My sympathies to everyone who was champing at the bit to yell at Democrats, better luck next time

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Bluesky rn

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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Events per second in the firehose. The yellow and blue lines are 1 day and 1 week ago, respectively

me yelling at all of you tonight

i can't stop thinking about this video. how the campaign started w/ Mamdani as an unknown basically...just like out reporting on the political apathy in 2024. figuring out why people felt jaded. and then working to bring about the opposite. beyond remarkable www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tur...

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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

yeah; worth emphasizing this isn't just about schumer personally being a piece of shit. He's striking at the core of the Democratic coalition, telling tons of progressives and New Yorkers that they aren't welcome.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

An Air Canada flight right now

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Here it comes, folks. I volunteer at a food pantry twice a month. We got slammed today - twice our usual number of households, a bunch we'd never seen before, and people lined up waiting for us to open. It's gonna get bad fast.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

I know that I’ve been too Erlang-pilled because I earnestly can’t quite tell if this is ironic or not.

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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Hey, now! You can’t just put that on us! That’s *at least* tradition-as-received from the 18th century Romantics.

Seems like @reckless.bsky.social could amend “the product of every social network is content moderation” to just be ‘every network’, full-stop.

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this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

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JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture. He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I don't know how to win elections, I don't know what the Democrats should do next, all I can do is keep reminding you that you have a right to your own damn principles---which seems like an obvious point, but also seems to have been forgotten by virtually every pundit and commentator.

Comey shouldve hooped instead of tryna get Trump elected cause he tall as hell!

It’s funny that nobody in the Trump sphere has the secret sauce like him. I hate the guy and he’s by no means wise but he understands people or at least he understands our lowest common denominator and it gives him an insight into society while the rest of them might as well be aliens in skin suits

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to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

for all the flapping about Uncommitted during the primary it has always been the Blue Dog centrist types who are most disloyal to the party

There's no normal to be had now, we haven't had a normal in the past decade, there's no normal to be had in the future. I don't know what "normal" is even supposed to be any more. All we have is fascism and the possibility of countering it aggressively.

Thaddeus Stevens lying in state at the Capitol, with an honor guard of African-American soldiers.

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

if they arrest will we are required to fuss about it and anyone who does not is a traitor

Pretty sure the civil rights act of 1964 polls better than every single living democratic politician and some good dead ones. The idea that you’d give up that advantage, that you’d betray CENTURIES of work by a multiracial coalition of Americans, to prove how much you like Charlie Kirk, is insane.