I think every geriatric Democrat deserves a primary challenge, also some geriatric Democrats are like Bennie Thompson and still on their A game. But hey he had to break a sweat and that's healthy.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Good item.
And I will remind everyone again: Most politicians on most issues are, uh, shall we say, flexible.
The Dem nominee is going to accept the Dem party agenda on almost everything. Successfully pushing the party in the direction you want changes the nominee, whoever it winds up being.
The difference between Bill Clinton 1992 and (more liberal) Joe Biden in 2020 isn't that Biden has more liberal instincts; the difference is that the Dem Party *as revealed in the nomination campaign* was more liberal in 2020....
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
And, ya gotta say, has worked way way way better than one might have guessed!
Basically the entire theory of not acting like a liar, bully, monster etc, aside from one's moral committments is that over time, acting like that makes people not want to interact with you or do business with you, etc... Trump's entire life theory is: what if you can get away with it forever?
oh i...i wasn't prepared honestly whew Lord
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Much as Soviet propaganda accurately depicted the United States as a racially tiered society, Iranian propaganda has accurately depicted the Trump administration as entirely run by pedophiles.
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
This is a very good question that I would like to pose to a lot of people…
Fascinating live thread of a US Attorney verbally sweating as his excuses are slowly and methodically unraveled by a federal judge too savvy to believe anything other than they were using AI to fabricate pretty much an entire brief on behalf of the DOJ in an attempt to deceive the court
Hillary and Bill meet at Yale and then big balls has my social security number and it's the domino meme
Welp, if Iran wasn't doing "use it or lose it" with their mines before, they most certainly are now.
so:
a. the Strait of Hormuz is def actually mined
b. they did ZERO planning for this
c. they're freaking out now that it's leaked to the press and trying to ensure us that 'no it's not'
3. It would be really great to resist formulations that imply that only people who served in the military should be in positions of leadership in the national security-adjacent agencies. Civilian control is a really, really good thing, and we should resist using lack of military service as a cudgel.
The ongoing reflexive refusal of mainstream media to forthrightly describe the publicly known actions of prominent men who were accused of sexual predation was brought home to me so powerfully in the #MeToo era.
We already had our fool's spring, I believe we have moved to spring of deception and third winter is scheduled for next Tuesday
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
"Each person plucked from their day-to-day existence left a whole life behind. There are shoes by the front door and an empty bed. There’s a car in the driveway and a job undone. There are pets that need feeding, bills that keep arriving and leases with months left to pay."
“I learned ninth-grade civics: You’ve got three equal branches of government. But right now, the Congress is not one of them. It abdicated everything to the White House.”
“I think Madison never imagined or envisioned a Congress with no ambition. This is a Congress without ambition. This is a Congress without really a belief structure in defending legislative prerogative. They just are a rubber stamp for whatever a president tells them to do.”
Washington was cooking with this one
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Like, this Mamdani piece. You read it, you read, "There were no short-form videos posted to social media about the attack in front of Gracie Mansion," and it becomes extremely obvious that the reporter is too biased to write the piece in an evenhanded way.
