Cris Collinsworth sits down with Patrick Mahomes before NFL Kickoff

How do you live down finding out you were an actual real-life useful idiot. You have to go the rest of your life knowing another country sat down and had meetings about how stupid you are. They all got around a table and voted and said "Yeah he's fucking dumb, let's use him"

worth remembering in the context of this that John McCain did not want Trump, though the sitting president at the time, to attend his funeral — and that Trump chose not to issue a standard eulogizing statement when McCain died

Trump spoke at length today about policy issue __________. With the context of his entire answer, can you guess what that issue is?

One of the wildest things about J.D. Vance's political evolution is he will *still do the earnest wonk thing* in between campaign appearances where he baselessly accuses Kamala Harris of enriching herself by sending young Americans to die in wars

Isaiah Definitely

Not that it matters what family members think, but just to get the facts straight: Tim Walz’s mother and sister are Democrats and support him. His surviving brother is conservative and appears to support Trump. And a bunch of distant cousins support Trump thedailybeast.com/tim-walzs-mom-…

Isiah Pacheco is a monster

Isaiah Likely to Mark Andrews

The football gods retroactively nudged Likely's toe out to punish Harbaugh for his go-for-two hubris

NEW: Crystal Ball Senate Rating Change --> Montana: Toss-up to Leans Republican (See link for explanation as to why we're doing this today after not doing it yesterday) 51 Sen seats now Safe/Likely/Lean R in our ratings, solidifying R Senate edge centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/mo…

Kamala Harris has changed positions on a WHOLE lot of things

Trump got lots of heat for his gibberish childcare answer yesterday. But let's not lose sight of the fact that the IDEA he was grasping at—that tariffs are a bottomless windfall of free money that we can use to fund whatever we want—is gibberish too. thebulwark.com/p/grading-trum…

"Baltimore really missing those two timeouts" is sending me

This is the closest presidential campaign 60+ years. The race has been consistently close in a way I've never seen. If the polling is off by a single point in the key swing states, the winner would flip. The bottom line is this election is up for grabs with 2 months to go.

Trump: woman claimed "I grab her and I start kissing her and making out with her. What are the chances of that happening?" Trump on Access Hollywood tape: "I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it."

JVL makes a great point: There is zero chance the Tenet guys did not realize their insane pay packages way, way, way, WAY outstripped their video metrics thebulwark.com/p/the-tenet-me…