One easy way that you can know the two parties are not remotely the same is that Andy Kim is now the Democratic Senator from New Jersey & Bob Menendez is in jail for his crimes.

If there’s one thing Mahan should take from his run for governor, it’s you can’t expect the party to fall behind you as a moderate without being willing to actually be a partisan democrat. Losing the moderate lane to Becerra was entirely avoidable! www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...

Lincoln was a transcendent genius as an orator and reader of what drives men. Those are both skills usually needed to advance in politics but he had extraordinary political skill. We needed it in this moment when thousands had died fighting for the Stars and Stripes, and years more of it were ahead.

that context permeates the whole speech and is the reason why it’s actually one of the more hardcore and metal things a president has ever said despite the desire by hacks to focus on the “malice towards none” line to argue it’s a conciliatory speech (it is anything but).

he knew they were going to win. part of why he spoke this way was to make clear to the slavers and quislings in the north that he had no intention of letting up or striking a deal despite the public’s horror at the losses necessary to win what had become a total war of attrition.

An incredible amount of work from countless people went into this happening here in Massachusetts. What a great win for workers! Congrats to all involved, but especially the drivers. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/25/b...

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I always come back to Lincoln on Memorial Day

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Need a shirt that says In THIS house, we believe - vaccines work - it was Lee Harvey Oswald - flouride is safe - UFOs aren’t aliens - salt should be iodized - the moon landings were real - seed oils are fine

I'm told we're apparently doing "it's wrong to reproduce if bad things are happening in the world" discourse again, so I'll just repeat that I was born in 1983, and here's how that year went:

should probably stop retweeting this article at this point, but it just does such a good job of laying out how we got here and the harm being done, showing what happened, how it happened, and why it's bullshit.

starship is bad because it has elon’s fingerprints all over it. time and time again he’s made a change for the lolz and it’s made the craft worse a sane company would have scaled up the f9 with bigger engines. a sane company would build a lunar lander with common dragon hardware

Yesterday we had some folks over for burgers and dogs for my birthday which was also a great reason to thoroughly clean the house. it doesn’t seem like I’ve missed a lot.

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I was like 14 and a Republican at the time and even I was like "that's weird as hell"

When you glaze the abyss, it glazes back.

Good afternoon

The economy is worse than it was in 2023-24, and there are clear warning indicators it’s going to get worse still as more consequences of the second Trump administration set in, but has it been as bad or worse than 2008 for the last five years like sentiment data shows? No! There isn’t a conspiracy.

the thing about this is that polis said he didn’t believe her contrition was sincere when he granted her clemency (which is why doing so was an abuse of power), but the parole board who determines her suitability for release should take a look at these statements.

Truly the funniest thing about the report is that it’s the clearest evidence yet that Axios just makes up bait for the butterfly site

Facebook and Twitter getting worse has hurt so many businesses, non-profits and governmental agencies (But ultimately also they should have never relied on this to begin with)

Very, very good thread

This afternoon in Lowell, join me for some great locally made ice cream (including vegan options) in support of state representative Tara Hong! #mapoli

The seriousness this deserves

Somewhere I have stuff like this I made in MS Paint and now the internet can just do it for you (not that I’m complaining)

British Labour: having put the cat in a Schrödinger’s box, let us end this uncertainty we’ve created by choosing dead cat.

She takes this bizarre tack throughout the thread that it's the "limbo" that's been difficult for trans people, as if being definitively excluded from public life sooner would be a better outcome, and again suggesting that she - chair of the equalities committee! - has no idea what's going on. (2/3)

The draft guidance is fairly explicit that there is no such thing as "trans-inclusive within the law". If I'm being very very charitable, maybe Owen is trying to bait someone from the government to say this out loud, but I think more likely she just hasn't read the thing she's opining on. (1/3)

all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state

“There have always been bad things” is trivially true in the same way “everything is made of atoms” is true, but I’d still rather have an ice cream cone than a shit sandwich.

I feel like the practice is nontrivial because it has implications like whether an insane senile reality TV host who thinks Ohio was conquered by cat-eating Haitians has nuclear weapons.

See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

I managed to leave for work today with a sandwich for lunch but no coffee, even though I’d made coffee. I noticed halfway through my commute and that void in the center console suddenly loomed large.

Ah yes the National Security Ballroom

While Hasan's streaming show is controversial and fringey - and whether to treat it as anything more serious than that is a reason he gets discussed - Maureen Tkactik writes for @prospect.org which is a credible, serious left of the center outlet. That's a real problem.

It's somehow worse than I expected. According to a defense attorney, after they got a no bill on the first try, "they re-presented their case after excluding grand jurors who disagreed with them." Then they got a true bill.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/2 Second: federal judges don’t talk like this unless it’s REALLY bad, and it is.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

It’s parking lot geese baby season!

This was eagerly anticipated by certain sectors which hoped to find a smoking gun that various grievances like Gaza, Wokeness, Liz Cheney, etc cost us the 2024 presidential election, but I was not expecting to see any clear answers here and it looks like there weren’t. www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...

If someone had definitive proof that Harris's stand on Gaza or campaigning with Liz Cheney cost her the election that'd be 1) released immediately and 2) a landmark in political science because we're still arguing about gay marriage's impact in 2004.

Really seems like the autopsy was shelved because (as rumored) it was just kind of sloppy and incoherent www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...

I hope that in my lifetime, the destruction of USAID becomes civics teachers’ go-to example of why a consumerist view of voting is morally wrong.

i think a newspaper that is written for a metropolitan audience, in one of america's largest and most powerful cities, should not be afraid to enjoy city life

lol of course this isn’t a real cattle ranch but a super elite feeder junior college for Ivy League schools that takes 26 students a year

Meanwhile … www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This Friday, May 22 starting 5pm, join State Representative Tara Hong for an Ice Cream social in support of his reelection campaign at F&T Sweet Bar on Pawtucket St in Lowell! #mapoli