Genuinely wild

it’s genuinely so beast mode that voters in virginia saw these jay jones texts leak and elected him by 7 point and then flipped the seat of the republican who leaked these texts to a democrat lmfao

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

This announcer in the IU game is losing his mind

This is also why the full court press by much of the organized American Jewish community against Mamdani is not just wrong and Islamophobic, but short-sighted, as well. If Mamdani gets shut down, anti-Israel sentiment won't just go away. It will go into politicians who are actually antisemites.

I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.

hard to remember that the wapo was actually distinguished by being significantly better than the nyt in trump's first term. 1

My man is veering dangerously close to Kavanaugh stop territory

Andrew Cuomo having bottomless money from wealthy donors to use to lose elections is a great argument for a wealth tax. He should just run as a Republican.

FedEx and UPS grounding all of the MD-11s following the crash in Louisville. Wonder if the decision was made now due to the feds wanting to decrease total flight numbers.

you & I might not like it, but an actually representative opinion page would probably feature like, an RFK, Jr., devotee who believes in “med beds” or something & an older black woman who thinks that Jay Jones didn’t go far enough & wants to put Glenn Youngkin in a trebuchet.

Wait wait wait. VITOR BELFORT’S KID PLAYS FOR UCF?!

that's who Trump and Vought want to purge. not because they're "Democrats," but because they care about the work they're doing. the entire mission of the Republican Party is to demonstrate that government doesn't work, by dismantling its ability to accomplish anything.

It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all. And here she is at the loser party with him.

When the president gets ordered, multiple times, to pay out federal food benefits as the law requires:

anyway by this logic the government should bail people out when they lose on that app that was going around about "go double or nothing on your onlyfans bill and child support payments"

A live look at SCOTUS getting a request to stop poor people from getting SNAP benefits at 7:30pm on Friday night

cannot emphasize enough that the level of coordinated messaging in the last 72 hours more or less guarantees this as a fact. the only margin for hyperbole is the level of panic itself.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Chuck Schumer, master strategist, has one weird trick

Someone mentioned “affordability” to Trump after Tuesday and now we will probably get the MAGA Price Control Board powered by Grok

As someone from the Bay Area, the key to understanding San Francisco post ~2000 is that it's American Dubai where all the sheikhs and princes are expected to perform periodic minor, left-coded penance rituals before continuing on exactly as before.

The thing about the fascism experts who are fleeing the country is that they’re going to have to live with the fact that when fascism actually happened here, a bunch of rando schoolteachers and tow truck drivers and barefoot suburban dads in their pajamas fought harder than they did.

Has Speaker Johnson, who prides himself on starting the Civility Caucus, commented on a member being verbally harassed and berated like this?

Literacy is just another venue by which bad information can enter your brain tbh, not being able to read is like airgapping your mind

Trump and the GOP House want to get rid of cash bail?

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

My theory on this is that Republican voters recognize that Trump's policies are causing this mess that now forces communities and charities to step in, and therefore instinctively become defensive about those charitable efforts (as opposed to considering the possibility that Trump is in the wrong).

I don't particularly care how we get there, so long as this Cornell president is paying for a criminal defense lawyer under a Democratic administration.

the median voter thought the apprentice was real

Don’t love this!

You could argue that "the economy" is an imperfect descriptor that rolls in anxieties about inequality, inflation, anger at "elites", lack of housing, lack of cheap goods, and increased labor costs, but none of these are "fake"

if we had a functioning society we wouldn’t need this patchwork of aid but here is a GoFundMe for a man who lived in a (now destroyed) RV on the property of one of the businesses the UPS plane struck. he also worked there so he is out of a job and a home (in addition to losing friends in the crash)

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

hey did you know the Marshals service can simply enter Dubai to retrieve you on a warrant not everybody knows that!

The amount of Lithuanian pensioners who ended up learning Facts About Dinosaurs instead of reading terrible Russian tabloids that try to sell you astral projection pills because of George Soros is not zero

Miles' piece here is both legal and personal. Mostly I read it with shame and anger at the cruelty transgender people are being put through. Infuriatingly, SCOTUS 6 to 3 today has upheld the administration's equal protection violation. @milesew.bsky.social

People are hating on this, but it's objectively true. There's a LOT of conservatives in this country, and we DO need a non-crazy, pro-democracy conservative party they can vote for. The problem is, in absence of sane Republicans, way too many Democrats have tried to make the Democrats that party.

Everyone will be shocked to know Grok is spreading misinformation.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

I'm reminded of this one house I passed with a sign for ONLY Jay Jones

They're gonna call you a communist for saying means-tested incremental change, and they're gonna call you a communist for Lenin-posting, so fuck it.

Centre-left politicians worried about anti-car policies polling badly in the short term need to remember: every measure that pushes people to cycle or use public transport ultimately creates more centre-left voters; every measure that leads to more people driving creates more right-wing voters

How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!! "Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯 🔌💡

Generally speaking, I think the highest priority of a '28 democratic trifecta should be to -fund the congress-. We need structural restraints on presidential power, and an underfunded and understaffed congress cannot do it.

Right wing masculinity experts are viewing the Zeteo stream and weeping at the left's masculine dominance

Thirdway has a memo out about how Mamdani's politics won't work in the rest of the country but they wrote it before he won and forgot to replace "X%" with his actual margin. lol.

Reminder to pro-business Americans: Canada has something like twice as many self-employed people and small businesses per capita as you because even self-employed Canadians can get unemployment insurance and healthcare. It's great for our local economies.

It is funny to me that a lot of both Mamdanis supporters & detractors have looked at his success & just said "social media" & ignored the fact that the man ran a relentless juggernaut of a gotv operation. He & his campaign were *everywhere* in the city in a way Cuomo couldnt be bothered with.