Every time I think Jacobin has produced its worst take possible they surprise me. This being both wrong on the merits AND the presentation is at least new.

Man, you couldn't make up a dumber timeline if you tried.

I have my issues with Jeffries but Dem leadership deserves a lot of credit for getting these concessions as a minority party.

I don't know if you can play to them because they aren't intellectually consistent enough to tie down. More important is Dems need to just pass as much stuff as they can when they have power and ride the inevitable downturns while telling SCOTUS to touch grass.

Bash is an absolute clown and has been carrying the water for the GOP for years now under the guise of "just asking questions".

Yeah, the number of media types I've seen even here claim that speculation about the event is wrong even as their colleagues are just blasting misinformation out there is infuriating.

The algorithm remains undefeated.

The 3% of self-identified Dems who approve of Trump's work need to be studied and, possibly, quarantined.

Yeah, it definitely looks and feels staged like a mid-level YouTube short. But the fact this is totally believable as an event now is rather telling.

Bret Stephens is an abomination as a writer and it's largely because he is both incredibly stupid AND incredibly insulting at equal turns.

This absolutely has Fetterman vibes all over it with Platner. I also suspect he won't actually be able to beat Collins if he wins the nomination.

Shockingly, civil engagement and fighting for your future is more productive than doomposting about it.

It'll absolutely work, followed by him joining some AI company as an "advisor" or "evangelist" and then when that craters he'll get another sympathetic Michael Lewis-type author to write about how it definitely wasn't his fault due to a lack of competent business acumen.

And when numerous people, including a lot of Dem politicians, said what he'd do in the run-up to the election (and since) they inevitably get covered as a mix of overreacting partisans and fringe elements.

Using the rock climbing chalk feels very on-brand for Mendoza.

Yeah, Miami isn't going to win this game if they're giving away first downs on give-up runs.

Yeah, no idea what IU was doing letting that clock burn off.

Playing for a FG here feels...sub-optimal by Miami.

Yeah, outside of the diehard MAGA people there is absolutely no way anyone is going to believe the story being pushed by ICE here. There's just so much damning evidence.

I try not to criticize Democratic leadership, but the required addition of affordability language to condemnations of Trump's military adventurism cheapens both.

Really good thread about how the shutdown ended. Dem leadership is suffering but they also have a chance, as a party, to push back forcefully against Trump and his admin if they readjust their view of him and the stakes.

This really is a great response for what is clearly a bad faith attack.

This is going to be the big headline. I get what Jackson is doing here, as it gives the first circuit an actual chance to rule instead of Trump immediately demanding SOCTUS chime in (in a normal situation SCOTUS would have turned him down anyway). It still sucks to see people go hungry.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Based on a lot of the responses to that post, I'm guessing those bits were going to be champed regardless.

The battle of the Nates when it comes to stupid political analysis has never been closer nor as heated.

The fact he's suing the DOJ for what is suspiciously close to the original price of his new ballroom shouldn't be overlooked in his overall crookedness. Trump should be in jail but since he isn't we also get to deal with the 2-bir grifting he's done his entire life.

Beyond the overall stupidity of Lovett acting like "please don't have a Nazi tattoo you weren't going to remove until people yelled at you" is some crazy high standard, I'd love to know what Platner's actual history in politics leads to Jon believing he'd be a good Senator?

Again, I'm old enough to very much remember how Romney was portrayed in 2012 and it was as an empty suit plutocrat. Santorum ran on a ton of culture war issues and got traction, but the legacy GOP was just able to win out with Romney. But combined with Sarah Palin you could see the turn coming.

Mayor Wu isn't remotely scared of this administration and it's funny to see this dullard try to act like he'd actually follow thru on these threats.

The ICE ads during these football games are wild.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

I can't imagine what drives these people to make up stories about grievances centered around a guy they likely didn't know existed 2 weeks ago. Also, if I'm Starbucks I'd sue the crap out of this person because she's a public figure who straight up lied and cost you business.

I assume they put together the 1 hour special full of Kirk clips and when they showed it to the FCC it was deemed too full of hate speech to be shown before midnight and on the open air.

It's funny that Silver quotes some other Substack writer as evidence that misinformation from the left is out of control when, reading said Substack, that author just believes whatever the "official" position is of the Yueno admin. He's not being critical in any meaningful way.

It's deeply crazy that a bunch of people who seemingly never interacted with Kirk and his politics in a meaningful way are writing odes to this imaginary version of him. And nobody is asking them to do this but they seem desperate to do it anyway.

A couple of them have even said things to the effect that they don't know what his beliefs were, or that maybe he didn't mean them as much as they think he did, and it's all so obvious they don't want to deal with the reality of the guy they're trying to defend.

God I find Klein insufferable in the best of times but that entire article is him basically saying that because Charlie Kirk was popular with right wingers he must be doing something right and so criticism of him is unfair. It's just gross fanboying around clout.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Hell, let's check on the coverage of Kirk vs. the two HS kids who were shot a state over today.

Slightly diminish a book Liar's Blackjack

Yeah, beyond the fact there aren't however many million open homes the OP believes exist, where they're located also aren't near where people live now or want to be near. Putting someone in a place without access to work, assistance, a support network, etc. doesn't fix a housing issue.

I know very little about Jerusalem Demsas but if one of her bright ideas to fix SS is to tax immigrants (who can't access it) more and not, say, raise the cap on how much truly rich people must put in, that's pretty tell about how serious she should be taken.

Ah yes, the four titans of authenticity in this world: convicted SA Trump, notorious creep and content stealer Portnoy, conspiracy peddler/intellectually lazy Rogan, and habitual fabulist Weiss. Just a mountain of credibility in that group.

Good lord this article about ICE recruitment almost feels like a parody in that you can't imagine just how many losers there are who can't do anything else AND are racist idiots. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

FT desperately trying to be edgy by making up some fever dream for fascists to believe that they aren't the bad guys. Ah yes, the Pfizer guy and a super empowered woman who pushed for voter registration are secretly MAGA.

Sanders has to be tougher than just say Kennedy needs to be roped into another meeting where he'll zone out for a couple of hours. Call for his impeachment (I know the House has to actually file the motion) and make it clear Kennedy's continued employment is deadly for the US.

Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It's clear they just won't admit they made a mistake with him and that Trump was wrong so instead they're going to spend an insane amount of money to look like they won and probably kill the guy in the process.