a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

"Karaoke rage" in other countries Cases of karaoke rage, where singers have been harassed, assaulted or killed mid-performance have been reported all over East and Southeast Asia. Incidents of "karaoke rage" outside of Asia have also been documented. • In August 2007, a karaoke singer in Seattle, Washington, was attacked by a woman who wanted him to stop singing Coldplay's "Yellow"

Looked it up on Wikipedia and came across this blurb which made me laugh more than I should have

When I was like 14, I told my dad I wanted “You Can Call Me Al” at my funeral, and his response was basically

This has stunned me, that 'My Way' was the number one choice for funeral music in 'the East End of London in the 2000s' and I *really* would not have been expecting it to still be going strong 20 years later in the United States.

Everybody picking the same song about being unique and special is kind of great

Spring in Philadelphia.

Pete Speaks Live in Tulsa, Oklahoma YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg

However you've lined up politically in the past, if you're worried about where our country is headed, you belong in this conversation.

Here are my full opening remarks from last night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thankful to the people of Oklahoma for such a warm welcome back.

Ossoff is good at this.

I grew up on the edge of the Ozarks, the other highland South region alongside Appalachia, and can say that I saw far more that I recognized in Justified than I ever did in Yellowstone

And to be clear, I love where I’m from! And I love Appalachia, which is where my mom is from (eastern Tennessee)

Yes, people who had to work normally, people who had young kids, people from especially vulnerable groups - for these folks it was unrelenting misery. No argument there.

I think absolving voters, as many explanations do, is tempting for some because it avoids wrestling with deeper questions, such as: why does a fascist like Donald Trump consistently appeal to up to half of the country?

People then get into the numbers game: "oh, well, it's not really half..."

A lot of people obviously hated COVID—the isolation, the fear, the illness and death—but I think Will has a point here.

Not only did some people enjoy COVID in an misanthropic way, but many of our worst anti-social habits and impulses were accelerated by lockdown

I really expected this to be controversial but it seems like the large majority of replies are people admitting they kind of enjoyed COVID, which I think tells us something about the ongoing disruptions from the pandemic. A lot of people withdrew in various ways and never quite came all the way back

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

I haven’t been on much today. What did Booker say?

Of course parties have an obligation to try and run the best candidates and campaigns they can.

But it’s simply not tenable to absolve voters of all responsibility. That’s just not a workable theory of democratic politics or civic life.

I’m not sanguine about where we are, but that’s largely because the American public had a perfectly viable option in the Harris/Walz ticket and instead re-elected an insurrectionist, adjudicated rapist, convicted felon who promised to hurt immigrants

I don’t see this as a damning indictment on Dems

Jamelle, Adam Serwer, David Rothkopf, Greg Sargeant, Amanda Marcotte, Brian Buetler, you really nailed where I'm at - off the top of my head

The electorate is morally negligent, which doesn’t mean it can’t decide to stop being so

After a Dark Week, Americans Should Turn to Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech Carter was panned at the time, and long after, but has been vindicated.

Fault obviously falls on all sorts of people and institutions, but yeah democracy does kind of come down to the voters. www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...

After a Dark Week, Americans Should Turn to Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech Carter was panned at the time, and long after, but has been vindicated.

Fault obviously falls on all sorts of people and institutions, but yeah democracy does kind of come down to the voters. www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...

Hilary’s loss was a bit flukey and contingent. But I think the voters bear some responsibility here, a great deal in fact.

Yeah I don’t want to suggest there is no one at these places doing good work. Obviously I think Jamelle is one of the best to ever do it. And there are standouts elsewhere across legacy media.

But the overall environment is bad. And the commentary is often at best unoriginal and watered down.

How is this Democrats’ fault? Dems are the party that twice put forward hyper-qualified women in the last three cycles.

Yeah I don’t want to suggest there is no one at these places doing good work. Obviously I think Jamelle is one of the best to ever do it. And there are standouts elsewhere across legacy media.

But the overall environment is bad. And the commentary is often at best unoriginal and watered down.

In fairness, if you put Tapper to one side Burnett, Cooper and Collins particularly are doing some interesting stuff most evenings on challenging what the admin is saying in a way they certainly weren't doing a year ago

Obviously there are giants like @jamellebouie.net at NYT, but in the main I think a lot of new independent media is doing it better than legacy outlets

Jake Tapper, long-suffering... @jaketapper.bsky.social Going to a formal event that celebrates Freedom of the Press where some of the other guests don't understand the importance of the 1st Amendment? The Reporters Committee for the Free Press has some great accessories - including the below pocket square! Image shows pocket square on a table with handwritten font style reading: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CROF THE PRESS

the autumn and the scarlet @beneprism.rip (in case anyone missed it) Image shows Tapper’s signature next to the font on the pocket square

Look, CNN, the NYT, and other places remain essential for original investigative reporting.

But at this point I don’t know why anyone is turning to these places for opinion news when they could be reading & watching @thebulwark.com, @liberalcurrents.com, @newrepublic.com, @theunpopulist.net, et al

i was just saying to a friend a few days ago that trump's public opinion collapse opens up the field of possibilities in ways that are truly unpredictable. it is one thing for a president to be this popular at the *end* of their turn, but not even two years in?