent thread

There's been a lot of chatter about the misogyny of a group of Platner defending lefty influencers today so I'm re-uping my piece about them. I likened their compulsive attraction to "masculine" candidates to the medieval codpiece, empty and completely for show: www.burnsnotice.com/the-odd-codp...

Since folks are bringing up their "Klip is an asshole" story, here's mine. Four years ago he co-authored an Intercept story that was just... wrong. On almost every level. And helped kick off the MAGA obsession that the Biden admin colluded with social media to "censor conservatives." I called it out

What he means by “the Bluesky crowd” is just libs and women, both of whom he clearly hates.

By my nonscientific count, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is at least the 30th person immigration agents have directly killed or participated in the death of since Trump retook the White House. That's on top of the at least 59 people who have died in Trump's concentration camps since then.

After 16 years of Viktor Orbán's rule, Hungary's state television has suspended its news broadcasts for restructuring. The main state TV channel, M1, displayed a black screen with the following message: "Public media must not lie. We apologize for doing so for many years."

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

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

Possibly the first SB79 project in existence is a proposal to turn an old motel on .38 acres of land near the California Avenue Caltrain Station in Palo Alto into a 76 apartments. 200 units per acre, on a parcel where housing was not previously allowed. We absolutely love to see it!

this how a true American celebrates the fourth, with his trophy mistress in the former mother country

Let the record show that President Donald Trump identified the cause of the deteriorating relationship between the United States and other NATO countries as America's choice in response to NATO not acquiescing to US aggressive territorial conquest of a sovereign NATO member state.

This “the mainstream media is out to get him” makes sense if you’re stupid and don’t ever have the thought enter your head about why Graham Platner has all this shit but Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t and Katie Wilson doesn’t and Zohran doesn’t despite the media, if anything, hating them significantly more

emmanuel is so ruthlessly cynical that this is basically telling you where the typical democratic voter is on american aid to israel

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Reminder that platners rise is based on this serial rapist

The US today in one shot:

jeff bezos watching the usa lose 4-1 to eurocracy

Many cities and counties are quitting Flock’s AI surveillance cameras (including this domino effect in Wisconsin: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-fl...). But the board of Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley, voted to contract with Flock a few days ago. oaklandside.org/2026/07/01/2...

And shipp’d from thence to Flanders?

That symbol, for me, was a thing that was literally worn by the people who killed the rest of the family of the two old men who taught me how to play chess and checkers when I was a kid - and the thing that was worn by the people who put the two of them in camps and tattooed them with numbers.

In any case, the people who warned of Platner’s many, many, many red flags were right. Those who ignored them should feel deeply humbled, and should remember this lesson the next time they wanna fall head over heels for magic toxic progressive dudebro.

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

Timeline cleanse: and now, a Minute of Ospreys.

When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

I don't think it should be legal to hide whether an elected official is conscious and or alive.

the off-ramp is “slink away in shame”

Going forward, Nazi tattoos are a dealbreaker. Right? Right?!

This. And much respect for the use of the word asshattery.

*guy googling party nomination rules in maine while everyone at the pub watches the USMNT game*

Entering without a search warrant, destroying property, arson, sexual assault with a concrete dildo?

Why talk to these gibbering morons? And who gives one flying sprinkled turd what this miserable shitbag has to say?

If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting

Voyager 2 captures Jupiter and Ganymede (July 8, 1979) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/2fz7ED8

I'm rewatching Wet Hot American Summer for the first time in like ten years and experiencing the type of bisexual crisis people have watching The Mummy (1999)

NGC 3607 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/cXvHs3

"In nearly every state, the official humanities nonprofits created by a congress to help make history and literature accessible to all Americans had to give up their 250th anniversary planning when DOGE pulled their federal funding..." www.notus.org/agencies/dog...

July 1 Titan Monitoring Campaign Observation - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/cqjKMs