the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice** *this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize **for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs

It's so especially infuriating that the mass of cruel, insecure failure that is the Trump administration is seen as proof that the gender more supportive of it is the rational one and not the one that should maybe lose the franchise.

One big shift in my thinking in response to our fascist era is that my view of progress is fundamentally changed. I believe progress is possible, but never permanent, always vulnerable. @aselrod.bsky.social on the rightwing movement to remove women from public life is a case in point.

someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral i will not share the video but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Listen, my children, as here is unfurled The story of the sandwich that was hurled On the 10th of August in ‘25; What a moment to be alive! As many chose to look down and duck, One man decided he had to stand up, And so he wound up, and said ‘What the f___’ And gave his sandwich a freedom chuck.

Per a polling memo sent to donor’s after last night’s wins, the Senate Democrats main Super-PAC it is expanding it’s focus to more aggressively target Texas, Iowa, Ohio, and Alaska. We are fucking back

That's right. 🥪

A hero for freedom prevails!

Jury LOLification.

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The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

I recently turned autocorrect off on my phone. Can you tell?

Oh man, I really want to read this in full.

Ellis: "The public also has an interest in its citizens' bodily integrity, the right to peaceful protest, the right to assemble, the right of peaceful free exercise of religion."

Judge Ellis finds that the Trump administration has placed "content-based restrictions" on protesters. "Tellingly, she says, "defendants do not deny that they would treat pro-ICE demonstrators more favorably."

Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

Ellis: [Bovino] admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village."

plus what if women have sex with immigrants of their own free will and, possibly, babies?

5. THREE: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York, and Abigail Spanberger, the governor-elect of Virginia, are very different Democrats who certainly disagree on policy. That is not a weakness. It’s the strength found in a multi-racial ideologically heterodox organization like the Democrats.

OMG

This is hood news. Pelosi has been a great leader in the party. Legendaey. But it's past time to retire.

You hear that? We're about to get woke on your ass.

Woke 2 Timeline update

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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Now, now, don’t threaten us with a good time! 🫖

Pretty sure I watched this as a kid, but I should totally check it out again.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

100%. Reconstruction liberalism. Reconstruction patriotism.

Ezra Douthglesias™️

Whether it was Muslim concerned about Gaza, young people worried about affordability, or Latinos upset about abuse of asylum rules, etc. they literally voted to make every problem they cared about worse. Often when Harris pointed this out the media even called her a liar.

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

At least he isn't saying that he can't comment because he wasn't aware there were elections last night?

I've been asked a lot for a cheaper, more popular introduction to liberal socialism. So next summer with we're publishing an essay collection on liberal socialism @repeaterbooks.bsky.social. Includes contributions by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com and Florian Maiwald. Check out the cover art!

lol

This is really important. Like, I'm pretty left, and very woke (different axis). But I am 100% here for the broad coalition, the popular front, against MAGA. Bulwark-Liberal Currents-Zeteo Alliance.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Prop 50 was called the moment that polls closed in California. The blowout showed how showing up to fight is the most important thing in Democratic politics right now. It also means that (pending SCOTUS) Dems have largely neutralized Trump's gerrymandering push. From me: prospect.org/2025/11/04/c...

Bluesky rn

MAMDATE

Zohran Mamdani's platform called for: - doubling funding for NYC's Abortion Access Hub and the New York Abortion Access Fund, - $65 million for public clinics and sexual and reproductive health care providers - universal childcare and 'baby baskets' for new parents It's a good day for NYC ❤️

Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.

folks we still got prop 50 coming in CA if you’re in line to lib out stay in line

I just laughed out loud at my kid's taekwondo class.

Yes.

Fellow bitter southerners, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

You love to see it. 2026 will be a whole different game. Trump will almost certainly deploy ICE and paramilitary groups against heavily Democratic precincts. But he won't have the scale necessary to win.