LOL. The other guy told you. DSA like policies without being official members. Please pick up a book on English syntax or maybe vocabulary. This an adjective not a scandal. This is just the weirdest possible hill to die on and i'm not even sure it's a hill.

I'm actually cracking up. Are you next going to say, okay fine, let's discuss what 2+2 equals. We know what DSA policies are. Is this some big own? You're welcome to tell us and then we'll all know what we know. If you keep making me laugh I'm going to spit up my drink. Please don't.

Here's the thing. In the English language you often put words together & then they have meaning. (I'm told all languages work this way.) Using words is not inventing a term. If you know English it's clear what it means. You seem to think "google it" is some big own. In fact, that's deeply sad.

I co-sign to all of this. Equally notable is that Grimm knows how to be totally hardcore/merciless on sexual violence ... when he thinks it helps a favored candidate. He leveraged his whole media operation to float accusations that Joe Biden raped a staffer in the 90s when the accusations were ...

Normie Dems are demanding candidates with "fight"; ideology and hot button policy positions are far less important. It's worth understanding what they're saying. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...

"there’s no serious reform that doesn’t first include adding justices because that is the only immediate way to break the corrupt power of the current majority" + other thoughtful ideas from @joshtpm.bsky.social including but not limited term limits or mandatory retirement age.

So Qatar Force One turns out to have been such a slapdash effort that on Trump's first trip on the new boat they had to rescue him from Turkey by calling in the old Air Force One because only it has proper security built in.

Normie Dems are demanding candidates with "fight"; ideology and hot button policy positions are far less important. It's worth understanding what they're saying. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The older plane has been widely reported to be equipped with a system designed to blind an incoming antiaircraft missile .. It is unclear how many, if any, of those capabilities have been installed on the newer plane ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

Graham Platner Drops Out of Maine Senate Race, Leaving Dems to Find Replacement talkingpointsmemo.com/news/graham-...

I bet this is good

i note below that i was promoted (finally, why did it take so long?) to being a member of the "center-right". it's funny the worlds people live in. not that i'm judging. a rich fantasy life and/or politics D&D is a fine thing.

I'm not even sure you can say tolerate. If you look at the numbers & the leadership it's more like a qualification or a box to check. A bit like in the 70s and 80s Democrats wanted to see that you'd marched at least a couple times with Dr King to demonstrate your bona fides.

an extremely good meditation on what a fighting Democratic party means from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...

A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...

Johnson Looks for Meaningless Ways To Satisfy Trump, Far-Right on Birthright Citizenship talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

We covered some of @zacharyos.bsky.social's recent reporting about Ashley Hinson on "KHOI's Capitol Week." Read his story here: iowastartingline.com/news/ashley-...

A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...

Kentucky Gov. Requests McConnell Update the Public on His Health Amid Weeks Long Hospitalization talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kentuck...

Mamdani has govt bodegas, Trump has govt gas stations

"The overarching message is that America was founded under the auspices of the Christian God and built by those faithful to him with frequent miraculous assists from on high. We’re a Christian country, it argues on nearly every page, that only exists because the Lord wished it to."

Very cool article on a new strategy to get some accountability for federal agents’ constitutional violations.

Interesting bit from the new AP-NORC poll: Favorability among Jewish Americans: D. Trump: -41 J. Shapiro: +20 Z. Mamdani: +5 B. Netanyahu: -27 apnorc.org/projects/dem...

Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social

A federal judge has rejected Elon Musk's bid to void the jury verdict finding that Musk defrauded Twitter investors by trying to drive down the company's stock price after agreeing ‌to a $44 billion takeover.

BREAKING: ATLANTA (AP) — Judge rejects Justice Department attempt to subpoena names of 2020 election workers in Georgia's Fulton County.

hahahah throwback trump humiliation day ... Trump Slinks Away From His Promise of a Texas Senate Endorsement talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

READ: Detroit Responds to DOJ Sending Election Monitors to Three Blue Michigan Cities talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-de...

READ: Detroit Responds to DOJ Sending Election Monitors to Three Blue Michigan Cities talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-de...

NEW The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute election officials across the country for failing to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls, an escalation of the Trump administration's attempts to prosecute election fraud, according to letters I obtained with Andy Mannix @propublica.org 🧵

in Maine this creature is called Susan Collins' Amazing and Unmerited Luck

Falling for Russian disinfo would be bad enough. But Trump's malignant narcissism makes it impossible for him to let go & admit he's been had. That, plus the fact he WANTS to please Putin, because above all, he wants to BE Putin.

Under the previous government in Hungary we saw a classic case of state capture of public media, which the current prime minister during his successful election campaign, referred to as a “factory of lies.”

1,200 DOJ Alums Ask Senators to Reject Blanche, Who Has ‘Utterly Failed to Abide By’ His Oath talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

By my nonscientific count, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is at least the 30th person immigration agents have directly killed or participated in the death of since Trump retook the White House. That's on top of the at least 59 people who have died in Trump's concentration camps since then.

Well, this is alarming.

definitely going swimmingly

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is calling for an official House investigation based on a groyper white nationalist conspiracy theory. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/elon-mu...

with my exercise bike in the sauna and my muscley companion during some reps on the seat, as one does

i vote for him to stand next to the building to monitor it

I’m a simple country historian, but if I had been as laughably wrong about Trump’s fascism in the run-up to the 2024 election as Haselby, Steinmetz-Jenkins, Robin, Moyn, et. al., I would simply delete my accounts, log off, & leave the historians who got it right alone for a decade or two

Researchers used voter registration data in Florida and other Southern states – where race is included to comply with the VRA — to assess how peoples' racial identities change. They found that people who went from Hispanic to White identity were more likely to be Republican.

To protect our democracy, we need to start by looking to other places where democracy has slipped.

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson filed with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday to form a U.S. Senate exploratory committee, becoming the first Democrat to formally campaign for the spot Graham Platner appears likely to vacate.

Maryland plans August special session to set up 2028 redistricting

Graham Platner cancels fundraisers, pulls down ads as he mulls campaign future

...wiping out hundreds of web pages and *terabytes* of critical public health data from the CDC, FDA and NIH websites. This was such a massive crisis that I created an archive of links to every public-facing web page from all three agencies from *before* 1/20/25. acasignups.net/cdc-website

Today we kicked off our Annual TPM Journalism Fund Drive. To all our contributors, thank you. To all our readers and members, thank you. Click here to find out more about how you can support our team's work. @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/our-d...

This story has been percolating in local media since last month – credit to Syracuse.com, which appears to be the lead dog on this story — but it just hit the national radar over the last 24 hours or so. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...