The stakes are too high to wallow in vibes, memes, or an obsessive focus on within-the-margin-of-error polls. Democracy can indeed be crushed by authoritarianism. But it can also be suffocated by the sort of trivia that often dominates social media. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Maybe #GenZ , like #Millennials before them, can *afford* to be anxious. The US is on a hot streak of creating generations that live far better than their parents did.

Via The Economist US, ht Johan Norberg.
economist.com/finance-and-ec…

There was once a time when Heritage was one of the most anti-Soviet think tanks imaginable.

This is a pretty unusual sartorial choice here

Sad to watch WaPo and others treating this like it was a legitimate referral rather than a partisan farce in which Republicans presented exactly zero evidence of high crimes.

Looks like a deal is in place. Finally. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Maybe we should have this guy as Atty General, or maybe SecDef. I mean, Biden's old and premium gas is back over $4.50, so I don't see the downside

Please, I'm pleading with you. Stop assuming that anyone who does awful things is being blackmailed by the Russians, when the more obvious answer of utter moral destitution is staring you right in the face.

#BREAKING : Biden backs Johnson plan for Ukraine, Israel; calls for vote this week trib.al/0a4VwNi

As @DavidFrum has said: Empty the NATO warehouses and send it all.

As I was saying: Aaron Rodgers is too stupid to know what he's pushing, but here's where it came from.

Rodgers is repeating a Soviet-created psyop from the 1980s, an idea so stupid that even the Soviets can't believe we fell for it.
This does not mean Rodgers is in bed with the Russians. He's just too dumb to know where this particular conspiracy theory came from.

You may not think you are at war with Russia, but Russia is behaving as if it were at war with you

Perfect.

Storm the barricades, comrades

No one should be surprised. Party over country, always. | Barr, a vocal Trump critic, says he will ‘support the Republican ticket’ in November wapo.st/3w6u5a9

Carla believes this is very undignified

Cat being cat.

Yeah, man. Who can forget that decade when American men all wore ties down to their crotches and held them together with Scotch tape? And the pancake makeup craze? Good times.

Good morning