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would that our Democratic Party leadership had half the moral courage of a Martha's Vineyard pierogie vendor

Zero sympathy from me 🙄

Photo of a guy in a kayak or canoe smiling and giving a thumbs up. He has a mustache, and a blue zip fleece, and is wearing a Sierra Nevada hat.

Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...

Missouri’s minoritarian red state government, which cemented its own rule 5 years ago by overturning an anti-gerrymandering law passed by a majority of Missourians, is now successfully clawing control of its blue urban centers by overturning minimum wage, sick pay, and control of our police.

Stephen Bishop as David Justice in MONEYBALL

“She’s paying you $3.5 million so you can be married to someone else.”

I haven't yet read through all the replies, but there are some really wonderful add-ons to the original concept in the comments here.

Cybertruck Leads Tesla’s Used-Car Collapse Once hyped as the indestructible truck of the future, the sci-fi pickup is now leading a massive plunge in used Tesla values as the company grapples with the fallout from its CEO's politics.

Finally, some good news: ”Prices for used Cybertrucks are in a freefall, a stunning collapse that has become the most visible symbol of the deep and growing crisis at Tesla.”

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ART 🖼️

look I can't even be mad at this out

J.P. Crawford's 17-pitch PA ties Darren Bragg (6/16/95) for most pitches in a PA by a Mariners hitter since pitch counts were first tracked (1988)

Before Nathaniel Lowe Thu, we hadn’t seen a 17+ pitch PA since Austin Meadows in 2021 PS

This is 1st szn w/multiple since 2018 (3)

I was one of the columnists who left the Post after owner Jeff Bezos demanded the Opinion section largely focus on “personal liberties and free markets." Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing.

— Perry Bacon, TNR's newest team member
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Worried for Bush but so happy football is back.

Chiefs rookie LB Jeff Bassa led the team with six combined tackles. Also had a QB hit.

Junior Caminero's bat split in half and the end stuck in the infield dirt like a lawn dart

💙

Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Texas legislators bet the ranch A Republican plan that gambles on 2024-level popularity and border voters

Yeah, this was a good article showing how if Hispanic voters shift back to 2020 or 2018 voting patterns, this map either won't actually gain Republicans much or could legitimately backfire. O'Rourke carried four of the new districts in 2018. Biden carried two in 2020.

That image of a bunch of Japanese parliament members crowding around trying to stop one guy from saying something

Aaron Boone calling for Devin Williams

this is what the attorney general looks like in a kevin sorbo movie where jesus is a character

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

Dean Cain, Who Played Superman, Says He Is Joining ICE

Former Superman turns into an ICE supervillain

How they covered it at the NY Times vs how we covered it at @dailykos.com.

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Red looks good on him. Are him and Spags boys??

Silent Scope

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

Wouldn't it be easier for shows to do a prefatory segment explaining the tariff issue, who pays, say the administration is lying, and then ask what you want? What's the point of wasting time trying to get a confession out of these folks? They're paid to lie.

One of the ironies of Musk's Twitter crushing - as well as the death of new media like BuzzFeed - is that there is basically no ecosystem any more for nonsense woke overreaction to stuff. Which means the right now has to invent it to react against

Schreiber has another Autopilot case on the docket for October, in Alameda County, and I get the sense that he's not gonna let that one go for less than $100m

This man is singlehandedly creating the consequences for Tesla's lethal Autopilot scam that regulators should have created years ago

A request to dismiss a complaint against Carolina Amesty signed by AUSA Michael Flicetta.

Magistrate Judge has now approved Pam Bondi's DOJ request to dismiss the COVID corruption case of Republican operative Carolina Amesety, represented by her brother.

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