breaking my attempt at concentration to share a tidbit about Klippenstein, which is that he was a key vector of harassment 6 years ago when the internet decided to come after me for a bad Washington Post article. I haven't forgotten, or forgiven anyone

Donald Trump, Roy Moore, Tony Gonzalez, Ken Paxton, Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Chuck Edwards, Cory Mills, Herschel Walker, Christian Ziegler, Tom Reed, Madison Cawthorn, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Matt Souder, Blake Farenthold, Scott DesJarlais, Trent Franks, Pat Meehan, and Donald Trump

Antisemitism is a real and growing issue in American politics and culture, but the fact that American Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC went harder on Mamdani than on Platner is part of why we are making no headway in fighting it.

I always tell people that as a sports fan, I root for small market teams. I grew up in Oakland, dwarfed by the SF and LA franchises. This is the World Cup equivalent, and you love to see it.

Sanders’ judgment for people has been terrible for a long time. His support, and Elizabeth Warren’s, for Platner really illustrate that we need younger, sharper people to lead the left wing of the party. AOC and Mamdani are good illustrations of doing it right.

Elizabeth warren was a strong platner supporter *against* a perfectly viable woman candidate from her own party with progressive policies *after* everything everyone already knew about his statements and nazi tattoo. I can't stand these stupid hypocrites. skin crawling just thinking about them.

The IMF, every 10-15 years.

In addition to finding this guy migraine-inducing in both tone and content, the idea that the scrub of oppo didn’t flag the tattoo despite what we know about the military’s response to the tattoo speaks both to Patner’s duplicity and this guy being a total f*cking doofus.

11th Circuit: Academic freedom is specially protected by the First Amendment, though university professors are subject to some ordinary employee management. However, the state has no compelling interest in making academics mouthpieces for a government viewpoint consistent with the First Amendment.

"... market protectionism for one’s artisanal shoddy, boring ideas that cannot find an audience." 🔥

Anti-intellectualism is a bipartisan project and in both cases it’s basically market protectionism for one’s artisanal shoddy, boring ideas that cannot find an audience.

Sorry but the crudest parody of a Woke 1 feminist was basically just correct about powerful men and their insecurities and how disastrous that was. Everyday Feminism 101 article on Toxic Masculinity basically the book of Nostradamus.

The overhaul a new administration is going to require to deal with the Trump administration’s crimes is unprecedented. The only nearby point of comparison is Nuremberg, and even that didn’t involve probing the level of corruption we have to untangle.

Thinking about Platner in terms of political messaging and the practical value of moral high ground exposes the indifference to actual harm. The reason to oppose Platner is that he has no character, and character matters. He hurt women, and that’s disqualifying.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Honestly, on behalf of the Jewish delegation, we'd quite like to get rid of Gene. This would be the rare instance of white evangelicals helping us out.

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins

It's also worth noting that part of the process OF growing from alcohol-induced abusive behavior toward others is...not covering it up, not lying about it, not engaging in textbook levels of DARVO, and just plain not continuing to be a bastard even when you're sober.

The obvious problem with this is that it entails "I'd send a N*zi r*pist if they pull the D-lever." The less obvious problem is that the responsibilities of members of congress don't just involve voting, and do require more than mere lever pulling.

Public attention to federal funding research cuts has been on direct impacts, such as current cancer research. But as I wrote last year, the private sector won't train scientists, and universities need federal research $ to do that training. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

She was and is an evil person.

Combat sports are wildly corrupt, but they have the benefit of a more diffuse structure and so we don’t get the sort of concentrated corruption of FIFA. Though WBC is comparable.

The thing is, when Platner repeatedly insisted on lying about the tattoo scandal, it was clear that there were going to be more scandals. AOC deserves credit for reading the character, but everyone should’ve. It’s more damning on Sanders, Warren, etc.

Shout-out to my colleage @sophiatesfaye.bsky.social for pointing out how full of shit Tom Kean is. He gives this speech saying people shouldn't be ashamed to seek help. But he also spent years voting against people accessing help. So screw him. www.salon.com/2026/07/02/w...

The only comment from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on this issue should be an Alyssa Edwards tongue pop. Because he is right. Cassandro is more masculine than Ken Paxton, and everyone should say so.

Rahm is the single most cynical political actor in the Democratic Party, a title which is hotly contested by any number of cravin, narcissistic f*cks. This pivot from him tells you everything you need to know about where Israel policy in the Democratic Party is.

She ran Martin O’Malley 2016. That’s still the one that gets me.

It is genuinely impressive for FIFA to exceed expectations on corruption, given what people expected after Sochi, Qatar, and the Trumpiness.

“I’m so corrupt it’s buoying an entire nine-figure criminal industry!” Trump, basically

Data centers have been a pretty powerful signaling issue for anti-establishment candidates, because at this point voters look at anyone supporting those projects and just assume they are indifferent to public opinion. (Which isn’t wrong; they’re screwing up a 90-10 issue.)

It’s amazing how two of the most visibly corrupt institutions (FIFA and the Trump administration) still managed to be so brazenly corrupt. Also, if the US loses to Belgium anyway, it’d be just.

Stac Pollaidh from Feur-Loch, Assynt #Scotland #Assynt #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Whole thread is good (and the Mary Whitehouse points on TERF garbage should be flung directly at John Cleese). The failure of the LibDems to step up on this is (IMHO) one of the most obvious failures of political intelligence (not even backbone) in anglophone political history.

The Department of Energy removed roughly 6,000 web pages covering energy conservation topics The deletions came as over 165 million Americans faced dangerous heat across the Midwest and East Coast Energy Secretary Chris Wright had separately ordered mid-Atlantic data centers onto backup power

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'

McMorrow has been an atrocious candidate in this race. Not as bad as Mills, but really bad. Stevens is better, but El-Sayed has run a great campaign and absolutely deserves to win.

I grew up in the Reform community in the east bay, an area where the tensions here were always extremely explicit. (There have been dueling pro and anti Israel protests at a farmer’s market outside of the Grand Lake theater for years.) What struck me was local pro Israel reform Jews shifting.

This kind of thing is why the discussion around publishing industry "AI checkers" that we saw with Mia Ballard's Shy Girl is so disgusting.

The entire consumer-facing "A.i." industry is a fucking scam. Ban it from all your businesses and institutions.

It is my favorite comment from Herzog: youtu.be/m9P_sxaaMJE?...

This case is going to be a major public humiliation for the administration (and Pirro and Burgum in particular) and I’m here for it. We all know what a joke the Trump DOJ has been, from the Chicago filings, but this is going to be way stupider.

Mitch McConnell is one of the very worst Americans of this century, a force of selfishness and spite who laid waste to our political institutions and social stability like no foreign enemy ever could.

This is just fraud. Plain and simple.

You better not say Jews. It was me, Dan Goldberg from Camp Towanga, his Brandeis roommate Sam Wasserman, and Sam’s wife Rachel. Y’all better give Rachel Wasserman the credit she deserves, because she worked very hard for this.

first as farce then as farce

this is what happens when we spend a decade or more conceding that maybe the transphobes have a point, maybe the xenophobes have a point. NO. i am so angry right now at what this country has slid into. YET AGAIN.

A thread on the 2nd klan of the 1920s, which collapsed almost entirely in the late 1920s when the leaders were exposed as corrupt and immoral frauds who were basically running a pyramid scheme dressed up as “American patriotism.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

For my DC peeps, please be safe today. Lot of racists wandering around. While I am rooting for heat stroke for them, I want good people to stay hydrated, cool, and mellow.

If “all servers are data centers” discourse becomes a thing, it may drive me insane.