this is one of those “at all costs, avoid this outcome” outcomes

Hochul: "I was actually surprised to see the president and Gov. Abbott with their memes of me -- they're dunking me on the court -- that they're supportive of men and women competing in the same sport together. I found that very interesting."

Affairs are politically relevant because if you are constantly sexting randos you are an unusually blackmailable person; also do you think it’s a coincidence that Chinese spy tried to honeypot Swallwell, with everything we know now

these guys have not learned from the last time they fucked with her, and she exposed their shady "cash for NDA" deal, sure try it again and lets see how it works out

Just learned about this but it seems like I’m seeing it everywhere now

Interesting how only one of his tattoos is conspicuously obscured in this photo despite him not knowing at the time that it wasn’t just a harmless skull and crossbones.

Maybe he shouldn’t be a power broker in the progressive movement.

If they’re saying this publicly, this is a sign the MoU is actually pretty close to agreed. If it’s on background… 🤷

We’ll wait for the ink to dry and maybe two or three months after that but not bad

Idk there seems to be a very consistent through line for this woman’s beliefs

A lot of you in the replies need to read this from @nberlat.bsky.social & start internalizing it. Murc's Law is not a constitutional provision. Nor is meek surrender to supposed permanent inevitabilities.

If even 1 in 4 republicans who prefer Cornyn voted for Talarico instead of Paxton, Paxton would almost certainly lose. I doubt he’ll take 1 in 4 of them, but this is a problem the “normal” Texas GOP voters could solve, if they existed.

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Cornyn is running in a Texas Republican primary on a strategy of being more honest than his opponent. Not sure about those odds.

I’ve thought for a long time that Cornyn will lose the primary and Paxton will lose the general. If the first happens I sure hope I’m right about the second.

This man has thoroughly debased himself to hold onto his senate seat, all for naught. He is going to lose the republican primary to Ken Paxton, and it isn’t going to be close.

The data center backlash was always going to be subsumes MAHA because it’s intellectually the same level as 5g causing cancer/communism

I do think it is funny, as a religious person, that “the AI can never be conscious like me” position is largely held on the left, a group disproportionately composed of people who deny any supernatural component to consciousness.

Folks is it ‘Israel First’ to be against Nazi tattoos?

Hey quick question what are the “10 laws of Zionists”

That’s not the same ends. Person tries to do scholarship and misses the bar is meaningfully different from a person trying to do marketing for their politics, being berated in the political arena under politics rules, and then running back behind scholarship rules for cover.

On this note: another state (or several of them) should file an original jurisdiction suit against Florida on this basis. The domestic emoluments ban on states paying the president is a federalism safeguard, one state violating it is a real harm to the sovereign interests of every other state.

Kids have so little control over their own lives. Keep an eye out for low-consequence choices they want to make and just let them make them, even if they aren’t the choices you’d make and even if they turn out to be mistakes.

Spencer Pratt has called 9/11 “100%” an inside job; had multiple meltdowns on national television; & has admitted to blowing his wealth on crystals, designer clothes & guns. Now, he’s polling 2nd in the LA mayor’s race. How? Partly because he has MAGA’s backing. Deep dive on the race for @ms.now:

There's really no point in further analyzing any Iran deal until the actual details are published, since both the Trump administration and the Iranian regime are inveterate bullshit artists.

If this summary of the deal is accurate, this is an unequivocal betrayal of the United States by the traitor Donald Trump.

It definitionally is.

[guy on too many layers of irony] this is true because they're both effective across a variety of domains despite us not having a clear account of the underlying causal mechanism

Marco Rubio when he finds out he’s the new Director of National Intelligence

i think not unrelated to this is that the dems are steadily becoming the party of the professional-managerial class and are incredibly embarrassed about this. this of course mirrors the pmc itself, which instead of achieving class consciousness has achieved "class neuroticism"

/16 “We didn’t go to a fresh grand jury after we vouched and wrongly excluded people because that would be grand jury shopping” is a truly Trump DoJ excuse.

This is not, in my experience, a thing judges are usually thrilled about

would this save on infrastructure? no, existing roads can't handle this. well the technology is easier, right? nope, would need far better automation than exists. surely, it's safer though? guess again.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

I support the Colorado Democratic Party's censure of Polis. But that's not enough. The General Assembly should reconvene to investigate and hold him accountable. And if he commuted Tina Peters' sentence at the behest of Trump, surrendering Colorado's sovereign authority, he should be impeached.

Best ive managed on this thing so far

"Successfully asserting that the Virginia Supreme Court decided incorrectly would not, in my view, be a movement towards lawlessness." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Colorado Democratic Party leaders and organizers are now discussing whether to approve a measure to formally condemn Gov Polis' clemency for Tina Peters, censure him, and ban him from being an honored guest or speaker at party events until further notice.

He’s right — Bezos pays barely any taxes at all right now, so doubling them won’t do much. We’ll need to increase them by at least an order of magnitude.

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

this says a number of things about cassidy, few of them flattering

sorry wired but this is woke 1.0 nonsense we are not pretending that not knowing the exact job title of your 2,000th interview of the election cycle is somehow internalized misogyny

I strongly encourage every Pratt supporter to take the same pledge and follow through.

Oh you mean this publication? You run that?

The challenge with Iran seems to be figuring out a way to give both sides something they can spin as a win. That's the issue with any kind of peace deal, it's just so much harder when the two sides are Donald Trump and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, two of the biggest blowhards in the world.

. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

The fact that the Harris campaign made their direct pitch of "these fuckers want to destroy our democracy, don't let them," Trump barely denied it, and it still flat out did not work has done a lot of hidden damage to the Democratic party and, more broadly, the American psyche