Lazy take. The establishment has been eating its young and squashing the progressive elements, and the winner was outspent by a staggering margin. It may not tell you about the future of the party but it tells you the party leadership has ignored a substantial fraction of its base.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Why is it not front page news on every major media outlet that the United States commander in chief had hundreds of his bank accounts frozen for money laundering??????

RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”

"Yikes, Odysseus -- you looke prettye roughe aftir your journeye." "Well, you Odyssey the othir guye!"

We are an embarrassment

U.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS Conference (Gift Article)

Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

nytimes.com

New in PN: Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices "No POTUS has ever deserved to be hoisted on the petard of gas prices more. That’s not only bc of how he weaponized the issue before, but bc unlike almost every other POTUS, he's actually responsible for where the price is right now."

Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices

Normally blaming the president is unfair. But not this time.

publicnotice.co

Optimistic

William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...

There is no cat only

hey remember when we could eat uncooked vegetables

King Arthur when his court wizard snubs Guinevere

We saw a pod of frolicking porpoises as we drove across Storbæltsbroen this evening

WE WILL STOP FASCISM. 🇺🇸

Prokofiev humor

The Onion@theonion.com · 2w ago

FDA Recalls 3 Oranges To Prove They Can Juggle https://theonion.com/fda-recalls-3-oranges-to-prove-they-can-juggle/

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

apnews.com

People in the US talk a lot about “freedom” but many of them have never experienced it

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

You've 30 days to get your hockey sticks.

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 2w ago

the beatles are star wars. *waving away cries of protest*. they're star wars.

There are potatoes so delicious that you can boil them in plain water and eat them unadorned like popcorn

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

Visited my coworkers in Copenhagen

Remember: the testimony of any not in ICE/CBP is always more believable than anything ICE/CBP says, in large part because ICE should not be viewed as a credible source by anyone.

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers By Arelis R. Hernández Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting. Gift link! @arelisrhdz.bsky.social

They’re actively trying to harm us

Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Offside xkcd.com/3268/

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago

‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.

I’m going to tell my kids this was Angine de Poitrine

Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives

Belgium won, so we're required to listen to @phillipwserna.com's album of viol music by Leonora Duarte (1610-1678), who was from Antwerp midwest415.bandcamp.com/album/leonor...

Leonora Duarte (1610-1678) - The Complete Sinfonias à5 for Viol Consort, by Phillip W. Serna, Treble, Tenor & Bass Viols

7 track album

midwest415.bandcamp.com

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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