Because Maine is 95% white so the voters don’t really give a shit

Kristi Noem on her first day as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

new type of weirdo just dropped

University of Arizona hands down.

This is the same reason I get mad at the Dems constantly insisting every shitty thing Trump does is a distraction from the last shitty thing Trump did. Buddy, I’ve got nothing but time and rage, I can be mad at all of it AND at you, too.

if you ever called donald trump the “peace candidate” or expressed a similar sentiment, please have the decency to delete your account and go away and let smarter people discuss politics

I dunno, even at my most cynical, do not think I could’ve predicted how stupid and cruel this country would become

In 2024 Rufo offered $5000 to anyone who could prove Haitian migrants were eating pets. Then he turns around and wonders why the brains of so many people on the right have melted into conspiracy slop

There is simply no good reason to trust these opaque organisations that represent mainstream science. Have you considered trusting a relentlessly unpleasant and disingenuous guy with a substack instead?

You should not come to the World Cup

A lot of discussion about faith and politics, and as someone who regularly attends church but am not quite sure what I actually believe, my general feeling is that Democrats need leaders who can articulate their moral clarity about why they’re running and where this country needs to go.

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

“The public is aligned with” shut up. Shut the fuck up. Never speak again. If I want the public’s opinion I’ll give it to them

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

“Are you a good enough person to vote for a very bad person?” does seem to put the onus in the wrong place

What if McCarthyism but even dumber bsky.app/profile/atru...

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

As many are noting, this is not true! On Amtrak back in August, I was opening my wallet to show a conductor my driver's license without thinking, and he said “I don’t need your ID, sweetheart. I ain’t the police.” Then we both laughed.

Probably an inflated number anyway (ahem, "suspected") but this is precisely the result guaranteed by Stephen Miller's quotas. Finding gang members / terrorists is hard, and there aren't many. But grabbing green card holders & asylum seekers at court hearings & schools is super easy.

They’re calling it the least weird thing you could find in a bathroom on Bourbon Street

i think we should let Claude handle these peoples autonomic breathing and involuntary respiration and whatnot. we are replacing your lungs with a claude machine my man, you are in the future now

wait wow that's so crazy immigrants are massively critical to nursing and home healthcare who would have guessed or known something about it before hand like any one thing but i guess not oh well

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Mitch McConnell isn’t dead yet, but my birthday’s in 4 days if he wants to give me a present.

"One day, we will read these to Simon. He will never forget his Daddy because all of you have left him a documented history book of who Dan was." defector.com/a-message-fr...

Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.

Reminds me of the email where the studio said you had to refer to BORAT 2 as either “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” or “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” and anything else would get your press access revoked.

Yes and

this is a phenomenal quote

lol

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

I'm actually not in the Epstein files

I love this guy, very calming using historical analogy reading his city council for filth.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

This is a winning message and I sincerely hope the Trump administration continues to deploy it every time this topic comes up in public

The entire minnesota delegation needs to be at Whipple by lunch.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

RIP Dan McQuade, a kind and hilarious colleague from my Philly Weekly days who left us far too young. His boots-on-the-ground coverage of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle still makes me laugh whenever I think of it.

You can pry my Doritos out of my cold stoned hands

Some thoughts on one of the best friends I ever had.

Dan getting a vendor at the Wildwood Boardwalk to make him a baby onesie with a janky Eagles logo and the text “fueled by haters” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. RIP to a real one.

Everyone is saying the same things, but they’re worth saying again, because they’re so true: Dan was so kind and funny and just such a gem of a person.