Jonathan Gourd

The lack of respect hurts the second most

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

It takes 15 LAPD officers making an average of $100k a year to kill a fucking Golden Doodle.

That’s $1.5 million dollars a year standing around watching a woman cry over her dead dog they just killed. But sure, police departments need more money.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

Kate was a spokeswoman for John Edwards in 2008, and stayed on to the end after the Enquirer broke that he was cheating on his cancer stricken wife with a campaign videographer, fathering her child, and as we later learned committed 6 campaign finance felonies to cover it up.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

South Korean fans have at the 2026 FIFA World Cup Carrying Palestinian flags

They fulfilled their promise made during qualifiers when they chanted "We'll take Palestine to the World Cup with us."

[AbsoluteAutism @AbsoluteAutism]

The note of all notes

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

MAGA will be remembered as the most embarrassing political phenomenon ever to stain the history of America, just a gutter movement that elevated the worst, dumbest, most vile among us

[Wakandantechsupport @SkylerB97]

How bad is the food in the UK to where Golden Corral is a revelation?

[John Q. Septa @dropkick_murray]

The Boston Slide judges the rider’s soul. The bagpiper was pure of heart and got a peaceful ride, the cop was a cop and was spit out accordingly

[Isaiah Ascher @IsaiahAscher]

🚨MUST WATCH: 5 minutes of raw footage from the USS Liberty survivors’ meeting with @RepThomasMassie and one of them drops this bombshell:

“You’re the first human in our lives who’s been in the political arena to ever touch us.”

[Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz @LeBatardShow]

"I have never seen a fan base full of bigger losers than the Knicks fan base"

[Hoops Reference @HoopsReference]

Horrible horrible fanbase

[brian b.dot™️ miller @bdotTM]

this looks like when they tried to integrate schools in the south.

[RB (Ringless Bitch) @RyB_311]

Assembling the Epstein avengers

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

What a dumbass.

[Glengarry Glenn Greenwald @TomCokeIsABlunt]

Here’s another regular citizen who says Graham Platner is mean— oops, my bad, he’s actually a known conservative activist, media figure, and Zionist lunatic

The @nypost does this all the time.

[richard @richard_normal]

ruining your first home finals game in three decades up 2-0 so the worlds fattest pedophile can nod off in a private box >>>

[joe @BurdenBurner]

Lindor getting abducted by a UFO mid-game would probably not even crack the top 10 worst moments in Mets history

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but skyscrapers are vertical and pools are flat

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Matt Brooks bragging that the Republican Jewish Coalition spent millions to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky… but if you observe the same thing, you’re antisemitic.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Liberal Zionists be like “he’s a fringe figure and doesn’t represent Israel” and it’s the minister of finance or the minister of national security or the prime minister