PRATT FALL

In honor of the Knicks I'm giving all New Yorkisms a free pass. For the next 24 hours they are allowed to pretend they invented the bodega. They are allowed to pretend the best pizza isn't in St. Louis. They are allowed to pretend the best bagels aren't in LA. They've earned it.

This is still America

DC looking to be such a down place for tourism this summer hotel rates are so low I literally asked a friend in the neighborhood of my favorite if he could walk by and confirm they weren't just covering up a roof collapse or something

🧵1/3 ICYMI: This is obscene. House Republicans just passed a bill that would rip food aid away from pregnant women, babies, and young children by cutting WIC fruit-and-vegetable benefits. All while grocery prices continue to increase. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

the destructive, infectious parasite is already costing Texas billions of dollars. though he prefers you use his given name, Greg Abbott www.bbc.com/news/article...

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

Good morning from Capitol Hill 😂

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This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

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Aside from inventing new branches of math to prove the La Rouche Party was denied a Senate seat in 2024, mostly what these groups do is launch bullshit lawsuits against county/local election administrators who actually know how elections work. Should really be more stigma attached to promoting them.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Well James Bond: First Light succeeds as a spy game. Was just at a Dress Nice And Mill Around In A Crowd thing and spent the whole time thinking how easily I could score some free snacks from behind the bar if I just hurled a brick through the nearest standing suit of armor first

with audio off, every trump clip just looks like the Noble Lords of the Imperium standing around the God-Emperor trying to pretend they didn't all just see him move a little

Sweeping reforms to parole underway in Maryland. A big day for good people who worked really hard on this for a long time. open.substack.com/pub/campaign...

He's going to bear witness to the end of communism in Cuba yet somehow he's going to figure out how to do it in a way that costs the GOP Cuban votes

not unreasonable to infer every major right-wing party around the world right now is scrounging for funding from whoever will give it to them

Its clear what Paxton is doing with his messaging against Talarico. We've done some research on how to fight it - and how not to. It is admirable to want to protect and provide for your loved ones. Stand for a future where this is possible. Republicans don't. ymrp.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

Not sure it was smart for the Republican candidate for TX-Sen to make the consumption of meat their only campaign issue on day one of the general

just in time for the Fourth of July, Republicans have taken away beef

Its clear what Paxton is doing with his messaging against Talarico. We've done some research on how to fight it - and how not to. It is admirable to want to protect and provide for your loved ones. Stand for a future where this is possible. Republicans don't. ymrp.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

Can't believe people aren't unanimously overjoyed to have this technology immediately injected into every aspect of their lives www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

Happy primary day yet again! How do local activists and interest groups filter, select, and endorse their preferred candidates that decide most of American politics long before the general election? If you've ever been interested in learning how to win a primary, have I got a fall read for you:

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying: - 4,600 jobs, - 3.8 million work hours, - $71 million in wages. New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...

Yes, if anything, this should all serve as a reminder for Dems that when they hold the line, even when it seems difficult at the outset, it often ultimately forces Republicans into toxic situations and fractures them as well:

seems noteworthy that MAGA Republicans deny Trump is weaponizing DOJ, not saying Sure he is what would be wrong with that

And its now official! hayspost.com/posts/893cf8...

Trump’s new AI executive order establishes a “voluntary” framework for federal oversight of frontier AI models. Tech Policy Press managing editor Ben Lennett takes a close look at what’s in it and what’s next for the policy discussion.

i feel like im losing my mind. is the texas breakfast taco just like not known outside of texas. this "meatless-taco order" is like the most common breakfast consumed in this state. what are we doing.

Happy primary day yet again! How do local activists and interest groups filter, select, and endorse their preferred candidates that decide most of American politics long before the general election? If you've ever been interested in learning how to win a primary, have I got a fall read for you:

I know none of this is funny but... this is pretty funny

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3.3k). Americans think Donald Trump's personal character is bad, by a 56-27 margin. Just 30 percent of Republicans think Trump is a "very good" person. By a 37-32 margin people say Democratic candidates have better personal character. yougov.com/en-us/search...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3.3k). Americans think Donald Trump's personal character is bad, by a 56-27 margin. Just 30 percent of Republicans think Trump is a "very good" person. By a 37-32 margin people say Democratic candidates have better personal character. yougov.com/en-us/search...

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that more than 90% of the people hospitalized during the first two months of the 2025 measles outbreak in West Texas were children. Read at 👉 ebx.sh/9a8lxV

Hoping the success of The Backrooms (2026) teaches the film industry the correct lesson (pander to the very specific experience of younger millennials and the mass internet becoming weird teenagers at the same time)

Cool spam from @electdemocrats.bsky.social simultaneously violating @actblueorg.bsky.social 's policy that you shouldn't fundraise off of claims that Trump is shutting ActBlue down, and violating the best practices of email fundraising by insinuating that you should give your money to losers.

Trump plans to appeal order allowing all importers that paid struck-down tariffs to seek refunds

I know none of this is funny but "mr. president, the whole world is watching and you're the only one who can save the biggest act of musical theater of the decade" is an Air Bud-tier premise for a pointless farce

Same level of credibility as that other spontaneously viral substack post from an "investigator" no ones heard of that fixates on the EAC and has a complete lack of knowledge of how elections (or the internet) work despite all the pseudo-technobabble. Zero. Go outside. Specifically to knock doors

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

Something I hope is getting internalized this cycle is that not many young men actually share the Republican vision of masculinity. Talarico and other candidates are on much stronger footing talking about compassion and honesty. static1.squarespace.com/static/68262...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 7k): Millennials, y'all are out of your minds. Cartoons are WAY better now than when we were kids yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

These people are losers on an incomprehensible scale www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

okay have at it, Bluesky Discourse Freaks, 1 in 8 Americans think China and America are about equally free

DISNEY: The FCC review’s “true purpose and inescapable effect are to suppress speech . . . and cause the station and others to think twice before they say something the government might dislike.” @financialtimes.com #$DIS www.ft.com/content/cb33...

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

Ken Paxton is one of the most morally bad and fundamentally incompetent human beings in the GOP, which is really saying something. Help Texas's young organizers and our great statewide candidates start the general election strong for Texas. secure.actblue.com/donate/jrsli...