No, because they don't want two costly Senate primaries back-to-back. They don't want GOP infighting if they can prevent it. Meanwhile, there's a golden opportunity here for Democrats to point out the irresponsibility and lack of transparency and national security vulnerability of a cover-up.

I am already pining for when the "--maxxing" suffix fades permanently from the popular lexicon. Oh, that will be a joyous day.

It feels like we're all pretty much waiting for news that Mitch McConnell has been irreversibly incapacitated or dead for weeks and the GOP has been doing their damnedest to keep it covered up.

Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.

"Are you rooting for Argentina or Spain?" Babe, I'm just gonna pull a Reverse Elmo and hope both teams have a bad time.

100%

One interesting thing about this controversy is that there's nothing stopping all these whiners from making their own adaptation of The Odyssey. (thread)

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

If Mike Pence has the courage, the USA can still win the World Cup.

In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are responsible for the deaths of two more Americans. There are no words. We must find the missing servicemember. My heart breaks for the families of all three. A disgusting, illegal war for nothing.

Everyone onhere dunking on the Cato “why I am a libertarian” thing, ignoring the very interesting ways old school libertarianism intersects w/Blueskyism: * decrim of drugs * CJ reform in favor of civil liberties * immigration reform in favor of immigration * reining in exec overreach

The Trump Treasury Department's top tax policy official was forced out of his job after he warned that the Trump White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials' involvement in IRS audits.

Holy. Shit.

You can practically feel the well-earned smugness of a million English high school teachers this weekend. Take a bow, educators.

Okay, about to see The Odyssey. Had to drive way out-of-town to find a good IMAX seat at the last minute. I shall report back.

July 16, 2026

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK's prime minister.

I have a question for folks that's mostly meant to satisfy my own curiosity. There are no wrong answers. I will not be replying to anyone. This is solely to better understand where people are coming from. Whom, in your opinion, is an "evil, smart, and effective" person in the Trump administration?

One underrated reason I'll be glad when Trump is out-of-power someday is that we'll no longer have to watch well-meaning, progressive adults completely shit their pants with anxiety over a moronic clown giving a nationally televised address.

I'm gonna say something that's gonna piss off some people: Yes, Trump is trying to steal the election. Absolutely true. No doubt about it. But he's way too incompetent and way too unpopular to get remotely close to pulling it off. I'm not saying be complacent. But also: let's be real here.

Casually threatening mass rapes

"A White House teleprompter operator used his position to win around $100,000 by placing bets on the prediction market Kalshi about what President Trump would say in his speeches, the company said on Thursday."

As a former reporter/editor, Charlotte's insight about access-to-power is spot-on. Now, as a information scientist, I can also attest that the same bandwagon/kool kidz phenomenon exists in ed tech, particularly around AI. People who don't understand the actual tech fluffing it to be close to power.

Excellent 🧵

I don't know, y'all, it just feels like Pete Hegseth is really obsessed with penises. That guy cannot stop thinking about hogs. I'm not sure there's a gay or bisexual man in this country who thinks about penises as much as Pete Hegseth.

You know, not to harp on this, but something's been bugging me about the reactions to Lindsey Graham's death, and I didn't know how to put it into words until this morning. It suddenly hit me not long after I woke up. (thread)

Imagine if someone asked you what your major accomplishment was in life, and you said, "I made life difficult for some of the most marginalized every chance I was given." That should be Graham's legacy.

According to Insurify data, this is not at all true. Why is it okay for the president's cheif economic adviser to make shit up?

Trump likely being responsible for a massive diarrhea epidemic because he gutted FDA oversight of lettuce sounds like a plot line for a novel that David Foster Wallace thought up while high as a kite.

Exactly what all politicians who say they defend marginalized groups should be saying otherwise why should they be trusted for anything other than playing the game. 👏👏👏👏👏

Because he has dementia and he can’t remember 20 minutes ago

I never said he’s responsible or that he condones it. I said this is what a lot of people who support him are doing. You are not a child. You are a grown adult. You owe it to yourself to apply critical thinking and good faith to things you read online. No one is going to do it for you.

July 14, 2026

I'm told the reason a lot of people on the far-left are supporting Dr. Abdul El-Sayed over Rep. Haley Stevens is due to policy outlook, and yet, what I keep seeing are people on the far-left obsessed with mocking her appearance, voice, and mannerisms. Weird campaign strategy.

"It's been a rather fascinating exercise to watch many politicos and reporters share their fun and wistful anecdotes about Mr. Graham. He was so funny and so charming. That's nice."

Two months ago at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. I was just stating the obvious. Something we could all see. In the past week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE in Houston, TX and Joan Sebastian Guerrero was murdered by ICE in Biddeford, Maine.

It is not a great look that some senior Democratic leaders have had time to put out statements on social media about how much they'll miss Lindsey Graham but haven't had time to talk about these latest executions carried out by Trump's gestapo in American streets.

ICE will keep killing people as long as they think they can get away it and not a moment sooner than that.

I'm not one for speaking ill of the dead, but when you praise a really evil piece-of-shit in the wake of their death, don't be surprised when folks remind you of why they were a really evil piece-of-shit.

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Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America. Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

If Alito had been planning to announce his retirement in the next few months, tonight may have just destroyed that plan.

Sen. Lindsey Graham passed away. He was 71. This is the statement from his office.

Very good thread and great advice. Sincerely hope Maine voters can keep their eyes on the prize - defeat Collins no matter what.

LOL, I'm not a leftist. I just don't like England. Try again.

Ew. Gross. But the good news is that we get to see Argentina beat England in the semifinal.

NORWAY SCORES EAT SHIT ENGLAND