Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

Attends NBA finals game; the Knicks lost. Algae. Bad weather creates several multi-day problems for Freedom250 (cancellations, rescheduling, dismal fireworks). US team loses to Belgium. He's going to be pissed and an absolute bitch at the NATO meeting this week.

Trump curses all he touches. #Worldcup

I don't know how this game will end. But I have a strong suspicion that the U.S. team would be doing better if Trump hadn't intervened for Balogun. Trump ruins everything he touches with his corruption, and instantly turned our team from an inspirational story to a pariah.

I never endorsed Platner because I figured where there was smoke there would be fire. But establishment figures like Tanden, Watson and Torres taking victory laps are pathetic. Mills was a terrible candidate, & they pushed Swalwell when his predatory behavior was an open secret.

It is time for Platner to step down and allow another Democrat to take the banner. He has effectively proven that Schumer-style politics are no longer effective inside or outside the party. But he is clearly personally unfit to be the standbearer, & will likely lose to Collins.

The embarrassment of celebrating Trump’s corruption and cheating at the World Cup. Jeffries telling the world the Democratic Party also supports corruption at the world stage. Pathetic.

I have a new piece out in the Washington Monthly about the Democratic base's revolt against the establishment. The anger is justified! Part of it is about record inequality and lack of affordability.../1 washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/03/d...

Back in 1990, New Yorkers were 28% immigrants and 57% non-white and/or Hispanic. Our 11-times-safer city today has a million more people, of whom 37% are immigrants and 69% are non-white and/or Hispanic. Happy Semiquincentennial, America. 2/2

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

also if we built many more big cities, the big cities we have would not be expensive anymore because it turns out that dense housing linked by mass transit is actually far cheaper and more efficient than suburban sprawl. it's just expensive now because there's a shortage of it

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Conversely if the Democrats nominated someone who was “too liberal” and they lost the left would be in a bad spot. But the times they have run left coded campaigns - Obama 08, Biden 20 - are some of their biggest wins.

It's not pretext. Trump absolutely believes his 2020 election conspiracy theories. High level Repubs do believe that millions are voting illegally. And they are spending massive government resources chasing figments of their fevered imaginations. www.ms.now/news/fbi-dir...

And compared to Reuters today:

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

Part of this is that Elon Musk is actively dragging public discourse into the ugliest gutter racism, and trying to stoke racist violence. The first task in restoring liberal democracy must be to curb his destructive power and influence.

For as long as I've been alive, the right wing in the US has been on a flywheel that only goes in one direction: more radical, toward "a patriarchal version of Christianity and an unapologetic ethnonationalism." The only thing that matters in politics right now is stopping these motherfuckers.

Housing policy is climate policy.

much our country, including our elites, live in a farcical anti-reality where Trump's was running on "secure the border, throw out the criminals" and Biden was running on "open borders." In reality Trump actually supported "mass ethnic cleansing" and Biden ran on "secure the border"

The most important divide in the Democratic Party today is between those who think Trump is a temporary aberration within the GOP and those who understand that Trump is the best version of what the GOP will be for the rest of our lives and into the foreseeable future.

Yes, it's what you think. Nobody bought the crypto on the market, it was sold directly to entities like UAE Sovereign Wealth ($500m), Alt5 Sigma ($1.5B, after which the company essentially collapsed and it's about to be delisted), and "Whale 0x0249," an unknown person who funneled $80 million.

Vance says the midterms are big because Republicans are one SCOTUS seat from ending birthright citizenship

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

Ohio pastor Silas Shelton, who called LGBTQ+ books a ‘health risk,' sentenced for child sex crimes www.advocate.com/news/crime/h...

Holy G-d, Alito is legitimately going full Great Replacement in his Barbara dissent. This is batshit. A SCOTUS justice is legitimately complaining about "the overall foreign-born population" and its "grotesque results" 😬

Expand the court. If your presidential candidate can’t say it they shouldn’t be your candidate in the next dem primary.

Today’s decision(s) and this dark term of MAGA #SCOTUS once again underscores why every single Democrat running for President in 2028 and/or any federal office this year need to make rebalancing and reforming this Roberts SCOTUS a centerpiece of their agenda. Otherwise, nothing matters.

One of the bleakest things about American politics is that we're reflexively anti expert on issues that truly have right and wrong answers, but are slavishly obsequious to experts in "the law and the constitution" despite that field being completely made up and fake.

Any "Project 2029" cannot be a bunch of mealymouthed poll-tested popularist pablum. If it doesn't provide a pathway to institutionalize liberal democracy such that no future fascist can undo it without violence or constitutional amendment, it is worthless.

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

Not great that the richest man in the world agrees with this post. Note the giant gun in the image. 👀 1/

I would never tell a woman in this situation to get a gun, because according to data from 2024 it makes that woman not twice or ten but one HUNDRED times as likely to get shot with it by the attacker

Zohran Mamdani 1, Josh Gottheimer 0

All the Nick and Nora movies.

There is a giant window open in Democratic politics for "I want Israel to exist as a vibrant Jewish state, but also I oppose offensive arms sales & want to see Netanyahu & his allies in the Hague for ethnic cleansing." Almost no one is taking it. That is really bad for Israel and Jewish people. /1

This is just a stunning window into the mod mentality, especially since their "popularism" assumes they know what voters really want. They're not wrong they've gotten lazy relying on certain trusted endorsers to carry large voting blocs, and that that no longer works bc they are out of touch!

It is somewhat amusing being a Likud-hating Zionist two-state solution dem socialist who wants reparations and 90% tax rates on the rich, but hates standpoint theory and wants SATs and high school honors back, with equal contempt for both David Sirota and Matt Yglesias, Jacobin and Third Way.

Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?

The only path out of this is to become even fiercer about jailing every single one of these Trumpist criminals who actions have made Watergate seem like a molehill.

Imagine how much of an un-American ghoul you must be to say such a thing with a proud smile on your face.

Musk in recent weeks has been repeatedly endorsing violence and calling for killings. It’s really bad stuff!

What a whiny sore loser. You lost a primary, Jim. Do your part and vote blue no matter who, buddy.

“Vote Blue No Matter Who” - right?

The rhetoric from the elite media outlet like @puck.news anchored around access journalism to the elite political class in DC in reaction to some primary results in NY is beyond unhinged. “Red Scare” “Suicide Squad” Really? These so called journos have lost all their sense of decency.

I think a valuable lesson for us onlookers on the other coast is that the SF DSA would benefit from being more like the NYC DSA. Mamdani and AOC > Dean Preston

Rarely has there ever been a more cursed headline than "Meta Plans to Release AI-Powered Prediction Market App"