I spoke to Mitch McConnell this morning and he has decided to stay unconscious for another month because he is afraid of going woke

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

Understanding due process the same way he understands free speech

I been waiting for the opportunity to post this!

Following reports of sexual assault, Susan Collins now endorsing Platner for Senator

This is why we dont pretend any of the Krassensteins are journalists

Captain America never misses

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Dont fret about the US getting behind early. That's just an opportunity for the Belgians to... waffle

ELIZABETH WARREN calls on Platner to drop out: “There can be no tolerance for sexual assault… With so much at stake, the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious allegations outside this Senate race.”

All I’m saying is, while not foolproof, a good way to not elect sexual predators is to stop electing men.

One thing we are almost guaranteed to see is Trump talking about Platner getting a bad deal and if that doesnt tell you how bad it is nothing will

I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

This was one of the more heinous things about Platner when it was written and it’s aged like raw milk in the New York City Sun.

Have we considered the possibility that no one in Maine should be Senator?

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This dangerous fallacy: "Impeachment without conviction is pointless" must be wiped out. Not impeaching sends a clear message to the public that the guilty one is actually innocent. It's dishonest and *very* counterproductive.

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

Not leaving anything to chance

Finally it happened in real life

Loud, orange, full of smoke, and leaving a toxic cloud over minority communities. The DC fireworks show turned out to be a whole metaphor of Trump in the sky.

Happy #250th from the 50th state 🎇🍻

Let us not end on this downer note. Let us end on this video I took from the Merry Go Round, left over from the World Fair, back when we could still do shit as a country If you squint, you can almost see the celebration that should have been

I love this country. It's got a lot of problems, but it's my home and I want it to be good and I think it could be good. I love my country and I want to celebrate our 250th Independence Day too And all day--ALL DAY--the administration has made it clear that they don't consider me a real American

This is why it’s hard to celebrate this year. We’re not invited.

This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Fox News asked him to wave and he then waved. At the TV, not at them

Happy 4th.

Happy anniversary to Republicans getting mad at NPR for tweeting the Declaration of Independence on Independence Day.

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Schrödinger's turtle

To err is human. And that is why I believe A.I. is a real boy

The most corrupt administration in American history and it’s not even close.

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

A ménage à twats

An opposition party could be saying daily: "The fascist in chief and his entire family are robbing you." Reporter: What do you think about climate change? OP: "The fascist in chief and his entire family are robbing you." Now about climate change....

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Wait a minute. Bosnia AND Herzegovina? In this economy?

You can do anything? Can you take a dump while running at full speed?

Remember how bad people used to whine about participation trophies and then they annointed this guy as their god

The problem here isn't trans kids in sports. The problem is that a lot of kids can only afford college if they're the best at sports. That's the actual problem

imo "there arent that many trans people" is a bad counterargument to the right's bigotry. who cares if its 1 trans person or 100 million? this week we are literally celebrating the concept that ALL OF US are equal. it doesn't matter the number. ALL OF US OR NONE OF US. period.

its completely underated how this is the most openly corrupt administrations in the entirety of human history

1 reason why I get so angry at anti-trans "safety in women's sports" people is NONE of them do SHIT or say ANYTHING about actual safety in womens sport. There are ongoing histories and challenges and abuses in sport, and folks are more than welcome to pay attention, and give a damn. But they don't.

Statements from Dems like this one make it harder to press for Supreme Court reform. This ruling was a near-disaster and shows how unhinged SCOTUS has become—now just one vote away from overturning the 14th Amendment. But a sitting senator says they "applaud" the ruling.

SCOTUS reform won't just simply happen if Dems take Congress & the White House. A case has to be made for it—to a skeptical public, to reluctant politicians, to a hostile media. The blowback from the right will be intense and terrify a lot of weak-willed pols. The case has to be made starting *now*

For years, originalists have lectured us that they no longer look to "the Framers' intent," but to the "original public meaning" of the Constitution. Here, Kavanaugh throws all that out the window to lash the citizenship clause in his subjective guess as to what its Framers intended it to do.

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃