Yes, an excellent book. newrepublic.com/article/2086...

This is a great point. Wherever one lands on the Platner stuff, the fact that Favreau didn't have a moment's hesitation in defending a former operator with a Nazi tattoo but thinks everyone MUST denounce someone for opposing prisons and deportations really says it all, doesn't it?

Jon Favreau recently spent an awful lot of time defending a nazi tattoo on a senate candidate, what a weird place for him to draw a hard line

The reflecting pool debacle is a marvelous illustration of the interconnection between autocracy, illiberalism and incompetence. Trump broke the pool. Lied abt it. Said it was violent outside agitators. Now he’s created a vast security perimeter to prevent people from getting near it.

Interesting: D.C. will pay an undisclosed settlement to resident Sam O'Hara, who was handcuffed by MPD for playing the "Imperial March" tune from Star Wars while walking behind National Guard troops in the city last September, per the ACLU of D.C. O'Hara was detained for 20 minutes.

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Eric Adams' ex bilked the city out of 200 thousand dollars and the worst that's going to happen is she's not having her contract renewed

Should be noted every time we see these kinds of photos that for all the impact the late Philadelphia statistician Harvey Pollack had on NBA history, handing Wilt Chamberlain the famous "100" paper is probably his greatest influence.

Never forget. One of the dumbest remarks ever made by a political commentator. The last nine years have shown this remark wasn't an outlier. www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/p...

I'm in the Contrarian @contrariannews.org on how the Court's immigration cases from yesterday gave the Trump administration a hall pass to violate federal statutes & the Constitution. www.contrariannews.org/p/scotus-jus...

9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.

Yes, but Platner is a private school educated white man from a wealthy family. His Nazi tattoo and misogyny I just part of the rowdy past every white man is entitled to until he's in his mid 30s. Jon Favreau probably knew dozens of guys like Platner growing up.

“I can support Platner calling for Israeli reeducation but I draw the line at being right too early”

standards are for democrats whyy.org/articles/the...

“A Martian who arrived on Earth yesterday might be forgiven for not hearing echoes of Nazi Germany when the president says that a minority group is “poisoning the blood” of our country. Six Supreme Court justices have no excuse.”

1903 racist cartoon about European immigrants with a focus on Italy

Definitely give this a read about seeming the mix of ellison takeover and AI suppressing Trump critical content on TikTok while fascist content seems to thrive talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

🔵MAP: Past CD4 Rep. & Salt Lake County Mayor @benmcadams.bsky.social wins the new-blue-Utah CD1 Democratic primary with 52% of the vote, 11/12 cities & 514/589 precincts. 2nd place @nateforutah.bsky.social got 27%, winning So. Salt Lake and 46/129 SLC precincts; Liban Mohamed came in 3rd with 16%.

I agree with Susan Collins that campaigns should be about the issues, our records, and our vision for Maine’s future. The issue is Senator Collins’ record of funneling taxpayer dollars to her husband’s lobbying firm. My vision is to make that illegal.

Jane Fonda in Brighton sounding the alarm over data centers-"Find out where the candidate gets their money from." Bennet's billionaire backers-Tench Coxe and Steve Mandel-are funding data center expansion. www.aol.com/news/actress... jacobin.com/2026/04/demo... coloradonewsline.com/2026/06/01/b...

Dems worry the CO Supreme Court’s delay in deciding if their 2026 redistricting initiatives are valid is deterring donors & could derail the effort to get voter signatures. Dems need 125k overall & a set # from each Senate district by Aug. 3. They want 200k to be safe, but they only have 43k so far

A core premise of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence is that it is categorically impossible for any Republican official to engage in racist conduct or vote for racially discriminatory legislation, because this would make him a racist too: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/sam-...

Its because they know centrist Democrats are pussies who will never hold them accountable

These institutions think and hope free elections are a thing of the past

"The report recommends eliminating the “ Johnson Amendment ” that forbids political activities by tax-exempt religious groups — a longstanding goal of Trump." Just eviscerating basic protections of pluralistic society apnews.com/article/reli...

Impact Research memo, page 2.

There seem to be a lot of #BlueMAGA voices that are outraged at any perceived maligning of what they believe to be Joe Biden's heroic management of the pandemic he declared "over" in '23 - the one that is, in fact, ongoing. "He did the best he could." No. He did what Impact Research told him to.

A judge overturned the decision by Alaska officials to toss Dan Sullivan, challenger to Senator Dan Sullivan, from the Senate race ballot. (This is the second time after Nebraska this year that election officials tossed the challenger to a GOP senator from the ballot, and a judge overturned.)

Reading Miami Republican advertising in Spanish is like Radio Rwanda

What an image

New post by Herb Strentz: The once thrifty Senator Grassley was willing to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars to President Trump's pet projects. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/06/22/m...

Receiving word that Sarah Isgur spent part of her latest podcast strawmanning a post I wrote, and I have to say, it is an honor to know one of my readers is the most prominent conservative legal pundit to have had Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding

Now Hanania just hangs out on a white supremacist micro blog, he's really grown.

remember when megyn kelly landed on msnbc for like five minutes because trump called her a bleeder or something like that

Many people comparing this to dystopian fiction; the difference is that fiction is usually written by people with ideas about the world they want to express and a firm grasp of themes, plot, and story that builds to a conclusion---whereas this will just keep going until something stupider happens.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

Wow, he’s talking about the President of the United States….

a totally gratuitous, racist smear on the jurisprudence of the Hawai’i Constitution as it relates to the right to bear arms from Justice Alito here.

Here’s the discourse we’re missing out on by not engaging on Elon Musk’s microblog

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

I was at a National Park today and asked for one of the black-bordered map brochures that all National Parks have. Well, had. Apparently each park now needs to print them out of their own budget, so they're not getting printed anymore. Instead other organizations need to fundraise alternatives.

Live video of him leaving:

Just another day in the Trump administration

Love this consequence.net/2026/06/dua-...

Here's what's really going on: Gavin Newsom comes out swinging against California billionaire tax www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One old trick in politics is to oppose something possible while calling for something impossible. Example: Here's Gavin Newsom leading the charge for a "national billionaires tax" while he and his paid goons work to kill a state billionaire tax. This allows him to be on both sides for 2028.

This rise in open, gutter racism over the past decade is really jarring. This kind of xenophobia from a party leader is an anathema to liberal democracy, which promotes tolerance of different religions and equal rights. I'm not sure how we put the genie back in the bottle. It's dangerous. 1/2