This needs to be clearly and emphatically communicated to everyone (still) working on that campaign.

if SSPX schisms themselves into total irrelevance and everyone else gets the message loud and clear that “fuck Vatican II” is a hanging offense no matter what language you prefer your Mass in, that is a net good for the church as a whole and it forces a lot of the worst people to shut the fuck up

A criminal investigation into the LAX people mover contracts should be the bare minimum.

Like (nearly) all technological advances, solar will almost certainly hit the top S curve at some point, but everyone, everywhere, should be doing what they can to keep the line as vertical as possible for as long as possible. Yes, even you. Plug in solar, rooftop, it all counts.

You friendly reminder Sen. Leghorn himself, Louisiana's own John Kennedy, went to Vanderbilt, UVA Law, and OXFORD for a graduate degree in, effectively, French Law.

Asking people to understand that American dominance in women's soccer is a byproduct of Title IX, which helped foster high-level women's sports in this coontry, in stark contrast to most of the reat of the world. It's a systemic, structural thing we should be proud of.

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

the answer is corruption.

The foundational lie of Trumpism (and I’m using that word precisely to refer to the ideology of intellectual types who defend him), from day one, has been the claim that good character is a “luxury belief” and nothing more than cover for the wealthy to punish the poor. This belief is evil.

It’s not just that due process doesn’t apply to political candidates—it’s literally the opposite of the evidentiary standard for political candidates. The burden is entirely on *them* to prove to *us* that they possess the integrity and good sense to hold office.

These people are children. I've met 5 year olds with more self control and awareness.

Trump is using the government’s power to take ownership in private companies. It’s what Putin did. Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to communism.

Ban the entire prediction market industry.

Ok I think I have my new World Cup horse.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Until we address the fact most talented soccer players in the US can’t afford to compete because club and travel teams have snuffed rec/school ball out, this is probably going to keep happening.

Jen is absolutely right. Step up folks. It was an error of judgment. We should have higher standards. Own it. Move on. Find a better candidate.

A fantastic step forward for road safety.

I would be interested in hearing how this *isn’t* wire fraud.

wait what

People always say this but I think a week IS dithering, especially when you spend a lot of it talking about the 25th Amendment or what have you. We didn’t wait a week to declare war after Pearl Harbor, it happened within hours. That’s the speed with which you need to move.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Local area hospitals:

Powerful and critically important read from the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

When I say speak to normies, I mean things like, "Brett Kavanaugh wants some creep to feel up your daughter's privates." "John Roberts says your voice doesn't count."

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

The trans panic and vaccine refusal are, like the Satanic Panic before them, niche beliefs seeded by fringe lunatics and built whole cloth by the media Just Asking Questions. Normal people have to be taught to think this way. They can be taught to forget.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

I forgot who said it, but Mamdani is like a kid in an early 90s caper kid-flick where the kid somehow becomes the mayor and just does all the cool shit and good for people shit. And it's so deeply refreshing.

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

The stated rationale for these cuts is low teen birth rates in case there was any confusion about who is "normalizing and promoting" sexual activity for minors.

I don't want you reaching across the aisle to work with racists. I want you to deprive them of all political power. That's the job.

The point is, swatting, whether via cops or CPS, is bad. But it exists as a tool for wrongdoing because we have created systems where police and CPS operate with almost boundless impunity.

Expanding the Supreme Court is the moderate position.

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

One thing about Pelosi as an establishment leader: she wouldn’t be whining with this “how dare you run for our seats” stuff. She’d be trying to convert and make the new electeds work for the establishment.

Mildly amused to see people grimly warning that the blood-dimmed tide of populist unrest has swept aside all bonds of civil government and unleashed the power of the Mob on an innocent and unwitting nation because the outgoing New York City Comptroller won a congressional primary.

Promising statement on CA high-speed rail from Becerra here. Looking forward to hearing more about how he would cut through high-speed rail bottlenecks as governor - we've got some ideas. 🧵 www.newsweek.com/california-e...

This is a nightmare electoral college map if blue states don't start building a lot more housing www.jchs.harvard.edu/son-2026-pop...

Every "centrist" believes political views are a great big bell curve with the overwhelming majority of people near them, but that's just not true. The number of people truly in "the middle" is vanishingly small—the real middle is "incoherent mixture of views"—and courting them is a guaranteed loser.

Everyone has lost their minds. Mamdani's record in office is that of an ambitious center-left pragmatist yet the entire media is still casting him as a dangerous ideologue.

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

this is broadly true across many areas of criminalization!

More like the city should fully fund the Office of Emergency Management and ask the folks at Watch Duty if they would like union jobs. It would be nice if the city and county acted like a government for the people and stopped legislating and budgeting like the world's biggest HOA.