Platner is, I believe, hoping that Maine voters will flood the Maine Democratic Party over the next few days urging them to keep him on. I think that's the strategy here. He wants enough "feedback" to point to the "will of the voters" and justify staying on the ballot. This guy is a sociopath.

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Faculty and Students Demand Yale Not ‘Cave’ to Trump: Reports surfaced late last month that Yale University is negotiating a deal with the Trump administration, which is investigating the university’s admissions practices. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Jon Tester and his Washington DC consultant team are wasting their time and money promoting Bodnar for Montana’s Senate Seat. Alani Bankhead is the only candidate who can defeat Alme. Montana voters don’t like Bodnar. We don’t trust him. #VoteBlue2026 #DefeatGOP2026

This is why vaccines are important.

Omar Yaghi, an immigrant to the US who shared last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left his faculty post at the UC Berkeley for one in China where he can continue his cutting-edge research. Trump’s ignorant policies are destroying American science. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

It is not the Montana Dems fault that Bodnar ran as an independent. That’s on petty Jon Tester and whatever DC consultants he recruited. Bodnar should drop out. We don’t need any more problematic candidates. And if he wanted Democratic support, he should’ve run as a Democrat.

Jamie Raskin reminds us who's the real vandal on the Washington mall...

I've never seen Seattle more alive than the window when the world cup was here. Beyond the specific changes, I would love to see our city mobilize more communal events like the watch parties that would bring people into spaces together around shared purpose.

I understand that Platner and his inner circle are aggrieved and bitter but you'd think at least one of them realizes that if he decides not to drop he will lose by 20 points while every Dem in the country curses their names and none of them will work in politics again

More marches like this need to happen. #JusticeInMotion

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion

When a Danish journo nailed NATO's Mark Rutte for flattering Trump while he wrecks the alliance, it captured a larger truth: Europe is realizing a country that elected Trump twice can never be trusted again. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains: newrepublic.com/article/2128...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Telling people not to vote is a deal breaker for me and Joy Reid just did that.

Yes. I reject any framing of the Platner story as "progressive vs establishment" or "left vs center." The opposition to him has always been "he's obviously an unrepentant liar and a bad human being." His claimed policy positions were irrelevant, and he had no track record of believing them anyway.

The circular firing squad about the Platner debacle is out of control.

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

Perceived electability—which so often accrues to whiteness and white maleness—is a hell of a drug.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

“Dilettantism is a form of absurd, unending entitlement.”

“Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of your health and well-being, and ability to hold office in the U.S. Senate,” Beshear wrote in his letter to the senator. “As Governor, I request that you fully update Kentuckians regarding the current status of your health.”

Everything this motherf'r touches...

Allow me to recommend The Birchbark House series for realistic historical coming of age from a young Ojibwe girl's perspective. Read them with my kids after my mom started them on Little House. It puts the settlers in a very different light. www.nationalbook.org/books/the-bi...

Caroline Fraser's book was illuminating. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

All of this, but also please remember that Laura Ingalls Wilder was edited by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is regarded as one of the three mothers of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's besties, and the books have been shaped to reflect her ideology.

Since Trump took office, Wisconsinites are paying $3,000 more in a year for necessities while over 45,000 of them have lost healthcare. Rep Van Orden and Rep Bryan Steil have stood by and allowed this. They have to go in November.

$20 just for me to ghost me or tell me that you "found candidates with better qualifications"?!?! Is he high?

The Great Red Scare of Mesopotamia was really something.

This professor offered a take-home midterm AFTER A CAMPUS SHOOTING because he's a human being and the students understandably wanted to avoid congregating as a large group. And that's when they decided to cheat

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Liberal Currents has been consistently v good on this & I remain really impressed by how on many issues they are doing such great, morally & politically clear, creative & thought-provoking & surprising work Their other big piece today (to read while my kid naps!) is on rebuilding the civil service

From 2017. I never see this in the coverage of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lo...

a huge win for these brave FL faculty members and a good reminder for the rest of us that sometimes putting your head down and hoping things don’t get worse is not the right strategy. sometimes you need to fight in order to win.

Ominous: Congressional scholar @normornstein.bsky.social thinks there's a real chance GOP will cave to Trump's rage and pass SAVE Act via reconciliation by using a twisted process that overrules parlimentarian. On the pod, Norm is so good on this and everything else: newrepublic.com/article/2128...

Here’s @quinnae.com’s latest

Auspicious Treasure-ship-pattern kosode. Kosode images were borrowed from Matsuzakaya Kyoto dyeing and weaving reference museum documents. This kosode/kimono dates to the 18th century.

If Platner doesn’t pull himself off the ballot today it’s just another form of abuse—this time on a national scale. The notion that he gets to shape what follows is insane.

Here’s the problem: we can no longer believe the government when it makes these kinds of statements after its agents kill someone. That’s a very dangerous place for a democracy to be. Read the full analysis here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

It’s really good. You’ll support reparative measures for 2029 or 2053, whenever

I think it’s a mistake to talk about the US having “allies” anymore. Under Trump, there’s adversaries and targets.

While we were sleeping: NATO summit starts with Trump -saying Iran ceasefire over -renewing calls for US to take Greenland -threatening again to cut off trade with Spain

Hungary's state TV has suspended news broadcasts as Prime Minister Péter Magyar begins overhauling Orbanised public media. The channel aired an apology for "many years" of misleading coverage.

War is back on. Trump says cease fire is over as far as he’s concerned.

We talk a lot here about X going Nazi, but the sheer amount of racist, anti-black, Islamophobic, antisemitic, racist and homophobic content I see on Facebook nowadays overwhelms it. And unlike X, which does at least still have a Following feed, it's much harder to avoid.

The focal point of this haori's design is a series of stylized plum blossoms, executed in a vibrant orange-red hue. These flowers were created using the shibori (tie-dye) technique, Early Showa period (1926-1940), Japan