This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Remember when cory booker held the senate floor and then um i forget

I understand the roadblock is (as always) relying on the merely-theoretical will of the next administration, but a statement like this is Exhibit A in said next administration’s case for splitting CBSNN right back up again. If this was a trial Hegseth’s lawyer would have just quit.

"So dumb you think everyone else is dumber" is an honest to god lifechanging concept that I'm going to be saying for the rest of my life and this is really all I can do to document where I first heard it

Friend and local Atlanta artist extraordinaire Courtney Hicks is creating a horror graphic novel. Go fund it or I will haunt you somehow www.kickstarter.com/projects/cou...

What if we kissed in the Library of Congress Flute Vault

I know multiple people like this and this is happening explicitly because no mainstream liberal/Dem media figure is forcefully opposing the Iran war, the genocide in Gaza, and explicitly calling out Israel's malign influence on US politics and the only ntl. politicians who do are Rashida and Ilhan

Ask any person in Maine to explain to you why Mills is losing and it can be summarized in posts like this, inherently arguing that Mills is not doing a good job “finding holes in Platner’s campaign” as opposed to, you know, doing a good job explaining why she’s a good candidate.

(Holds flashlight under chin) In the upcoming election, Republicans are going to say the Democrat... is bad (lightning crackles in background)

At risk of stating the obvious these people all run for reelection into their 80's because we let them. Clyburn, Mills, Bernie, Feinstein--all of them are subject to a simple process to prevent them from being an elected offical; we just scream and yell whenever someone suggests it.

people who say "why won't they retire": congress IS the retirement home www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

At this point I can only assume Kat Abughazaleh reminds that Mike from PA guy of a girl who turned him down in college

Maine has ranked choice voting for Senators. Even if this protest election for a local seat meant anything about the national mood (it doesn’t), what the Dem primary loser did to spoil the election here is *literally impossible to do with Mills/Platner.*

At this point I think libs may try running a physical handwritten list of grievances over the 2016 and 2024 elections as a candidate somewhere

Again, for the record, the filibuster is awful, should not exist, should have never existed, and nothing would be funnier if what finally forces Republicans to kill is is the fanatic demand they pass a bill that will be declared unconstitutional by three different circuits the instant Trump signs it

lol oh so he's LOSING losing huh

We are almost six months into her Senate campaign and Janet Mills' website does not appear to have an "On the Issues" link on her home page. It does have three different donate links, and I had to close two more popups asking for donations to take this screenshot.

Even by my insanely harsh expectations I'm overwhelmed at how desperately intrusive Microsoft has made CoPilot in their latest forced update. "Use CoPilot" is now the default option when you *copy and paste text in Word.* Jesus Christ guys how much have you sunk into this

They all said I was a FOOL for buying a plug-in hybrid when gas prices were low last year. Actually, nobody said that. But I’m going to pretend they did to burnish my ego.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Once again when this question comes up in every single conversation about raising the minimum wage I find myself having only one single response which is never appropriately answered: why the fuck not, asshole

A major reason I harp on about the lib mantra of "stop blaming Democrats for failing; you just didn't elect enough senators so really this is your fault" is because this is what the Republican version looks like and hopefully that gives you a clearer perspective of how sad and embarrassing it looks

2026 is going to go down as the most The Internet Is Not Real Life election in American history and the competition won't even be close

Supporting my theory that contrary to what everyone assumed by his quasi threat post last week, Trump always wanted to endorse Paxton, regardless of who was the “better” candidate against Talarico. If he wanted Paxton out of the race, he would’ve just offered him the DHS position instead of Mullen.

Democrats watched Trump and Scott Walker mutilate Wisconsin like Scar ruling the Pride Lands in The Lion King and now they’re looking at a potential 6-1 court majority that could facilitate the most well-earned revenge tour in modern American history. It’s going to be beautiful.

I know it was nine months ago and most Americans can't remember anything in politics more than a week old, but your occasional reminder that the whole "TACO Trump" meme was started by Chuck Schumer mocking Trump for being too much of a pussy to not start a war with Iran.

This should, with no sarcasm or irony whatsoever, be the highlight of every Democrat's campaign starting today. Trump just effectively gave the corporate version of a pardon to the most hated company on the planet. Absolutely no one supports this.

"AI Lego Jeffrey Epstein" is what my timeline's starting with today, what a time to be alive

Signed into eTrade and well that was a mistake

Okay cool Cory, a third of the entire US budget shouldn't go to the military and the top tax bracket should be higher than 37% too, but since you're not advocating changing either of those how exactly does this tax cut get funded, like which hospitals specifically do you think need to be closed

Libs: Hasan Piker is a stain on our politics, his positions are unacceptable and Democrats who go on his stream are tainted forever Also libs: this criminal and lifelong Republican says Trump sucks now, he’ll be a good fit for the House budget committee

Obviously Tucker is a racist, but what makes this such a peculiar form of racism is the very stupidity of the argument. All white people have a homeland, it’s the country they’re born in or have a strong ancestral or cultural connection to. That’s literally what a “homeland” is.

Ah, yes, that is what definitely will save the television animation model financed by merchandise and advertising profit: an expensive and illegal system that produces content the Supreme Court just said can’t be copyrighted. You are definitely smarter than the guy who created Amphibia on this.

Another element to this many folks have pointed out: per Article I, if the president takes no action on a bill within 10 days, it becomes law automatically. To follow through on this threat, he would either need to start vetoing, or Republicans would have to pass nothing during an election year.

This is the "management can't believe how unthankful you were about the pre-layoff pizza party" memo of wars

Separate from the point (this is a good thing and I'm glad for this good thing) I'm giggling at how there were ABSOLUTELY multiple meetings over "okay how do we visually iconify a strong accent with a stick figure that isn't offensive" and they went with "medieval Scotsman"

Holy shit someone on the news just pointed out these terms Trump is demanding in the bill do not match in the past House version which means he’s apparently saying he will sign no new laws unless the House passes a WORSE person of the SAVE Act they barely got out last time.

"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse

Kiley seems to think if there's a nationwide sweep for "not the Republican" he can skate through by simply pretending he's not the Republican and I guess that works if every single voter in his district is both incredibly stupid and not in any way insulted by how stupid he thinks they all are.

As I’ve said before, the far most likely scenario is Mullin sails through with like 20–30 Democrat votes, but I also think the inverse might be possible which is if Dems hold strong, there could actually not be enough votes to confirm him.

I think if Platner was the Republican candidate you’d be insisting the Democrat’s failings no matter how reprehensible don’t matter because making sure the Republican loses and Schumer gets one more vote for leader is all that matters and I know that because YOU LITERALLY FUCKING DID THAT A YEAR AGO

Obviously, he doesn’t mean this because he’s just stupid and insane as usual, but there is technically no law right now that funds the Department of Homeland Security, so, you know… Sure, works for me. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

I am neither condemning nor defending @grahamformaine.bsky.social here, I am pointing out that some of his centrist and left critics have devolved into absolute full-blown lunacy.

Made the mistake of not addressing people who respond to me posting “here is why Platner is winning” with “you support a Nazi, you Nazi” by just blocking them immediately and negating their existence from my life. This mistake has been corrected and will be continued as policy.

My problem with the Platner discussion is that no one acknowledges how insanely militaristic, pro-billionaire, transphobic, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, anti-Arab, etc., the mainstream Democratic party is. That opens a lane for candidate like this.

I'm just going to point out, again, that this is not a real or serious argument but just a proxy for people to argue about their own personal politics. No one really thinks elections work like this, and 99.9% of the people arguing over this ultimately vote Democrat

Oh FFS; so does every elected governor, congressperson, and senator at both the state and federal level and they actually campaign and do town halls. Seriously, keep going with this. You will definitely tweet your way out of a double digit lead, no need to course correct at all.

Again: no level of histrionics from non-Mainers on Bluesky will alleviate the fact that Janet Mills has not held a single town hall since announcing her senate bid, either as a candidate or in her capacity as sitting governor. Platner has held more than 20.