I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'

I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...

Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

5 *local* elections you may not know about!

1. Dems trying to flip the conservative school board in CO's Douglas County

2. Seattle's prosecutor race: boltsmag.org/city-attorne...

3. the sheriff race in Bucks County, PA

4. the labor referendum in Olympia, WA

5. ICE stakes in Albuquerque

everything else aside, “i got the issue i cover completely wrong for several years straight, anyway let’s all move on” is an incredible move.

this also applies to interpersonal conflict online

you’re allowed to just think people are annoying and you don’t like seeing their posts, and even block them for it

this does not mean they are ontologically evil, you can just not vibe, it’s fine

Homey literally said "touch mass"

Please consider these generally unknown details.

The problem was that the migration surge post-COVID was just way too much to handle, and the admin was caught off guard by the speed and scale by which migration bounced back. They also dithered on strategy for far too long and didn’t want to lean into the issue — instead, they ran from it.

Allow me to summarize:
1. 5 IDF soldiers caught sexually molesting a Palestinian prisoner.
2. IDF files charges.
3. IDF AG faces enormous pressure from government to drop charges. Mob storms base where it happened.
4. IDF AG leaks video documenting the molestation.
5. IDF AG pushed out (continued)

The subway on Halloween night is one of the greatest things about NYC.

Not only that but the IRA disproportionately located those jobs in red and purple states.

They thought it might make it harder to cut.

This is bad and probably should be illegal, but what a fascinating text

Just too too on the nose

I wonder if that Bill Gates letter is having the 100% predictable effect? [finger to ear] I'm getting confirmation ...

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

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Correct choice!!

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

God the Lachey’s are just actively bad at hosting. #loveisblind #reunion