No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

DOES NO ONE REMEMBER THE “WE NEED A WHITE STRAIGHT MAN FOR PRESIDENT” CONVERSATION IN 2020? DOES NO ONE REMEMBER BIDEN GOING ON ABOUT CLASSIC CARS? OBAMA SHOOTING BASKETS? BILL CLINTON BEING BILL CLINTON? Oh my God what are we doing

I feel like I just scream into the void, continuously, at this point.

It's true that there's nothing wrong with being a manly man. It's also true that any Democrat who to campaign around "there's nothing wrong with being a manly man" should be regarded with extreme scrutiny

Oh! He built a *shed.* Check out fuckin' Bob Vila over here, fuckin' Al Borland. Dude assembled a presumably prefab shed kit from Home Depot without accidentally nailgunning himself in the scrotum, what a paragon of masculine virtue.

I've waited my whole life for actual working-class politicians and all we get is this gross sexist tokenism

It's not so much that he's sticking with an operative who had a campaign implode. That happens, even as spectacularly as this. What's dumb, politician-wise, is that he's sticking with a guy who stupidly went out and publicly made himself part of the story. You don't keep help like that around.

If President Trump says, "The moon is made of cheese!" it would be pretty silly to post: "BREAKING: President Trump says moon is made of cheese." The moon is not made of cheese. The NEWS is that the president either THINKS the moon is made of cheese or that he is deliberately LYING.

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

Full post- Anti-AI Messaging should be centerpiece of national Dem messaging - and Dems need to stop letting corporate donors neuter popular anti-corporate messaging nathannewman.substack.com/p/anti-ai-me...

Ok let's take this seriously for a minute -- if a tanker makes it through the strait and won't pay us are we boarding it?

This is probably not going to happen, but if it did the result would be a massive increase in the cost of oil and gas.

Marco Rubio on 23 June: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law."

It’s simple: Yglesias wants to be the arbiter of public opinion for DC party elites — why would he argue they should ignore him?

Can't believe everyone laughs at the death of a guy who sucks but is sad at the death of a guy who rules smdh 😔

To be clear, "the US seizes the strait and charges a toll" is a complete and total fantasy until the US marshals the resources to do so, which so far they have declined to do. You can ask what the disconnect is, but whatever the answer, it looks like weakness.

i *am* a horrible goose

Pretty sure that 20% of the value of any cargo is actually substantially MORE than Iran is seeking to charge ships to transit the Strait.

It's admittedly pretty funny that having run out of US trade to tariff he's now hunting for third party trade to tariff.

I would like the White House to engage in international conflict with a more sophisticated strategy, greater self-control, and a closer connection to factual reality than my 7-year-old has when trying to get extra screentime. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

and look, again, whilst it’s important to acknowledge that American extremists are bankrolling a lot of hate and discrimination, it’s also very important to acknowledge that the United Kingdom of all places is very, very capable of home growing that shit

like yes i agree that American evangelical extremism is responsible for an awful lot of atrocious stuff happening *right now*, in a way that the CoE isn’t, but we can say that whilst acknowledging the history of the CoE (and Catholicism) because whew boy the Americans did not invent this

Seems bad that baseball players feel more obligated to give updates on injuries and absences than members of Congress.

Microsoft is a big data aggregator that happens to sell software on the side.

An apparent ICE-related shooting in Maine is a good time to remember to treat the agency's initial claims with skepticism rather than credulity.

open borders

and not to belabor this because i've come to learn that caring about this is seen as a crank belief that seemingly no one else cares about, but we lost this for essentially nothing. most light pollution is totally pointless — shit like car dealerships covering their lots in undirected floodlights

"everyone in the middle ages believed in astrology and the stars having a direct impact on outcomes on earth" sounds like wacky superstitition to us today but i think would seem much more intuitive as a belief if you could see the sky like they got to see it.

functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.

These live action remakes have been a cynical cancer on the movieplex since their inception. Glad one finally hit the skids, hopefully hard enough to stop any future ones. Too bad it had to be the one made from the best Disney princess movie ever made.

"'Instead of being focused on my work, instead of being the best steward of taxpayer money, I’m now worried about if I will have a job,' the employee said." It's not about performance or accountability. It's about trauma. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

so last year a local cop was speeding through downtown at night and hit and killed a student. i just learned that the cop was going 74mph in a 20mph zone, that there were no skid marks of him trying to stop, that no charges were filed, & that he's still working as a cop roanoke.com/opinion/colu...

Live your life so that the morning after your passing looks more like Sam Neill Day than Lindsey Graham Day.

dude whose dad owns 2 local car dealerships and drives a lifted Ford F-150 Raptor, adjusting his camo hat: yeah man you guys just don't know what it's like to work from the break of dawn and get dirt under your fingernails. where i'm from, we're country af, bro. don't got much but pride. *spits*

A major problem with the party is that seemingly no one who goes into Dem organizing or consulting can clock a Small Town Rich kid pretending to be working class. And there is nothing Small Town Rich kids love MORE than pretending to be working class!

Everyone real knows this is 100% true.

Policy papers used to be outsourced to pro writers. Back when I was freelancing, I wrote stuff that was put before STUPID-powerful organizations (no names). I'm not surprised at all that they've dropped writers altogether and gone to AI.

DeLauro is possibly the oldest person to have figured out that dying your hair fun colors makes people think you are at least twice as left-wing as you actually are

Fwiw I believe McConnell is alive. The real issue is, and has been, that Senators don’t retire and not a single aging Republican or Democratic Senator seems to give a shit. McConnell wasn’t running for reelection but he’s been out of it for years. Grassley is set to run in 2028. Sanders in 2030.

Somebody out there is in the business of showing up and doing this decor for them and that person has not had to produce an original idea since Obama's first term.

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

“Our big tech bill” Oh the one that Graham explicitly wanted to use to erase trans people and lifesaving resources from the internet? Maybe sit this one out

I like how all of these guys go for the identical Rogan knockoff aesthetic of putting up neon signs and having exposed brick in their faux man cave. It could make a case study for how one generation's hipster look becomes the next generation's stale copy-paste conservatism.

But in general I wandered the shelves free-range and unsupervised and knew I could talk to my folks about anything I read that I didn't understand and that was more than enough. Once in a while you read Terry Goodkind, but most of the time it's fine

As far as "books for kids" go I do sometimes wonder if the existence of a YA shelf robs young folks of the joys of early unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists and libertarian sex-weirdos in the SFF section, an important inoculation when it doesn't destroy 3-10 years of yr life

I love how every "DSA is taking America to the brink of destruction" take is immediately followed by Mamdani announcing free movies at cooling centers around the city

Cuomo’s victory was supposed to be part of the “MeToo went too far narrative arc that large parts of the New York media and political establishment were extremely eager to push

Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?

my favorite thing about politics posting on here is when two people aggressively shit on each other’s terrible politics and then both approvingly repost one of my takes