Republicans packed the North Carolina Board of Elections with a slew of additional party insiders, marking the latest sign of the GOP’s partisan takeover of the board as it prepares for next year’s elections. https://bit.ly/4p0sVTz

I thought this vid was satire when I first watched it. My lord.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

Throwing away all your political capital after a historic off year election for a 1 year continuation of ACA funding is absolutely pathetic.

Nick Fuentes says people better be careful about calling him a Nazi "because if I'm a Nazi, then there's millions of young people that are following a fucking Nazi." Um, yeah, that's exactly what we've been warning about!

What a time to be alive

Federal judge Sara Ellis is entering an injunction governing rules of force against the media, protesters, and the everyday citizens who come out while immigration raids neighborhoods to tell them they aren’t welcome in Chicago. (Or as DHS calls them: “Rioters.”)

From the top rope

good lord man

It really is pretty shocking that Mamdani won even after referring to his dad’s cousin as his aunt when she was really his first cousin once removed

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

As a political scientist recently put it to me, very clearly and concisely: “rights” pertain to persons, not to states, so people should shut the fuck up about states having a right to exist.

These appear to be the output of a fine-tuned LLM video model generating clips from TruthSocial posts?

Lesson from last night: avoid conventional wisdom. Mamdani could have been like, "I'm just a rookie assemblyman. Should wait my turn, check in with Schumer and Jeffries to see when it's okay for me to move up." He had a better thought: "Fuck those guys."

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

Trump won in 2024 by 1.5%pts and the press acted like he got a mandate to be god-emperor, can’t wait for them to be dismissive of victories in places the Democratic Party hasn’t won in 20 years

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR

Beating a guy in an election and quoting his dad in your victory speech is a FLEX.

Never forget what the Republicans have done that precipitated this. As a people, we are bad at this kind of memory. Never forget the atrocities.

To spell it out a bit more: Redistricting works by taking safe seats and "spreading the wealth" to competitive ones. Republicans are discovering that there wasn't nearly as much wealth to go around as they'd hoped—so instead of turning competitive seats safe, they've turned safe seats competitive

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Holy shit, Mamdani quotes Eugene Debs first sentence.

Compare how Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL responded to Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in NYC to how he responded to the Heritage Foundation mainstreaming actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

I, for one, hope Mr. McMillan is doing well. I was always interested in his plan to bulldoze down some of those mountains upstate to make room for housing.

And this was dumb at the time

The question now: How and when will Dershowitz exercise his second amendment rights?

according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race

A good time to recall this great article from @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1972...

There's really no logical way that tonight can be spun any other way than a resounding victory for Democrats and a repudiation of a historically unpopular President.

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Setting aside everything else: the Governor-elect of Virginia is a former postal inspector whose dad was also a postal inspector. #USPS

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

We really need to talk about "ratification." This administration keeps thinking it can take garbage decisions made with no authority and somehow retroactively clean them up (it did this with DOGE) and this is not how anything can possibly work.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Trump was asked by 60 Minutes about immigration agents using aggresive"H tactics like busting people's windows. "Have those tactics gone too far?" "No", Trump said, "I think they haven't gone far enough." This is what that looks like in the real world. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Publishers are not helping by using AI slop themselves, as shown in this post from @irisvanrooij.bsky.social irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

In the 10th inning (game still tied) a guy sitting next to me at the bar said all the games were rigged and the bartender excitedly agreed with him. I was legit disappointed that these guys both embraced conspiracies even as we witnessed amazing plays.

Israeli strikes on Gaza this week have killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Every ICE agent needs to be tried for crimes against humanity.

Algorithmic timelines that reward/punish certain gameable behaviors were the beginning of the end on twitter.