Kaili Joy Gray

Kaili Joy Gray

@kailigray.bsky.social

Phrase-turner. Fist-shaker.

10.7K followers305 following330 posts

Venezuela was a war, but Iran is just a military conflict. Sure.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump offers sales pitch for his war: "Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD. Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD. Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD. Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD. Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD. Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD."

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It’s not actually great that the Graham Platners of the world have made “Free Palestine” their code for a sort of generic “Fuck you” to authority. Especially when the lesson of the Platner debacle is that sometimes authority is actually very important.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Maine U.S. Sen candidate Graham Platner says he has formally withdrawn his candidacy, posting a letter to the Sec of State requesting removal from consideration. The letter thanks supporters, calls for continuing the movement behind his campaign, and ends: “F**k ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts.”

Kaili Joy Gray reposted

It's the name for a J Street proposal that Rahm is riffing off: "J Street supports a comprehensive regional agreement that ends the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and provides Israel full acceptance by 22 former Arab adversaries" jstreet.org/the-23-state...

union person@junlper.beer

an absolutely incredible hillary clinton post that flew under the radar yesterday. the 23 state solution

It sure is easy to send a message to Graham Platner with this form without even providing your name or email or any other identifying information. Hypothetically.

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social

If you want a live link to the feedback form being circulated by the Platner campaign to volunteers, it's here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/9XL7GGG?my... Again, this is only for Platner campaign volunteers, and I cannot sanction bombarding it with comments from non-volunteers. Nor can I sanction that.

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If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social

Oh its OVER OVER

Rand Paul's son has been getting in trouble for drinking for more than a decade. But sure, now he's gonna get help for his problem. www.wdrb.com/news/rand-pa...

wdrb.comRand Paul's son pleads guilty to DUI in KentuckyThe reports say the University of Kentucky senior was ordered to pay $718 in fines and court fees and attend a safe-driving program. His license will be suspended for 45
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Rand Paul son explains why he was ranting at Mike Lawler in public that he hates Jews and gay people and wants them all to die.

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We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

the-downballot.comHow Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme CourtThe state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.

Wow seems that paying a $15 million settlement to Trump’s library slush fund doesn’t go as far as it used to

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

In an extraordinary legal letter, ABC is accusing the Trump administration’s media regulator of threatening broadcasters’ First Amendment rights >>> www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/m...

Road Rules for me but not for thee

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sean Duffy's wife, Rachel-Campos Duffy, on the 7 months her family spent on a roadtrip while Sean was supposed to be working as Transportation Secretary: "I'm gonna be really honest. We live in a PornHub world. This is really wholesome good family stuff."

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Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

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@pkrugman.bsky.social recently said that the "good old days" of low prices should be fading away—and he's right. The problem is, it'll take many years. New (and my first piece at Strength In Numbers!) w/@gelliottmorris.com: Why consumer sentiment won't recover until the 2030s w/o bold new policies.

gelliottmorris.comIt'll be years before Americans get used to higher prices — and politicians can't just wait it outConsumers will eventually adjust, but in the meantime, they'll keep punishing leaders who don't act

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This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS grants the Callais plaintiffs' request to issue the judgment now, meaning the ruling goes into effect and back to the district court immediately. This was done over a strong dissent from Jackson — prompting Alito (w Thomas & Gorsuch) to author an opinion concurring with the grant.

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We aren't even talking about how *even the Hawks* were scoring points for the Knicks last night! Onyeka Okongwu tipped this Jordan Clarkson miss at the end of the first quarter *into the Knicks' basket.*

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"Theyre callin' it a drive-by shelling on the dark web. Freaks post seashell pictures to instagram and next thing you know a corpse shows up in the East River" DUN DUN

Kaili Joy Gray@kailigray.bsky.social

Assault with a deadly photograph of some shells

Can’t we negotiate some sort of deal where Republicans get to throw Comey in jail but it’s for interfering in the 2016 election and handing the White House to Trump instead of some stupid shit about seashells?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Jim Banks: "James Comey deserves to be indicted for a lot of reasons. He totally abused his power. The way he used that power against President Trump ... "

It's like they didn't even notice the First Amendment pocket squares at the WHCD

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

Breaking: The Trump-aligned FCC is planning to file paperwork as early as this afternoon that will challenge Disney's eight licenses for its eight ABC stations. The early-renewal move would be a major escalation by Brendan Carr and would be widely seen as retaliation over Jimmy Kimmel cnn.it/41XdjH1

Forcing Americans to pay for Trump’s ballroom will surely turn this around

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social

Cannot begin to describe how awful this week's Economist/YouGov polling is for Trump. By a 63%-28% margin, Americans think the country's on the wrong track. And on issue after issue, including traditional GOP strengths, voters trust Dems more. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

The GOP’s excellent election message: You people need to pay for Trump’s emotional support ballroom and stop complaining about the cost of gas.

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social

Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC, Sen. Katie Britt R-AL, and Sen. Eric Schmidt R-MO unveil plans to authorize $400 million in taxpayer funds to pay for a new White House ballroom.

"When they go low, we go high" versus "People who are mean to me should lose their jobs despite my jacket saying I don't care."

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

Michelle Obama had to deal with an exponentially worse avalanche of stuff compared to Melania, I don’t recall the former being this unhinged and weird in public about it

"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler." — JD Vance

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

HASNIE: There does seem to be a normalization of rhetoric about assassinating this particular president. How can this administration put an end to this? LEAVITT: We need to recommit ourselves as a country to toning down the rhetoric. Democrats compare him to Hitler. These are despicable statements

He wouldn’t dare talk to her this way if he knew about the First Amendment pocket squares

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, & traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from a sick person. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.

Kaili Joy Gray reposted

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans. Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties). The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Also cant help but think that alllllllllllllll of this—including John Roberts even being on the court—is because of Bush v. Gore. We’re still paying the price for it.

Who does she think should be blamed if not the guy who signed the executive order that did this? "He's kind of busy right now. My gender marker is not big on the issue. OK. So I get that, and I'm not blaming him whatsoever. I love the guy, and I love what he's doing."

Newsweek@newsweek.com

"I can’t travel internationally anymore. I can’t use my passport," Caitlyn Jenner told Tomi Lahren in a recent interview.

bUt hE's NoT eVEN tAKinG a pAyCHEcK

Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social

BREAKING: IRS confirms it's negotiating with Trump family to pay a "settlement" in the wildly defective lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well, see, that just wouldn't happen if Trump had his emotional support ballroom

memeorandum@memeorandum.com

Secret Service Responds After Man Tries to Breech White House Barrier (Gabe Whisnant/Newsweek) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink