Morning Joe, Biden’s favorite show, is wavering. “If he were CEO and he turned in a performance like that, would any corporation in America, any Fortune 500 corporation in America keep him on as CEO?”

EDITORIAL: More eyes than ever are on CA in the wake of last night’s disastrous presidential debate. But we’re blowing it, as a mountain of ethics scandals among high-ranking elected officials demonstrates. Our leaders seriously need to clean up their acts.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…

What's the biggest lesson Barack Obama taught Jon Favreau about speech writing? He says far too many look at speeches "as a collection of soundbites and applause lines" & don't focus on storytelling. "We are moved & persuaded by story, by emotion..." More:

Kyiv 🇺🇦 this morning. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. Russia must be defeated. Arm Ukraine 🇺🇦 to win.

Here is the message JD Vance sent to his friend suggesting Donald Trump might be "America's Hitler."

Mine in todays The New Yorker (corrected)

OMG. Don Jr’s girlfriend is dumber than I thought. Kimberly Guilfoyle: “The Heroes who stormed Normandy and faced down communism"

no notes. 10/10

New: The president of Planned Parenthood California is warning that Joe Biden could drag down the whole ticket and imperil Democrats’ chances of taking back the House. Jodi Hicks, who is also a DNC delegate, is promoting Kamala Harris for president. politico.com/news/2024/07/1…

In retrospect, there were signs

I wonder if Junior purchased any firearms lately.

It used to be pretty lonely to be a YIMBY elected official. That era is over. Kamala: “There’s a serious housing shortage. It’s too difficult to build & it’s driving prices up. We’ll take down barriers & cut red tape including at the state & local levels”

“That’s okay.” Man tries to violently attack the press at Trump rally in Pennsylvania. Trump, who often denigrates the press and promotes violence, defends him, says “that’s beautiful” and “he’s on our side”.

I asked Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's top advisors, what is the evidence for saying that Caracas and Venezuela are safer than the United States. He began by answering that it is the government's numbers. I asked him if he trusted Maduro's numbers. And this was his

🍿 The day it became absolutely clear that the Russian empire will fall. Transnistria is a region of 367,000 in Moldova occupied by about 1,500 Russian soldiers and controlled by a Russian mafia puppet government ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.

I told Viktor Orbán that he is the useful idiot of Russia and China. He was not amused:

Populists eventually tank their economies, whether they are "right-wing" or "left-wing". Hungary is the prime example, but there are others. From Rachel Kleinfeld and Robert Foa hbr.org/2024/10/when-p…

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who

Mayor Bill Wells has taken a strident ideological approach to homelessness: cut services and increase police enforcement. Here are the results.