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Over at Vox, Matthew Yglesias points out that the Resistance, the guard dog whose vigilance played such a crucial role as a check against Donald Trump, has gone quiet since…

The pernicious nonsense that is a belief in "meritocracy" appears to be on the decline. Still, we have a long way to go. ...today, a majority of Americans believe that…

CNN has a piece up this morning about Joe Biden's slo-mo campaign rollout. How will Joe sew up the nomination? By naming a vice-presidential candidate quickly plus...ENDORSEMENTS! Biden, who has…

Corporate journalists are typing furiously to try to convince people that a majority of the country wants centrism and unity. Bullshit. Damon Linker at The Week goes after this notion…

One of these two things happened: A) Like all great leaders, Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki blamed a staffer after getting heat for retweeting white nationalist trope. B)Twitter is hard. It's confusing. The kids seem to like it though, so... *click* Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki's staffer retweeted white nationalist trope by mistake.

Trump's mental impairment has gotten a lot worse. It is now so bad, in fact, that his ongoing hallucinations and delusions are being more widely talked about openly.   “His…

My dislike for Brazile even pre-dates her fucking-up Al Gore's campaign. So this is like the cherry on top of all the BS she has been trading in as a…

The prayerful Senator from Delaware also called on clouds to not be so vaporous, called on quartz to stop being so metamorphic, and called on Root Beer to stop being delicious. Coons, I hate to do this because I know the terrible power of a "calling on" but, I'm hereby calling on you to stop embarrassing yourself.

You can read the letter that Mayor Pete Buttigieg penned to the Muslim community of South Bend in its entirety in this piece. I found his words to be deeply…

Mark Sumner, who writes the Daily Kos Abbreviated Pundit Roundup on Sundays, made this comment after one of his links, and it's hard to make it simpler: I live in…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand formally launched her presidential bid on Sunday morning, announcing she will deliver her first major speech next week in front of Trump International…

Content: He has some good stuff that will work on a ton of people. Especially media types like David Brooks, who he name-checked and is part of a media army that pines for a great white hope to save the republic and restore the collegial Senate poker night. (The Georgetown cocktail parties have SUCKED since the Clintons, let's face it.) I liked the "white supremacists are bad" stuff and might have liked him to hit the "Republicans in the Senate need to nut up and be Americans" a little harder, but he is running to be the peacemaker, President. PS - he didn't announce except in a slip of the tongue in which he announced. Style: I've heard him in much better speaking form at prior JJ Dinners. (Do they still call it JJ? I don't think so) He is old. He is an old guy. It isn't as fluid as it once was, so the slow rolling build that he's mastered after a lifetime of doing this shit wasn't there. It was more like "quiet, quiet, quiet, YELL YELL, YELL." He can still hold a room in the palm of his hand, but he is rusty. The pace needs work. Overall: All that said, he could win. He will benefit from a brokered convention in which Super Delegates come into play. You heard it first here. BONUS: Carper is in full on crazy old man mode now. Coo-coo.