Brandon Arcari

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

"So the guy called himself a king" *muffled gasps from the panel* "and he sent thousands of soldiers to quarter in my city" *Washington audibly whispers "what the f-"* "and so we, like, formed this system where we'd call up people within a minute or two if they showed up" Paul Revere: hell yes

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Peggy Flanagan runs the kind of ad that every user on this website has been demanding Democrats run for years and the replies are just people getting mad that she didn’t use the exact words that they wanted. This website is addicted to getting mad and should knock it off. It’s embarrassing.

national polling: things are very bad for republicans state polling: things are very bad for republicans district level and internal polling, apparently: we have broken the fifth seal and the apocalypse is nigh

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

sorry for extending the kelly clarkson discourse for yet another day but not hard to see why she got frustrated with this guy. he's asked three times whether or not the bird is for sale and won't give a clear answer!

We need to make Stephen Miller's nightmares come true. Jot that down as a platform plank.

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

heartstopping Google News check

Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.

Not only that, but if he were to actually skip it, that would immediately be used to attack him as well. This is bullshit all the way down and nobody should be giving it the time of day

If you have a problem with Mayor Mamdani attending the 9/11 ceremony you’re simply a racist piece of shit, I’m sorry, that’s on you, you’re gonna have to live with that until you figure out how to be a better human being

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Dolly Parton used her gift for music to highlight the challenges of poverty, inequality, and struggle in ways that uplifted and inspired working people. “And I told 'em all the story / Momma told me while she sewed / And how my coat of many colors / Was worth more than all their clothes”

COMMENTARY: A whole lot of celebrities are loved. Dolly Parton loved you back.

Street art in her honor from SE Seattle

I am recording an emergency podcast right now to explain what just happened in the Supreme Court and what to expect next. It will be posted soon. My advice is to subscribe to Democracy Docket’s YouTube Channel. www.youtube.com/democracydoc...

This story is a bit wild. After Elon Musk's DOGE erased decades of USAID data, it was assumed to be lost. But a Canadian college student had previously downloaded much of it in high school for a project. 4,000 PDFs. Thanks again, Canada. Yet again. www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...

Joe Biden took an hours-long secret train ride into war-torn Ukraine, and Trump got hustled away in a catering truck to get out of a friendly nation. OK.

Maybe she should stop posing for courtside photos with fans holding anti-trans signs then

Ross Douthat lives in...Connecticut. To be fair, I haven't been there recently, but did I miss its "civic and educational collapse?"

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

“The Bluesky Experience™”

I could absolutely see this ticket happening in either order once the primary consolidates, both would have very good reasons to pick the other as VP Ossoff gets instant cred with the left, AOC gets a moderate-coded white guy who appeals to Black voters

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

Me watching Colby’s job performance knowing I spent years relentlessly mocking him as a hack while he was out of government

A new Fox News poll has Dems up 53/46 on the generic ballot. Says Fox: “Notably, 53% is the highest percentage either party has received on the generic House ballot in Fox News polling since 1996.” www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Goldman Sachs, Citi, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan all predicted—and held to through June!—economic pressure would reopen the Strait of Hormuz by July. While Bluesky's longstanding consensus of "they have screwed up and will keep making it worse, the Strait is closed indefinitely" reigns supreme.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

Genuinely looks as though the Spain team have brought along a satirical cardboard cutout for a laugh.

Ex Obama staffer Ben Rhodes calls out AIPAC’s disingenuous effort to make it seem like Obama has endorsed Haley Stevens in Michigan (and Neera Tanden for defending it)

There are many different kinds of Trump supporters. Some are simply clueless. Here. Take this quiz. It tells you about clueless low info voters. Most high info voters flunk it. www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/