For those of you watching from the cheap seats as Elon Musk burns Twitter to the ground using his personal wealth as the accelerant, here’s the latest: Anyone can now buy a blue check, even brand new accounts with no followers. There’s no distinction from the “real” blue checks that…

Yesterday is a strong signal nothing GOP has been doing is working. Will they learn? We will find out soon enough. — I did not see this coming. The President’s party always loses the midterms. There were only two years when it didn’t happen — in 2002 after 9/11, and in 1998, when Republicans spent the entire year trying to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about his sex life. And to paraphrase…

Someone just told me about the Al-jazeera reporter’s funeral. I started crying in the middle of Rick’s show. I might actually have to go home. Doesn’t anyone value accurate and timely reporting? How will we know anything if people are scared to tell us about it? Freedom of the press…

This is my grandfather’s Purple Heart. I didn’t know it still existed — my grandparents were burglarized in the early ‘80’s and cleaned out of most family treasures, but Paige and Carl found it. My grandfather was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He was shot in combat —…

If you have no leverage, it’s not a flex. Bernie and Jayapal will get nothing and like it. — Here’s the thing about leverage- in order to have leverage, you have to offer, or have control over, something the other side wants. Otherwise there’s no incentive to give you what you want. This “stand” by Progressive Caucus over the infrastructure bill was nothing more than a power grab…

The ballot process serves this purpose. Term limits won’t solve the problems with Congress. They would actually create even more. — Term limits won’t solve the problems people have with Congress, and they would create a host of new issues most people haven’t considered. Congressmen won’t know anything. …

The Life of Brian: The Ladder Theory I read this a long time ago but it was recently brought to my attention again. Called "The Ladder Theory" it is a…plaza.ufl.edu Sally: … and so, girls have two ladders, see? And… Millennial Guy 1: Why do the girls get so many ladders and guys only get one? I think I’m going to need at least three ladders. Sally: Guys only have ONE ladder. That’s the whole point of the Ladder Theory.

The special election to replace HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge is August 3 — Nina Turner is running again Rep. Fudge’s handpicked successor Shontel Brown. We know the Bernie Bro Bucks are flooding into Nina’s campaign from white kids who desperately want Bernie to have a win, even if it’s by proxy. But Brown doesn’t need to match her. …

I often say, “People who don’t understand identity politics shouldn’t try to play identity politics.” The other day someone asked me to help them understand. Here goes — Identity politics is not about the candidate’s identity, it’s about your own. It doesn’t mean voting for someone who looks like you…