What Caught My Eye forAugust 6 - 12 (#25)

Now The Handbasket can exclusively report that much like his candidate, Moraff has a credible sexual assault allegation against him, too, adding fuel to the conversation already prompted by Platner about how progressive spaces continue to harbor regressive men.

Sigh. I wish it were different. The only thing the Dems did right was pile on and get Platner to withdraw. Hopefully other Democrats recognize that Moraff is problematic and make sure he doesn’t worm his way into campaigns.

The crypto industry has spent $200 million (and counting) since 2024 to elect a Congress that would pass sweeping deregulatory crypto legislation. What they got was a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass, a Republican majority too cowardly to rein in the president, and a president who won’t sign anything that meaningfully threatens his $1.4 billion-a-year grift.

But for those who remember what it was actually like and how it actually went, about all you’ve got is that alongside a great deal of sadness over the lives lost and the brighter possibilities that have gone so determinedly unrealized in their wake. You don’t need me to tell you that it sucked, and that the damage it has done to our culture and politics is grievous and ongoing. It is in every way the sort of experience you would be anxious to see shrinking away in the rearview mirror, and then ideally not see at all.

It is so disappointing and maddening how much the pandemic just broke us. The fact that the bare minimum to get together to help one another was too much, just…sigh.