Here's why so much election analysis is basically useless: A race decided by a point and a half can be blamed on almost anything. Most party autopsies don't stand the test of time, and the narratives that get pushed are mainly exercises in confirmation bias www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-29...

The Supreme Court tried to save him from himself, but he's too stupid to grab the life preserver.

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper

Machine gun lips

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

#piggy getting a lot of attention today #oink

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Same @bsky.app

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

@msnbc.com gleefully playing Trump’s F-bomb at least once an hour.

What do New York Republicans need to do to fully repeal the SALT cap? Nothing. It's already set to expire in January 2026, saving New York families billions in taxes. Remember, if the cap remains in any form, it's only because New York Republicans will have voted to keep it.

Going on a national news show like This Week and hurling false and defamatory accusations when you’re a private person and not a government official seems like a risky legal strategy, Reince Preibus.

This is wild. Cue the pardons….

I don’t think there’s any question. Nothing you can do about it without SEC/DOJ enforcement. But if you assume this happening, best not to panic sell, and buy the dips if you can stomach it.

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

The S&P went negative for the year. All gains since April 2024 gone.

The Atlantic and @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social are committing journalism today. They have a vetted mega-scoop. They handled it responsibly. The WH and Admin lied about it. The Atlantic called their bluff. The material released just now is even more damning for the Trump team.

The “breaking news!” announcements every time the Pope does something reflecting life and his general good health is high level trolling.

The Mayor of NYC has been compromised by presidential blackmail. The fear of a future indictment keeps Mayor Adams permanently under the thumb of the Trump Administration—at the expense of New York.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

I think my curse is to be the only person in America who remembers what it was that made Joe Biden's popularity permanently collapse, knowledge that obliterates every single theory of public persuasion and mass opinion save one

Kathy Hochul could still remove Eric Adams from office right now. 'Let the process play out'? He just corruptly traded the powers of his office, and the people of the city, to subvert that process. Leaving him place is allowing him to deliver his end of the quid pro quo and makes her complicit.

Schumer: You’re in her DMs supporting Trump tariffs. I’m out here tweeting about tomato prices. We are not the same.

It’s clear that some Jan. 6 defendants plotted their conspiracy to engage in violence at the Capitol while still present in their home states. Blue state prosecutors should consider whether they have jurisdiction to charge these crimes since Trump can’t pardon them.

Baron Trump giving

Concerns about Hegseth’s appointment feels like a deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic situation.

Guy who is excited about Trump invading Canada and Greenland because he considers them four new safely blue senate seats

People are overusing this “obeying in advance” term to the point it’s become a nonsensical trope. It means anything ranging from “complying with the literal current law” at one extreme, to “paying bribes to officials” at the other.

What's more compelling? A. "The Republicans have broken our bipartisan agreement, harming the working class Americans they claim to support" B. "We've never seen this before in history - an entire political party taking orders from the richest man on earth to sabotage America. It's shocking"

i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

for once Dems should hold firm. let Rs close govt at Xmas. GO ahead, make my day. It's time he is responsible for his own messes.

Democrats are the Washington Generals of politics. Their whole purpose is to set up the play so that the Globetrotters can dunk on them in the most spectacular way possible to the delight of the fans.

Who is this year’s Time Magazine’s “he’s a jolly good fellow which nobody can deny?”

What’s different here? A guy got murdered in a novel way, and the internet finds that exciting. The reason they’re talking about healthcare is that that’s the industry he was in. If it had been a retail exec or auto exec or whatever, people would be talking about how THOSE industries had it coming.

If the Monopoly money in the backpack came from the killer, then the Deny Defend Depose on the bullets may be a troll too. There are OTHER reasons why someone might want to kill UHC CEO. abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhea...

Still a good possibility that the assassination was a paid hit. It’s virtually impossible in NYC to place yourself at the exact right spot at the exact right moment where someone else is without inside information. The inscribed bullets and vague stories of “threats” seem like diversion to me.

Amish at checkout at Trader Joes. Cashier: (panicking) your outfit is very….plain.

You can’t really get objective viewpoints from former DOJ officials on presidential pardon power. They are institutionally predisposed to hate the pardon power because they universally view it as interfering with their work. Nevertheless it is right there in the Constitution!

The Pardon Power is anti “rule of law” the same way that the Bill of Rights is anti-democratic. They are both structural checks on abuse of power.

Will never get over that Biden/Harris ran on and boasted about “cheap insulin” when the benefits of that policy were not enjoyed by the majority of people who actually need insulin to live — Type I diabetics under 65. Totally cynical.

“It’s important to acknowledge this was normalized by the Blue Team.” 💯 correct. Now eat your new NIH Director Dr Jay Bhattacharya (non-licensed MD who never completed residency) king propagandist for corporations and your HHS director, RFK Jr. too. Enjoy SARS-CoV-2’s lifelong disease progression.

Not going to name names but I think some of you are still posting your best stuff on the other site.

My feed needs more random bangers.

after reading this, a friend wrote to remind me that judges only get protection through the marshals office, run out of DOJ, so AG Matt Gaetz will decide whether federal judges get protection from the tsunami of threats they face when they say something unpopular... slate.com/news-and-pol...

Markets crashing on Trump’s dumb cabinet nominations. Even if he’s supposedly “pro-business” there is only so much instability the market will bear.

we are truly in the bad place

New here and posting just so people know I’m a “real person”* *not a real person.