Agenda item for Mamdani: get Newsmax out of NYC taxi cabs

If a few billionaires want to move to Florida or East Hampton they definitely should. Manhattan is way too crowded as it is

Is it possible that the purveyors of popular culture “will ignore the 50 percent or more of this country that want television, film and music that doesn’t feel like it was extruded directly from the president’s brain,” Michael Hirschorn writes.

My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com "Is it possible that these purveyors of popular culture will ignore the 50 percent or more of this country that want television, film and music that doesn’t feel like it was extruded directly from the president’s brain? " www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

An urgent and essential piece by @hirschorn.bsky.social

Imagine if the government devoted the same kind of energy to ridding the country of guns as it does to ridding the country of immigrants. It is possible to do things if you want to

"What happened to Kirk is horrifying. But Kirk...was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members has put the livelihoods+physical safety of many people in danger. " www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." Economists sound the alarm about produce prices doubling - FORTUNE

Mamdani is winning....85 percent ....of men 18-34 hellgatenyc.com/mayoral-race...

Thinking of this article from 2020 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... #trumpepstein

It's not the ideology, it's the anti-establishmentarianism. Must read from @michaellangenyc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Your move, Catsimatides

This

There's your Democratic blueprint: insurgent, young, uncompromising, focused, optimistic. Now we need to clear out the deadwood #mamdani

Ok now I'm definitely voting Mamdani

Had a good, wide ranging, densely meta chat with @thebeat.msnbc.com on brocasters, the Democratic turn from labor and how to relearn talking in 2025 youtu.be/QsGSfU15oYA?...

Not sure how the World Cup can still happen here a year from now. Which foreign fans are going to fly to the US with the risk of being Gitmoed once they get here??

“Andrew Breitbart articulated the theory that ‘politics is downstream from culture.’ That’s no longer quite right. Culture now is politics, and these podcasters — or bro-casters — are a perfect example of why,” Michael Hirschorn writes.

New from me in NYT "If there’s one issue that unites the bro-casters — beyond the need to find three hours of content — it’s a disdain for wokeness. “The word ‘retarded’ is back,” Mr. Rogan recently announced, ridiculously, “and it’s one of the great culture victories".”

You'll be ok lightbulb man: in the trans rights "debate" the issues are always framed around personal victimization and never, you know, trans people themselves.

😘 Diblasio "held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast...as “mi sandwich especial.”"

Future New York Knick?

"There are 510,000 NCAA athletes in the U.S., as NCAA president Charlie Baker explained to a Senate panel in Dec, and he’s aware of “less than 10” athletes who identify as transgender. But if you believe many right-wing voices, you’d think it was far more than 0.001961 percent of college athletes."

Will MAGA go the Full Venezuela and ride America all the way down to third world status?

Excited to get started...

"These are not serious people" substack.com/@petebuttigi...

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Are the butthole lasers Jewish? “There is a battalion of male-to-female transgenders within the American intelligence apparatus,” The Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo posted on X recently. “They hate Italians and LibsofTikTok. They fantasize about pseudo-vaginas and butthole lasers.”

They're still running the "free speech" grift

Wasn't counting on the most DEI Super Bowl broadcast I can remember

Reposting this from 2020 by ex Senate staffer @adamjentleson.bsky.social, when Trump was POTUS & the GOP had a 53-seat Senate majority. Don’t wait for a SCOTUS seat, Democrats—play hard hardball, use monkey wrenches, make it hard for them from the get-go. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/o...

Harvard constitutional law prof Noah Feldman's oped is a bit smarter and more nuanced than the inane headline but it would be nice if establishment bien pensant libs acknowledged they remain bought into the status quo, no matter how degraded

Full enshittification alert (post CFPB edition): Expedia unapologetically charging 35% more than their own listed price when you get to checkout. This will soon be the norm. Populism...

The Economist has moved into its full feverish delusion phase "But things need not be so dire. What has the makings of a big, messy dispute could, if well managed, turn into a rare example of international co-operation with Trumpian characteristics."

The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign. This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Curious if Murphy plans to nix NJ Turnpike tolls using same logic "The program’s opponents have urged Mr. Trump to re-examine it, with Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey calling it “a disaster for working- and middle-class New Jersey commuters and residents” in a letter to Mr. Trump last week."

This is spot on

With defenders like this we're all ending up dead

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T CELEBRATE, join us for actual fun 11-1:30!!!! We'll be imagining solutions, distractions, parties, and maybe even some serious responses to the fresh hell. www.twitch.tv/whatroughbea...

Joining at noon. Please tune in. I'll be wearing my party dress

I found this helpful open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Arrived 20 minutes early for a drinks date because...congestion pricing. Thanks a lot MTA

Nothing says sportswashing like the 4 most exciting teams in Serie A playing a mid-season tournament to a half empty stadium in Saudi Arabia

Is Luigi Mangione a guide post (without the murdery part) for prog populist politics. That and much much more. Thanks for having us on @jheil.bsky.social!

Does this talk about New Jersey drones at all?

It's a common assumption backed by reams of evidence (Stanford, FBI, WaPo for starters) but you do you "Some will think of the white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd as he begged for his life. The common assumption was that Floyd’s race informed Chauvin’s behavior."

Ok all eggs fully scrambled now

Good faith journalism helps you make sense of the world. Bad faith journalism gives you someone to hate