Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.

Everybody dies.

Jasmine Crockett, after accusing colleagues of castrating their Constitutional duty, said, “My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.”

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

The real story on Capitol Hill is the desire of GOP men to have transgender women in their bathrooms

What the Gaetz withdrawal tells us about how to fight back during the next four years. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/what-the-m...

100 percent accurate

Building a book list for an upcoming beach vacation. What have you read recently that you really loved? #booksky

Sounds like a concept of a plan: www.borowitzreport.com/p/american-m...

Assembling a cabinet from the people in your group chat is certainly a choice.

LOLSOB

Did anyone NOT anticipate that these egos would collide?

Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."

I am very stressed out. Maybe you are, too? Here’s a pic of my dog that makes me happy.

Trying to imagine what Republicans would be saying if a Democratic president's nominee for ATTORNEY GENERAL, the top law enforcement official in the US, was trying to suppress a report that may prove his sexual misconduct with a minor. Would a single minute go by where they wouldn't yell about it?

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A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Read this article by @gregolear.bsky.social to understand what’s behind all of this: “Conservative politics is not just for Evangelical Christians, anti-abortion crusaders, tax-averse libertarians, Q crazies, and MAGA cultists. There has emerged a New Right:”

gregolear.substack.com/p/dark-enlig...