And people say he has no bedrock principles!

How TF is Platner down by 5 but Troy Jackson is up by 5

I think there are certain accounts cynically deploying accusations of racism simply on the basis that a white candidate defeated a Black candidate in a primary, and this is obvious to anyone who hasn't decided to turn their brains off. This is also a good example of the kind of thing you'd only 1/

JeffK teh 133t hAxx0r

I remember when my whole ship did this and we officially recognized the hottest officer and hottest enlisted

Because Ken Paxton trusts Texas voters

The thing I'm maddest about re:Platner are all the people who never served in the military who told me that it was perfectly normal for enlisted military people to get Nazi tattoos. NO IT FUCKING ISN'T.

making my voice Heard

When you haven't seen your best friend in over a week

Okay, "AC is hyper-exclusionary for people from cultures who don't like the cold" is a new one lmao

Asking people to understand that American dominance in women's soccer is a byproduct of Title IX, which helped foster high-level women's sports in this coontry, in stark contrast to most of the reat of the world. It's a systemic, structural thing we should be proud of.

Ceasefire buddies

this is fuckin wild. here's the local story about it that The Daily Beast is ripping off www.wboy.com/news/marion/...

This is ridiculous. The party has *14 days* after the deadline for Platner to drop. That's going to mean, as law vests it, "party insiders" -- some subset of ME Dem party officials. You don't have time to run a full-blown primary or caucus. The demand here is vague to obfuscate how it's impossible.

Casting aspersions on the sort of people who hold state/local organizing roles and committee seats as implicitly corrupt elite "party insiders" is trash slopulism. They didn't ask to be put in this position, it's no power grab. They have a job to do and have been duly democratically chosen to do it.

Having the Platonic ideal of a U-Haul interaction today, waiting for going on 40 minutes in a line of exactly two customers while a single employee does fifty pages of paperwork and two phones ring unanswered

Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes. 🧵 1/12 ⬇️

If this doesn't smell like diesel exhaust and salt spray I'm going to be very disappointed

My formal position is that If you are a dorky and boringly faithful wife guy who loves your city or county or state and can get embarrassingly enthusiastic about it you should absolutely run for everything and I will ride for you

Steve King once said a particularly vile thing about how you can't restore your civilization with someone else's babies. that's exactly backwards. you can *only* preserve your civilization through someone else's babies. you don't have enough babies.

there's a lot here to be angry about but in theory if you care about things like "Western Civilization" it seems to me that you should probably be in favor of talented artists disseminating the core texts of the Western canon in a way that makes them accessible to the entire world.

Lupita Nyong’o's beauty sparks social media war about whether her beauty would have sparked actual war

"They also say there should be no discovery." Of course, DOJ doesn't want discovery, it will further expose their egregious conduct.

Lol. "I'm not clairvoyant." Yes, who could have predicted that the political newcomer with the prominent Nazi tattoo and a history of alcohol and relationship issues would prove problematic!

I love this dog but I've never cared for one like him where you literally have to manage his sleep time like a toddler. We forgot to make him take a nap this afternoon and he went insane. He's now sleeping so hard he ignored a loud pug battle right in front of his crate.

Great journalism like how to rape children and get away with it

Every day, we stray further from God's light

Now I’m imagining a sitcom, because these guys look like the crew of The Love U-Boat…

As part of my working my way through the Marvel TV show back catalog I'm back on Legion now which I quit after the first season originally. This show is both amazing and incredibly irritating.

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

38 year-old man doing edgelord shit trying to impress michael tracey and matt stoller

Yeah she was hoping not to have to come forward and deal with a mountain of shit but the fucking voters refused to do the right thing. That she did it prior to the replacement deadline was a staggeringly selfless act of public service.

Mitch McConnell's fine, honey, he's running and playing on a farm upstate with all the other bigots

The talisman only lets them ask three questions once per day though

Hi, Mechanical engineer here Columns only do this when they are very stressed

Zelenskyy says Nato should let Ukraine join to ‘make all of us stronger’

He says it like it's a bad thing but a pristine dating history IS pretty essential in the kind of politician we want to see representing us, because it says so much about their character. And maybe it should be a factor that discourages you to run for things!

⚡ Ukraine's new electronic warfare system is using digital spoofing to trick Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles into breaking apart midair. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

Uhhhhhh, don't use it? wapo.st/3TmHl5G

I think this is aptly put

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

cursed sentence

Mamdani is performing. He is a former artist from a family of directors. He is putting on a character. You think that he is authentic because he is good at it, and is extremely disciplined and never/rarely breaks character. This is not an anti-mamdani post: it's a reason he's an effective politician

hot take: no one actually wants 'authenticity' in politicians: people want a performance that is both competent and has them as the target audience. lots of politicians derided as wooden and stiff are being more 'authentic' than politicians who are personable and likable, who are performing

I'm curious about what size US professional soccer actually needs to be to compete at the WC every four years? The French club system has like 20k clubs at all the various layers of the pyramid. The US has 100.

Assuming Zelensky is even directionally correct here, that is truly chilling - tens of thousands of dead, every single one on video. Wow. Russia bears all the blame for this slaughter, but man is it terrible.

I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)

It would be nice if current and former public officials did their due diligence vetting insurgents with no track record before anointing them as "the Future of the Democratic Party". All of this embarrassment is preventable (Reich wrote this in May, six months after the Nazi tattoo first surfaced)