The winners of Michigan's first-ever "I Voted" sticker design contest "will be available for clerks to order and give out to voters this fall as the state’s official 2024 Presidential Election stickers." Among them:

It's a big deal that veteran journalist Mike Barnicle has now called out his media colleagues for failing to adequately cover Trump's visibly worsening mental state. It should spur a real discussion about how to do this, before it's too late. 1/ New piece newrepublic.com/article/185622…

Some in the media will reject this, claiming they do cover Trump's crazier claims. But this misses the point. His mental unfitness for the presidency is *itself* the big story. It merits sustained scrutiny as a topic with its own intrinsic importance. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/185622…

As b-boy bouiebaisse notes, the whole premise of Biden age coverage was that his mental capacity for the job is a matter of national importance. Why not apply this to Trump's addled incoherence, lack of curiosity, serial lying, and sadistic verbal abuses? 5/ newrepublic.com/article/185622…

To imagine what real coverage of Trump's mental unfitness might look like, I took 10 real Biden age headlines and rewrote them around Trump's unfitness for the presidency. Read them below; the effect is striking. Why don't we see saturation like this? 6/ newrepublic.com/article/185622…

It really is jarring to read Trump's comments as he actually delivers them vs. how they're eventually cleaned up in mainstream news outlets.

Great points from Parker Molloy on the media's “sanewashing” of Trump’s statements newrepublic.com/article/185530…

Thinking about this whole thing this week for no particular reason....

No. I refuse to believe that watching kids come out of school in body bags is a “fact of life”. I won’t tell parents who’ve buried their children that it’s just “reality”. It does NOT have to be this way. And it wouldn’t — if political cowards had more to offer than a shrug.

Amazing levels of sanewashing here.

JD Vance: women who don’t have children are worthless and harming society Also JD Vance: look, your kids are going to get murdered in school. Just have to accept that.

This literally is The Onion "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" headline.

Melania Trump living separately from Donald Trump might lead a competent media to at least raise the prospect that she *believes* that he's guilty of the crimes for which he's charged -- including sexual assault and paying off Stormy Daniels to keep silent about their affair.

Absolutely gut wrenching

Today I asked Donald J. Trump what he would do to solve the child care crisis. His response? Incomprehensible at best; at worst, outrageously offensive to the millions of families drowning in costs.

This is pathetic. We can’t quit on our kids — they deserve better.

The chaplain "condemned American independence, the Continental Congress, and the soldiers fighting for independence in a letter to Washington." He "explained that he only agreed to be chaplain out of self-interest, to 'procure some favourable terms' for his position and church."

School shootings are not just a fact of life. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children—and we will.

Calling Trump's remarks at the NY Economics Club incoherent gibberish is not a biased attack. It is a completely rational observation. He did not speak in coherent or complete sentences. And when he did, proposals like (tarriffs - childcare) do not make sense.