Dara Purvis

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

It should similarly be clear that civil rights gains are not settled issues. Reproductive freedom, race conscious college admissions, fucking due process for all residents, look around. Pragmatic is never letting up to protect people's rights, not appeasement.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Josh, you mean to tell me, in the US, in Oct 2026…you couldn’t find ANY BETTER MESSAGE to spend your precious political dollars on…than to punch down on ~7 people, who have done *nothing* to harm you…while there are masked, armed militia out here *kidnapping people off the streets*?? REALLY?

if you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Well, you can't expect a random reporter to understand the Constitution. I mean, it's not like she's CBS's chief *legal* correspond-- (finger to earpiece). Oh. Oh no. OK, yeah, that's bad.

Everyone is on Jan Crawford of CBS for her post about Abdul El-Sayed today, but you may have missed her post about Zohran Mamdani ten days ago. This is who she is.

The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Watch this whole video. All the way to the end.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

She will always be remembered as one of the all-time greats.

Katie Zacharia to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Two points I want to make about this: 1. Democrats should immediately threaten to deport Elon Musk and Melania Trump for *actual* immigration fraud once they retake power. Don't @ me about how we're not like them. Do politics. Make the threat. Force Republicans to react and defend their decision.

This guy shouldn’t be weighing in on anything.

My god

Gosh, anyone know anyone who voted to approve all of this?!?

Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"

When you wait in line at a theme park so long that you shake hands with the dad who was in line in front of you and wish each other well before parting

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

IMO, This is the whole ballgame. Money corrupts absolutely. Josh Turek: "We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both."

The new wig's an improvement.

I really don’t think a public execution by firing squad of a guy in a wheel chair is going to look how they expect it to look.

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

PACK IT

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn

Why do AI tech bros want AI to replace the fun parts of jobs. In the world of responsibilities for babies reading them books is right under "listen to a baby giggling uncontrollably" and "hear the word 'Mama' for the first time."

Dang what a quote. Sarah Gille: “One of my office mates in the general exam, the qualifying exam for doing research at MIT, was asked: How would you explain chaos theory to your mother?” Her mother coded chaos theory w Lorenz.

1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

I enjoyed being a reader so much! What a great program and community.

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?

I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this

“you are so criminally unfuckable that it has to be a setup” is pretty wild

explicit endorsement of white genetic superiority from musk

What a cool fascist tweet from DHS

And universities that only pretended to have DEI all along and cowered in the face of every legislative and executive threat--how are they doing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Penn State doing something entirely transparent and then gaslighting everyone, including the faculty staff and students most affected, about it??? Un-possible!

"Is Brasher really so dense as to not be able to imagine — to make this really easy — a performance that would be appropriate for a 15-year-old and inappropriate for a 5-year-old?"