Dave Miller

Reminds me so much of the post-debate discourse last year, except "Blackwater mercenary who blames women for rape and has a Nazi tattoo" is juuuust a bit worse than "being too old to effectively campaign anymore."

You owe Graham Platner nothing! There is no shame in abandoning him! Or do you really think this is your best/only option? (5/5)

Plus, there’s still time to recruit a genuine progressive candidate – Maine hasn’t even started allowing candidates to collect signatures yet! So find one who doesn’t HAVE A NAZI TATTOO! (4/5)

There’s also just the political reality people are in denial about. The guy is running for Senate in MAINE, not the head of the local DSA chapter. You can’t say rural whites are stupid and win in Maine. (3/5)

He blamed women for getting raped, spread racist tropes, and HAS A NAZI TATTOO. He worked for Blackwater. These are just immediately disqualifying things, but this guy gets a pass because he’s a little rough around the edges and has a workingman affect? *cough*Fetterman*cough* (2/5)

A few thoughts on Graham Platner, from someone who was a big fan of his 7 days ago:

It’s confounding/depressing to watch people twist themselves into knots trying to defend him, buying the same clichéd excuses they'd rightfully reject if they came from a Republican or mainstream Dem. (1/5)

FYI, it seems like employees at the Department of Ed, at least, had no control over it. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Isaac Chotiner: Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.

Chotiner from the top rope!

Didn’t think to screenshot but my reason was “You appease fascists. Rot in hell.”

Ironically brought to you by Disney+.

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Hard agree. New Haven is just a hair lower on the Y axis even though it's much further to the left on the X axis.

The Atlantic/Chris Rufo/TCW is one helluva dark triad.

This moment is providing a pretty clear litmus test of which people with national platforms actually care about stopping fascism. Who you can trust and who you can’t.

You can vehemently condemn political violence without complimenting and praising fascists! It’s not hard!

I know, that came off as too harsh. It was very-good-to-great, most of the time.

She writes the program was "The kind of show that’s a phenomenon, that makes people fall in love with TV as a medium." Mad Men and Girls are the only shows in her career that meet that threshold (and I'm being VERY generous toward Girls there) – and only one of those shows had a male creator.

I'm sure it's for legal reasons, but it's funny how this excerpt (and even some of the people commenting here!) plays coy about the obvious fact that this is about Mad Men and Matthew Weiner. A glance at Mamet's Wikipedia page makes it clear there's only one show this could be about.

You mean you don't love the "2014 Roku app" look and functionality?

The only good thing ROS did was screw up so badly that it reunited the fan base by giving them something everyone could hate (well, two things - besides being a bad movie on its own, it also ruined the entire sequel trilogy in retrospect). Transparency: I also loved TLJ.

Am I missing something nefarious here? Taiwan does refer to itself as the Republic of China.

Man, I knew I forgot someone (Landrieu). Always fun to play Let's Remember Some Senators. (To your larger point: Maybe. But a protracted fight post-ACA seems unwinnable.)

Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Mark Pryor, Robert Byrd, Byron Dorgan, Tim Johnson, *sigh* Joe Lieberman... none of these people are voting to abolish the filibuster or grant DC statehood.

I think I saw this for the first time during peak COVID in 2020 and it sent me into that teary-eyed, convulsive, unable-to-speak type of laughter that I hadn't experienced in months.

Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.

A week ago I paid for a subscription to @theverge.com and this article alone justified the entire cost. Thank you @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

Gotta disagree. The bill cutting those taxes is one of the most manifestly evil pieces of legislation ever passed, takes away poor people's health care, and provides the funds to build even more concentration camps, so I think it's just as worth talking about as the other things.

A selection of Bluesky users reacting to Haliburton tearing his Achilles in real-time.

You know Bluesky has enough sports fans because you can fill up an entire phone screen with reactions to horrible things as they happen, like this from last night.

When we bought a home I insisted on getting an outdoor TV antenna. I tinker with it endlessly and it causes me a lot of stress, but those are MY airwaves and I’m not paying for them!

Thank you for saving Jeopardy! from the clutches of Mike Richards! I hope you find your way to another place that will let you report on America's favorite quiz show (among other things).

Small sample size, but I hosted two pub trivia nights this week, and one of our questions basically gave the definition of "oligarchy" and asked them to identify the word for it. 100% of the teams got it right! That only happens with *super easy obvious* stuff.

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Just skipping past the "papers please" phase and going right to "disappeared in broad daylight." Over an op-ed.