What a loser.

even if they do actually arrest anyone (I have doubts) chances they actually make it to trial are… slim, I would say

as their hamhanded attempts to go after comey and james show, these people live at the nexus of terrifying and incompetent

I keep saying: Ossoff is going to win in Georgia by double digits or close to it and if he wants to turn that into a presidential run he will immediately be one of the favorites

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

Logistics are king.

“I don’t want to see the pope as a politician”

lady I got some news for you about how you get elected pope by a conclave of powerful men who all have strong opinions on how one of the oldest institutions in the world should be run

I felt like the story was fine after the 2nd one. I don't know why they felt the need to go past that.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

So just to check the till:

Works in Nevada

Works in Missouri

But from Arkansas

Sure, Jan.

This whole thing was a setup for TV and that any news organization takes this even remotely at face value is going to turn me into the Joker.

There are good lessons to learn about voting, organizing etc.

But I worry people will learn the wrong lesson about concessions. Orban conceded. Trump never will. We cannot get lulled into a false sense of security for 2026.

More tomorrow…

No, because I doubt he would win. But using his momentum to encourage people to push back against Trump and MAGA is on the table. That includes candidates who would qualify as good.

Noted. Go out there and help your preferred candidates to make that reality.

I'm not waiting for the good candidate, I'm taking whatever option let's me progress forward. I will keep doing that until an even better option comes up.

A significant amount of them are assholes using Catholicism to justify being terrible.

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

He has lost Peter Baker. I repeat, he has lost Peter Baker.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

It absolutely breaks my heart when a source who drops out thinks I’m gonna be mad at them. NO. whole reason we did this work was to shed light on something that needed to be illuminated. If someone’s mental or physical health or future takes priority, I want what’s best for them. Human beings first.

That's always the case though. It's like saying every medical achievement delays inevitable death. You may as well keep your head down and stay out of the way of people who are interested in having some stretch of time not dealing with bullshit.

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

Well for what it's worth, the opposition party got close to 70% of the seats. That's more than enough to undo constitutional changes Orban did to the Hungary.

Yeah, but sometimes picking the less bad option is a step towards getting someone you would actually want in office.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

They aren't the worst on the list, but Lonnie and the couchfucker are particular standouts for me.

Donald Trump, his enablers, and the people who put him in office a second time