I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.

The utter lack of weight of responsibility felt by men like this scares the shit out of me, honestly. I FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. Wow, that's heavy stuff Mr. Musk. How do you do that? I STARVE BLACK KIDS AND CHEAT AT DIABLO. Man, fuck you.

You technically *can* have a lefty tent big enough to hold transphobes. The way you do it is to tell a story about how you’ll help make their lives better so compelling that they hold their noses and vote for you *even though you unapologetically support trans rights.*

Really love that the sandwich guy was on video whipping a sandwich at a CBP officer and right away was like "damn right I did that shit, I hit that pig with a sandwich" and the Justice Department tried to bigfoot the case and couldn't even get him on a misdemeanor because fuck you

You do not need to widen the tent to accommodate transphobes. You do not need to widen the tent to accommodate people who get turned on watching children incinerated by US munitions. You need to widen the tent to accommodate the people you claim to want to help, but who don’t believe you.

Today is the day that the architect of this unforgivable mass murder of poor people got 1 trillion dollars

the great thing about Musk's comp package being heavily incentive-gated is that it guarantees a decade of systemic financial fraud at the heart of the market. good job everyone

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

@abbye123.bsky.social i'm also a mid life only child caring for a mom with lbd. was just looking for people on here who might share that experience and came across you — strength and solidarity!

This entire thread is one of the reasons that social media can be defended as a Good Thing.

Once in like 1999 I went into a Gristedes to buy some cereal and milk and when I opened the milk fridge a fucking bat flew out, hit me in the face, and flew up to the ceiling (its home, clearly) and when I told the woman at the front she was like yeah, he gets trapped in there sometimes

Squirrel of the Day for November 6, 2025 is watchin u #sqrlpix

i would be really interested to see a breakdown of which shareholders went this way because they think he's an irreplaceable genius, and which did so because all the people who think he's an irreplaceable genius are keeping the stock price up

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

THE SANDWICH IS INNOCENT

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

imo the primary motivating factors of the ascendant right (as opposed to all conservatives, who are more complicated) are two-fold 1. covering fear with aggression as a proxy for strength 2. negative polarization to the idea that we should care about other people, even those different from us

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame. So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.

"Don't get on your Ezra Klein Nonsense don't let Ezra Klein analyze this" all-timer lol Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

When this is over, we need to ban tear gas as the fucking chemical weapon that it is.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

Yes. Not linking whatever article you're citing (and not putting up the full legal documents you're quoting from) is journalistic malpractice.

I agree with this thread, but I also need to add one thing: The idea that progressives can't win in conservative areas? We need to challenge that, and after this election, we can.

No alt text on the image, but it shows that Mamdani won majorities everywhere except precincts that are mostly white or higher-income residents. They went for Cuomo by 52%/Sliwa 8% and Cuomo 50%/Sliwa 3% respectively. White people not beating the allegations yet but we're getting better?

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.

the year i’m having

I think this is in some ways the most encouraging thing for me from last night they really went national full court press to beat Mamdani and they got what they wanted - Republicans showed up, held their noses and voted for Cuomo, the anti-Mamdani coalition worked they still lost by 9

All five of the transition team members are women, and 4/5 are women of color.

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

This seems like something Mamdani should embrace. Any cop who wants to move to fucking Texas over this election is one who shouldn't serve NYC. Also, a nice natural way to reduce numbers.

Crite, who spent most of his life & career in Boston, was a devout Episcopalian whose art consistently celebrated his religious faith. I absolutely adore his so-called "transit madonnas," which find holiness in the everyday ("Our Lady of the Elevated Station"; "Madonna of Dudley Station")

Because it's a good day, a thread of images from fantastic show I saw last week: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. First up, Crite's luminous "Streetcar Madonna," which resonates with incoming NYC mayor's pledge to make transit more affordable

"this will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt" is this what it feels like to be attracted to a man??????????????

This person took this when they called the race

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Watching this be proven in real time as result after result comes in is washing away so much of the ever present despair I’ve been feeling for months.

people forget that golden retrievers can bite

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

I hope we have Senator Lander one day, I really do

PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE DONALD TRUMP AND THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR AN OUTLET TO EXPRESS THAT GIVE IT TO THEM

well i don’t think i would like sliwa much if we discussed anything except cats and liking nyc, but i can definitely respect him

In the end tho i decided I couldn't vote for mamdani due to his policy of running for mayor in a city I don't live in

i’m so happy and so relieved. this would have been right at any time, but with SNAP being held hostage it was existential.

I have said many times that I think the fundamental divide in the Democratic Party is between those who think we should go back to 2015 and those who already wanted better in 2015

literally the go woke or go broke coalition

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.