This is what happens when your daddy's tax fraud scheme makes you a millionaire at age 8, you spend years hanging around with mobsters and then the Supreme Court says that nobody is above the law except you.

Is anyone else seeing “internal service error” on this platform today?

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Trump says the US is collecting "hundreds of trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue. The size of the entire world's economy is around $110 trillion.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Trump, who doesn’t know the difference between political asylum and an insane asylum, shows on this clip below that he doesn’t know the difference between *trade deficits* and the *national debt.* Imagine hiring a basketball coach who thinks “double dribble” means bouncing two balls at once.

Actually, @atrupar.com , the really insane thing is that he mentions the “$38 trillion we’re owed” as evidence of what he claims our long-failed trade policies. But that’s our national debt figure, unrelated to any trade deficit figures. He doesn’t know the difference! (I know, shocker)

Good stuff:

History tends to repeat itself, even if the names and faces change a bit: www.waleed-shahid.com/p/before-zoh...

If Biden and Dems ran around in 2024 saying “oh, the economy is great” they would have been crucified for being out of touch and deigning to tell Americans their economic pain was imaginary. Let’s see if Johnson and company are covered the same way. Ready to hold our collective breath?

Please, please, please, please, please run.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Very true:

Correct:

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Inside the bureau, there is “across the board outrage” over Patel’s use of FBI aircraft for fun and pleasure, said O’Leary. “At the end of the day, it’s theft of government resources. I mean, people have been thrown out of the bureau for this.” www.spytalk.co/p/kash-patel...

Because a back-bench state Assemblymember (which is what Mamdani was in 2024) has no pretense to party leadership, while Schumer and Jeffries do (allegedly). If Dem leadership's support for Dem nominees is iffy and conditional, then why shouldn't Dem voters proceed likewise?

Breaking: House Speaker declares GA, MS, and PA “blue states.”

Next time some jerk on TV pretends not to know how the say new mayor’s surname, a host or panelist should stop convo and ask: Q: “The other parent not your dad is called?” A: “Mom” Q: “Marie Osmond’s singing duet brother was named?” A: “Donny” Q: Now just pair those two easily pronounced words.

True man of the people. Into public service for the public part, of course!

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Imagine if a Dem won presidency and her signature issues were healthcare premiums and FICA taxes. But during campaign she kept claiming that *premium* grade gasoline raised health insurance costs, and implied FICA was a tax on ficus plants. We’d dismiss her as ignorant, if not insane, right? (1/2)

Hahaha

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around

He’s almost always on point—solid doubles and triples weekly—but this is grand slam level shit from @gregsargent.bsky.social Must. Read. Today. Here: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Exit polls from NJ are revealing. This looks a lot like 2020 for Biden. Whites went slightly against Sherrill while blacks went overwhelmingly, and Latino voters moved back into the 60-70% range Big gender gap for white men vs women, sizable for Latino men vs women

…Nick Fuentes!

I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism. I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists. I know where my allegiance lies.

Paging @jesspish.bsky.social …

Betting market odds for SCOTUS letting Trump keep his tariffs have tanked

Yesssss

Oh FFS…

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Trump is gonna keep imposing tariffs no matter what the Court says: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control. A partial list: Ansonia Bethany Branford Bristol Brooklyn East Granby Ellington Enfield Farmington Milford New Britain New Fairfield Norwich Plymouth Rocky Hill

Democratic leadership will take tonight's results and conclude they need to move to the center and win over moderate whites, even though a white majority went against Spanberger and Sherrill.

Nov. 4, 2025: Big day for Democrats and democracy.

FUN FACT: My favorite part of tonight's election results is that all three of the major trump endorsements (Ciattarelli, Miyares, and Cuomo) LOST bigly. And trump handed out 53 down-ballot endorsements in New Jersey and Virginia. THEY ALL LOST. Every. Last. One.

Once more, for old times’ sake

Can’t wait for the corporate media to call sweeping dem election results a “problem for the left.”

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

In case you don’t recall the reference, here it is. You can 100% certain the New York Times is not going to run the equivalent editorial tomorrow, because we only do this stuff for Democrats:

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]