"The gas stations better obey our price controls" says the Treasury Secretary of the Free Markets Party

Okay but it's still granny music, and was back when James Watt was freaking out about them during the Reagan administration

Kelly is one of the guys who always struck me as 'pro-Israel by default' - between his wife's career being in a swing seat during the sort of apex of post second intifada zionist sympathy and coming into federal politics with only a military background, it was just what you did, the smart call.

It really couldn't happen to a nicer theocrat

I see a primary challenge in Chris Coons' future

Huh. I hadn't picked up on that, but you're right.

I have also patronized The Andover Shop on occasion (not for chinos) but be aware their house style is uber preppy (they're on the edge of the Phillips Andover campus).

This would be my rec.

O'Connell's scan as less "young" and less "preppy" than something like J. Crew, so are more appropriate for us gentlemen of a certain age, and when you order them online they'll hem them for free—with or without cuffs.

he’s not as visible as most of the folks in the administration but after stephen miller vought is probably the most evil of the lot

he is ideologically committed to destroying the entire concept of the public good

I want to believe

Yup. Trump's numbers are falling with Republicans because the leopards are eating the wrong faces.

Deloitte is hilarious - that's about as clear a sign I can see of companies going "oh yeah they're gonna lose bad in the midterms and we don't want to be associated with Trump."

the unearned and serene confidence of mediocre white men like Couchfuck McGee is stunning. if only there were some way to tap it, it could be an infinite source of cheap, renewable energy.

JD Vance is what would happen if Dunning and Kruger had a baby, and then dropped it on its head. and yet, he has the utter gall to tell THE POPE to shut his mouth about theology. I mock the shit out of all of this in today's post. thank you for your attention. link is here: bit.ly/4dPzNAO

Does anyone even take Putin's threats seriously any more?

He's been trying to play this card since 2022. Everyone realizes by now that he's bluffing.

I agree with... Tommy Tuberville?

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Q1 Senate Fundraising:

🔵 Talarico (TX) $27M
🔵 Ossoff (GA) $14M
🔵 Cooper (NC) $13.8M
🔵 Brown (OH) $12.5M
🔵 Peltola (AK) $8.9M
🔴 Whatley (NC) $5M
🔵 Platner (ME) $4M
🔵 McMorrow (MI) $3M
🔵 Mills (ME) $2.6M
🔵 El-Sayed (MI) $2.2M
🔴 Cornyn (TX) $1.7M

Seems pretty clear that he’s hitting Reagan levels of dementia and they can’t hide it the way did for Ron because Trump simply refuses to shut up

BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss?

VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden--

BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!

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One reason to talk shit about Rueben Gallego is that we know he talked shit about Democrats to Republicans and it got leaked because he's an idiot who thought those people were his friends

Trump Spirals into Fury at Bad Iran News as Polls Hit Shocking New Low As Trump starts raging at his allies over Iran, the author of a piece on the politics of the war explains why this fiasco is fracturing the MAGA movement so badly—both domestically and internationally...

Trump coalition is collapsing. His net approval among noncollege whites has dropped 34 points. On Iran he's 13 points underwater with them. Orbanism is done. Meloni snubbed him.

On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social and I dissect MAGA's collapse at home and abroad:
newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Take it from a historian who has a lot more evidence at his disposal -- it is actually entirely possible for something to be mostly one person's fault. You're not required to apportion blame for everything in equal measure. Honest!

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

I know, I know, Trump's family wealth allowed him to grow up in a bubble... but not understanding Catholics/Catholicism, at least on a surface level, is a really weird thing for someone from Queens.

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live at Knebworth 1979) (Official Video) YouTube video by Led Zeppelin

Kashmir

Jenny Jaffe (@jennyjaffe) on Twitter: "My boyfriend told me he was getting a Raspberry Pie delivered and boy oh BOY was I disappointed when it got here."

Narrator voice: It is not over

*sigh*

LOL this is so true