Las Vegas called and said you should tone it down a little.

lf Dems had any sense they'd treat this guy the way the right treated Kyle Rittenhouse. Put him on tour. Give him Morning Joe's spot or something.

Bro is communism bad or not

Please don't tell daddy I said anything bad

Instant Pulitzer

The gender views Douthat is platforming are widespread on the right, y'all. (h/t @mirya.bsky.social) www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

The Supreme Court has to understand that the president is breaking the law in ways I like. Or at least in ways that I'm unwilling to challenge even though they're objectively not achieving their supposedly national interest goals and also breaking the law. So the Court must defer to that.

The Speaker of the House urging the Supreme Court to let the President usurp Congress' authority contrary to the word and spirit of the Constitution is some shit. Every single founding father is puking in his grave right now.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Claudine Gay's plagiarism charges which the Times wrote fourteen and a half thousand breathless stories about were less blatant than this.

I wrote a whole dissertation and Jamelle just...posts it.

Lin Manuel Miranda wants his line back.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

How…how is that different from what he did as mayor?

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

I'm not sure Ron Johnson gets enough run when we talk about the most loathsome members of Congress.

Somehow I managed to not know about the Jay Jones texts until just now & while I agree that by normal standards Jones shouldn't hold office it is QUITE RICH that the party that made fun of Paul Pelosi and is in bed with Nick Fuentes (among 42 other things) thinks a couple of texts are disqualifying

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

1/ I'm endlessly fascinated by MTG's transformation. Quick 🧵 I don't buy her new schtick for a minute. If she showed even an ounce of the mildest contrition - "I've grown, I've changed, I've learned politics is about building bridges." I could respect it. I wouldn't believe her. But I'd respect it.

make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Democrats swept every race yesterday by a bigger margin than expected, and the press story is apparently "Dems did well but there is still a lot to worry about." Needless to say that this is not how a massive Republican shift would be covered.

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

6-3 The Texas redistricting is constitutional but the California redistricting violates voters’ equal protection rights.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Weirdly the one national Republican who saw the handwriting on the wall and chose democracy in advance was...Marjorie Taylor Greene. The world is wide and contains wonders that mortals like you and I will never comprehend.

Trump is incapable of learning. Other GOP incumbents seeing tonight's results will draw the correct conclusion that everything Trump does is turning to shit at the ballot box. The question becomes how do they react: reject Trump or double down on rejecting democracy?

Democrats notching 61-39 wins in Georgia in-fucking-sane.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

All of a sudden I’m sad I can’t vote in New York and prove once and for all how stupid I am.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

Recent ex-Republican Joe Walsh gets it better than 90% of the punditocracy and a not-small chunk of the Democratic Party.

This theory of politics was impossible to execute in the United States prior to Citizen's United.

Greene hasn't changed one iota. She just looked at the political landscape and decided she'd be better off with a rebrand. That's it. Anyone who pretends otherwise is just helping the Jewish space lasers lady launder her image.

"I could smell the onions and the mustard"

"I am openly defying a court order so I can starve children if Democrats don't let me take healthcare away from millions" once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory

Looking forward to Mike Johnson not knowing anything about this.

Let's wait for the verdict on whether this qualifies as a Constitutional Crisis.

I am surpassing lucky that my mother is still around at 85. One of my favorite games these days is, when a bad person dies, to confirm that they got fewer years on this planet than my extraordinary mother who raised me and my sister on her own. And this morning: ✔️

"Vote for me or my buddy's going to beat the shit out of you"

even if it's a hoax, I feel like the mere threat of bombing a polling place is political violence

It's Jokerfying.

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Regarding that last point: remember how many Americans Trump killed the first time around?

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

2025 World Series

From the justice department to CBS to the Supreme Court the underlying theme with Trump is and always has been that he doesn’t have to play by the same rules everyone else does.

The President of The United States is a criminal and that's it. Everything else flows from that.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.

I don’t think it’s widely enough appreciated that Elon the Nazi’s first name is the Hebrew word for oak tree.