The blatant aggressiveness of these settlers isn't going to end well for either side.

hannah@hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 23h ago

Not defeating the cartoon villain allegations

It's satisfying that these moral cowards are publicly exposing themselves as such. I'm grateful there seem to be fewer spaces for them to hide them their true character now.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 23h ago

Total waste of a career. Moral coward

That's a great takedown of Brooks and his performative victimhood. Bouie is right that Bobo needs to get out and actually engage with the real world. But he's too busy focusing on scars that never felt a wound.

Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · 2d ago

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

Do cats speak A. The language of where they are from B. The same language (cat) Or C. the cat language of where they are from (There are no wrong answers)

No one has ever been better at her job

Undaunted

Nancy Pelosi’s greatness is still on display.

open.substack.com

Yes, we're supposed to be the "big tent" party. Let's behave as though we believe that's true. We need to be more tolerant of tiny, incremental policy differences. Focus on the big picture.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 24h ago

Each district gets its voters’ pick, and it is entirely irrelevant (inappropriate, even, as she suggested) for others to micromanage or disparage their choices. She spoke emotionally, reverentially, about the role the Framers carved out for House, for whom voters must go to the ballot every 2 years

Yes, winning the upcoming elections is more crucial than any time I can recall in my adult life. The stakes are very high and there's no room for internecine fighting. A pox on any who try to start such a fight.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 23h ago

Win baby just win

Okay but surely no one was stupid enough to actually fall for- ah, okay

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW— Richard Hanania has become a celebrated “former” white supremacist with profiles and accolades in mainstream news outlets. But as the person who first exposed Hanania’s past, @letsgomathias.bsky.social argues in this piece that his current views on race show an unaccountable and unchanged man:

It's the same-old, same old for the Rs, who's motto appears to be "it's OK for me but not for thee." Are they double-standard hypocrites? Well, yes and have been as long as I can remember.

Noah Dahl@noahdahl.bsky.social · 2d ago

I seem to recall Republicans pitching a massive fit when they *pretended* (falsely) that Biden was neglecting North Carolina.

An election to pay attention to is next week's special election in CA-14 to fill Eric Swalwell's vacated seat. It's Dem vs Dem but it highlights the divide developing within the party. Hernandez is the choice of centrist Ds. She got half the votes Wahab did in the primary but she's used a funding

It's probable he was always like this but he kept his profile low in the Senate; so it wasn't noticeable. Losing Trump's favor and his reelection attempt changed that and we all see it clearly.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 2d ago

has he always been this pathetic, blame shifting, whiny ? my God what an embarrassment

Cassidy is way too glib about serious things. Generally speaking, past actions are a pretty damn good predictor of future performance. Cassidy failed to do his job, both as a legislator and a doctor. Own your failures, man!

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was hard to anticipate that the guy who had spent the last several decades monomaniacally focused on promoting lies about vaccines would, given authority over them, try to curtail access and cut off research. Send a wallet inspector to the Senate Republican Caucus.

After doing all this toxic stuff and losing his job, O'Reilly is nuts to be trying to raise his public profile again. Our memories aren't THAT short, Bill O!

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4d ago

honestly lets fuckin do it. if ryan grim wants to relitigate why bill o'reilly got shitcanned from fox news that's fine by me. drag him in front of congress and lets hear him out about how this "non-consensual sexual relationship" was actually not a big deal

This is what gives religion a bad name. When you act pious while doing evil, no one thinks you're all about holy business.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d ago

😳

If my state of Missouri was liberal I'd be tolerating the 107 heat index better.

Want to spark a revolution? Let your powerful northern neighbor use your island as a colony where they're free to do as they want.

100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Aug. 13, 1926: Fidel Castro, the revolutionary turned dictator who turned Cuba into the first Communist state in the Americas, is born to a prosperous sugarcane farm family in the island’s southeast. His reign from 1959-2008 made him a villain to the U.S. and an icon of Third World leftism.

Guess what happens when you give a corrupt federal agency free rein to do as they please? The employees take that opportunity to do as they please!

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d ago

JFC

🪪 New Hampshire enacted a GOP-backed law in April, eliminating student IDs as an acceptable form of identification for obtaining a ballot. Now, a voting rights group is asking a court to block the law that targets younger voters — weeks before the state’s primary.

New Hampshire sued for banning student IDs to vote as part of GOP’s broader attack on young voters

The lawsuit is the latest chapter in a long-running fight over student voting in New Hampshire where Republican lawmakers have repeatedly pursued restrictions affecting college voters.

democracydocket.com

If legacy media wants to know why independent pro-democracy media is succeeding, they should just compare their websites to the front page of Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com

Yes, the pundits have put their thumbs heavily on the scale, in favor of the Right. There's no sign this will change anytime soon.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only the Left Has Agency is a functional pillar of a particular style of punditry because admitting that everyone's behavior reacts to political developments rather than just vices and neuroses invites the comparisons (e.g. ICE kidnappings vs mean tweets) that undermine "both sides" framing

Gross exaggeration isn't just what they do, it's their brand. It's called "lying."

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 5d ago

It's official: DOGE LIED about how much money it saved our government. A government watchdog just uncovered that DOGE overstated savings by BILLIONS. Trump and Elon's mission to root out "waste, fraud, and abuse" was just another failure.

Would Trump and Musk betray our nation just to make more money? Well, duh! Don't listen to what they say - watch what they do!

Senator Andy Kim@kim.senate.gov · 3d ago

Trump is making it easier for cartels, criminals, and U.S. adversaries to abuse our financial system and harm Americans. 

Why? Because he’s in the pocket of billionaires like Elon Musk who’d potentially benefit from his shady and corrupt actions.

NYT described Trump’s pathetic transparently nonsensical embarrassingly lying whiny childish excuse as “at odds with the point of switching planes in the first place,” which at least was better than WaPo which just quoted it as if it was a rational response.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump lies out his ass: Q: Why was it too dangerous for you to fly on Air Force One but not for the press? TRUMP: Well, I don't know, I think actually the plane I that I flew on was at greater risk Q: Why do you say that? TRUMP: Because that would be the plane they would be more likely to go for

It's a tic that right-wing Republicans have. Whenever they lose an election, they scream "voter fraud." Trump taught them that but he/they have used it so often it has no effect any longer. Judges know they have no evidence of such and are just arm-waving.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is concerning. Mike Lindell is refusing to concede the Minnesota Republican primary, claiming there are “anomalies” in the vote totals that his team plans to investigate. The problem is that this wasn’t even a particularly close race.

A federal judge stepped in today to protect the midterm elections from something the Trump administration is trying to do. The details matter. A lot: joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-decl...

Judge Declines To Let Trump Go Postal

Believe them when they tell you who you are.

joycevance.substack.com

Yes, please go after Trump hard. He's a candidate to be standing in front of that court when he's out of office.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups have sued the Trump administration to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court.

Uh, can we also take back that $1 trillion from billionaires and use that to restore Medicaid? If our Congressional Democrats just protect billionaires like the Rs do, then we'll need to turn to candidates who'll make the billionaires pay.

Katherine Clark@whipkclark.bsky.social · 5d ago

Republicans slashed Medicaid by $1 trillion in their Big Ugly Law. All to pay for billionaire tax cuts. When Democrats take back the House, we’ll protect healthcare and make it affordable for everyone.