James in Brooklyn

the coup never ended, it won. trump and republicans understand that control over key buildings is often determinative in a power struggle and are making sure that (unlike on jan 6) they have full control over the guys with guns in the DC region.

it’s like Emily In Paris

This is the parent company of Politico

Heisenberg on Bohr's occasionally excesssively generous nature. One of the first lessons learnt as a Nature editor about the "fringe" submissions is that this is exactly what will happen if you let it.

What’s always wild to me is it’s almost always less money than I would have thought. It’s not billions. It’s usually not even millions. Our senators are chipping away at every institution and right we have for like 10k/plate dinners and weekend vacations to someone else’s beach house

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"O ne issue that's increasingly dividing both parties is the war in Gaza," says Pod Save America host Jon Lovett - but that just isn't true.

Only a small minority of Democrats (8% per Gallup) support the war. The only "divide" is in Congress

Brought to you by Cory booker, Hakeem Jeffries, Pete Buttigieg and their Republican AIPAC friends

The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I expected Israel to lie and claim this was a mistake. It’s incredible that they are now openly admitting to targeted assassinations of journalists.

Frame from Rambo with text "This film is dedicated to the brave farmer's market stands of Martha's Vineyard"

I was gonna say Pete is just like an AI bot but the AI bot actually appears to have more principles:

Lol look at your king

Knew it

Bc it’s objective for the news to protest State Dept-certified baddies

No but Evan Gershkovich from WSJ was put in jail for 1.5 years and half the DC press corps and senior editorial world wore this pin around, and the journal dedicated a front page to him

Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic

The historical scope of the changes we are living through are genuinely mind boggling. I’m so head down on solving persuasion problems and writing tactical shit but like - the VRA is about to be torpedoed. Holy shit.

The Death of the Fourth American Republic www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

The really fucked irony for Israel is that their genocidal actions to preserve Zionism will almost certainly significantly increase the odds of Israel being destroyed as a Jewish state

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem
Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

pete buttigieg is one bad internal poll away from coming out against his own same sex marriage.

Scary

This seems right

People with otherwise reasonable perspectives just insisting the sky they’re looking at right in front of their face is not blue

Ducks love peas so much

Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee recently re-shared a video falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. They continue to murder journalists for telling the truth.

Israel/Palestine needs to be a litmus test in 2028 even if the war and genocide are over by then.

Any Democrat who couldn’t be bothered to unequivocally call out mass crimes against humanity AND do something to stop it has no business being anywhere remotely near power.