Platner is responsible for his own actions, but the behavior of the political people around him has been just appalling. The *overall* situation is more their fault than his and they shouldn't work in Democratic politics again.

All the Very Serious People who told you Trump can't cancel elections were technically correct. Unfortunately, they left out the part about how he will aggressively move to hinder voting, create chaos around the election and ultimately use his executive power to swing it.

Bro what about the 75 billion-with-a-b dollars Congress gave you last summer

Argentina vs. Cabo Verde England vs. Mexico Wow, wow, wow. Absolute cinema just days apart.

As a person of 50% Norwegian heritage, I support this exhuberance. Frankly, it's probably the most emotion Norwegians have shown publicly in centuries.

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

A convicted fraudster and crypto-gambler handed out a business card printed with the Reform UK logo and Nigel Farage’s official email address, despite having no formal role in the party, The Times can reveal. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

oh no, anything but the globalist world cup

A credulous media will be the death of the republic

We've updated this story to reflect today's shocking sentencing hearing, with many defendants receiving the maximum sentence for their charges.

Like gambling companies just shamelessly rebranded themselves as something that sounds like science-based financial management software and reporters just went with it

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

The president not knowing the difference between "political asylum" and an "insane asylum" is a four-alarm executive branch fire whether or not the media treats it as one

Let’s check in to see how things are going in the meritocracy. Ah, yes. The guy deemed by just about everyone to be our best is now being forced into retirement. Of course. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

At least NINE law enforcement or military officials were involved in detaining this ONE man for sticking his hand in the reflecting pool

He's describing piracy

The world's first trillionaire received 38 Billion Dollars from the US government. But, no, we won't have enough money to pay for school lunches for your kids. Or give you healthcare. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The American taxpayer is responsible for making Musk a trillionaire: without the billions in public funds that have repeatedly bailed out and kept afloat his multiple failing businesses, he'd be just another serial bankrupt. His fortune was built on OUR backs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a real AI-generated video just posted by both Trump and the White House online.

That's weird because all the illegal immigrants *I* see don't seem to have much money at all. Trump's personal wealth, however, has increased 165% in the last 18 months. Musk's wealth has nearly doubled. I'm pretty sure the people with all the money are the people taking your money.

There are a hundred "Is Mamdani Being Insensitive to Jews By Acknowledging that Palestinians Are Human?" stories in outlets like the NY Times, meanwhile multiple Republican politicians LITERALLY say that all Muslims are terrorists who should be expelled from the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

Pete's always like, "You must prepare for the day you'll look your enemy in the eye, just before plunging your bayonet into his throat." And it's like, buddy, you were a National Guard augmentee in a civil affairs unit. Take it easy.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Hello Donald this is your communications strategist speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit

@gelliottmorris.com notes a DIFFERENT statistical problem with the SCOTUS ruling here. Basically, SCOTUS gutted VRA bc their DEI hires are bad at stats. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

After submitting dodgy numbers in TX redistricting case, DOJ (aka Harmeet Dhillon) submitted dodgy numbers to SCOTUS. Seems like it'd be useful to focus on Harmeet's duty of candor as a lawyer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WATCH: “Does this feel like the right thing to do? Are you ready to be on the wrong side of side of history?” Tennessee Republicans generally remorseless about stripping representation from majority Black Memphis, drowning it out with white power to protect a corrupt president.

The incentives here are so diabolically fucked up that it's hard to wrap your brain around it

Secret Service shot a kid today

Born in French Equatorial Africa, Andree Blouin endured years of neglect & abuse in a colonial orphanage, which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at 15. The death of her 2 yo son, who was denied malaria medication by the French bc he was 1/4 African, radicalized her.

I was wondering the other day if blue book exams are seeing a resurgence. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

How do underwriters pronounce "dodging mines" It's "fuck no" I think?

The Republic faces an existential threat from a far right authoritarian party that has totally given up on democracy & the rule of law. And yet, a group of Democratic Senators continue to insist that palling around with the crypto & AI techno-fascists & doing a bipartisanship is all fine.

Merciless and exasperating

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

if you want people to participate in democracy, and I cannot emphasize this enough, you must demonstrate that democracy will give them an opportunity to influence outcomes. refusal to hold accountable the most nakedly criminal administration in history, despite overwhelming outcry, breeds nihilism.

Impeachment is warranted in its own right as an investigative tool when, as here, POTUS hides information from Congress. But also: the *failure* to push impeachment signals the party isn't aligned with its own voters or even the overall majority, which supports it. Nothing good comes from that.

Don’t let last night’s attack be weaponized into silence. Speaking truth to power and demanding accountability from our leaders isn’t dangerous rhetoric, it’s the foundation of democracy. We can condemn violence and also demand accountability from our leaders.

From Michael Grynbaum’s dispatch from the Washington Hilton’s ballroom:

Also, Admin sources are claiming his statements are anti-Christian. the manifesto itself, at least, actually situates what he was doing within Christianity, in the same way JD situates the Iran War.

The January 6 President January 6 was not the end of a crisis—it was the moment America chose to postpone accountability. Five years later, the cost of that delay is no longer theoretical. It is political reality, and it is still unfolding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-januar...

It’s exactly what we should be focused on.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

I hate that this administration has turned me into a conspiracy theorist.

I for one will never, ever forget how quickly and easily American institutions and businesses embraced fascism when this loser took power

I still remember the role every single public figure and media organization played during the lead-up to George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. Have a similar mental list for the era of MAGA fascism.