Dante Atkins

"Freedom of maneuver" is a military term designed to distinguish between pacified and hostile territory in an occupation setting, in case that helps inform you of how the federal government views American cities.

There's something deliciously ironic when someone tells a story about a nation that once led the world in science succumbing to religious extremism and dogmatism, and that someone is RFK Jr.

Just saw the Marist poll of Maine: Jackson 49-47 among LV's, but a whopping 50-41 among LV's. How is it that in a Dem wave year? How is Pingree tied 44-44 LV but +11 RV in this environment? Marist is smoking something powerful but for good or ill, I can't say. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-mi...

There's supposedly a GlenGariff/Detroit News poll showing El-Sayed and Benson up a healthy amount but I haven't found an original source for it--just a Polltracker account on X. Can anyone verify this?

This is a 2018 wave election with the difference being unaffiliated/independent voters are showing up in force, too

Trump could read Mein Kampf from a rally stage and the New York Times would call it "testing the traditional bounds of acceptable literary references"

The closing argument for the entire Republican party is just outright, unbridled racism. I'm old enough to remember--hell, it wasn't more than 15 years ago--when if you said anything even close to this, you had to resign your seat. Now, it's standard-issue Republicanism.

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

We call for a full and immediate withdrawal of Russian forces, a return to pre-2014 borders, changes to the Russian constitution to limit the military to 100,000 personnel, a constitutional guarantee to withdraw from the CSTO, and immediate presidential elections under UN monitoring to replace Putin

Crushed that I will be out of town for this but if you're local to the DMV, you should absolutely come!

Trans panic didn't do the trick, so Republicans are turning to eye-popping overdoses of Islamophobia as the last gasp

It's pretty clear that Yglesias was rooting for Bolsonaro because he hates the left, but rooting for Bolsonaro doesn't go well with the centrist median voter shtick, so he decided to couch his antipathy to Lula fans as a "how dare you take an interest in the world" form of intellectual superiority.

Over/under on how long it will take Branko Marketic to publish in Jacobin bemoaning Vucic' loss as an assault by NATO against Serbian independence and the notion of multipolarity

Bernie will be on the honest, respectful, anti-bullying train right after his appearance on Chapo.

TOMAR POR CU BOLSOMINIONS

The state that is furthest in its count, by far, is the Distrito Federal (Brasilia): 31% of precincts have been counted. Result so far? Bolsonaro is up 9.2%. Bolsonaro won the first round here 51% to 38%. His dad won the 2022 runoff here 59% to 41%.

Note to Josh Turek: See how easy this is?

"Why are Democrats turning against Israel"

What you say when you're winning, 100%

IN THE WILD, HERE IT IS, THE "TRUMP IS A MAGIC BUSINESSMAN WHO WON'T DO THE MASS DEPORTATIONS HE SAYS EVERY DAY HE WILL DO" VOTER

We've circled all the way back to Reagan-era welfare queens driving Cadillacs, except this one has an extra dose of eagerness for ethnic cleansing attached to it

As a follow-up to this, sure, be pissed at Turek, I agree with that. But save a good deal of hatred here for Chuck Schumer, who pushed Turek over the top when we could have had an anti-bigot like Zach Wahls as the nominee

1) I fucking hate Turek's bigoted bullshit, and so should you 2) a 51-49 Senate with Turek in it is a way better outcome than a 50-50 Senate where Republicans have committee leaderships and bring their agenda to the floor, not just on trans issues but every single other one. Both things are true.

Lincoln Riley is such an amazing coach, I hope he stays at USC forever. Not even being able to signal timeout to an official two feet away is the kind of genius Bob Chesney could only aspire to in his dreams. It's clear who runs LA!

Nothing people love more than pissing away their salary to Chevron in the name of patriotism

She's a Republic-an

We have a real "She said/See said" situation here.

The Republican Party has all the values and tactics of a white supremacist prison gang and maybe it's time to stop normalizing them as if they were a modern functioning political party

1) I drive an electric car. Holy shit dude 2) I navigate to my destination in a handheld computer connected to a satellite in space. What the hell man 3) I might be going to a cocktail bar that serves things previous generations could only dream of 4) I'll fall asleep to a book via Bluetooth. Whoa.

The tank isn't dead. Mass armored maneuvers might be. Ukrainians use tanks in small groups or for direct fire against buildings or fortifications, with infantry and drone backups. It's called combined arms. Russia doesn't do combined arms, they just send people and equipment to die.

The richest man in the world who has funded Republicans to the tune of half a billion dollars this cycle is still going off on shadowy conspiracy theories by unnamed people to influence US elections.

Indoor smoking bans. Those of you on the younger side have no idea how pervasive it was to go out to a restaurant, a bar, even a flight and be bombarded with second hand smoke. It was awful. So glad it is gone.

Not for nothing but he's just making shit up, telling his audience that Omar is no longer in Congress when she most certainly is.

I 100% believe that men who know for sure they are done having kids should get a vasectomy. There are a lot of advantages to it for everyone! But please don't make jokes about it or treat it as reversible. It is a surgery that changes your body permanently and is designed to be permanent.

Do not promote shit like this. Vasectomies are easy. Reversals are a) complicated, b) painful, c) not guaranteed, and d) not covered by insurance. Only get a vasectomy if you are 100% sure. Do not treat a vasectomy as reversible because it might not be and it will suck either way.

In Vivek Ramaswamy's world, apparently being a childhood sexual assault victim makes you "flawed" and unqualified to hold office. Every fucking time you don't think Republicans have another level of depravity in them, they always show there's another level they can sink to.

It would be one thing if the NRSC sued. That would be one thing. For the GOVERNMENT to sue is quite another altogether, and is basically a five-alarm fire.

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

This is begging for impeachment

This problem is exactly what DNC members elected Ken Martin to solve. It's still a huge problem, but we have made big inroads in taking money out of the hands of grifting consultants and putting it into on-the-ground early organizing instead. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Vance somehow manages to combine huge loser energy with biggest asshole you've ever met energy and I'm honestly not sure how he does it.

This is one of the crazier persistent Republican talking points, and like many, many others fails the very basic and common-sensical "why would anyone want to do that?" test.

WHAT THE FUCK

I'm going to be perpetually mad that an overtly Putin-supporting "think tank" managed to enmesh itself so thoroughly into the progressive left and the CPC

On the bright side for the Republican ticket, Jon Husted has an amazing ass, with muscle-bound legs and feet

Beyond parody

This is Bond villain shit and they all need to be in jail.

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit