Kevin Bell

You know what's hard to pronounce? Oman. That's like, four whole letters. That's very long.

NEW: A second archbishop, William Joensen of Des Moines, has apologized for the Oval Office prayer over President Trump led by Denver Archbishop James Golka. Golka has blamed the media for “headlines, which are often crafted to provoke.”

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

Colorado voters will decide two ballot measures targeting trans kids this November, as Colorado conservatives turn to voter initiatives to work around complete Democratic control at the State Capitol

What the Attorney General of the United States seems to not understand, but the people who matter do, is that Congress hasn’t given DOJ any authority to block states from certifying the election. This isn’t a thing. And we don’t have to pretend it’s a thing just because he says it’s a thing.

1) it’s just golf 2) what Trump wants to do - destroy a historic public course that had a great renovation plan - and replace it with very expensive garbage for rich people - is so reflective of what Trump is.

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

and final stream-of-consciousness add-on to this: we work in probabilities, and the probabilities are much higher with this event compared to 10-14 days ago. That's (as always) not a guarantee you get 0.5-1", but it's apples and oranges compared to the setup two weeks ago.

FWIW, they ran the same completely crazy ad about Talarico wanting to imprison parents who "don't want to surgically transition their children" like 45 times during the football game yesterday. Just the basest possible politics.

This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

Every single one of these article is full of the same guy, the person is surprised that Trump acted exactly like he said he was going to act.

I’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship.

Like guys, the one thing you can’t do in Texas is blame democrats for statewide policy. Good or bad, the republicans did it.

The Abbott ads blaming the democratic nominee for the (very high) Texas property taxes Abbott is responsible for are pretty impressive in a shamelessness way.

Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...

"I learned it by watching you" is a far more sophisticated/knowing joke format and I'm sure I use it more frequently, but in terms of pure "famousness," the answer is "This is your brain on drugs" and it isn't even close...

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

I'd bet my salary on it. Also yours, @nbabeau.bsky.social.

Josh Turek: “It’s really easy to send out a tweet and say, ‘Oh, we need to end this war in Iran.’ Seven times [Ashley Hinson] had the opportunity to actually end this war.”

Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

Puts “lefty mayor trying a subsidized grocery store” into perspective in terms of nonsense economics

An export ban, lol.

this is a genuinely crazy story

People say that Trump likes to build things but what he really likes most is renaming things.

Deshaun Watson is older than Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson. He's older than the Ravens' offensive coordinator.

Deshaun Watson is 31 years old

Breaking News: Major TV networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties.

So, the Broncos didn't get pressure to force shaky throws, didn't do things to get Jaylen Waddle open, didn't establish the run and maintain patience with it so they could wear down the Jags? OK, then

Making conventional episodes WAS their show! The whole original pitch was, "What if we just made a Star Trek show where the Enterprise visited planets and saved the day every week?" And somehow, it's morphed into... this.

I look forward to the 2028 Democratic nominee turning to him in a debate and saying "Oh, you were secretly against the war? That means you were too weak to do anything about it. You couldn't remove your lips from Trump's ass long enough to stand up like a man, you pathetic coward."

New Quinnipiac poll finds Dems +11 on House generic ballot, Trump approval down to 33 percent, at record low on the economy, and down in the 20s on Iran and Canada:

[Sigh. He isn't claiming he was lifted out of the rubble on 9/11. He's claiming he was in the US Steel Building at SOME unclear point post-9/11 when there were still concerns about its structural integrity and people tried to get him to leave. This is probably ALSO a lie. But... come on.]

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on America without a single Iranian soldier firing a rifle. Hegseth obsessing over soldiers’ physical fitness in 2026 is like a European general fixating on his troops’ horsemanship in 1940."

trump has a fundamentally zero sum view of the world. if you trade something you are, in his view, losing something. there can be no positive sum gain.

Isn’t the grand unifying theory as to why certain things get covered and others don’t end up as “Fox News covered it?” When Fox covers, there is follow-up. When they ignore, it gets lost.

JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...

A show that needed Kickstarter to get a movie made should of course get a book that requires a kickstarter.

Sony-loyal video tape format bros in the late 1970s: “you need to be Betamaxxing.”