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look I just hope that if I'm ever at the peak of my career and my profession, and do something that is ethically insane, personally deranged, and politically grotesque, I too can call up the most powerful journalistic institution in America to write a swooning defense of me

“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”

Thank you everybody! We’ve been backing several efforts to halt data center developments in different communities, and it turns out you’re making a huge impact. A new analysis shows that, in just a three-month period earlier this year, the

Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.

They are looking more and more guilty and more desperate by the second

This is based on objective data. Anecdotes don't overrule data.

The Trump administration broke the law yet again, and now a federal judge is ordering the review and release of hundreds of immigrants. No one is above the law.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.

Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.

Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

You have one job

The internet, AI, social media, we’ve spent hundreds of billions - trillions? - building that mirror for ourselves

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

Trump is claiming credit for ending the government shutdown, boasting that he “broke the Democrats.”

Well, I did find it funny. Just maybe not for the same reason he did?

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember

the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it

the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury

the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

Inflation is an average...

"Okay, inflation-adjusted wages may have gone up, but if you adjust for inflation AGAIN, not the same story"

Doing this in anticipation of what, one might ask

excellent job by these states correctly anticipating Supreme Court fuckery and moving quickly to protect their most vulnerable residents

deeply unfortunate that “rush to get ahead of the Court” is now the smart and savvy way to act

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout

people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider

today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted

should have known better

they were given so much money that even a conscientious and responsible steward would have a hard time spending it all without some level of waste

they are, uh, not that

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.

From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does.

Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

this is what happens when the exit polls are “lol lmao”

get fucked Donald we’re coming for your maps

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

here is your tl;dr for tonight:

we won literally everything

It's a nice feeling after so long