A small sample of what I experienced online for trying to tell the truth about Graham Platner.

Is JD Vance notably ruthless towards his enemies? His main power seems to be cultivating powerful patrons.

From what I can tell from the punditry, the lesson to be drawn from the Platner mess is that Democrats should vet candidates, "fight", stop talking about what they're against (Trump) and instead offer detailed 10-point plans for housing and health care. Hookay... Feeling that old deja vu vu.

I'm pretty sure the problem here is that nobody can trust this campaign considering well .. everything. The "movement" needs to find different representatives to make their case. You can't screw the pooch this badly and expect anyone to listen to you.

Watching the Sopranos and tbh it often doesn’t feel so different reading the news

Guy is literally trying to create a new welfare queen

Have not seen it pointed out enough that the Trump admin's targeting of the Smithsonian is being influenced by David Barton, the debunked amateur historian and Christian nationalist activist who has spent decades peddling claims that church-state separation is a myth.

A legend flown west. I used to see her as a baby pilot running around WAI conferences, and she was a true inspiration!

Did Trump's motorcade damage the Reflecting Pool? TLDW: We don't know because nobody has ever been daft enough to drive a fleet of armored SUVs over a recently completed aquatic project.

We need Count Binface to defeat Nigel Farage to break the death spiral that started with Harambe's death.

NEW: Trump's long-running campaign to restrict voting access and seize control over elections has so far been met with a series of legal losses. Now, the White House is shifting gears and adopting a new strategy: intimidating election officials and forcing states to overhaul election operations.

Hannah Dugan has been sentenced to a $5,000 fine, but I suspect she will appeal.

It is amazing how endlessly voracious the big financed content creation machine is. Not indie Internet content creators who do stupid things for views, that's a whole 'nother problem. I mean the capital that's behind most popular creators and virtually all studios.

There's NO WAY this could go wrong. None at all.

Something that occurred to me. As bad as Fetterman has been, the alternative was Dr. Fucking Oz, so I think that general turned out as well as it could have. We dodged a bullet with Platner. It also means vote in your goddamn primaries.

What @magdi.bsky.social has been saying all along

Good piece in the Times but it omits a key detail. CHD made this woman their marquee plaintiff knowing she had been accused of murder and without seeing the results of the babies' autopsies.

Since Russia has stopped murdering Ukrainians, the IOC has decided....lololol no I can't stop laughing...Russia hasn't stopped murdering anyone...the IOC is just high-fiving genocide. Good on you, you murder-approving twats. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

The media business as a business is rough, but Polymarket played a major role in the spread of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the Los Angeles mayoral election. Massive. This is among the many things they’ve done that should make Polymarket persona non grata in journalism.

This message is for every person who still has imperialistic ambitions to control the internal affairs of other countries: go fuck yourself

Platner's accused of invading a woman's home and forcibly raping her. This is not normal het male dating behavior. That's an alleged violent crime. Guys like Tracey are a million times more derogatory to cishet men than feminists will ever be.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Stupid chatter on Xitter: Wow! Dems backed the guy w/a profile JUST LIKE Pete Hegseth's until the sexual assault allegations! Stupid chatter on Bluesky: It's Schumer and Gillibrand's fault that Platner was not vetted.

This confirms my belief that the modern GOP and the regime in Iran are cut from the same cloth.

NEW: For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heavily favor the livestock industry.

🎉WIN: A federal appeals court decision could make it harder for the DOJ to obtain states’ voter rolls in time to help them purge voters. The DOJ has yet to win a single court order to obtain unredacted statewide voter data.

God dayamn!

There were already so many restrictions...

WOOHOO

Facebook and Instagram have been restricting and labeling posts about Russia's attack on the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra as containing false information, social media users and Ukrainian media, including the Kyiv Independent, report.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma. Why is the date of the injury on death certificate listed as the day before Paktiawal was taken into custody?

Russian glide bomb kills 2 medical graduates in Kharkiv after they come home to get their diplomas UKRAINE, KHARKIV — This summer — like every summer since Russia’s full-scale war started — sixth-year students studying “Medicine” education programs across Ukraine completed the...

"Accused rapist seal of approval" is a great label to slap on a new candidate.

Imagine working so hard to make Platner the mainstream Dems’ fault that you confess ignorance to which committee works on Senate elections.

It's wonderful to hear about the Revolution from the point of view of a real historian who is supremely disinterested in hagiography.

Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations. He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:

The Washington cycle of shame: 1. Rumors come up about a person 2. Person vociferously denies them 3. Receipts are shown re: the person's conduct 4. Person steps back to "look for a path forward." 5. Pitchforks and torches come out 6. Person leaves politics "to spend more time with [their] family."

Mitch McConnell sits upon the golden throne, his body kept just this side of death through the sacrifice of the souls of a thousand Republican voters each day.

Woman in six-month coma following Jan. 5 encounter with Evanston police has died, family says

Social media is showing the first photos of a hit on a multi-story building in Kyiv after a Russian attack

Gotta love the announcer here with these two saves (one blocking the goal, the other blocking a skull fracture).

Which means Smithsonian leadership remains as unruly as ever. 🎉

Paging @beyerstein.bsky.social

This is absolutely very different in Australia than it is in the U.S., I'm guessing.

OMG I want to hug Tater Tot 😭

Are you one of the many people who is going to be doing anything other than watching Trump speak at 11pm Eastern? I may even be doing absolutely nothing.