the thing about being a political junkie is you have extremely difficult time conceptualizing how someone could be totally ignorant of politics but i would strongly encourage you to imagine the kind of person who googled “did biden drop out?” on november 4th and then cast a ballot on november 5th

None of these recriminations take seriously the asymmetry whereby a slogan from any fringe group of leftist activists can be yoked to Democrats across the board, even if nobody in power acts on it, yet the same is almost never true for fringe rightist groups and Republicans.

This is Meatball. He's going home for the very first time. So excited to have a human of his own. Thinking about what he's going to call you. Maybe Bob. 12/10

It takes an exile from Putin’s Russia, writing about the theories of an exile from Orban’s Hungary, to cut through the noise about Trump’s America, from which we have nowhere left to run. Gift link to M. Gessen in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

For everyone who needs to hear this, the special counsel's office has confirmed "Jack Smith did not set up this account." @jack-e-smith.bsky.social

Dispiriting but true: it’s very unlikely that a different liberal policy regime would’ve saved Dems this cycle, but a different information environment very well could have. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...