Re: Graham Platner, I felt like I was being punked when people acted like he wasn’t obviously dishonest and untrustworthy this entire time. Starting with the unbelievable defense of his tattoo, which I was shocked to see people fall for

my dude if you actually believe any of the values you say you do, you simply do not get to hold your party’s senate hopes hostage in order to dictate terms here

Sounds like the annoying and shrill pro-DEI ladies who said that perhaps running someone who in adulthood knowingly had Nazi tattoos inked to their body was not a great idea were right...

Hopefully the only time I share a NY Post article here. US Soccer was about to file an appeal to CAS, FIFA relented, Trump’s call a nothing burger, still took credit because Trump.

The sad part is that, if the reporting is correct, FIFA dropped the suspension to avoid having the appeal heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and risk having a precedent set. If that’s accurate, Trump had little/no impact on the decision and is just stealing valor

Judges Reed O’Connor and James Boasberg ~consulted~ today about the FTC’s litigation tactics against trans health org WPATH over the past 24 hours. The judges appear to have reached an agreement, and the FTC’s efforts failed for now. How we got there is a wild story, though. Here it is:

A year a half a ago, this professor made a plainly false statement that “an entire literature” existed— it didn’t—and then got multiple justices to buy into the historical fiction he backfilled, covering 800 years in a few weeks. A bastardized history, not in the search for truth, but for power.

The woman who did this should be prosecuted and shunned by decent people for the rest of her life.

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

a cool moment -- Kaitlin Collins tells Brad Lander that he won his primary live on air during an interview with him. Lander responds by saying, "I'm thrilled. I did not expect to be on air when the race was called."

oh my god

Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum. The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out.

It is extremely funny that they're not playing along with the culture war narrative that the right is trying to build around them. "Oh, no, we're just dicks."

It took 250 years but American cops finally racially profiled a white guy

I don't care if you're not a Knicks fan. I don't care if you're not a New Yorker. Watch this speech.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

A strange headline: It was the news outlet that sponsored the poll that chose not to "kill" it, not McMorrow. The poll apparently spelled McMorrow's name wrong and also said another candidate supported "Social Security for All" instead of "Medicare for All."

Among many stupid things about this Giants pride jersey controversy is that nobody actually is required to wear the pride jerseys. Hentges refused the pride hat and wore the orange and black Giants hat explicitly as a protest, and MLB didn't care. They just ban all writing on uniforms.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.

It's not often that a living man gets such a vivid preview of how he will be mourned.

All the national love and attention Platner gets should have been going to Talarico this whole time send skeet.

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

This is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

One thing that gets missed in President Trump's discussion of "weaponization" and his tax returns: The person who leaked Trump's tax returns did so when Trump was president and in charge of the IRS. He was indicted and sent to prison for that during the Biden administration.

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

I think it's more outrageous that four Virginia justices just decided to unilaterally redefine "election" in a way that clearly contradicts both the state constitution and code to support the outcome they wanted, but yes this is bad too

This morning's administrative stays in the mifepristone case and tonight's order immediately issuing the judgment in the Louisiana redistricting case both provide yet further evidence of #SCOTUS acting inconsistently across otherwise similar cases based (almost) entirely upon who the parties are:

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

It cost me $177 to renew my driver license today. Requiring certain ID to vote without making that ID easy, accessible, and free is 100% a poll tax.

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

This is what Platner said in 2020 - sixteen years after going to Iraq, a year after joining Blackwater, and only six years ago. His repentance rather conveniently synchronized with his senate campaign.

jesus christ

In this clip, Kash Patel says the grand jury heard evidence that Comey deleted the '8647' post and apologized. Neither fact appears in the indictment. Hmm. Did the FBI director just disclose evidence presented before a grand jury?

Unambiguously a violation of grand jury secrecy in a way that would normally be a massive problem, and in this instance is about a dozen items down the list.

You have GOT to be fucking kidding me. That’s embarrassing.

1/ As far as I can tell, the only thing Randy has posted about Renee Good or Alex Pretti is to complain that Jonathan Last referred to their murders as state terrorism. He openly mocks Obama's reaction to the murder of Trayvon Martin, in the process accusing Obama himself of violent leanings.

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie. The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

Occam's razor: The Trump DOJ, acting as an extension of the president’s will, is targeting a longtime enemy of the MAGA political coalition. This administration loathes civil society.

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.