99% of the stuff in this NYT Platner article would be viewed as a badge of honor by the right if he were running as a Republican, including and especially the "I would totally rape an intruder, but like, not in a gay way," story... Which, it should hopefully be clear is not a defense of Platner.

Economist had a "Threat from the Illiberal Left" cover back in 2021 as well. Can't seem to find any threat of fascism covers, though. Weird!

The implication of Yglesias’ position is basically that Democratic voters should shut up and swallow whatever No Labels’ corporate donors priorities are.

Wish that a single journalist in this country would bring Scott Pelley's attitude-towards-management to conversations like this. This is patently idiotic on multiple levels. Prediction markets aren't an innovation - it's gambling. Making Congressional betting "subject to a blind trust" is nonsense.

This is also why I think Dems need to be more clear-eyed around stopping grift. From supplements, to MLMs, to crypto/memecoins and stocks, all of this stuff fuels the extreme rightwing while also taking advantage of Americans.

The UK isn't perfect but it does have so many things I am envious of: * Universal healthcare * Taskmaster * No Cenk Uygur allowed

I tried setting plans with 3 different friend couples for this weekend. 2 were attending separate 20 year college reunions. 3rd couple is attending a funeral. Feelin’ old.

How little I give a shit about baseball - just realizing four years on that they had a name change. Surprised Trump hasn't spent every waking hour of his administration trying to arrest them for wokism.

"Comes out against," I mean - it's basically a Susan Collins "concerned." It's nothing. Thune will do two things about this - Jack and Shit.

I agree with him but also think it’s difficult to look at American society today and think that people don’t prefer the most stupid dog shit you’ve ever seen.

Given that his eating and exercise habits, I guess I'm unsurprised that he felt like a warmed-over sack of shit 50 years ago too.

Sure feels like 2026 is less a 250th birthday of American democracy and more like it's time of death.

I fucking cannot stand Politico’s chuckle fuck tone - “Heehee, I was out for drinks last night while Republicans were taking the next step to fund stormtroopers for a decade and the Supreme Court set civil rights back 60 years, lol. Mike Johnson, FTW!”

So what, exactly, is the principle that Trump and his sycophants will try to advance here? Trump has obviously cheered on the death of his rivals in the past. So - it's fine to do that, but to make a joke about someone else anticipating such a death is beyond the pale?

This soldier is getting arrested for using Polymarket literally how it's intended to be used. "Insider trading," is part of his sales pitch for it.

It used to be that we imagined the Right as being a bunch of shadowy wealthy people intelligently/maliciously using rubes to their own personal ends, but now we're at a point where it's just an ouroboros of idiots.

Bingo. Same bill is in Congress right this minute. Zero Republican cosponsors.

Wild to just describe Swalwell/Gonzalez conduct as just "horniness." Also wild that Boebert who, uh, got caught giving a handjob in the audience of a family musical is getting on her high horse re: horniness.

On one hand, where tech like this will meaningfully improve the lives of folks with disabilities, I hope for the best. But Silicon Valley will neeeeevvvver get me to put on a brain reading beanie.

Trump admin once again giving the finger to even their most ardent supporters (here - Kid Rock). The DOJ gave Ticketmaster a sweetheart deal to keep scamming musicians and fans, but state AGs went ahead and secured a guilty verdict. Meanwhile, the DOJ is spending time helping domestic terrorists.

Vance, who knowingly spread a baseless lie that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets discusses how it’s important to be careful about what you say.

Wait, I thought it was the Pope who was soft on crime?

So folks claiming the President is a deeply religious man have a choice: A) Either he blasphemed and then bore false witness about just thinking it was for doctors; OR B) He's so unfamiliar with religious iconography, and so deeply stupid, that he sincerely thought this is what doctors look like

I assume that DoorDash very much told her "Don't talk about anything but no tax on tips," but I gotta say if more Americans were just open to being like, "I don't know anything about that, so I don't have an opinion," we'd all be much better off.

Yeaaaah, this is definitely the first time Trump has used faith as a prop. Sure. Totally.

Democracy nerds ears perked up on hearing the Pitt GSW victim was named Elbridge Gerry. Mispronounced it but very weird choice.

FAMK was great in early seasons when so much about it was more tied to the implications of the alt history and the complications of space exploration. The whole Mars political drama and Grandpa Ed (seemingly solving that though?) are a tough watch.

Also just notable because it's (I think) the only press conference she's held during this administration. Jill Biden never had one. Don't think Melania had one during Trump 1. So yeah, I think it's breaking news given how rare it is and how bizarre it was.

It is both a blessing and a curse that our nations most evil men are such fucking idiots.

Haven't read the entire opinion yet, but my immediate question is, under the rationale of the Court, can any speech-conduct restrictions for licensed professionals hold up?

This post made me go to Wikipedia to check in on Cenk and - Hasan Piker is dude’s nephew? I know I’m out of it and only see his name pop up in various dramas du jour but you gotta view anyone associated with Cenk/TYT with the hugest of red flags.

It is not easy to make stuff like this engaging, but I genuinely laughed out loud at Cloud hanging from that hoop, "It feels solid..."

The "obsessed with cigars"/"cigars in my profile picture" and "absolute douchiest person" venn diagram is a perfect circle and always has been.

Holy shit. I need this.

"Iran, this is your final, final, *final* warning," the President of the United States posted on his social network at 3:15am, shortly before a flurry of posts discussing the shoe sizes of various Mar A Lago guests and what he believed to be the connection to the size of their genitalia.

Dune is a boring series of books. That's it, that's the skeet.

Applicable to a helluva lot of Silicon Valley output over the past decade.

When Trump finally dies, I so look forward to all of the crocodile tears the right will spill over celebrations of his passing - and how much more attention the media will pay to that rather than the actual President doing it.

Trump also said COVID would go away by itself. He’s kind of a fucking idiot like that.

This is just after he bragged about how much death we were going to wage today, right?

“The Iran regime is basically obliterated, but we also need $200b in taxpayer dollars to continue fighting this dangerous scourge.” Sure, checks out guy.

Rude by MAGIC! would break me almost immediately.

Another red flag about Markwayne in a sea of them, honestly.

When reporters ask Trump about when the war in Iran will end, I think it'd be great for them to remind readers of all the times in 2020 that Trump claimed COVID was just going to disappear within weeks. CNN has a good reminder here, though who knows for how long - www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Can we also talk about how insane it is that the foundation of his platform is basically that “brown immigrants cause everything bad in the country,” and his latest idea is to… make ~30m Venezuelans citizens? Not to mention how that would impact his gerrymandering push.

“Mistakenly,” uh yeah sure.

"We want every American addicted to gambling. We want to commodify every single atom, every single breath you take, every moment of humanity."

I have no doubt that this project will be as successful as his efforts to make a Mars colony, a moon colony, driverless automobiles by 201x, etc. Also if you have to explicitly explain something as funny, it’s not funny.

True horseshoe theory apparently only applies to incandescent, irrational hatred of Hillary Clinton.