Democrats lead the U.S. House generic ballot among likely voters by 6 points, according to our average. Here we explain a little bit about how our average works (and why, if you're a poll sicko, you may have noticed the historical trend change this morning) blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/an-updated...

how can all these centrist groups tell each other apart? it seems like there's a new one every month. all the same donors, all the same experts, telling them that the solution to their problems is forming another centrist group.

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

guess we're still at war with iran.

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Genuinely confused for a moment that Bsky had excavated an old NYTimes piece to be mad at again before I realized I was thinking of Douthat's "women are office harpies" and this is Douthat's "women are sluts" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

I can’t top this

Ding ding ding

yeah, "working class" for square joe just means, "white rich male asshole"

working class: the 2026 ford F-150 Raptor, a gun collection, blue lives matter shirt ruling class: bicycle, public transit, the women in that “gen z boss and a mini” video

If Republicans maintain their majority in Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson intends to spend the next two years running an anti-oversight “protection program” for the White House and its allies. I’m honestly a little surprised he admitted this out loud and in public. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.

Religiosity naturally trends downwards in societies that allow it to be optional, because being raised without religion is very "sticky," values-wise, and roughly half of those raised in religion discontinue it upon adulthood. More on this weird and concerning hoax. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdsP...

Even when they're basing these claims off surveys, the survey answers do not match with the butts in pews when counted. It's called the value-action gap, or the say-do gap. When asked, ppl give the "right" answer, not the RIGHT answer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-a...

They keep pushing this "ZOOMERS ARE COMING BACK TO CHRISTIANITY IN DROVES!!1!" story. You should be suspicious by now.

everybody wants authenticity in politics to mean something, but it doesn't mean anything. people have wildly different ideas about who is authentic depending on their partisan commitments and level of engagement (as well as personal preferences.)

The first 3 words are "Authenticity is measurable," which is an oxymoron, and it only gets worse. The Hunter glazing sucks. As someone who fought addiction, I think he is actually a great spokesperson for addiction. But he's no political savant, and we shouldn't treat him as such. 1/

Excellent long read from Noah on Fetterman, Ezra Klein, NYT weaponization, and why focusing on polarization instead of fascism is bogus framing.

you wonder why AI writes that way, and the answer is that people love it

The "consequence" of sex without pregnancy is *joy*. Sex isn't incomplete without punishment, you weirdo prudes.

it's barely coherent clichéd drivel! wtf? how do people read this and decide hunter biden is a genius? what is happening?

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My latest YouTube video is up! This one's about why moderate politicians are having a bad time

If I'm reading his (solo) concurrence in Mullin v. Doe correctly, Justice Thomas does not think that any noncitizens have due process rights to remain in the country, under any circumstances. He has hinted at this position in prior cases, but this makes it official.

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people really do not want to hear that hunter biden, famous ethical paragon, may have used ai to write a slop garbage post.

wrote about Mel Brooks' The Producers and how it looks overly optimistic, inasmuch as it relies on the idea that Americans hate Nazis. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/springtime...

Here’s how I realized I had long covid. I got sick but improved. A month later was Christmas. I did all my usual activities - baking, hosting, good solid walks. On New Year’s Day I collapsed getting out of bed, couldn’t get up for a week, and never, ever got that level of energy back.

Hey so this new KOSA/KIDS Act proposal has a little note in it that creates a whole new special Trump-appointed team to regulate the internet. So no more Congress votes. No more checks & balances. Just whoever the president picks to decide the future of YOUR internet. You aren’t mad enough.

You’ve barenaked your last lady

I am delighted that Jean Valentine wrote a blues poem and it is exactly what you'd think a Jean Valentine blues poem would be like.

yeah, it can, and more importantly it needs to prepare to do so in future.

yes it can

hey, just wrote about this: www.everythingishorrible.net/p/its-antise...

It's shameful how many people act like it's okay to spout antisemitic smears if they are aimed at Jews who are critical of Israel.

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Dan Goldman's campaign shows that not even focused anti-Trump messaging will win, primary voters want bolder stuff now

I think that if you want to beat the left in a D primary, probably right now the thing to do is to focus on attacking Trump, not act as if Ds winning a D primary is the real threat to the nation. 1

The Mamdani administration is going to put out an excellent "we froze the rent" video.

I mean, I do not think he is giving an accurate account of events here, but I do think there was probably a real girl who liked him - we've all made bad decisions in life - and who got to see herself described like this by a guy she thought was her friend.

every time I see this I think how the girl it's about probably saw it, and how she felt. what a graceless little shit Douthat is and how absurd it is that the NYT has forced this talentless hack on the public sphere for two decades plus

the project of douthat's life is to bring back franco to execute anyone who watches porn.

AOC's been an extremely successful legislature. the infrastructure bill owed a lot to her argument for the green new deal. calling her "little girl" is extremely racist. (and intentionally so, I'd guess.)

suozzi didn't have much of a challenge, is one downside this week. but maybe next round...

credit where it's due; that's a good response.

I think Jeffries' response here is actually pretty good, but here's a better alt I'd suggest if I were on his staff: Democrats are a party that has room for a lot of disagreement; so are Republicans. Democrats disagree about economic policy. Republicans disagree about whether Hitler was bad.

I haven’t seen internals for NY-17, but this pivot to a stump speech feels pretty desperate. Cait Conley is centrist Dem who got support from Max Rose and Ritchie Torres. “She’s a scary socialist!” is a tough sell.