Every Dem who participated in the 2020 primary is going to have disown positions they took then forever. So many novel and untested left-wing policy ideas flying around and nominally adopted, even though it was pretty clearly just for posturing.

“I have no doubt that the president is confident in the way that I’ve been doing things.” Reese Gorman talked with JD Vance last night about his start on the ticket, his connections to Project 2025, and how he thinks he’ll avoid Mike Pence’s fate. notus.org/trump-2024/jd-…

ok this is pretty badass wsj.com/world/europe/e…

Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, Paul Whelan. Free. Amazing. #IStandWithEvan

On US soil

Biden on brokering hostage deal with Russia minutes before dropping out of 2024 race: “I still got it done even though I wasn’t seeking a second term. You’re stuck with me as president for a while, kid. There’s no way out, OK? It had nothing to do with that.”

NEW: The Biden campaign flipped to VP Harris in mere HOURS. Questions lingered on how an operation built to support the Biden could transition, with people at the helm sometimes at odds w/ Harris’ best interests. Our look inside the campaign just a week+ in: they want to move

Breaking: @McClatchy plans to merge with the magazine giant behind @UsWeekly, @InTouchWeekly, and Woman's World Magazine under a new operating company name, with AMI tabloids excluded from the deal and David Pecker out. miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

Lebron this half

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhh” was the only acceptable call of this moment

The most important man in Kerr’s career was Mark Jackson tho

A picture is worth a thousand words 🤩🇺🇸 📸: Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images

Exclusive: President Biden says he has "repeatedly pressed" the Syrian government to work with his administration to resolve the case of Austin Tice, a journalist and former U.S. Marine held there for twelve years to this day, and calls for his immediate release. mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…

We're *elated* to announce our biggest news in the 21 years we've been covering elections: Daily Kos Elections is striking out on its own as an independent site called The Downballot! 🧵dailykos.com/stories/2024/8…

"Those protesters out in the street, they have a point. A lot of innocent people are being killed, on both sides," Joe Biden says of the anti-war demonstrators calling for an end to US military aid to Israel outside the DNC.

Barack Obama speaking after east coast prime time, clearly the Democratic party is trying to move on from him

D messaging tonite was less about preventing the darkness of a vindictive 2nd Trump term than envisioning the morning of a less divided America. Underlines something a consultant said to me last week: Harris needs to inspire, not scare, the last voters she needs to turn out

Triumphant dnc debut of Joe house, nephew Kyle, chuck klosterman and doc rivers — with a special guest Kevin Durant

Agree with this so whole-heartedly that I’m logging in to Twitter during leave to say so

Just 23% of registered Dems in Miami-Dade county voted last week, an even smaller percentage than in the 2022 primary. Two years ago, it foreshadowed massive Dem losses in November. Florida Dems insist this year will be different. NOTUS notus.org/florida/florid…