wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

"[Most stay-at-home moms aren't the tradwives of social media; they're] just exhausted, low-income moms who can’t afford child care. 'The real path to becoming a tradwife,” Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me, 'is typically through economic precarity.'"

The Gaul of the joke.

If a Democrat had a 67% disapproval rate <among independents>, the only thing you would read or hear about in the national news is “Jimmy Carter” & “failed presidency.” But alas, He is One Special Boy & a Republican.

"I've put a couple kids in the hospital. But!" No, man, let me stop you right there.

What if - and hear me out on this - orange man bad

The important thing to keep in mind today about Maine is that its only vice president (or president) to date, Hannibal Hamlin, was so bored with being VP that he went back home to serve in the Maine militia in 1864.

Trump take winning streak

No Mr. Burns they were saying “BUUUU S A.”

Never Platner

Great essay from @meredithconroy.bsky.social !!! Especially the historical timeline of "feminizing opponents" in US elections and the rain the appeal is effective -- "(a man) who doesn’t perform masculinity “correctly” can feel like a challenge to a worldview they hold dear."

Tax law to the rescue!

he can still win, if Mike Pence has the courage

LOLLLLL

I hope the Spurs win by 40 just to make Trump's night miserable

Sometimes people want to make things more complicated than they are. When that happens, just tell them: it's about cats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFc...

New at the Smotus Report: The question is whether Platner’s a good nominee, not a good person -- and a nominee you have to constantly defend and explain is not a good one

DOGE led to thousands of preventable deaths across the world—including children & families most in need. This week, we released a House @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social report documenting the devastating consequences of the Trump Admin's dismantling of USAID. History will remember. Read more here:

Once again, the official platform of today's GOP

The author of last week’s #1 NYT nonfiction bestseller is, I regret to inform you, an idiot

I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

This is as likely an outcome as any

BREAKING Israeli army says air force has struck targets in west, central Iran. Iran state TV reports explosions heard across country

Personally I don’t believe that being working class involves being an alcoholic who beats your wife and it’s shocking some folks online do think that’s the case

(Anyone know why he calls his account "based"?) You see, Senator, the thing about Christian nationalism and state establishment is that they unavoidably entangle the state in questions of orthodoxy. Once Hegseth decides the armed forces are Christian crusaders, he's going to decide who's Christian.

Okay, so the spin, sorry, report in Israel now is that US is saying Israel doesn’t have to act quickly. Iran won’t be forthcoming in the negotiations and then Israel can attack with the US. This is in Israeli media so take it w. grain of salt.

someones panican

Trump is currently calling and texting every single Israeli reporter on his speed dial (and there are quite a few) to tell them he’s not going to let Netanyahu retaliate. He’s not leaving any room for error here.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

For the record, when this all said and done and finally every last piece of opposition research has dropped (because you can bet your ass that more is coming), "he had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years" was my red line.

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

“I’m accused of being a sexist for my normal political views.” Which views? “Oh, you know the ones”

Mmm-hmm bsky.app/profile/rede...

Apparently "populism" now means a dude who locks a woman in a room and assaults her while talking about how it's cool to rape a robber but no homo

Midlife crises all the way down

Even saying he can’t explain it is a lie. He *can* explain it, it’s just that doing so would require admitting he’d been lying all along.

Emily Chertoff's work is excellent on this. See (1) www.californialawreview.org/print/admini... , and (2) nyulawreview.org/issues/volum...

On the one hand Republicans hate the administrative state. On the other hand they really really love the security state

This is a great conversation, and @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social makes great use of the NYT megaphone to get some very clear, succinct and important points across. Well done.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

and the first democrat to actually do something seriously substantial on data centers is… illinois gov jb pritzker !!!

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

‘We have to hold our noses and vote for roy moore’ But make it leftish.

I’m sure this will be the last, LAST bad thing to come out about Platner. at least until Monday

Excited to learn about how roughing a woman up and confining her in a room that you do not allow her to leave, between bouts of voicing weird elaborate rape fantasies, is the kind of working class authenticity that the Democrats really need and a reason to like him *more* actually.

Who among hasn’t very intentionally gotten a nazi tattoo because we very much identify with the nazis? bsky.app/profile/akiv...

...Oh.

From the jump, Platner was a mess and his campaign was headed straight for a cliff. It was so fucking obvious. Many of us told you.