David “not required to exhibit naïveté” Pratt

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

I came across a FB post this morning about a legendary coach (allegedly) suffering from dementia. At first, it made me sad. But then I did a little digging. Here's what I found & what that says about Facebook, AI slop, & the "divisiveness" of WNBA discourse. katestarbird.substack.com/p/lies-for-c...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

Oh Hey, More AI Stuff – Is This Our Reliable Narrator? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-he...

Welcome to the future of thinking. NERVE CENTER premieres next Thursday on InfoWars.

Most people don't realize dumb is spelled with a B

What I find significant about today's jobs report is not only the paltry 29,000 jobs added in September but the downward revisions for the two previous months. July's revision takes that month from 21k jobs gained to 10k jobs lost. www.bls.gov/news.release...

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

New from me: I unpack what happened at the Jack Smith hearing, and offer a theory of what the hell Senator Eric Schmitt thought he was doing. And yes, an inability to tell the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes really did seem to be a big part of it. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...

We’ve got a new example of a vulnerable Republican trying to put some daylight between himself & Trump’s political toxicity this weekend — it also converges on a theme that TPM has been focused on during Trump’s second term, as he weaponizes the executive branch for his own political aims.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

But the promise isn’t just to tear them down, but punish everyone who did the work. Liquidate companies. Strip the private assets from executives of the demolition and construction firms. And start telling them it’s gonna happen

This guy is a trip. Husted spent his tenure as Ohio Lt Gov championing data center construction in the state. Here's a press release I dug up from 2019, where he's celebrating Google building a new $600 million data center in Ohio. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

The reason Dems routinely press Patel & other Trump admin officials about whether armed federal law enforcement officers — whether it’s FBI agents, ICE or others — might be deployed to the polls this fall is because Trump has been agitating around the idea for years.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has called the state’s current system of felony disenfranchisement “a shameful relic of our Jim Crow past” and expressed support for a ballot measure this November that would end it.

Charlie Kirk Takes Manhattan

Trump's rage at Canada is so unhinged that GOPers are now leaking that his trade war is a huge problem in the midterms. The big story here: MAGA zero-sum economics is a substantive *and* political disaster. On the pod @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social explains this so well: newrepublic.com/article/2152...

Standing up for working people has always been at the heart of my work. And that fight has only grown more urgent. This Labor Day, I’m proud to keep fighting for strong unions, higher wages, safe workplaces, & an economy where working people, not corporate interests, come first.

This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.

Gas so expensive I’m no longer accepting ass or grass for rides

We are a nation of snowflakes and cancelers. They live on left and right. I’m glad Vinita Prabhakar has told her story. “Free State of Florida,” my ass. A tiresome boast. open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

We're done kicking the can down the road. Here's how we're fixing the city-owned section of the BQE.

Natalie Harp is a gutter racist. www.youtube.com/shorts/HxARU...

The precedent here, that the president can simply level federal buildings at will without judicial interference, will come in handy on January 21st, 2029.

What Did Trump Do That Made Carney Walk Away? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

Trump is touting a highly unusual Census Bureau report that doesn't even support his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. The report found that 24k out of 128M voters, or 0.018%, were "non-citizens." Trump lost the 2020 election by more than 4% And experts say the report can't be verified.

A little thread on Trump's CRYPTO ventures because I don't think ppl are seeing how totally corruptive it is to the system. Let's start w this. When investors dump millions into Trump’s crypto ventures, what are they actually paying for? It has no intrinsic value.

It Takes A Nation of Millions To Form A Subcommittee To Look Into The Possibility Of Determining The Feasibility Of Holding Us Back

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NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

Can you do me a favor and subscribe to @talkingpointsmemo.com’s YouTube page? m.youtube.com/@tpm-video?r...

Penicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

literally impeach him just for this

One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.

Me (closer plane) and @peacewind.aero (lead plane) flying the DHC-1 Chipmunks back to the Canadian Aviation Museum after a wild trip to #Oshkosh #AirVenture. Thanks to Matt in the support plane for the photos!

TIP LINE ALL-STAR: John from Michigan shares advice for surviving the collapse of the police state

Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.