I think it’s a mistake to talk about the US having “allies” anymore. Under Trump, there’s adversaries and targets.

I don't know why media continues to print what Trump says about the Iran war. He doesn't know any more than we do. He's just saying whatever he thinks sounds like a normal thing to say.

Platner was not a referendum on the electoral utility of sometimes running outsiders, or progressive insurgents, or candidates with a more blue collar background (again: real or not). It blew up because this particular dude is hot garbage. It doesn't have to represent a bigger meta-trend than that.

Picture narrative is that the human really wasn't sure the neanderthal would like it, but it was exactly what he'd always wanted.

I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”

hate to praise Massie, but this is funny

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

Working up my scouting report for every male lead in a Hallmark movie.

what exactly is a cease fire anyways

I genuinely do not get why the narrative has become “Platner was pushed forward by leftists”. Like…the only people I have seen in the last six months argue AGAINST Platner were leftists.

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

Don’t send a man to do a woman’s job

Must be said, Bluesky was way more correct about Platner

There are so many guys out there! The numbers are good we don’t actually have to keep all the bad ones! There are endless guys! Toss the bad ones out I promise there will still be more guys! You’re not gonna run out of guys!

aoc was a bartender, she’s probably dealt with too many graham platners

how can I mute the entire concept of Maine

This edit of a new and older trad wife is perfect

Guys you don't understand, when FIFA gives you the Peace Prize, you get one free referee overrule that you can use anytime.

The roses are red The garden is quiet But no one expects

FIFA when it’s time to do corruption

People are always telling me the tech guys need to take humanities classes like Peter Thiel didn’t study philosophy. Perrhaps the folks advocating this line of bullshit are maybe just sort of doing the same “the solution to the problem is that I should be paid” as everybody else. The issue is power!

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

What if I told you they are STILL GOING OFF, now, at 12:38 AM, and the smoke is so thick you can't even see them?

Americans when they hear Europeans don't have air conditioning

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Can we call them Nazis without being scolded by Democrats, yet?

Anyone do this yet

in tagalog, instead of saying “whatever happens happens” we say “bahala na si batman” which loosely translates to “let batman handle it” and i think that’s beautiful

The Great American State Fair has officially pulled out of the Great American State Fair.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

I'm not sure there is a more cooked brain on the planet than Joe Rogan's

There are about 200 Tesla Semis on the road, so 0.5% of the them have already been involved in a fatal incident, which comes out to about 50 per 10,000 vehicles. That’s roughly 14x the general large-truck per-vehicle fatal-crash involvement rate. Spectacular product.

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

Vance is right. By the end of the six-year term for senators elected this fall, Sotomayor will be 78, Roberts 77, and Kagan 72. It’s quite possible that senators elected in the midterms will vote, during that term, on nominees to replace one or more of the five in the majority.

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

Updated: Over the last 8 days, I'm counting 15 Democratic incumbents who have lost to a challenger to their left. —3 congressmembers (2 NY, 1 CO) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —8 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD, 2 CO) Here's a thread for you to know about all 15 results:

Every action is literally performative. Every outreach to voters is a performance about values. So what platforms and valuattive actions do Democrats want to perform?

Wait a minute, this crab on top of me in the bucket seems awfully tall for a female

The problem here isn't trans kids in sports. The problem is that a lot of kids can only afford college if they're the best at sports. That's the actual problem

The most powerful government that this world has ever known is directing its full resources to defeating seven or eight teenage girls who want to play soccer

a politician basically has two jobs: 1. be effective at translating the needs of their constituents into policy, and 2. selling that effectiveness to voters. if you're getting outflanked by an energetic primary challenger, you've probably failed at least one of those jobs

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

NEW STORY: “It is general knowledge in our practice that for $2 million, you can have a pardon,” a prominent defense attorney told me. Others said $1-2 million is the going rate, though clients were offering *many* times that amount for challenging cases. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I want to see a movement rise that actually puts the needs, dignity, and thriving of all human beings first—and you'll know if it does, because the media will treat it as "dangerous" in a way that it never managed for open white supremacist fascism led by an illiterate addled Nazi ragejunky.

Democrats have made it quite clear we have to replace most of them if we are going to actually fight Republicans and billionaires and the rest of this fascist menace, so let's go. The more "radical" the better. The more socialist the better.

Oh the DSA is really cooking, now. They've escaped containment. No incumbent is safe.