Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

100%

NYT is no longer the paper of record. They've failed in these times

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

All the horny World Cup cameramen who always find the hot ladies in the crowd are gonna be eating well during tonight's Ecuador v Mexico tilt.

The best part about this story is I have no idea if it happened but it sounds like something I did 100%

This is the best description of this debacle I've seen. Imagine how shitty a thing has to be to not attract tourists in DC on the mall in June.

Great description

Also a Big Yikes for reactionary centrist pundits (yes, that one in particular, but also others) with the bad habit of treating poll numbers as some sort of immutable assessment of values rather than messy metrics of temporary and easily moved attitudes of a generally mid-to-low info electorate.

i expect that 1) will be the modal outcome.

one thing about club random is that it’s really quite consistent

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

the incentives in our media are all fucked, because we let conservative billionaires buy and run our media. fix the billionaire ownership and we can fix a good portion of the Ezra Klein problem.

Go Mexico

Every time someone in tech or academia talks up crypto, it tells me they're either a fucking idiot or just a fucking asshole

Regulate crypto out of existence since it’s a blatant scam. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

so does gavin newsom it's the same dynamic. they amplify white supremacists because they think white supremacy is uniquely important, interesting, and validating.

Reminder to Colorado journalists: if you’re interviewing a winning candidate who usually claims that elections are rigged, ask them why this election was rigged in their favor.

What this tells me is that we need to fucking GOTV

just as jesus said, "i don't like low wage foreigners." READ the bible bsky.app/profile/atru...

"We need rapid, massive bold reform. I'm calling for the Green New Deal. There's not enough urgency being used when we are talking about this issue." - Melat Kiros Sure seems like talking about climate helps Democrats win elections. Maybe just maybe people have noticed all the fires and heat waves.

Michael Bennet getting blown out after being a Generic Dem senator is extremely funny. I assumed a few months ago that he was a layup to become the next governor. Sucks to suck lol

So fucking important

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Exactly this. Deterrence now through vows of aggressive oversight. (In his pre-Senate life, Ossoff worked on producing anti-corruption documentaries abroad.)

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

stop using "woke" the way racist fascists use "woke" 2026 challenge

AOC: Zohran Mamdani will be the first Muslim mayor of our great city. He will be our first immigrant mayor in over a century. He will be the youngest mayor of New York City in generations. Most importantly, Zohran will be a mayor for all of us .

Bill Ackman set $2 million on fire trying to stop Mamdani. Today, we laugh at him

This is what academics who care about democracy should be doing.

Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Mamdani: "I cannot blame anyone who has come to question the role of government, whose faith in democracy has been eroded by decades of apathy. We will restore that trust by walking a different path ... "

He’s the exact antithesis of Trump and while some people think we have to be halfway towards what Trump represents even Trump himself was like damn this is pretty great

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"

Fuck off, 2025. But huge high five to everyone who pushed back against fascists and bigots and will continue to do so in 2026 and beyond! We are going to win. All these fascists bound to lose.

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

also, these "WAR" values (a) are derived from a statistical model that produces ideologically convenient results that no other open-source model replicates, (b) lack controls for important factors like fundraising and candidate experience, and (c) completely ignore uncertainty in the data. not good!

what the fuck are you talking about man

i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles

Penalizing a team bc the sideline celebrates too hard is sooooooooooo lame