My Platner take: It is 100% correct that Platner winning, if he does, should not change who and what the Democratic Party is to be more like some shithead with a Nazi tattoo and we should shout down anyone who tries to make it so. But also, we should not concede ahead of time that it will be so.

So, the thing about politicians doing "plain speak that anyone can understand" is that the Republican response is "Nuh uh, taxes kill jobs," and people buy it. And then you have to explain why that's not true and you sound like a professor.

there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

Sign hanging in bluesky break room: 0️⃣ days since posters took Politico/Axios bait

feels like the true "stick it to Jeff Bezos" move here is to just not shop at Whole Foods in the first place

I would like more people to care about whether things are actually true, even — especially — when it concerns arguments for your side

What Piker offers is the most corrosive force on the left; a politics built on contempt and sneering.

I criticize "one magic trick" posting on here a lot, but I feel like getting people to react to extreme stress by doing something other than posting how dems are messaging wrong and if they just messaged right, that would fix everything, well, that would fix everything.

Feeling insane watching the "DO SOMETHING!!" crowd respond to this saying Murphy should be using soft power and building up the political will to impeach instead.

Stop giving money to the New York Times. Any money.

Remember this whenever Gavin does something slimy.

Soapbox time: If Lindsay Graham is a closeted gay man, that's okay. He should be able to live as he chooses. There is no aspect of that choice that should be used to mock him. He should also not be mocked about it if he is not a gay man. Homophobia is bad.

we should open up cans of other stuff instead of just whoop ass like open a can of how do you do

Certainly someone can figure out which steel plant he visited in Georgia and ask if the owner if he told Trump he wanted to kiss him, right?

Call me old-fashioned, but I like it better when male figure skaters dress up like Napoleonic soldiers or toreadors.

I think arguments about whether people should announce in advance that they'll never vote for Gavin Newsom distracts from what is really important, which is, what are all the things that makes Gavin Newsom a shitbag that we all hate. That's all we should be talking about.

For my coach

Sly kind of got kinda short shrift, no?

Make being a liar shameful again.

40 years ago today young gen-xers learned the same lesson that every generation learns, that life sucks sometimes and terrible things you never could have conceived of appear out of the blue.

I'm seeing less posts about the refs being in the bag for the Seahawks lately.

I enjoy when commentators start enthusiastically describing a "good" tackle and realize halfway through that they're describing a personal foul.

Miami looks good early, but Carson Beck's dead eyes are concerning.

Feeling pretty good about this.

The last Seahawk I remember returning a kickoff for a TD to start a half was Percy Harvin in the Superbowl.

Has McDonald's ever done a McRib Egg McMuffin?

The fact that I keep falling for false stories about Democrats doing things I hate really tells you something about the party.

spontaneous acts of resistance are occurring everywhere. there are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause

No one talks about Captain Corelli's Mandolin anymore.

anyway, this clip — which is just 90 seconds of an interview — opens with a murphy statement about how dems cannot reauthorize funding for an agency this lawless, but i guess "no one can read on the text based social media site" can be extended to "no one actually watches the clip they're mad about"

Bo Pix

Can you imagine if you called an exterminator to get rid of a mouse problem and they told you that you need to clean the place up, fix the holes in the exterior, and stop leaving trash lying around or whatever they do won't do any good? Of course the exterminator is the problem!

Impeachment time.

the point of liberalism is to avoid the vicious cycle of reprisal and deterrence that power conflicts cause. it's a peace treaty between factions. when an illiberal faction breaks that treaty, it's arguably the most liberal principle of all to retaliate until they surrender (tldr=u right)

Perfect album from the 90s etc.

LOL at Aaron Rodgers still crying about losing at Seattle during the Obama adminstration.

Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.

Diego Pavia giving a shout out to Johnny Manziel just makes me want him to win it more.

The next Democratic President should replace Trump’s White House photo with one of the many pictures of him with Jeffrey Epstein.

Anyway I think liberals/leftists/general lefties should move from "ignore the troll provocateur" to "unsubscribe from the publication that pays him." Yes, they are just trying to make us mad. Why do we keep paying them to do it?

How broken do people have to be to see a message that says there's nothing we can't do and immediately decide it must mean something sinister?

This Minnesota-Seattle PWHL game is legit. We had some poking at each other after the whistle earlier, and we came real close to a full-on fight just now.

Seeing journalists reacting like this makes me think there may be hope for the profession yet.

You all can stop engaging with the racist never-Trumper who has advice for Democrats, you know.

This is never far from my mind.

“Donald Trump blew Bill Clinton” is the new “JD Vance fucks his couch” in that, who cares if it’s true; let’s have fun with it.

Repost with an iconic fictional band

What if we took the millions of dollars we spend on military propaganda at every major sporting event, we instead honored the public servants that keep our society moving.

A whole lot of "The victim's family paid the ransom. Everyone is going to blame them for the kidnapping" going on around here.