I'm sure Oyster McDaterape will quietly stay out of the race and not spend the next three months taking potshots at the woman they replace him with.

similar to "oh how do you *want* them to cover Trump huh?" and you can point to like "the way they covered Biden after the debate" or "the way they covered Claudine Gay for some reason" as templates of them clearly knowing how to do the thing and just refusing to do it.

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

A whole lot of people need to sit with, and honestly answer, the question "why was a Nazi tattoo by itself not bad enough for you?", and not be allowed to rejoin society until they have that reckoning.

So after Trump agreed in the MOU to give Iran control of the strait, and after enduring people correctly pointing out what a humiliation that was, Trump thought we could just steer ships through the strait and Iran… wouldn’t notice? Or they would just let it go? Shocking that it didn’t work

The reason Platner has gotten roughly 10x the discussion of any of the panoply of rapists & sexual harassers in prominent positions on the right is that everyone - left, right, center, media, *everyone* - has internalized that conservatives just don't care and so there's no point talking about it.

Hey @grahamformaine.bsky.social, let’s try this again: Stop. You no longer have our consent. It’s not up to you. You need to leave. NOW.

Bluesky wanted to autocorrect Harkin to Harkonnen, which is infuriating

And that’s why you don’t concoct an eleaborate plan to make that one bartender you think is cool into a US Senator… for anyone who needed why that might not be a good idea actually spelled out for them

(•_•) <) )╯ Donald Trump / \ (•_•) \( (> Wouldn't be president / \ (•_•) <) )╯if parties didn't use primaries / \

Leaked video reveals Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton in London with his mistress on the 4th of July.

Twitter bros 4 platner are handing it to bluesky right now lol We aren’t sorcerers! We just don’t fuck with Nazis. People still on Twitter are hanging out in a literal Nazi bar and should have some self respect and leave. They don’t have to come here! Just leave the Nazi bar.

So I guess the cherished dream of a Senate candidate, who, sure, had a Nazi tattoo, and, yes, left racist and homophobic posts on Reddit, and, okay, sexted every woman in the Maine phone directory while married, but maybe, just maybe, perhaps, fingers-crossed, wasn’t a full-on rapist, has died.

Every single Leftist who insisted that Chud Crandall the Nazi was the dumbass whisperer for all these months is going to have this stick to you like the Augean Stables.

The Coward Matthew Yglesias

Hi @matthewstoller.bsky.social on behalf of GenX feminists and Dem HR Ladies, all of whom Know One When We See One, kindly apologize and GFY

Hope somebody has screenshots of all the Platner defenders on here, because that is a massive credibility hit that all these people should have to own. He was such an obviously problematic candidate and all the defenses of him were such obvious nonsense

"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish.

remember when Barack Obama spoke for six hours in extreme heat on Fourth of July 2013? only truly great presidents can do that

Calling Trump’s foreign policy toward US adversaries “appeasement” is an insult to appeasement. Appeasement is acceding to too many demands to avert conflict (unsuccessfully). Trump gratuitously throws benefits at adversaries so he can pretend there’s something that he can characterize as a “deal”

If you look at gop obstruction under Obama/Biden/Clinton and compare it to how Dems operated under Bush and Trump it’s a marked difference and people are tired of it.

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

Something something HR LADIES waka waka

The GOP justices on the Supreme Court have declared that if Congress wants to add removal protection for Federal institutions other than the Federal Reserve, it needs to go back in time to create historical precedents for those

Supreme Court rules Führerprinzip is real but does not apply to brokerage accounts

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

Qualified immunity is a Calvinball nonsense doctrine, woven ex nihilo by the US Supreme Court Its sole purpose is to protect government officials from the consequences of their own bad decisions, when they violate the rights of the citizenry It has no basis in any law passed by Congress 1/

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact: DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

The highly respected district judge who tried the case, the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, correctly stated multiple times that the jury's finding of sexual abuse under New York law meant that, in common parlance and under the law of most jurisdictions, Donald Trump was found to have raped E. Jean.

As part of the needed court reform and the full 19th century pettiness that Congress will need to embrace in that effort, I hope they kick the Supreme Court out of their building. Put them in some annex building in Arlington or something

It’s not like Iran doesn’t recognize that the Epstein administration can only act tough over the weekend while markets are closed and has to obsequiously return to surrendering by the time markets open on Monday

We don’t just need Democrats who are fighters to fight Republicans, we need Democrats who are fighters so they fight the media. Necessary stuff like prosecuting administration officials and expanding the Supreme Court will get intense pushback from the media, and Democrats need to go scorched earth

The conservatives on the Supreme Court are now demonstrating beyond a doubt that “originalism,” even when practiced at the very highest levels of the judiciary, is as much of a joke and pure bad faith bullshit as its critics have always said it was

And his face, the face of the Eternal Jew being demanded that they abase themselves for permission to exist.

this disgusts me almost past my ability for words, the fact they can acknowledge he's fought for and expanded trans rights LGBT rights and still throw him out for what? he has every progressive position on Israel! throw him out because he is a Jew...

people would just go around saying “merry” and trailing off into silence there was nothing on the Starbucks cups even it was chaos

Everyone get all your interparty grievances out now because fuck you if you don't vote for the blue candidates this November even if you personally hate them.

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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

I guess what gets me about this sort of thing is that people keep writing these sorts of things like we’re still in Peak Woke when we are in year 10 of the entire world revolving around the king of rapists.

Memorandum Of Capitulation What's in the Iran deal?

The art of the deal

The media is *palpably* eager to spin up a "Trump comeback" narrative. They just need something, anything to hang it on -- just for him to stop actively fucking up for a few minutes.

For those who haven’t followed the play by play closely—are we now in a position to confirm that the actual (humiliatingly bad) terms are exactly what the Trump administration previously denounced as “fake news” when they initially leaked?

“Millions for defense, but billions for tribute”

So...who started the war on 10/7?

With all the talk of how disastrous and poorly conceived this war has been, we shouldn’t lose sight of how dishonorably it began. We started bombing Iran while we were still negotiating with them. We didn’t do that with Iraq, and it was something we had long criticized Japan over re Pearl Harbor