You should not rank either of them, whether at the top or the bottom. Ranking them at all either does nothing or helps them win against better candidates, no possible beneficial outcome.

How so? It’s reporting on the surprising and interesting results of this new poll.

What do you mean? Mayoral elections are partisan, why wouldn’t it be relevant?

The NYTimes has its problems but Bouie always has a good take.

Two out of these three links are broken, any idea what happened?

The error page says “The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error”

But of course he can only do so on his blog after having been forced out of the Times for exactly this kind of truthtelling.

Terminal means fatal, hopefully that’s not a certainty yet.

There’s a big difference between meeting the criteria for being a war criminal and having an arrest warrant issued by the ICC.

The thing that’s tougher to shrug off is that he now has a rotating list of countries where depending on who’s in power he cannot visit without being arrested.

A lot of people are like “if someone as evil as Cheney is endorsing Harris that’s not a good sign, and if Harris is actively bringing her on stage and talking about how great she is that’s DEFINITELY not a good sign”

The Only Guardrail Left Is Us

Can anyone really be so dumb as to see people who Trump himself appointed to office and worked closely with saying “this guy is an evil wannabe dictator” and think “man, those guys are part of the deep state conspiracy to destroy Trump”?

Because rich Republicans also own the media.

I’m not sure I understand how deepfake porn is supposed to be ruining lives here. From the article it seems like the issue is not any concern that it would be mistaken for real, but instead just people having a very horrified reaction to seeing that sort of depiction of themselves? Mostly it seems like the deepfake aspect is sort of a trivial distraction to the real issue on display there of gangs of men targeting random women for online harassment. If there was no such thing as deepfakes other sexually explicit or disturbing images could sub in easily enough.

Maybe the new deepfake ban will be useful as a way of going after these harassment gangs that previously didn’t face legal consequences? But it’s sort of an inexact tool for that job, given that there are presumably lots of deepfake images out there not used for harassment, and that’s it’s easy enough for harassers to switch away from deepfakes if using them becomes a major legal vulnerability.

How can any line that is on the surface of a sphere be straight rather than a curve?

I assume this won’t swing many people’s votes, but it is a nice insight into what’s going on behind the scenes with Vance as he publicly claims to be this big anti-elitist populist

The hope is that he steps down as the nominee for the good of the country and thus improves our chances of beating Trump.

This was just a better article than the CNN one, and there are no direct links to the interviews Campos did with the medical professionals here.

Yeah they’re pretty reliable - it’s the group blog of a bunch of professors. And of course the piece is filled with input from medical experts, and links to a CNN report on the same topic if that’s more your speed.

As in you’re implying Kamala is Hillary’s protege? She is not, what gives you that idea?