Imagine if Kamala Harris had campaigned like this. Imagine if NYT and WaPO would publish like this, and CNN and MSNBC and ABC and NPR would broadcast like this.

INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

LOL file this under: don't take advice from people who hate you

the rise of the DSA is testing the Vote Blue No Matter Who credentials of a lot of people who thought those credentials would never be tested personally, I meant it time for them to prove the same

I actually believe in it (for me personally) but you'll never catch me telling other people that because my game for the generals will always be turnout and voter access for folks who WANT to vote my way, not shouting at random people. I'm a lot more invested in fighting it out in the primaries.

yeah, all of these think pieces have been giving me hope because it feels like we turned a corner and folks are recognizing that the one place we need to emulate the GOP is we need to make our party terrified of the primaries. Vote Blue No Matter Who was a slogan of complacency for too many!

A reminder that Platner was down by three. The race has flipped 6 points with Jackson. Sometimes, “purity tests” like “does he have a Nazi tattoo and hate women” are not about purity, they’re about winning elections.

gosh it's almost like we don't need pieces of shit

this is why keeping corruption out of government is not some sideshow, it’s fundamental to effective governance if you cannot trust the people in charge of public health because “they changed their story due to bribes” is a legitimate inference, that is a crisis all on its own

so insane Amazing how the debt is never a concern when it comes to bombing people in other countries— only when it comes to helping people in our own

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

if you just went by the headline you might think the author was rehabilitating an egomaniacal white supremacist for no reason other than shock value. not so! it's actually to rewrite the "dems should moderate on wealth taxes and trans rights" article for the 1000th time

A white supremecist has higher order epistemological issues that make everything else they think suspect. They aren’t wrong on one minor issue, they fundamentally misunderstand people and society how they interact.

and also, isn't white supremacy such a profound intellectual error that you should immediately question the basic capacities of anyone who indulges it?

i'm sorry, what exactly is the evidence that hanania is a "former" white supremacist?

The person who brought in the Upskirting law is specifically accusing Rowling of breaking it.

Holy shit, we're actually getting there. "UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample [—] In tests, MethylScan detected about 63% of cancers across all stages and roughly 55% of early-stage cancers." (from April) #ShareGoodNewsToo

Gee, seems like the arrest of Meta exec Josh Felker for sexting a child and Meta’s history of consistently lax standards around child protection might be related

Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful.

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

Hard to overstate how angry Canadians are at Trump over these ridiculous tariffs. The United States has emitted the most carbon pollution in world history. It has caused these climate-driven wildfires. Oh and American air pollution routinely drifts into Canada. What utter bullshit.

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

THAT IS NOT HOW THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THE PENALTY FOR “FAILURE TO COMPLY” IS NOT A FUCKING DEATH SENTENCE!

Pool Owner Has Bathing Suit That Touched His Penis You Can Borrow https://theonion.com/pool-owner-has-bathing-suit-that-touched-his-penis-you-1819575301/

Also people are not overall very ideologically driven. It's not about appealing to the left (or right), it's about explaining to regular people who don't think any of this works for them how and why a left leaning agenda makes their lives better (because when we actually do it, it does!).

i know the track record of getting left leaning non-voters to show up is better than thinking the path to electoral victory is offering up center-right pablum in the hopes of peeling off republicans.

Consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress (2025-2026): SpaceX — $589,000 Home Depot — $536,500 Charter (Spectrum) — $407,000 UPS — $353,500 Chevron — $352,500 Walmart — $308,000 Valero — $297,500 New York Life — $295,500 Altria (Marlboro) — $279,000 Aflac — $278,000 (1/3)

Get a load of this.

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

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I say this only because the theory of the case under Biden/Garland for the Trumpworld guys seemed to be that allowing them to corruptly wriggle free made them somehow look worse than arresting and imprisoning them would've and like... no it didn't.

Joe Manchin opens his memoir reflecting gleefully on killing Build Back Better.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

I like how Platner was this singular irreplaceable figure and within ten seconds everyone was able to go “never mind this other guy is just as good”

I’ve been writing about the rich for years and ho boy, this one

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

If we vetted these ICE motherfuckers we’d probably find that most of them have a history of violence against women. Worth mentioning that almost every mass shooter turns out to have a history of violence against women.

Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.

Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.

People like Riley Gaines and Chris Rufo understand swaying public opinion leads to policy. Liberals for my money are too fucking earnest and are terrified of media manipulation. It’s a big reason we lose so much.

Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

The letter ends with Mrs Gardiner remarking that she needs to stop writing and attend to her children, which I imagine feels more urgent after spending any amount of time trying to reason with Lydia

Followers of Republican Jesus believe God gave us this planet to destroy as we please, and they will not be inconvenienced by caring about other living things.

Mullin claims DHS will “scrub all election records” and asserts that dead people are voting