Brandon Sorensen

Congress can change the laws.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“Paid for by the U.S. Government”

A taxpayer-funded propaganda TV spot.

This is the most shameless administration of our lifetime.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

rejecting the ceasefire but also saying you'll wait till after the midterms to start bombing Iran again is an odd way of saying you have no good options

[Sweet Meteor O'Death @smod4real]

There’s zero chance he’s gonna win in Idaho as an independent but Todd Achilles might win best campaign ad of the year with this

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

This is grotesque behavior. Joe Biden was an American president. Xi is a communist dictator, and the head of a foreign state. Our internal divisions are not fair game in this context. https://t.co/IfOs1Yyl3b

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

@philipaklein Absolutely disgraceful.

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

The whole party owns the nonsense. It's so embarrassing. Imagine going off to Washington for the first time with aspirations of helping your country... and then one day your job turns out to be making this social media post.

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

Here’s some data: the sitting governor of Kansas, Laura Kelly, is a Democrat. Adam Hamilton, a megachurch pastor, has a shot at winning the Senate race there for Democrats.

Trump won Kansas by 16 points in 2024.

If heterodox Democrats like Kelly and Hamilton can win states Trump carried by double digits, there is simply no reason we cannot win a Senate supermajority of closer to 60 than 50.

Once you set that as your goal, many other strategic and tactical decisions flow from it.

But the first step is understanding that it is possible and has been done in our lifetimes.

[David Shor @davidshor]

The DNC is trying to ban states from using ranked choice voting in the 2028 presidential primary.

I think this is a really bad idea!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Democrats are in disarray (clearly) but the converse is that Republicans are in way too much array for a party whose leader is putting up numbers like this, everyone is marching in lockstep off the cliff with no debate or infighting about the course of action.

[vicki @vboykis]

all you have to do is not give the model access to the internet what am I missing here

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we *should* export advanced AI chips to China, which also wants to ban… Britain (and every other non-American on Earth)… from using our best models? I have no words.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

This doesn’t bode well for Trump’s $1.7 billion fund for convicted crooks and rioters:

Rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): “we’re gonna kill it”

[Liam Donovan @LPDonovan]

For the uninitiated https://t.co/vXaGmgziSI

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Obama expressed empathy for Trayvon Martin and @benshapiro had a decade long tantrum. Imagine if instead he had stolen $1.8 bil from taxpayers and had BLM dole it out to whoever they wanted. Because that's what Trump is doing but for insurrectionist whites instead.

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

I have no problem with reassessing where our forces should be and what they should be doing based on national security interests. I do have a problem with it being dependent on whether or not world leaders are sufficiently groveling for scraps of Trump's mercy.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is a THEFT far worse than Watergate. There is no other word for it. They are stealing $1.78 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

[Sourdeath Sam @SourdeathSam]

@NateSilver538 Republish all the articles and add (Nate’s Version) at the end of each headline. This shit is too easy.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Have there been any Trump supporting deficit hawks writing enraged editorials about how their guy is the worst president in history on their core issue?

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Here's what the Utah GOP did:
1. They sued federally to block the new map.
2. They packed the UT Supreme Court, creating two brand new justices
3. They created a brand new “constitutional court” panel that will hear challenges to state law, avoiding the Supreme Court altogether

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

@davidshor @Nate_Cohn It's funny, one of the main targets of the VRA was MMDs, which is sort of my thought about neutral rules shifting in terms of who they benefit over time. I think you could have some system where we increase the size of the house but require PR within MMDs and it works well.