Haley Stevens was out with a gracious concession and a commitment to support Abdul El-Sayed within about one hour of the AP call in her race. If she can buck up first thing in the morning, everyone else can. That’s actual political leadership.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 8h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

"I am so confident of my innocence that I'm willing to be subjected to the judgment of a non-public, bipartisan committee who - in the worst case - could issue a report recommending that my employer takes a vote on whether to reprimand me" www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller requests an Ethics investigation into himself

The Ohio Republican, who has been accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, said he would seek to “clear” his name, adding: “I have absolutely nothing to hide.”

nbcnews.com

No major media seems interested in the fact that senior DNC staff is openly undermining Ken Martin and literally withholding documents they don't want him to see, and you can bet the reason for that is that those are the same staffers media depend on for leaks so reporters won't spotlight them.

I'm begging everyone here to be less easily baited

"these cookies are jam-packed with a puberty metaphor"

Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d ago

no

DSA is the 924 Gilman of political tendencies

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d ago

this reminds me of something that occurred to me over the weekend looking at LA. It's kind of hard to find a major DSA elected who wasn't later denounced, ejected or censured by their local DSA chapter.

I have an appointment on my calendar that just says "appt". So i have a reminder that at 1pm I'm going to miss an appointment

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

fetterman, but the stroke helped him: what outlet are you with? xinhua news agency? good, let me tell your viewers this, i love seeing the continued prosperity of your country's handcrafted porcelain industry. the finest in the world. i would be honored to visit jingdezhen. i love beautiful ceramics

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

hey, it's Friday www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLQ...

The Northern Boys - Party Time

YouTube video by Sindhu World

youtube.com

had a coworker who would crash out in exactly this way

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

this happened 14 minutes ago but unfortunately due to my personality "Proplem in elvator" has immediately become a load-bearing part of my vocabulary

The White Evangelical numbers...

You rarely see acknowledgements this overt that the only plan for conservatives is to try and foment as much intergroup hate as possible within the broad Dem coalition. It kind of fits the tech tendency toward building microcommunities of interest

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7d ago

What the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Online isn’t real life but we have an obligation to try not to use what platform these social media sites have given us for cruelty, and most of us fail that obligation miserably.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

"the governor sent me a bottle of Malort with a message" is inherently threat-coded

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker gifts Illinois native, John Summit, a bottle of Malört ahead of his Lollapalooza performance: "John, welcome home! ...I know tequila is your drink of choice but you're in Chicago so mix in a shot of Malört with some friends tonight."

I really think it would be a public good for someone to start really looking, on a case-by-case level, at public figures who have been transformed by their time on X

Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

Incidentally I am concerned that my new Representative is an active X user and it is *not helpful*. Does anybody have guidance on how to convey "I think spending time on the website run by the world's richest fascist might pose some risks to your information environment" to a public figure

zoot car@bookhouse.bsky.social · last wk.

IL-09 dodged a bullet I tell you what One big problem of the gerontocracy is that they don't understand how information flows now. I worry that we're going to overcorrect for that with legislators and pundits who are too Online, and quote-dunking Will Stancil is embarrassingly Online

I started adding comma splices to my writing a year ago for this exact reason, it's "wrong" but it doesn't impact fluidity really

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

the Drive jacket is a cognitohazard. It is an scp

IL-09 dodged a bullet I tell you what One big problem of the gerontocracy is that they don't understand how information flows now. I worry that we're going to overcorrect for that with legislators and pundits who are too Online, and quote-dunking Will Stancil is embarrassingly Online

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · last wk.

I have never seen someone so flummoxed by the concept of feeding people lmao

"Before, I was saying, ‘As long as you have an ID, you can travel domestically. Now I am turning around and saying, ‘If you are in the process of changing status, avoid any travel.’” – Shannon Shepherd, immigration lawyer

Will Forte is one of the great comedic line deliverers of our time, alongside Tim Meadows, Tim Robinson, and Patti Harrison

sam !@sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · last wk.

i fucking scream laughed. this is going to be the best movie of the year sorry greece or rome or wherever the fuck odysseyus lives www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNiz...

He's actually doing the Frank Grimes funeral thing

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump appears to be slumped over asleep at Lindsey Graham's funeral

Today is an excellent day to subscribe to Liberal Currents, instead: www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · last wk.

“I know for sure that what Mamdani is doing is just minting voters for Netanyahu among Israelis who think Bibi is their only protector, his hard-line stance their only salvation,” our columnist Thomas Friedman writes.