The Secretary of Commerce grabbed his nose. Another person fainted. A vasovagal faint is often caused by a sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure triggered by strong odors, disgust, and stress.

“you must peel your eyes open and stare at The Horrors every second of every day” is maybe the most unhealthy attitude I see on this site it makes you deeply unpleasant to be around and it’s going to burn you out, none of us are built for that

congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

Three Unbelievable Fall Time Facts

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

Just showed the boys some select scenes of Jurassic Park and the older toddler goes “I hope they’re ok!” And I say: it’s ok, look, the little boy and the girl are safe! To which he says No. I mean the velociraptors.

I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.

She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

They’re scared.

BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month. The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments. DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

5. Confronted with an argument that this allows students to bully cis students by misgendering them as well, the judges said that such conduct would be barred. Misgendering cisgender students would be "ridiculing their physical characteristics." But apparently not when its done to trans students.

1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them. Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I felt horrified hearing this story and also feeling like this woman lost her husband. And that she had to learn about this across borders over a phone. I am glad that it seems she has a lot of people in her life that have listened to her sharing and share her outrage.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I have had “Takedown” from K-Pop Demon Hunters stuck in my head for a WEEK. The songs are great, they’re catchy, but a week is too much.

Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

My big advice for how to survive right now is to watch/read/listen to what makes you laugh You have to give yourself a chance to laugh

There should be a mandatory disclaimer any time Ross Douthat discusses women that includes his ”chunkier Reese Witherspoon“ recollection where he admits assertive women make his dick softer than Cool Whip.

Once again, marginal income & capital gains taxes are too low & pose an existential threat to the Republic.

How did Georgia pull off their first statewide win in non-federal races in 19 years—and so convincingly? Turnout, turnout, turnout. The state's 10 largest blue counties made up more than 52% of the total electorate. That compares to 44.6% last year, and 45.3% in the 2022 Senate runoff.

Jefferson is the most American framer, imo, in that he simultaneously articulated and instantiated some of the noblest ideals ever articulated — which are part of the very foundation of this country, and its best hope — while behaving with a level of decadent hypocrisy that bordered on nihilism.

what in the hell

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Andrew Cuomo's career died on the same day as Dick Cheney. Who says history doesn't have a sense of humor?

They thought the right was the path to having a good time with the fellas and found nothing but weird nerds backstabbing each other. Hard not to notice the socialists laughing and high fiving in their peripheral vision

If you want a picture of a Democratic future, imagine hyper-engaged, suburban wine-moms stomping on J.D. Vance’s face — forever (or, you know, in the 2028 election) www.vox.com/politics/467...

So I know cross-posting from the bad place is frowned upon but VA Sen. Louise Lucas isn't here and that shouldn't mean we're deprived of her awesomeness

I absolutely love Democrats from red and purple states; they hate Republicans so much lol

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Wow. Democrat Taylor Rehmet heading to a runoff with Wambsganss after getting 47.5% of the vote in a +18 Trump district. More than $4 million was spent by/in support of her two GOP opponents, with big checks from Miriam Adelson and billionaire Tim Dunn. Rehmet spent $68,000.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Ghazala Hashmi (D) has been elected Lt. Governor of Virginia, the first Muslim American to be elected to any statewide office at lieutenant governor and above.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Breaking the 12 year long GOP supermajority in Mississippi seems like a big deal. A bunch of Black women mayors seems like a big deal. Can’t wait for the hot “How Democrats winning is bad news for Democrats” takes.

no. NO!!!!

This person took this when they called the race

I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.

just in: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is on track to win easily. With roughly a quarter of the vote reporting, he leads Pat Dugan 81% to 19%. Krasner already beat Dugan in the Dem primary... and Dugan kept running as the GOP nominee. (My write-up: boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...)

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win