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

We cannot just move on from this. There need to be legal consequences for everyone who made this happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

lil crab!

When shopping for pineapples, check for the following: - nearly impenetrable skin - highly acidic insides - a smaller mouth inside its mouth - tropical scent Oops! That's not a pineapple. It's a xenomorph. SHARE for awareness

good thread. i would support a society that does this.

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.

Wonder if the folks involved in the illegal maritime strikes or at DHS have pondered the implications of attempts to undermine the legitimacy of presidential pardons based on the purported cognitive deficiencies of POTUS.

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

I had no idea that as many as 1 in 8 Americans relied on SNAP ONE IN EIGHT I'm sick over my students, kids' classmates, & neighbors who are hungry right now But I'm furious that we live in a society where *1 in 8 need food assistance as our status quo*. That this is our normal is APPALLING

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

FORM A CROWD STAY LOUD

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

if america can make it in new york, it can make it anywhere.

famous artwork but with a twist: thread

This is the hype video the White House posted when they arrested Sandwich Guy, who was found not guilty today.

Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory. Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2027...

moon gravity

I hope every executive affiliated with OpenAI loses everything.

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

only one way to find out tbh

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

The Great Midwestern Khan will lead us to a better tomorrow.

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

so what you're saying is the centrist brunchlord substack punditry's claims that Dems have to shift further right to win is complete bullshit

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

[Guy Fawkes/Parliament cigs joke]

bring flavor to the rice

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

We did it for you Dick Cheney

hell yeah eugene debs

this is something that is happening.

Zohran Mamdani, le candidat démocrate, élu maire de New York

this is the race i’m watching tonight

let’s do another election tomorrow

Leak the MRI tonight let’s go

It turns out listening to people, running on popular things people want, and not being an evil ghoul can have you defeat both parties throwing all they can at one candidate to defeat you.

GIVE ME MY FUCKING TACO TRUCK!!

They offered Curtis Sliwa $10 million dollars to drop out of the race and he said no!! Genuinely impressive. That’s principle. Gotta respect it. He would’ve turned down the Riyadh Comedy Festival, for SURE.

we should release a new world map where the US is really small

i firmly believe that our political culture’s valuing of performative civility more than the lives of those our leaders have killed is a big reason how we ended up here today. this was an excellent piece everyone needs to read if they haven’t already