fried rice and bluegrass

WHAT

No football player resonates more with the youth than Colt McCoy

RIP, Walter Koenig.

Mina knows this more than almost anyone but it's a great illustration of how good defenses are so much harder to run back than good offenses

Leading the newsletter today: I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy's abhorrent smear campaign agst a child rape survivor & a bit about the history of Ohio anti-abortion politicians attacking child victims in this way: jessica.substack.com/p/ohio-amy-a...

THE FACTORY

One of the most effective things Obama could do for the party is let it rip like this all year long. He's so good, but he saves it for rallies a few weeks before elections like it's a severely-limited resource and that's just not how the modern communications environment has evolved.

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

absolutely sidestepping a bunch of handwringing bullshit about electorialism by simply looking at assholes and orienting yourself correctly

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

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.

The racism that Abdul El-Sayed is facing from Republicans, the press, and even some Democrats is so disgusting.

I'm about done

Trump's approval rate being 31% is astronomically high and you can't convince me otherwise. People are truly deluded.

Immigration and the economy, Americans are undergoing a truly insane phase of common sense

Vivek is a sick, arrogant man, and I hope his horrible actions here will take not only a campaign-ending toll on him but also on the entire Republican ticket and leadership in Ohio, which has shown itself incapable of responsible governing — let alone moral governance.

this is concrete proof that the "defend women's sports" crowd was mostly full of shit and is happy to work to remove athletic opportunities for women across all of college. This was so predictable, and college administrators need to wake up to where the conservative legal movement is going

Darlene Graham is going to win her reelection bid Begging polling people and donors not to fall for this one

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The thing is Jewish conservatives dont give a shit about this stuff as long as he delivers on foreign policy goals.

the second they went to Australia THE DAY BEFORE I knew this team was managed by morons

every two years I look forward to my birthday because the elections are always over by then

Hype

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

Accurate?

Another mandolin

elon musk pays almost no taxes.

Liberalism could take such strides forward if it as a whole admitted the NY Times is garbage

JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us.

Shout it from the mountaintops

if everyone who holds a political ideology sucks, it turns out that says something about the political ideology

I was, because I didn't (and don't) think the state should hold vast power over the rights of individuals, like, say, the right to deport and denaturalize someone for having takes they don't like. the problem is that the vast majority of "libertarians" also want to deport people for their takes.

'School lunch debt' should not be a term that exists

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