Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."

Cartoon by Bill Schorr

You better believe we will take back the House, we will issue subpoenas, and we will continue to fight for justice. Full stop.

First-time voters say they’re voting for James Talarico: “The fact that Talarico doesn't plan on taking any PAC money… He's free to actually be a servant of the people rather than the billionaire.” “He's not about like the big corporations, and he really cares about people.”

James Talarico: Dan Patrick has spent decades selling out the sick and the poor and the vulnerable, all to enrich his donors, and now he's accusing me of blasphemy. Love sometimes feels blasphemous when you worship power.

James Talarico: Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are worried that we're about to take back Texas. So they're going to throw everything they have at us. I think Texans are hungry for leaders who are going to actually solve problems instead of throwing cheap nicknames at each other.

James Talarico: Ken Paxton let a pedophile back onto our streets. Adam Hoffman, an admitted child molester, should have served 25 years to life in prison, but instead he served less than 29 days, and that's because Ken Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal.

Unearthed documents reveal Ken Paxton celebrating a Texas law that forces women to leave the state to receive life-saving reproductive care. He bragged the law is “stimulating” interstate travel.

Q: Mr. Paxton, what do you think about Adam Hoffman? Ken Paxton: *no response* Q: Why did you give a plea deal for a child sex predator? Ken Paxton: *no response* Q: What do you have to say to the victim of Adam Hoffman? Ken Paxton: *no response*

Ken Paxton says he often doesn’t want to be in Texas and prefers spending time in California, where he grew up, instead: “I like places in California, even though I don’t like to admit that I go to California, but it’s beautiful.”

Unearthed footage: Ken Paxton talks about how much he loved growing up in California and says he hated leaving: Paxton: “The hardest for me was leaving California.” Host: “No one does that willingly.”

James Talarico: These billionaires and their puppets have the wrong state of mind. Their hearts and their dreams are just not big enough. They have been shrinking Texas for 3 decades now. But that ends in this election. In November, we can make Texas big again.

James Talarico: This election shouldn't be about the Democratic or the Republican Party. It should be about a vision of what our state can be: Texas schools that are the envy of the nation, a Texas economy that is second to none. It won't happen overnight. But a giant state deserves giant dreams.

Talarico: One night, my birth father became abusive again. But that night, my mom declared her own independence. She packed all our stuff into her little Ford Escort. That's what it means to be a Texan. It's in our blood. Texans don't like tyrants, and we don't surrender easily.

Talarico: The current political landscape is too small for Texas. The politics of this state is narrow-minded and short-sighted. The uniquely Texan ability to welcome new friends and new ideas has made us one of the most exciting and innovative states in the country.

Talarico: Ken Paxton was born in North Dakota, raised in California, and has a place in Hawaii. What makes a Texan is not in the boots or in the truck, it's deep in the heart. These billionaires and their puppets have the wrong state of mind. Their hearts and their dreams are just not big enough.

Susan Collins is REFUSING to debate Graham Platner. Shocking? Not really. When you’ve spent years dodging accountability, why start now? Maine voters see you, Senator. Time to show up. #CollinsAfraid #PlatnerForSenate

AOC: “If you don’t want to be prosecuted, don’t do crimes”.

I've come around to deciding that it's actually good that they keep asking Zohran this question because it clarifies to the listener that a Jewish state and a state of all its citizens are not compatible and the people asking the question are implicitly acknowledging that they know that.

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

Recent cover of the @newyorker.com I feel this in my soul

🚨MORE OF THIS: Gov. JB Pritzker humiliates Donald Trump on LIVE TV: Pritzker: "Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes.” DAMN.

Cartoon by @jbcartoonist.bsky.social

200 years ago, my ancestor signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. He wrote: “Any duty that would advance the cause of Texas I feel anxious and ever ready to perform…” As I accept your nomination for the US Senate, I make that same commitment to you.

Nationalist Christianity aka NatCs.

TA-NEHISI COATES: “ @darializaforny.bsky.social was elected by a district of Black and Brown voters. @JamesCarville is saying they’re useful to him when they vote the way he agrees with — When they don’t, kick them out of the party… it’s not good for democracy.”

Talarico: Today, our state is being taken over by a new kind of tyrant — billionaire mega donors. They divide us so we don't notice that they're picking our pockets. It is the oldest strategy in the world, divide and conquer. But Texas will not be conquered.

Cartoon by @laugh-about-it.bsky.social

All the reactionary centrists who've arrived in a puff of sulphur to spit venom at Zack are doing a great job of proving his point that defence spending is regarded differently from other types of spending by the political media class

Actually… it’s arrogance isn’t it? He still doesn’t really think he fucked up. That’s staggering too.

Kansas transwoman who updated her driver's licence in accordance with a new law requiring it reflect her biological sex is now threatened with jail time for having an invalid licence identifying her as male: youtu.be/ybS65u4d7jE

Sarcasm about politics, using lines from popular songs, as @nytpitchbot.bsky.social does so well in his Maureen Dowd parodies

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."

This was by design of course. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

🙏.My synthesis of great work: Jayati Ghosh Making of a catastrophe Ashoka Mody’s India is broken Puja Mehra Lost Decade Nikita Sud Gujarat model Jairus Banaji on Corporate India Rishabh Kumar on Inequality CEDA @_CMIE data archive.ph/gWGXG

feels very odd that it's less than a week since Starmer resigned. feels like it's been ages

consensus seems to be "heat" but i don't think we can underplay the role of "he's quite obviously been stuffed for months"

There is also no reason to assume that the Times editorial is offering advice in good faith. They know the political class inhale it tho (still!). The Times is not there to a help a Labour govt be successful.

"There is no appeasing these people, and no point in trying and the sooner govt realises that the better."🤔🤔🤔

If any of my Chicago transit mutuals know how I could get my hands on an XL "All Aboard " tee that the CTA folks are wearing at the Pride Parade this year, I'd appreciate the answer.

One apartment move ago, the kitchen did not have a pantry. So this was my spice rack that hung on the back of my bedroom door. Made it work.

I think it's hard to deny the existence of something like "Treasury Brain" when you have officials as senior as this whose instinctive dislike of debt and deficits causes them to forget really important facts

"Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations."

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

All of our leaders always knew this was the plan too and when they said otherwise, they were lying.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This magnificent #Roman #fish-shaped flask was found during the excavation of a storeroom in the ancient city of Begram/Afghanistan. It was probably made in a workshop at Alexandria/Egypt, dating 1st/2nd century AD. Begram was a major....🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

Quite apart from Phillips' analysis being total horseshit, I really hate broadcast news/current affairs presenters sitting there brazenly editorialising with an American style "monologue". Unless it's a point of actual national consensus (terrorism, mass murder etc), leave that to the press.

’m a bit tired of campaigning to save state-run stuff only to be asked “ok do you want to run it then” - like, didn’t we *already* invent a model where people pool resources to provide services, you know, called democracy? Why do we have to reinvent it on a shoestring?

The ECB has once again raised interest rates amid an oil-price-driven inflation shock. That's consistent with a long-standing pattern: every ECB tightening cycle has coincided with energy prices (orange line) increasing substantially faster than the overall consumer price index.