the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of Trump's lawsuit — characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control.

Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. They’re not reporting it.  If I’m Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it.

He never deleted it.

Celeste is a very cool human.

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

where have all the captions gone?

Our short national nightmare is over. Goodbye Graham Platner. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/graham-...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Maine Democratic Party says it will hold a convention to replace Graham Platner if he drops out of the US Senate race.

Suffering in and of itself is not spiritual ... lack in and of itself is not spiritual meagerness in and of itself is not spiritual you don't even get to spirituality until you are resourced to be able to choose

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

This game is a lesson in not accepting a dark lord’s gift

In case anyone else was wondering what the process is if Platner does in fact drop out! (Some reporting that he will, but this doesn't seem official yet.) Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

If you want to donate to campaigns outside your area, donate in the general election or to groups that do organizing, turnout, etc. I don't know which Dem candidate in Maine (or Kentucky or Ohio) has the best shot. You know who might? The Democrats from those states!

The Maine Democratic Party better fucking listen to her. This took guts and she did it because she hoped that what she'd already said was enough and then it turned out it wasn't. She realizes the stakes. Don't let her bravery be for nothing. This is salvageable with the right replacement.

“restoring faith that better is possible” is maybe the most important thing in politics right now outside of imposing consequences on the bad people (and imposing consequences would help restore faith) we have seen what cynical, “lol nothing matters” politics leads to and it leads to Donald Trump

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

But the thing that needs to be said ... needs to be said Obama is not the virtue mule of democratic life you don't get to have a coke bender on fascism Then run back to Black folks when the eroticisim of white supremacy simply does not work out

Never mind that Vance got conned, the fact that the vice president saying he heard second-hand from the president's son-in-law and the president's real estate buddy that the strait was open is humiliating on its own.

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

De Niro: Loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents… I can’t love a country that’s led by a xenophobic tyrant. I can’t love a country that’s led by Trump

it’s beautiful

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.”

It’s funny that they tried to hide the Trump name removal process because all it does is reinforce how much this is about his feelings.

Meanwhile, at the Texas GOP convention

Not good. www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

I have so much more understanding about why writers generally don't say a thing until there's an official announcement. Promising developments don't necessarily pan out and publishing is so dang slow. I have appreciated all the writers who have shared the ins and outs though!

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

The Knicks’ 13-game winning streak comes to an end after President Trump attends Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

If you thought this town fucking hated Trump before

Whew!

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

now we know one of the questions he missed on the cognitive exam lol

does he know

if one removed people who obsessively talk about teenagers' genitalia in public, a huge swathe of the conservative movement would simply vanish

Bread and circuses, but they keep all the bread

i feel like this is probably the best time in recent american history to be a criminal because the justice department doesn’t give a shit, it’s too busy going through the president’s burn book www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

Trump: "We don't need oil."

The use of that word is key. Because the extremist right has always been jealous of our narratives.THEY want to be victims so badly. They need a story. So, reverse racism. Creation of rightwing “Legal Defense Funds” to litigate Demanding entry to programs for Black ppl And now, REPARATIONS

So you can shove your faux-sophisticated "it's always been like this" takes up your ass. No it hasn't. We have systematically traded truth-seeking institutions for algorithms manipulated by tech bros & Russian disinformation campaigns & f'ing paid trolls in some room in Malaysia or whatever.

"Gen Z has a hip new approach to truth, it's called 'believing whatever flatters the priors of you and your peer cohort'!" I'm going to have nightmares about this piece.

Let’s take tonight to be relieved: abortion pill access stays the same for right now, and that’s amazing. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that this is conservatives’ way of kicking the can down the road, and we still have lots of work to do. jessica.substack.com/p/scotus-mif...

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Big pub day! Can’t wait to read.

Me a couple decades ago: “the female beauty industry is so insane, I wish things were more equal between men and women” Me now: “not like that”

Do raptors like dead trees or are we just more likely to see a raptor in a dead tree?