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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

lol reminder that betting markets are extremely accurate measures of conventional wisdom

Serious kudos to his speechwriter for this line

One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.

Choosing to read this move as an admission that they have a branding and strategy problem. But the maximalism is not going away.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

that’s only 0.5 scaramuccis 🫪🫪🫪

Congrats to incoming White House press secretary Tilly Norwood

Reminder that New Jersey provides a straightforward online ballot tracker. Vote early, confirm that your ballot has been received, then sit back and relax.

Thank god my husband is the only person who ever hears my dead-wrong @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social answers

Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

Every woman who comes forward and lays her trauma bare for the world to see does so hoping it will lead to a better world for women. It never does. And yet, we keep trying.

Beautifully written. It’s so disheartening seeing people retreat into their corners rather than acknowledge the humanity and suffering on both sides of the conflict.

shes saying this on the same network that just interviewed a guy who said he spent 18 days in heaven chilling with jesus christ

I could never watch the part in Snow White where the hunter is bearing down on her, no matter how many times my parents insisted he was going to let her go

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

Official Congressional E-newsletters mentioning "Trump" over time, by party in the 119th Congress:

It will take the rest of my lifetime to rebuild the diplomatic relationships this guy has demolished over the past year and a half. If not longer.

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

i cannot say i really understand the derisive commentary about the Kennedy center protests. much of the negative reaction is “why aren’t libs protesting ICE or detention centers?” when there’s been constant, ongoing protests from liberals on these issues in DC and elsewhere for two years

mmygod

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

More importantly, what do you even say about the people who would believe this

Top notch messaging before the midterms: tell almost the entire voting public they're wrong. Just flawless.

The Charlie Kirk martyrdom thinkpieces are somehow worse today than they were a year ago

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Stealing this from a discord with no shame

Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.

This is so wrong www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

So cool to have a president who faces zero consequences for lying about his role in one of the most tragic days in our country’s history 🙃

The state of play in the USPS mail ballots case:

That dialect quiz accurately clocked me as a New Jerseyan who used to spend summers in Maine 😳

I sense the problem with these three is not so much cognitive decline as it is overblown media exposure.

It’s a popular revolt against the tech oligarchs, not about data centers per se. Yes, streaming sites also use data centers. Yes, data centers don’t actually use up a lot of drinking water. Accuracy is good for its own sake. But still, right or wrong about data centers themselves isn’t the point.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote