Vee

JFC:

I'll allow it: This is giving 2008. The last week-plus and Kamala have both considerably outdone my grounded expectations for any rollout of a candidate I wasn't sure was ready. I think she is. I thought this would be a huge lift for the general public. So far, it isn't. At all. It might still be a tough fight, but I'm no longer sure a win would be as close as we thought.

Anyway:

Another ad: Full rally:

Atlanta with Kamala, Raphael Warnock and Megan thee Stallion: And now, sad news for @DRW50:

I find Roberts overwrought and overheated at times, but he is not wrong here. You can tell it stung because gossip maven Max Tani of Semafor, etc. immediately RTed it to mock it.

Toby Poser (GL) and her very prolific filmmaking family have another horror picture coming to Shudder in August, also featuring Anders Hove (GH):

More on SCOTUS:

That's very fair. After a month of the debate drama getting him a reprieve, Will Lewis' troubles are back:

Grain of salt: Likely an attempt to shut down and rebrand: I find this sample size way too small but reasonably credible people seem amped up about this:

A very revealing CNN article about the SCOTUS leaks over Idaho and the rare compromise struck with the liberal minority justices against the hardliners (Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch).

Audio of the earlier article above. Lance Bass!

Jeff Bridges was also on the call tonight, among many others.

Mark Hamill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mayor Pete and many others are on there. I ain't goin' in there, Zoom gives me anxiety.

I hate posting that grifter Yashar, but: Article here.

It's not working. And I don't actually think that Kamala cover was meant to be degrading, but it is definitely tacky and stupid. Fox News' The Five is taking the rise of Harris well - note the one woman who tries to speak sense. You can tell the men are worried.

The "weird" attack on the GOP (which is accurate) is a long time coming, and the freaked-out response by Republicans as well as the uncomfortable institutional reaction in the Beltway shows how incredibly effective it's been - the tiresome Thomas Friedman is clucking his tongue about it in the op-ed pages. Meanwhile: Oh lord. I'm not sure I've ever seen a longtime Fox anchor so disgusted with a Republican.

Meanwhile, Roy Cooper has withdrawn from the veepstakes.

They did it: