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Paul Waldman

@paulwaldman.bsky.social

Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 4d ago

Sometimes when I look at a dog, I wonder what it would be like if it was a little bit taller. But now I don’t have to wonder. The glasses can show me any dog at any height. And we completely preserve the rest of the proportions, so you can see some really wild looking dogs now.

Mark in the glasses, intense now
Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 22h ago

Dems spent over $20 million on behalf of @golden.house.gov over the past 8 years and he just continues to shit on them He throws fellow vet Cait Conley - who deployed six times to combat zones incl Iraq and Afghanistan - under the bus Golden and Lawler are probably going to start a lobbying firm

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 23h ago

I don't think Jared Golden endorsing Mike Lawler will help Mike Lawler as much as he thinks it will www.lohud.com/story/opinio...

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 23h ago

Abdul El-Sayed will pay a bigotry penalty at the ballot box, reducing his support by at least 3 or 4 points. It's not because he's too lefty, or Hasan freaking Piker. It's because some people just won't vote for a Muslim. In a Dem wave year, he'll probably still win. But it's going to be close.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 24h ago

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed holds a narrow edge over Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s nationally watched Senate race despite a political environment that heavily favors Democrats, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds. https://wapo.st/4AjprC2

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Conservatives: Here is a completely moronic idea, draped in falsehood and offered in utter bad faith Liberals: That is completely wrong. Here is a detailed explanation why Conservatives: Oh, so we're not allowed to debate? Only certain opinions may be be spoken? Sorry for my thoughtcrime.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don't like having to do this, but I have to. This is not what happened. What happened was that a handful of scholars tried to legitimate an ahistorical argument and were criticized because of it. They then spent a year engaging in abject sophistry and caricaturing their critics. They still lost.

Just after the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara earlier this year, a concerted social-media push cast a small group of originalist scholars as arch-villains for “normalizing” the view taken by three of the justices—namely, that the Constitution does not require a policy of universal birthright citizenship. For some, universal birthright citizenship is so sacrosanct that any disagreement or debate is unacceptable. The only reason the question was remotely in doubt was that originalists sold their methodology for partisan gain. https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/ilan-wurmans-constitutional-conversation-c372b184-e6a1-4d42-a221-af34d205b234
Terrence Peterson@tgpeterson.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bring me all the beautiful boys. Let my fingers delicately trace their hard bodies with a measuring tape. Let me caress their curls and stroke their clean-shaven cheeks

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 7d ago

Exclusive: The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address this September, and says the servicemembers must meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards. https://on.wsj.com/3VwFKeF

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 7d ago

Never a bad time to remind ourselves that in addition to being a halfwit, Mullin got his job because Trump thought he was a badass MMA fighter, when in fact his career consisted of a couple of matches in a Tulsa semipro league, including one in which he managed to beat a teenager named Huggie Bear

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "The only way you can take a republic country like the United States and turn it into a communist country is by causing chaos on purpose and then saying, 'hey look, government is a mess. You need us, the communist country, to rule you.' It's insane."

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 7d ago

I just like monuments, I don't even care what they're meant to monumentize, why are you criticizing me for my love of monuments

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · last wk.

Rawson has responded to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story. He neither denies or apologizes for: -condoning slavery -calling for gay people to be executed -advocating lynching -marching w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -his involvement w/ League of the South, a neo-Confederate/southern secessionist group

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · last wk.

2. ...if you're wondering how the Trump family could become billionaires yet still accept bribes like a free wedding from Putin's lackeys, it's the Mafia mentality They do it because they can get away with it. They live for that

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last wk.

Just an intimate destination wedding with a small group of family and close friends, plus the Putin crony spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to bankroll the event. This story is bonkers. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

propublica.org

Mike Sacks@mikesacks.bsky.social · last wk.

The inevitable lawsuit against this—and the rescission of the endangerment finding—will result in SCOTUS overruling Mass v EPA and supercharging Scalia’s dissent to declare that the Clean Air Act outright forbids the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. The 2029 Dem trifecta must amend the CAA.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last wk.

You definitely do not have to hand it to Texas Republicans, who have spent the last year in an orgy of the most vicious anti-Muslim bigotry imaginable. Also, it's just a few of them who have condemned French, while plenty of them are supporting him.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · last wk.

Several Texas Republicans condemned Bo French on Sunday after the GOP nominee for Railroad Commissioner made racist posts calling Asian students at UT a "problem." bit.ly/4xgJuOF

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk and other Republicans are pouring huge amounts of money into the midterms on the premise that ginning up hate at trans people is a surefire way to win. Fortunately, they're wrong about that. But Dems can avoid helping them. My latest at MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

Opinion | Elon Musk is reusing Trump's anti-trans strategy. It's unlikely to work.

The billionaire plans to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans, but Democrats shouldn't fear this recycled attack.

ms.now

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last wk.

Once when my kid was on a coed soccer team there was one girl who was so much better than all the other kids, the parents just stood there watching her run through the other team like Maradona and saying "Holy shit, look at her"

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last wk.

I agree with the sadists and our moron president and his government, I am against boys in girls sports actually; my kids are doing toddler sports rn and the girls are consistently better, most of the boys are bored and shouldn’t be playing

Drew McKevitt@drewmckevitt.bsky.social · last wk.

Garbage human Ken Paxton is running a local ad claiming James Talarico voted to fund sex change surgeries for children and it does this digital transition from a teenage boy to a girl and in the process darkens their skin, which is a real choice

A fair skinned teenage boyA teenage girl with darker skin
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last wk.

You know, I gotta say that all these tributes to 9/11 in places who don’t think that I’m a Real American because I live in New York City sure ring hollow!

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm sure we can trust that these guys have only the most noble of motives, this couldn't possibly be an effort to arrest the rolling PR and political disaster they find themselves in

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

“.. It was a rare display of unity by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who have been spending tens of billions of dollars to develop evermore powerful artificial intelligence models.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...