Of “I’m not really qualified to be president but let me kneecap the competition just in case.” I can’t tell you how awful the typical campaign environment is for women. Sexually charged, especially when the person hitting on you is your boss. This is where being on the spectrum came in handy — I wouldn’t simply pretend I didn’t notice. But the most vulnerable are the young women who may not have strategies — or who don’t understand this guy will dumb you a week later. They’re not “bad apples” – the entire structure is rotting.

But the worst ones are the self-anointed political masterminds, like this bro. Please read on.

It's all about gender. @polphilpod.bsky.social nypost.com/2026/07/09/u…

— The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T01:03:20.497Z

Oh look, here’s more.

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T12:32:17.551Z

Moraff was instrumental in getting Rep Lee to launch her first political campaign for PA state house in 2017. But by 2022 Lee banned him “from his previous leadership positions in her campaign & from even attending campaign events” and told ppl close to the campaign to stopcommunicating with him.

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T12:39:35.851Z

RIP Wally Funk. In her youth, she was an accomplished pilot and part of a group of women tested for space flight but never allowed to become an astronaut. Six decades later, she finally made it into space at age 82. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s…

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T17:43:57.518Z

The tiny scraps of plastic were found in the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain responsible for processing smell.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2026-07-09T02:00:29.823Z

“We passed a major milestone over the weekend: the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That piece of legislation — which curtailed the wind and solar tax credits, ended incentives for electric vehicle buyers, and terminated a lot of green industrial policy — was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It also formally ended the era of decarbonization and climate policy experimentation that began when the United States passed the Inflation Reduction Act roughly three years earlier.

“Now we’re far enough out to begin assessing the Trump law’s impact. And a fascinating new report, published today by the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, argues that the damage … is not as bad as one might fear — at least in the electricity sector.

“The power sector has retained most of the quantifiablebenefits associated with Biden’s climate law and Environmental Protection Agency rules, the new report asserts, and about two-thirds of the reductions in heat-trapping pollution expected under Biden’s policies will still happen under Trump’s. The report is called “Glass Half Full,” but its author, Lily Bermel, told me that her own conclusions went even further: “It’s not barely half full,” she said. “It’s like three-quarters full.”

“We had the exclusive on the new report at Heatmap — check out our full story for more coverage, including interviews with critics of the analysis. Bermel also joined me on our Shift Key podcast to discuss her findings and what they suggest for the future of climate policy.

“But in this more discursive space, I want to address head-on a question I think Bermel’s report raises: Was the Inflation Reduction Act worth it?If two-thirds of the emissions cuts expected under President Biden’s policies are going to happen anyway (at least from the power sector), what was the point of those policies?”