Also Virginia House Democrats passed a constitutional amendment to do the same thing the week before the election then flipped 13 seats. Voters understand what's going on here.

Trump looks like Lenny after he petted the bunny rabbit too hard.

I'd love a standalone partisan gerrymandering ban instead of a Christmas tree bill for every voting rights group but also there was no way you'd get 60 votes or get Manchinema to bust the filibuster for it

the government would have had a stronger case if subway bread still had the poisonous yoga mat chemical in it

I will never "expand on that." My posts are their own exegesis.

That time of the year where I start looking at 2026 GOP candidates and holy shit these guys love gassing themselves on AI sexy ladies

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

fwiw i think one reason why Trump is avoiding negotiating with Dems or really meeting with Dems is that they're hiding his condition.

Here's a little local NYC color to corroborate @natecohn.bsky.social's finding in Brooklyn's 47th council district, where Harris won by just 2 points in 2024, Democrat Kayla Santosousso won by 19 points at the precinct level, there is ~no correlation between Harris vote% and relative turnout

You have friends everywhere

Isaac Chotiner has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Michigan Senate President Pro Tempore @jeremymoss.bsky.social (D), author of a bill to unmask ICE agents in the state, responds to a Republican's concerns about ICE agents getting threatened by mentioning that state legislators still do their jobs publicly despite threats against them.

Really feel like we can send Miles Guys to the front lines of the Revolution

I use them for poll archives but Fifty Plus One is the superior option going forward fiftyplusone.news/latest-polls

Seeing some false reports about the man who collapsed in the Oval Office. It was *not* Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay. It was a patient who uses Lilly GLP-1 drug, per multiple sources. I hear he's OK now.

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

That's because an incapacitated man can produce ill humours

Gremlins are only able to come back because Hulk Hogan is gone now. Say what you will about him, and yes what a complex and problematic legacy, but the fact is he stopped them 35 years ago and I simply don't believe that it's a coincidence they're coming back now.

I wrote for @slate.com about a legendary (and violent) Tennessee sheriff who more likely than not murdered his wife and the people who want to keep him on a pedestal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Seeing a name halfway through this and doing the DiCaprio point defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

Gasping laughing right now. What a sliding doors moment.

Mamdani says he'll pay for free buses and free child care with new taxes on rich people and corporations. Meanwhile billions of dollars in budget deficits loom for New York, with federal spending cuts making the picture much worse and threatening social programs we already have. Ugly details here.

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

I think Dems' anticorruption, platform temperance program should include fighting stuff like this.

Passaic County, NJ, precinct-level results. A huge shift toward the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, relative to 2024, in Latino-dominant precincts

Some good evidence that election night was about persuasion, not just turnout. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"

AltNPS's post is full of the same lurid details and breathless dramatization as their previous attempt at ICE raid erotica from a few weeks ago. Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.

If I were a relief pitcher my entrance music would be Waterloo by ABBA. Opposing batters would be distracted by having the song stuck in their head.

I wonder how much Meta is protected (or thinks it is) by the number of people who have its stock in balanced portfolios. You'd destroy a lot of wealth by doing what needs to be done (shooting the entire company into the cold depths of space)

eric adams said

these people mostly voted for the Nazi porn candidate btw

The ADL has completely lost the plot when they are trying to call a guy who talks like this a threat to Jewish safety. I don’t know how that org will ever get its reputation back. People don’t forget this kind of stuff.

I am so excited to see Tom Wambsgans play a guy who was kicked out of a cult for being too annoying

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If you're not reading the New York Times you're missing out

This is a really excellent piece from Jeff who is essential reading on crime.

seems bad that our entire system of government is so heavily influenced by the awful threat environment. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Woke 2 is here www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

There's also a strange CW that Dems are desperate if they run "the current president is doing a bad job" ads, but Rs will be savvy to run "y'all hear about this mayor of New York City?" ads in, like, northwest Indiana.

another in a long series -- the rising professional class of the Republican Party is roughly 40 percent Nazis www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Did you know that people who ride bikes in cities are actually an oppressed class which means they're allowed to act like total fucking assholes toward pedestrians?

Hmmmm, beginning to think that some of the reporting on how Charlie Kirk's death would affect the youth may have been a bit of bluster

Trump +58 county. Not every Republican is a MAGA hardliner

In case you thought scandals don't matter any more a Republican lost a Trump +15 county legislative district in NY because he was stealing money from a Pop Warner football league www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

The non-stop Maddrey, Kaz, Shell scandals plus the Adams/Banks strategy of trying to suppress crime by blanketing the city in OT shifts really has done a number on PD morale — hellgatenyc.com/three-nypd-c...

This is why @statenavigate.org's VA polls were more accurate, they decided to weight to 2017/2021 not 2024

Good summary of why pollsters whiffed in VA and NJ. TLDR: electorate looked like 2017 when pollsters assumed it would look like 2024, plus Latino turnout exploded. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...