Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette

Tucker’s brother to whom he is very close, endorsing an outrageously antisemitic statement that Putin never made. Tucker sometimes has Buckley on his show as a guest commentator on current events.

DOGE was never, ever about efficiency. DOGE was about killing government investigations into Elon Musk's companies and also, stealing data to sell to foreign governments.

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

for Sojourner's, I wrote about Platner and the idea that the way you evaluate bigotry is by looking into the heart of the bigot, rather than at the effect of the bigotry. sojo.net/articles/opi...

This is just a mass shooter profile (white guy domestic abuser) Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

On Monday morning, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents. “Tepid institutional response to Guerrero’s killing is key to understanding ... why much of the Democratic base remains so frustrated with its party in Maine and beyond,” writes Rebecca Traister.

Top-tier Divorced Guy behavior: thinking your ex-wife is willing to cover and lie for you and not being right about that.

another big W for Merrick Garland. truly he was focused on doing his job in a quick and efficient fashion

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

It’s a good day to call your assemblymember www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymemb...

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

This is that part where the private equity sells off the real estate of the company it took over.

Pat Oliphant, prizewinning giant of political cartooning, dies at 90 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Every time.

The “one number” is odds on Kalshi’s betting platform. How gambling addicts think other gambling addicts will bet is not relevant to voter behavior. This article, and the CNN piece it’s based on, is just an ad. www.rawstory.com/nancy-mace-2...

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Not sure if anyone's noticed, but democratic socialists aren't racking up primary wins because the base has suddenly embraced the tenets and ideology of Democratic Socialism. They're winning because leftist candidates are the only ones who understand the assignment: Defeat the enemy. Deliver goods.

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Iran just slammed shut the Strait. Meanwhile Israeli settlers and soldiers are detaining US congressmembers and laughing when told that there might be reprisals. America had never had less respect from its enemies OR its “allies” than under Trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

TIL "Chinamaxxing" (meaning non-Chinese people obsessively doing things/buying things deemed 'Chinese'). But the real Chinamaxxing is the policy decisions in western countries (like not embracing renewable energy, insisting on gas-powered cars, etc.).

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

The lesson has something to do with not letting misogynists fail up in a left of center movement

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

Been seven years since I first read this, on the English language's *completely universal but totally invisible* adjective hierarchy, and I can honestly say I've thought about it most days since.

I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:

The reason Platner has gotten roughly 10x the discussion of any of the panoply of rapists & sexual harassers in prominent positions on the right is that everyone - left, right, center, media, *everyone* - has internalized that conservatives just don't care and so there's no point talking about it.

This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

So many of the self-appointed leaders of the American Jewish community have obvious disdain for the fact that the community is what it actually is, and not what they want it to be.

Maine Senate flash poll, run by PPP this week. 🔴 Susan Collins 47% 🔵 Graham Platner 42% 🔴 Susan Collins 48% 🔵 Janet Mills 37% 🔵 Troy Jackson 49% 🔴 Susan Collins 44% 🔵 Shenna Bellows 47% 🔴 Susan Collins 47% 785 voters www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Democrats have to win back the Senate if we’re going to stop Donald Trump’s daily, nuclear-grade corruption. The assault allegations against Graham Platner are disqualifying and he should be replaced as the nominee. But this can’t happen as a party insider backroom deal.

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Maine Democrats - in fact, Democrats & democrats everywhere - should not be at the Nazi Bar, let alone using it for primary functions of democratic politics.

Antisemitism is a real and growing issue in American politics and culture, but the fact that American Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC went harder on Mamdani than on Platner is part of why we are making no headway in fighting it.

This is truly some evil shit. The Iranians are so bad we had to go to war with them, but we’re going to give them a list of people to torture and maybe kill. There’s not a hell hot enough for these people.

Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins

From Dolores Huerta's statement this past March medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Not just Maine. This is the rot at the center of the progressive political and nonprofit sectors. I started an entire organization to try to shift the dynamic towards reporting and early intervention before someone accrues so much power that “taking them down” feels like betraying your values.

does anyone know how to log off

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about yesterday’s decision in Slaughter - and also about how any post-Trump response *must* include Supreme Court reform www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

It still absolutely blows my mind that people fell for this ludicrous con.

omg this photo from @angelan.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/aon/5...