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My dog is taking Clavamox, which Big Pharma claims is a combination of amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium, but which is actually a portmanteau of Clavicular and looksmaxxing

If you found it shocking that Trump might collect a settlement from his own IRS, channeling tax dollars directly into his pocket, the alternative he's now pondering could be worse. Senior editor @michaelmechanic.bsky.social explains.

I wrote about why Gov. Jared Polis did the right thing when he commuted Tina Peters' prison sentence. Please give it a read and let me know what you think!

This is all true. But also, Maine and Nebraska should agree to both move to winner-take-all Electoral College systems to avoid the extremely destabilizing game of democratic chicken that happened in 2024. As a wise man once said, "It's time for some game theory."

Jared Polis did the right thing.

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It seems clear to me that there needs to be a concerted effort get to Massey, the Indiana Republicans who got primaried, and similar folks to run as independents in some of the gerrymandered congressional districts. Democrats should vote for them.

If Paine and Burke were alive today, they would cohost a Bulwark podcast

The filibuster is a good thing!

VAR did a Virginia Supreme Court

yes. do more of this please.

This was always a potential outcome, not because the VA court is acting out of partisanship, but because VA previously banned partisan gerrymandering and it has a complex process for constitutional amendments.

The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

[email protected] told ChatGPT he was going to use the same AR-15 that “the guy in Uvalde went with.” The chatbot kept helping him prepare for his simulated plan.

If you go on Twitter, you can actually find people defending the Comey indictment!

Who helped draw DeSantis' Florida gerrymander? His staff won’t way.

I'm maybe willing to believe that someone, somewhere was offended by Kimmel's joke. I'm entirely unwilling to believe that anyone, anywhere was offended by the Comey shells. And no one, nowhere believes that either one of those things was an attempt to incite violence.

Jonathan Turley would like to assure you that while he personally abhors James Comey's hateful and repugnant shell numbers, he feels honor-bound to defend Comey's constitutional rights. Sir, Comey didn't burn a cross or deny the Holocaust. He's a retired dude Instagramming his beach vacation.

Will Climate Change Make It Harder for Former FBI Directors to Threaten the President?

There's a clear off-ramp here for everyone: Let the Trumps transition to a hereditary line of purely ceremonial heads of state with power over ballroom-construction and nothing else. Then hold an immediate election for a new head of government. Is this un-American? Yes! But it's still a win-win.

This is the AIPAC equivalent of conservatives blaming Democrats for the rise of Trump because Obama had the temerity to defeat Mitt Romeny

1. News organizations should have refused to attend the dinner 2. Harsh anti-Trump rhetoric and harsh media criticism don't cause shootings, and you don't need to "tone down" your rhetoric (as long as it's accurate) 3. None of that justifies being a jerk on Bluesky

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

The WHCD is already too cozy, too much of celebration of the relationship BETWEEN the press and administration. To have it on the grounds would be an admission that there is no boundary at all. I mean, maybe that’s more honest, but it’d be an official concession.

You cannot have the WHCD dinner at the WH. The ballroom will not fix the problem of non-state, private events that the president is invited to attend! Imagine if the WH (in any admin) was allowed total veto power over a guest list! Imagine them being able to control it generally!

A little more than a year ago, @paperwords.bsky.social received a letter from the US Forest Service detailing plans for a new wildfire recovery project. But a single word caught his eye—and alerted him to a secret, Big Tobacco-style campaign with ramifications for our forests. 🧵

The Correspondents Dinner obviously isn't a paragon of press independence, but it is—at least nominally—organized by and for journalists whose job is investigating the president. Trump & Co. want to give the White House complete control over it. However bad it is now, that would be much worse.

I agree that the Va. Supreme Court invalidating the referendum after allowing the vote to go forward would be absurdly expensive and destabilizing; they could have just answered the question months ago. But this argument—that the suit is a GOP assault on democratic election results—is really weak.

People here are being really shitty, including at fellow journalists who've been traumatized, and you will regret those posts. Or should. Also this does not help your political cause, whatever that might be.

Of course, Trump did promise to lower prices…

THIS is fucking backbone and judges using the rule of law to fight corruption.

Don’t blame me. I voted “No”; “Bustamante”

Not *everything* in the actual text of these pieces is contradictory, but the headline of today's editorial is incredible given that the earlier Texas editorial assures us: "Even if Texas’s move triggers an arms race, the trend will not put American democracy on life support."

I don't know whether this allegation is true and whether it constitutes a crime by the SPLC. But I'm quite certain it isn't evidence of the SPLC secretly propping up extremism!

There's a scene in the documentary Winged Migration where crabs eat a baby bird. When I saw it in a theater, people were really upset; they gasped. I was a drunk 21-year-old jerk and laughed because it seemed so hypocritical—birds eat shellfish all the time! Anyway, same feeling* reading this...

10-1 is 6-7 for grown ups. It's very enjoyable now, though by 2030 it's going to become a problem.

Again, for the zillionth time, the new Virginia map is bad* and congressional Republicans should get rid of it by striking a deal with Democrats to ban gerrymandering nationwide

Basically, the *only* thing Congress accomplishes these days is censuring each other, expelling each other, and resigning

That'd be good. Even better: officeholders flatly shouldn't be able to sue for defamation at all. It's seditious libel by other means. If it's really that important, if your personal vindication outweighs the public interest against officials punishing criticism, then pursue it as a private citizen.

I agree with most of this piece, but I'm a bit stuck on this part. If you think of dog parks as public parks for people who have dogs, how are they different from public tennis courts? More people own dogs than play tennis. (I say this an a user of DC's free public dog parks and tennis courts.)

My freedom of the press pocket square has people asking questions already answered by my square

guys i'm worried that trump might not turn out to be a very good president

NEW: The mass shootings at Tumbler Ridge and FSU raise urgent questions about people using ChatGPT and other chatbots to plan deadly violence—which is happening far beyond those cases, my new investigation shows www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 🧵

oh shit they did the meme

There's a lot of really unfortunate framing in this article that denigrates hard-working journalists who do dangerous and important on-the-ground reporting. It conflates serious journalists from across the political spectrum with influencers who don't operate with the same good faith