I'm old enough to remember when this happened...

It’s not good for your campaign if the candidate has to clarify a statement or position at 10:30 on a Friday night.

I mean it's not like Krystal Ball went to bat for a notorious leftist sex pest/anti-vaxer or anything, right? Uhh..... Huh.

Hmmm.... bsky.app/profile/post...

I mean...

Ah, Kat Abu is going to go on Krystal Ball's new show to discuss her *actual* foreign policy positions. Well it's not like Krystal Ball has been a part of any bizarre red-brown-alliance shit, right? /s

I love how people are saying versions of “I’m glad those are her positions” when the takeaway should be that the campaign chose to not affirm those are her positions, and Dropsite quotes someone saying that in fact those are not her positions.

They paid a foreign policy advisor? I’m assuming they thought “we’re getting these questionnaires & don’t want to answer them ourselves,” so they hired some guy who just graduated college, & he wrote whatever he wanted & they never read what he wrote But again, they paid a foreign policy advisor?

The most spectacular thing about this is how many people in the replies, QPs, and comments elsewhere did not read all three of these screenshots. 🤦‍♀️

IOW: Trump, “from one sexual predator to another, I congratulate you Congressman Gonzales.”

Which is why his nomination would sail through.

Probably a request by Vance.

Cruz turned him down before.

"Congratulations on sexually harassing your staff member into setting herself on fire!"

I guess they already know who’s retiring this year (likely Alito) Also, Ted Cruz would probably be better than Gorsuch.

This afternoon the president is crashing out over the Supreme Court's tariff ruling and Anthropic while the defense secretary feuds with universities and the scouts... glad everyone involved in the potentially imminent war with Iran is in a good mindset.

What a snide dismissal of the influence & agency of primary voters.

People need to stop with the if “X wins the Dem Senate primary all hope is lost” stuff. Both candidates have strengths, both have weaknesses, & the winner will face either Krazy Ken or a wounded Cornyn.

“Harris lost Texas by 14 in the general so her endorsement is neutral or negative in a Senate primary” is some real high-level political analysis.

Harris endorsing Crocket suggests to me that she has polling she trusts showing the race is close, or that it looks like Crockett will win.

Old enough to remember when Republicans complained about unfounded mandates.

The ballot formats in the order would make it easy for a bad actor to see and discard ballots marked for someone other than their preferred candidate. They make it difficult for non English speakers. And they might allow the ballot to be traced to a voter.

lol, they assign a PIN, so it would be hypothetically possible to track everyone’s vote Also, I guess they couldn’t decide btwn “…mobile registration services for the disabled…” & “mobile registration services to the disabled…” so they went w “mobile registration services for to the disabled”

Two all-beef livers special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun

Weird. We thought the house got skunked last night but my daughter said the whole neighborhood and her school smelled terrible. We’re in the Philly area

Same

We’ve had the same situation in northern IL Related? Seems like something worth looking in to. @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org @chicagotribune.com @blockclubchi.bsky.social @propublica.org Please pass this along to reporters who cover enviro issues. 1/2

I largely agree with the spirit of this thread. But the idea that local and regional newsrooms are training grounds, rather than a place where real work rooting out everyday corruption takes place, is (imho) a *huge* part of how we got here

The fifth place finisher in the bird call competition at the 2011 Duluth Cub Scout Jamboree blames the trans kid for keeping him from winning a medal.

I think too many people blithely declare that the worst public employees in America are ICE agents. I think that neglects the evil that is rampant in CBP.

I wish when someone quote-tweets something & it says blocked it would show if you’re blocked or the person who quote-tweeted got blocked.

The coalition is rich white kids and labor aristocrats who don't actually mind, or actively support, bigotry as long as it's attached to left-wing platitudes. Once you remember that racism, sexism, and homophobia aren't dealbreakers for the podcast and labor aristocracy set, it makes perfect sense.

"I like the progressive guy because he reminds me of the two biggest Democratic centrists elected to the senate over the past 10 years"

I haven’t followed it closely but i get the sense Labour looked at the Democrats in 1937-1938 & thought “if we don’t do the housing & labor stuff, & since we don’t have to confirm SCOTUS justices, we could be so much worse”

This is a funny dissection of what may be a great poll or a crap poll or somewhere in the middle. Only interpretations I trust are: A. The Dem race could be close & is almost entirely about the racial composition of the electorate B. Texas Repubs are fucking insane, which favors Paxton

Classic case of dumb DC political reporter bullshit. Sabrina Siddiqui on MSNOW on why Repubs brought the Clintons in front of House Oversight: “…looking for potential fodder they can use against President Clinton…” USE AGAINST HIM FOR WHAT???!? What a stupid fucking take.

I think too many people blithely declare that the worst public employees in America are ICE agents. I think that neglects the evil that is rampant in CBP.

It is hard to imagine how they will survive. But they're probably thinking in terms of Bari's poison. Rather, it is Ellison's neglect that will ultimately kill them.

The blue checked MAGAs over at the bad place are pushing hard for everyone to call their senators to pass the SAVE voter suppression act. Let's make sure they're not the only ones being heard from.

The audience of these networks are aging to absurd levels, so more likely people will just die watching what they watch. CBS News is seeing that now -- the plan was to make a play for Fox-like ratings, but they're competing for a largely ancient audience who aren't about to switch anyway.

I think before people freak out they should think about that first, and also remember that under the terms of the Netflix deal, CNN was going to be separated out as part of a Discovery Global package of assets -- the Ellisons could have just bought that anyway.

Having said that, even if state AGs dont manage to block this, I have a hard time seeing how this works as a sort of ideological or information coup for the Ellisons mostly bc thats just straight up not how our media landscape works anymore. If they are lucky, WB wont sink them, but thats long odds.

In my intro to media studies course, we spend a decent amount of time in the early chapters in particular talking about media conglomerates and mergers and how they are, broadly, bad in a myriad of ways. I wanted Netflix to win here not bc itd have been good, but to have a Trump ally lose.

And Warner Bros is absolutely famous for being an anchor on whichever company acquires them. A reminder that our last "this is a devastating acquisition" moment involving them was Warner Bros-Discovery, which was not even four years ago. Almost record time for that merger to fuck over the buyers.

I don't think this merger would have been approved/forced through by a Harris Administration.

I’m against media consolidation, & this makes it worse, but in its current form CNN (like NPR) is already a net negative for US democracy. People go there & believe they’re getting non-partisan, non-ideological news, but in general CNN shows suck & skew right (but they do have some good reporters)

In 2024, Nikka Soon Shiong tried to claim that the LAT pulled it's Kamala endorsement over Gaza, something that nobody else associated with the paper backed. She's a lying wrecker who tried to be opportunist about her shithead dad's corruption.

The thing is Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill and (now, I confess I just learned this) Patrick Soon-Shiong's dishonest red-brown moron daughter are never honest. They are fucking red-brown shitheads who do nothing but maneuver endlessly to split and wreck things on the left. Throw them as far as you can.

AI, with the promotion of Trump, is vacuuming up so many resources that actual electronic goods that people want will get expensive and/or sparse.

There is a serious argument to make that I haven't really seen anyone make that I know of that Trump's push for unregulated AI is one of the biggest dangers to "affordability" today