TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

If I'm the New York Republican Party, I'm incandescent. They were all set to run against Zohran next year and now they are going to have to answer non-stop questions to the effect of "but Trump thinks Mamdani is fine, why do you say otherwise"

This is primrose league erasure (Ziblatt 2017).

Harrell says that he “spoke with Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson to congratulate her.”

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Once you get past the throat-clearing nonsense blaming Democrats, the actual argument is good. Shutdowns are stupid and we shouldn't have them. Appropriations should continue at current levels until they are replaced, not periodically destroy the government.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

To add to this, another problem is that neither faction thinks the other one is operating in good faith and they don't trust each other.

Rarely do we get such an explicit example of how the purpose of a certain kind of reactionary politics is to divide people so as to allow the wealthy and powerful to steal from all of us.

The ubiquity of frog suits at the No Kings protests has me thinking about Passover and (of course) the plague of frogs. Something that has always fascinated me is that in the Torah the word used is צְּפַרְדֵּ֔עַ --which is the singular for "Frog".

#NoKings Charlottesville, VA

This is functionally a robbery of New York City and New York State taxpayers, who contribute billions more to the federal government annually than we get back. Stealing our money, blocking our bus lanes.

Congress's abdication of its powers is at the source of so much of the rot in our constitutional order. Building a representative, dynamic legislature is going to have to be a keystone of any project to rebuild American democracy.

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

Napoleon: Conquerer, Statesman, and, according to Goethe, A Pleasure to Have In Class Via the Age of Napoleon podcast, episode 114 "The Limits of Power".

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

Personalizing this sort of decision, as Biden and his inner circle tried to do, is a symptom of believing that you own the office, rather than it being a trust borrowed and earned from The people by a party and movement.

WE WON!!!! @BOENYC just voted UNANIMOUSLY to approve the 4 housing ballot questions!!! Thanks to hundreds of calls and emails from Open New York members, these historic housing questions will be put to voters—and they’re going to pass.

New NYT/Siena poll of the NYC mayoral race has- *Mamdani: 46% *Cuomo: 24% *Sliwa: 15% *Adams: 9% www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

Biden opposing reform and/or expansion of the Supreme Court is going to cast a long, long shadow.

RIP, Humphrey’s Executor. I didn’t know a single justice, acting alone, could ignore precedent, but I guess I just lack the imaginative gutlessness of John Roberts.

Incredible. The authors actually tried to empirically test who was right in the debates between Orthodox Marxists and Bernstein's revisionists! direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

A lot about Zohran's campaign is new and innovative, but plenty of what has made it successful is not losing sight of the tried and true fundamentals. It is the combination of the two that makes the campaign so impressive.

Interesting shutdown politics thread by health policy expert and former OMB official Topher Spiro.

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

Also, it isn't going to work. People have phones! If there are protests or booing, someone will record it and post it online.

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

Congress was supposed to be the sovereign branch! The president was envisioned as basically the chief clerk, charged with executing congressional mandates. The courts were, and are, a creation of congress via the judiciary act of 1789.

Media elites, they're days defined by an imperial presidency and overbearing high court, are starting to forget that congress *ever* played a central governing role.

More and more people are saying that Thaddeus Stevens was right.

The logic endpoint of a servile, cowardly legislature is an imperial presidency.

I would sincerely like to hear from labor leaders who have been tariff sympathetic about whether these numbers might change their minds.

This has been a fairly consistent finding from studies of European politics for years now. It should give pause, I think, to people who want the Democratic Party to run to the right on the issue.

This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.

Nice to know where we are in our current season of Revolutions. Vernon Byrd makes an appearance @mikeduncan.bsky.social x.com/yarotrof/sta...

That speech by Schmitt deserves a "Second Reply to Hayne" level of smackdown. Who wants to be the Webster of the 21st century?

Under the radar, but this administration more or less denies the right of congress to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:

Happy Labor Day, the Trump administration hates unions more than basically anything www.gravityisgone.com/a-lot-of-fol...

My vote to whichever political faction has a plan to solve the Joro Spider Crisis before they arrive where I live.

And, correspondingly, an agenda to *strengthen* congressional power. Longer sessions, more bureaucratic capacity, getting rid of the filibuster to increase the capacity to enact and revise laws, etc.