Who is doing Paul Wellstone Wikipedia? He is now center-left? Lol.

Polis should be impeached. Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

sounds great! 👍

Calling HR on speaker phone to ask whether going home early for pooping my pants is sick or vacation time

"[I]n Florida, the period between the signing of a death warrant and an execution is roughly one month, on average ... Florida's own history of wrongful convictions in capital cases underscores what is at stake. No state has exonerated more death row prisoners, 30 men in all."

Well, if kids didn't have to directly pay for their college education, sounds like a lot of the complaints go away? Why don't we tackle it from that direction? Oh, because if we do that you can't be a hateful bigot toward people who are not responsible for your problems like at all? Ok makes sense.

Your kid isn’t special. And your kid is a terrible athlete. Also, you’re a terrible parent. Stop deluding yourself.

If a person is fired for a blog post and no one mentions it in an essay in the Atlantic, do they really get canceled?

Do you think there’s any connection between our government’s extremist support for Israel and the high price of gasoline right now

Unlike obsessing over Israel while the cost of living is high which is helpful, patriotic, and not at all based on people’s bigotries.

it's remarkable reading this in retrospect

The problem is that all Chait has done in the last two decades is scream "pivot to center!" (and occasionally "charter schools are perfect and don't ask what my wife's job is") Falls on deaf ears after a while.

If DSA-backed representatives undermined Democratic legislative priorities, I would be more receptive to this line of thinking, but the Squad are largely loyal and reliable partisan soldiers. It's Blue Dogs that consistently poke the eyes of leadership and trash talk the Party to CNN.

Melat Kiros was born in the same year that DeGette first won election to the House. Wild.

I hadn't realized that Kiros was a legitimate victim of actual Cancel Culture: she was fired from her Big Law firm for writing a blog post saying that US law firms were too opposed to pro-Palestine student protests

Why didn’t they ask her about her rotten avocados and dirt weed

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

according to reactionary centrists, it is a gross injustice for the left to run third parties or to run in primaries

BREAKING: New Mexico just adopted some of the strongest oil and gas bonding/cleanup rules in the country to address orphaned wells. It is something we have worked on for a LONG time with many, many community partners. This is a true BFD. #NMPol 🌎

"What do all these things have in common? I don't like them."

Like saying, “how were the nazis racist? Germans and Jews were both European!” Well they didn’t see it that way, obviously bsky.app/profile/shar...

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

Betting is so unregulated & growing so fast in the US that it's creating a growing population of problem gamblers—Researchers at the New York Fed looked at millions of credit reports to show that debt delinquency jumps in states that legalized sports betting (and their neighbors)

'"it was common knowledge in the late 60s that ICI were coming at midnight + just getting rid of all the drums of acid on the golf course,” says Dave Parry, a former Malkins Bank employee.' A handwritten log indicates the site received waste from big chemical firms.

One of the most striking things here is how absolutely mutable conservatives’ specific views are. Trump emerged on the scene ten years ago and within that time, it has become dogma that the previous 160 years of birthright citizenship are incompatible with even *being* a nation.

The big story left in Colorado: Will the governor candidate who claims to have killed many people defeat the governor candidate who has not claimed to have killed anyone

Melat Kiros wins the Democratic nomination for Colorado’s 1st congressional district, defeating longtime incumbent Diana DeGette, @nbcnews.com projects.

DSA candidate, Melat Kiros, has defeated a 29-year incumbent in her primary for Colorado's 1st House She will head to congress in November as the seat is a safe Democratic seat

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

What this tells me is when it happens we can all get rich as hell

@mattyglesias.bsky.social can you give us an update on the board please I'll read any one of your dogshit blog posts if you do

it's kind of fascinating how these are treated as equally bad

NEW: Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros leads Rep Diana DeGette by 2% in the first round of ballots from Denver (approx 2/3rds of the vote). These were the votes most likely to be favorable for DeGette. This could be over early for the 29 year incumbent. Astonishing.

KIROS IS IN THE LEAD

Hickenlooper in a very close race with Gonzales

the thing that kills me is there are just SO MANY interesting activists, artists, scientists, creators, and thinkers, and you go out of your way to platform a dim bigot from gig harbor being a voluntary amplifier of nazi propaganda amplification aside, it's just a profound lack of any imagination

Arnold Schwarzenegger really said "Ice to meet you" as Mr. Freeze in "Batman and Robin," and no one said anything. And people wonder why we are where we are today.

If self-own was a photo.

greedflation theory (sophisticated version) explains a lot

Tough read. interc.pt/4fcc6Tr

I don’t know what’s going on with Ezra Klein. But I do know that much of what he’s said & written has created a permission structure for centrists to negotiate the surrender of liberal democracy to a combo of the right + energy & tech oligarchs—all while abandoning the progressive left.

Some people say that the Supreme Court decides many questions largely on the basis of politics. Do you agree or disagree with this? Agree 43% Disagree 36% No opinion 21% Gallup poll ... June 1946

The bond market is worried that Elon Musk won't be able to keep SpaceX out of bankruptcy deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...

Yikes. It's not like she even heard a false rumor that Alito was retiring, she heard the pro forma end-of-term announcement that federal judicial retirements would be announced and just assumed it was Alito and made no effort to corroborate it!

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol