Crooked Media

.@profleahlitman: Vivek really made a strong play for the worst person ever.

Litman: Susan Collins walking back her vote to confirm Kavanaugh sounds familiar... Murray: Believe Black women.

Leah Litman on Alaska election lawsuit: This is horsesh*t... I would know because I can read.

Jon Lovett on Talarico ad: When I see someone standing in front of 3D letters, I'm excited. It works for me.

How "women aren't funny" came to be: humor IS our power.

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Nate Silver: This is the most the Democrats have been getting along in a long time.

This popular polling firm puts out FAKE POLLS!

Alex Seitz-Wald on Maine debate protestor: I love that they started with, "I'm sorry to interrupt." It's very Maine.

"The issues on which Democrats are overperforming now are much more in line with my expectations." - Galen Druke on the latest New York Times/Siena poll

Rhodes: There is an underworld of the most corrupt places on earth, and Trump's grift is making the U.S. government a party to that.

Questioning child sexual abuse win an election? Vivek Ramaswamy, you are TRASH.

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Robert Reich hopes we’ve learned a lesson from the Trump era: “we have got to take the power back.” #2028 #billionaires

Alice Miranda Ollstein on post-Dobbs medicine: access to abortions was just one concentric circle that has expanded out and out and out in medical care.

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Kate Shaw: Please rag on Zacharia. Not because she didn't pass the bar, but because she's a spineless mouthpiece for the Trump administration.

Dan Pfeiffer: I love a candidate who's having fun, in it to win it and knows running the same old, Democratic campaign isn't going to cut it in 2026.

Leah Litman: If you're not picking up what I'm putting down, this case is about porn.

Jon Ronson: "The most healthy way to think about ourselves and our fellow humans is that we're a mess."

Stop embarrassing yourself, Pete. Signed Rep. Sara Jacobs and Erin.

"You could, in theory, right now, with commercially available data, create a database of everyone's periods." - Rep. Sara Jacobs has concerns about fertility tracking apps.

"I think we're kind of entering silly season where the amount of noise tends to drown out the amount of signal." - Nate Silver on the deluge of election forecasts.

Nate Silver: "I get annoyed, by the way, when people are like 'Well it's good that people are mad at Trump, but they're mad at him for the wrong reasons!'"

Paul Rieckhoff on livestreaming an execution: You can just dismiss this and turn it into an SNL skit. It's the total compromising of our values.

"This is the most racist I've seen Trump. Muslims can't win in this country." - Mehdi Hasan on Trump's Ohio rally attacks on Somalia

Ben on Guilfoyle: If you're shaking someone down for your Amex bill, drunk at 4am, calling ICE, firing people, there's more fire under that smoke.

Deters to Guilfoyle: I can't give you $100,000 without getting a divorce. @profmmurray.bsky.social: Correct!

Alex Wagner: For women in Trump Land, the wrongdoing is villainy. And with men, it's hustle.

Alito: I've lost a lot of friends because of Dobbs. @leahlitman.bsky.social: You have friends? Also, what about "women lost their lives?"

@leahlitman.bsky.social: What's the issue with the extraterritoriality cause? Kirti Datla: The number one problem is... it's made up.

When it comes to Silicon Valley billionaires and their doomsday bunkers, “they are not just building the ark, they are conjuring the flood.” #Wealth #Inequality

Tim Miller on Trump ad: It's this "trust the strongman," caudillo idea that just isn't working.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen: " What is the power of the powerless? Choosing to not harm other people, choosing to not participate in telling lies, choosing to live fully."

Frances Haugen, Facebook Whistleblower: We're dealing with really big information asymmetry...the only place where [AI safety] conversations are fully happening is behind those closed doors.

"The [Democratic] Party, and the donors, and in some ways the media have been conditioned to ignore Mississippi." - Scott Colom

Charlie Cook on midterms: it might be a "red undertow," rather than "blue wave."

Charlie Cook on the choices GOP battleground candidates have: "It's like, 'I can take a swig of arsenic or have the president come in for me.'"

With the first pick in the Still Counting 2028 Democratic draft, Clare Malone selects... Gavin Newsom! Nate and Galen do not agree with the pick.

Candidate for U.S. Senate, Hallie Shoffner on the impact of the farm crisis on Arkansas.

Katie Phang on Alito CBS interview: the most gratuitous, ass-kissing thing I have seen.

It’s not as easy as just “I want to run in the next cycle,” you have to build the infrastructure. #2028

@profmmurray.bsky.social: Ken Paxton is our latest stopped clock, folks.

@leahlitman.bsky.social on Alito recusal: Vergogna occasionally still works.

Kathryn Anne Edwards validates Erin's fear of the AI bubble pop, and how close we are to a recession.

There's no tax break that will move the needle on childbirth rates. Paid family leave and universal healthcare might.

Timothy Snyder: There's a crisis of dignity for federal officials.

"You get rid of the arts, you get rid of society." - Leonard Slatkin, former director of the National Symphony Orchestra

"It's fascist." Timothy Snyder on taxpayer funded Trump ads

"As that Democratic generic ballot number goes up, then Trump's approval rating is now lower than it was after January 6th." - Nate Silver on possible explanations for Democrats' ever-improving numbers in the election forecast models