The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

"Democrats deserve a congressional leadership that actually believes in 'blue no matter who' and knows what century it is." — @ryanlcooper.com @prospect.org

booze ceos are about to have a fucking meltdown

Rochester Business Journal confirmed layoffs, but not a headcount. No WARN notice filed with NY state, which means either it's less than 250 workers (or the database is lagging, or Constellation didn't file.)

they put a bunch of slot machines in a tent in a parking lot and called it the "interim gaming hall"

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

Saw someone say that the enraged radicalized wine moms are going to impose Sangria Law and honestly that’s pretty good

condé bosses absolutely incinerating all the goodwill their journalists have earned for them over the past nine months in less than a week, that's big-brain stuff

nancy pelosi clearing six figures on polymarket from successfully betting that nancy pelosi will not seek reelection

"The wage study grew out of a push by several Council members’ to raise compensation for people doing some of the lowest-paid work for the city at a time when higher-ranking government employees with six-figure salaries were getting 3.25% raises."

“We can’t overreach. We have to be restrained. We have to be wise with the gift that the voters have given us [...] It’s going to be important for us to have a coalition that’s restrained, that’s smart, that’s disciplined and focused on what voters want.”

RIP Dick Cheney For @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/mamd...

it is incredible, in the literal sense of the word, to be working at the heritage foundation in 2025 and have qualms about nazi sympathizing. it's like working at facebook and worrying about the sustainability of journalism, or working at amazon and fretting about the decline of labor unions.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Richmond week continues, with @dinfontay.com on the pod! It's never been a better time for beer drinkers, but why isn't mainstream journalism up to the task. We discuss.

Series of hedge fund guys who live further and further away from New York demanding through the press that Zohran debate them

You gotta almost hand it to the guy being like “yeah I was fully corrupt the whole time and I don’t have to pretend otherwise now. I did that shit”

hold onto your cups

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

NEW: ~50 beer/wine/spirits wholesalers have sent Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders a letter calling on them "to oppose efforts to close the so-called 'hemp loophole' through any spending package or Farm Bill." This is the biggest move yet on THC drinks' behalf from the middle tier.

Beer is on the wrong side of America's class war: www.fingers.email/p/beer-is-on...

Lina Khan is such a wonderful fuck you to the billionaires

Mamdani putting Lina Khan on his transition team… somebody gotta do a wellness check on Bill Ackman ASAP

for sure man, hey quick question who could end the shutdown whenever they want

I have a local bias because I live in VA, but I really do think Jay "Two Bullets" Jones' decisive W for AG in a light-blue state against a white incumbent is the biggest red flag for the GOP last night. Even voters that *claimed* to care about his out-of-pocket texts still voted for him:

After a watershed election night in VA—including the election of the first female gov in state history—the @richmond.com Opinion page is utterly void of any mention of the results, let alone a useful interpretation of them. Having laid off its Opinion editor in September, this paper is a ghost ship.

who's got the cope mega-thread this morning, drop the link pls

louise lucas continues to be a real one lmao

spanberger campaign revealing its secrets now that the election is over

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

The Bud Light fiasco was less than three years ago lol

I sincerely do not think people like living in a police state, once they see for themselves what it looks like.

We’ll put a pin in that and come back to it if I can’t find a billionaire to give me a $100,000,000 consulting gig to come up with an alternate explanation.

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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

holy shit that was fast

One of the Baileys voted for Cuomo. Another one voted for Sliwa. Schumer has no idea how to vote because they both moved out of the City years ago, and they wrote in candidates for where they don't live.

it's giving

NEW: Susan Collins, who claims to be pro choice, is raising money for an anti-abortion candidate who’s slated to lose the Virginia governor's race. A donor email sent on behalf of Winsome Earle-Sears comes as Collins' approval rating has plummeted to net negative 20 points. Me in @newrepublic.com:

ol' two-bullets jones may pull this thing out yet

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

UVa's alumni mag, which is technically independent of the university but tends to cover it pretty generously, published a new story on the October capitulation to Trump's DOJ. The piece is hardly adversarial, but buried at the bottom are some decent faculty quotes: uvamagazine.org/articles/UVA...

And your Hop-ocalypse Now from the latest @vinepair.com Hop Take 🤯: vinepair.com/articles/hop...

"Weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, I was told Anna [Wintour] didn’t want to hear the word 'politics' in our team’s annual strategy meeting. I introduced myself as the editor handling coverage of 'social issues.'" — @allegrak.bsky.social

"This is fine" meme ahh industry