"The new wave of deregulation, however, is not about the ideology of free markets. It is part of a broader authoritarian project that seeks to dismantle public institutions entirely, not for market efficiency but simply to consolidate oligarchic power."

A large proportion of Americans support MAHA. It‘s killing them. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Imagine a country in which Mamdani was considered a rather boring politician with policy commitments like any other. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

On the rare occasions that progressives gain power in the US, they face an uphill battle on an incline created by decades of neoliberal policy. It's also true that they make mistakes. Taking accountability for those––rather than just perpetually blaming others––is essential for left credibility.

Dick Cheney and Trump have a lot in common. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

““Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,” noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. “Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.”

"Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel... The surge in complaints has been in part the work of a small group of pro-Israel actors" @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bizarre to have medical/public health colleagues who cut me off and called me an antisemite for naming a genocide in October/November 2023 now—when this reality is no longer remotely deniable—now want to act like we’re good again and nothing happened. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Antisemitism investigations at US universities surged after Oct 7, but at least a quarter complaints were made by people unaffiliated with the university in question. Zionist organizations made 78% of the complaints. University administrators played themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Eugenicist assholes.

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

How do we know they were "posing" as ICE agents as opposed to just ICE agents committing crimes––something we're seeing captured on video on a daily basis?

Here’s a deeply tragic story: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation after being held without her meds now missing in Mexico. By Meredith Colias and Kate Perez www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/t...

Remember how the NYTimes covered the election of the absurd Eric Adams as the “future of the Democratic Party,” Batman come to save Gotham, and likely future president? Note how they cover Mamdani—a guy with actual political ability and ethical principles—rather differently.

The Republican Party is f-ed from here to eternity.

Its Mamdani coverage makes clear that the NYTimes has fully embraced an editorial strategy of parodying itself. Absurd newspaper. Obscene—and massively harmful—that it has the influence that it does.

Imagine how far that money would have gone if it had been used to actually build Treatment Not Trauma. Instead, the CPD budget just goes up and up every damn year. No accountability. It’s theft from our city.

To support political candidates and then push for better and more from them when they win office is a good thing, not bad. The demand for uncritical loyalty is a hallmark of the worst kind of stupid partisanship—the kind that defines the two major US parties.

Zohran, please build for NYC what Brandon Johnson promised for Chicago but then refused to actually build because he let the police continue to control the City budget. time.com/6988584/us-p...

We’ll learn a lot from the appointments Mamdani makes over the next two months—and his campaign supporters should not be passive spectators to those appointments but push hard against the pressure he’ll face to revert to the standard set of consultants and bureaucrats.

what are the rules about putting this on a tshirt and selling it?

Very glad Mamdani won. Now treat him like a politician. No honeymoon-period abstention from criticism or demand. Learn from Chicago progressives’ failure to push Brandon Johnson out of the gate. No kid gloves this time.

They got me: I supported a candidate and, now that he’s won, am daring to suggest we should push him to—against immense opposition—make good on his policy promises rather than just pledge unconditional personal loyalty to him (ie, act like standard Party-loyal Democrats without principles).

Fascists.

Obama's 'library' reminds me a bit of the federal prison a few miles north in downtown Chicago. Unfortunately, it will have to be expanded if it's going to house all the war criminals that worked in the drone-bomb-the-fuck-out-of-the-Brown-world Obama administration.

Cities like NYC and Chicago cannot build the systems of care their residents need without confronting the police monopoly on funding. Promising not to cut police funds — funds that today ultimately serve fascist power — is not a tenable position for progressive politics.

Here’s a start: defund the damn police.

Very glad Mamdani won. Now treat him like a politician. No honeymoon-period abstention from criticism or demand. Learn from Chicago progressives’ failure to push Brandon Johnson out of the gate. No kid gloves this time.

Glad to see Zohran Mamdani managed to beat the NYTimes editorial board. Will they learn something from defeat? Never.

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

ICE staked out a Logan Square restaurant I frequent and snatched a longtime worker when he went outside to take out the trash. Please support his family. And fuck ICE. www.gofundme.com/f/help-famil...

It says a lot that the former Democrat's mayoral campaign was a lot more Islamophobic and racist than the GOP candidate's

Democrats—or any human being—praising Dick Cheney at all is an abject moral failure, and totally consistent with the utter ethical vacuum that is the Democratic Party. No legs to stand on as they pretend to oppose a fascist.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Praise for Dick Cheney is not just nauseating; it's appalling. This man was a mass murderer. He lied to the American people. He killed millions of people. He is one of the worst products of the imperial United States. And Democrats are eulogizing him. Absolutely disgusting.

Dick Cheney’s death as a free, comfortable man should be clear evidence that there is no determinate arc of history, no justice, no accountability—except for that which we make by organizing, revolting, and overthrowing those who presently rule the world.

One of the most murderous men since Hitler died today. Approximately five million deaths are attributed to Dick Cheney’s war on Brown people.

Applied agnotology — this is at the core of the fascist Republican Party today.

DHS has a clear and consistent standard: *if you throw a sandwich at one of us - we will indict you. *if we shoot you five times - we will indict you.

Trump’s corruption is not a deviation from US history but its fulfillment, not aberration but revelation. To beat the fascism he represents, we'll need something new––not a return to the corrupt liberal order of the time before. My new piece for Al Jazeera: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Dick Cheney endorsed Andrew Cuomo today. “I’m going to give it everything I’ve got,” he reportedly said.

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

My essay – "What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence" – is in the new print issue of Boston Review. I hope you'll subscribe to what's unquestionably one of the best magazines, and perhaps the best political magazine, in the country. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

The Nazis are circling the wagons for Cuomo.

Why at this point would anyone waste their time responding to Ezra Klein's inane commentary? (Also, any editors out there who happen to have interest in a 2,300-word response to Klein's manifesto for unprincipled centrism in last Sunday's NYTimes?)

Fascists and sexual harassers stick together. If only Epstein were still around to weigh in.