Two things we need to internalize, quickly: 1. People are getting an ENORMOUS number of their ideas about the world from short-form video 2. These apps aggressively promote some of the worst ideas in the world because they’re reliable emotional triggers, the only criterion that matters for the app

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

The lesson here is that Democrats should be running single-stair reform advocates in every race in every state

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

This is a truly nutty thing for a school board member to say, or any elected official in charge of a public budget. Finding the money for your budget is literally your main job!

Congress used to be called "Hollywood for ugly people" but the rise of short form video I suspect pure hotness is going to become a big part of elections now.

"you need rural districts" false "rural voters support parts of our agenda" functionally if not technically false "we just need to show up and contest these seats" every faction of the Democratic Party has tried this and they all have roughly the same record of failure to show for it

Josh is one of the very few people who I think grasps the actual extent of the problem we're facing and the approach we need to address it.

I wonder how much "everything is getting worse" discourse among Gen Z is caused by young men blowing huge amounts on gambling and crypto.

God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and Susan Collins.

Democrats need to promise to seize it all. With luck Trump will flee the country.

All told, Trump pulled in at least $2.2 billion in 2025. That compares to a minimum of $622 million for all of 2024 — before he returned to the presidency.

Vance says the midterms are big because Republicans are one SCOTUS seat from ending birthright citizenship

If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason

A shockingly close call on how to read plain English in the first sentence of a constitutional amendment.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

Absolutely wild. Any judge who can't read the words in the 14yh amendments should no longer be a judge.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

Really don't get why people are treating this as a big news and not what everyone was talking about. We all know the trail blazers are on a short term bridge lease. This is all about what happens when that ends. 3 years is about how long you develop a franchise relocation.

It seems to me that the risk has never been that the Trailblazers leave Portland before 2030; it’s that in 2027 they start serious planning to leave in 2030.

Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

The GOP has for decades pushed high deductible plans as the "solution" for health care. These high deductibles get people to avoid 'unnecessary' doctor visits or just pay cash for minor medical issues to avoid claims. Now the GOP is using the 'success' of their own idea to claim fraud.

I think if you muster the will to do it first, to do it immediately, then it’s quite likely that voter displeasure dissipates well before any subsequent elections take place.

Every video I’ve seen from the State Fair plays like a scene from a Christopher Guest mockumentary The empty lawns, the sad little arch… “The one area where the Salem witch trials went a little far” is an immensely funny line. This whole thing is like a new genre of involuntary performance art

My favorite non constitutional amendment SCOTUS reform (besides ethics rules and corruption investigation) is make the entire circuit court system "SCOTUS" and draw randomly one member from each of the 13 circuits for a staggered 5 year term on the highest panel of review.

Got another very campaign like (legally not a campaign) mailer from one of my #Portland city council members. Given that Portland already has a publicly funded campaign system which really favors incumbents we should let them also use office budget for "not" campaigning material.

Adopt simple lowest nuisance zoning instead of industrial and commerical.

One thing I wish liberals and progressives would get over: always feeling the need to preface any criticism of Trump’s ongoing destruction of our national symbols in favor of grotesque self-monuments with stuff like “not the biggest deal in the scheme of things.” No. Wrong. It’s a very big deal.

Not great that the richest man in the world agrees with this post. Note the giant gun in the image. 👀 1/

This is the FIFA hydration breaks of military conflicts.

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

You never have generation long highly sorted ethnic enclaves (not transitional immigrant communities) without significant coercion. And countries that do have these often eventually result in horrible disasters.

This guy is senior staff at xAI, fork found in kitchen, etc

“Development is good, but only when I deem it appropriate for the neighborhood” is the pure undistilled core of NIMBYism. Not coincidentally, NIMBYs and anti-gentrification organizers are often closely aligned

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Kushner & Ivanka: “Now Albania's anti-corruption police are getting involved… do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if he weren't the President's son-in-law? And isn't he supposed to be doing diplomacy, not shady land deals?”

We are like half a year away from him trying to rename the months in his honor. October will be Trumpober. April will be Donril.

* Hormuz Vessel Crossing Update, Back down to 24 “.. The pullback to 24 reflects renewed escalation: the U.S. conducted fresh strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday ..” @bloomberg.com

They could’ve held this in a Cracker Barrel parking lot and still had room to spare.

Important to understand that the walkable euro cities the left idealises specifically came up through centuries of ~anarchic housing and commercial development. The endpoint of high modernist planning *is* the american suburb with its one concentrated mall a 30 minute drive away.

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

Am I a joke to you?

My pessimistic runs in the opposite direction! YIMBYism seems unstoppable, while no real popular or elite movement has built for transit. Instead even our largest cities only have transit cargo cults, which build transit-shaped abominations (ESA, PABT, 5x cost Subway extensions, RLX, “light rail”).

This is indistinguishable from a white nationalist tweet.

Like I say, the fatphobia is a weirdly common dirtbag leftist thing.

Melat Kiros, a DSA-backed congressional candidate in Colorado, declined to call the Boulder firebombing attack antisemitic in an interview with the local channel 9News. "I don't know what was in the heart of the perpetrator," Kiros said. Read more: ji.news/598nt

I call them kill grills and it is remarkable that basically no USA city/state has imposed a car hood/visibility limit. www.caranddriver.com/news/a716637...

People seem to vastly overestimate how much neighborhoods are specific communities in the United States are pretty temporarily instead of some unchanging state of nature. Almost every historic "X" neighborhood in NYC when I was born now doesn't contain almost any of that particular group.

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

every time someone actually investigates this there’s a clear result: “embodied carbon” is essentially a NIMBY conspiracy theory and you can’t be an environmentalist without supporting infill development