Andrew Cuomo warned that if “the socialist wing wins, the Democratic Party dies.” After Zohran Mamdani’s landslide in NYC, @milesklassin.bsky.social argues it might finally be time to build something new. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

No one will believe us when we tell this story in 20 years

Better for who, Economist? BETTER FOR WHO

one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor

My take today is this: everyone who dismissed and belittled No Kings as “performative” and “not going to move the needle” etc etc needs to take a seat and start listening to political organizers who know what they’re doing. There’s a direct link between No Kings and white rural areas shifting left

OK, I have a day long convening today so gotta bounce. If you live in NYC, don't stop organizing. This is a beginning and each of us needs to work with others to bring about a better city that actually works for all of us. I'm looking forward to continuing to focus on our libraries & more.

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani are all going to out-live Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Bill Ackman, and most of the other oligarchs who have looted our political system for their gain. And so are most of us. Plan big. Organize even bigger.

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR

Been hearing about how we need a "Democratic Joe Rogan" but have you considered we need a Democratic Zohran Mamdani?

I swooned, have not recovered, I’ve sent for the smelling salts

Look at it. It’s so pretty

Zohran dropping a EUGENE DEBS QUOTE right out the gate?!?! 😳😱

CLEAN SWEEP

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

[Exit Clown.]

True justice would be if Klein, Yglesias, the Pod Bros, and all of the white dude pundits would take a 4 year sabbatical from commenting on politics.

Buncha supposed politics experts are going to spend the next week looking at a young charismatic candidate with an optimistic message like it’s some cryptic formula for cold fusion

The NYC mayoral election is not an indictment on Trump, but the Democratic Party. Stale, bland, uninspired leadership isn’t what the people want. Zohran Mamdani is young and will make mistakes but proud of New Yorkers for at least being willing to try disruption.

If Dave Portnoy hurries he could make a late flight to Boca Raton

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Flawless

Capitalism is now illegal

apparently, we're learning what you actually shouldn't do in a small town.

2025 has been a hellacious year for anyone with a shred of morals and a conscience. everyone should enjoy tonight and just have a good time. we can go back to sniping tomorrow.

Dems in ARRAY

Get out your champagne folks

turns out Americans don’t want a fucking king

OK now we're going to need to have a talk with Gov-elect Spanberger about ending right to work in Virginia.

Okay listen. We’re looking at a tidal wave about to hit us nationally

POCKET OWL

Low key this is how Australian people say my name

Bro you could not compel me to testify about being assaulted with a submarine sandwich for any reward under the sun

I was not injured by the sandwich, your honor. But I don’t like onions and I was made to smell the onions on the sandwich your honor

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Dems: We need to win! *Zohran Mamdani runs a historic campaign focused on affordability and fair wages leading to large amounts of voter turnout.* Dems: Nooooo not like that!!

I don't think people outside of NYC fully see how incredibly RACIST Cuomo's campaign has been. It rivals any of the most racist campaigns of the 20th century. Just racism all the way down.

This is just my personal belief but I think they should be mocked routinely for being worms without a shred of principle in their horrible little worm bodies

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

Does no one ask what Yglesias's "political expertise" is based on? What has he DONE? Has he run a campaign? Has he worked on specific policy change? Has he run a general organizing campaign to pass any legislation? Has he been part of a community-based organization? What's the source of expertise?

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner

I re-watched Network last night and I'm not sure I've seen a 50-year-old movie hold up that well.

1/ Exactly this 👇

“I am just a poor, humble circus performer. I care not for the goings-on and the wherefores of the great and powerful. Ask me not about current events for I eschew them utterly to focus on my art: clowning about dishonestly”

all the anti-mamdani hysteria seems to assume that we have had a long succession of Extremely Good Mayors in new york