New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

This morning I walked home over 35W. There was only ~1 inch of snow on the ground, but plows were already out doing their thing on the highway. Meanwhile, the sidewalk I was on will likely not get cleared for hours or days. We *all* need clear sidewalks in winter. #PlowMPLSsidewalks

Guy Who Always Wrong Wrong Again

again chicagoans need to grow a set and stand up for themselves. deep dish is the superior pizza, you don’t have to do this cowardly whimpering “oh actually we like thin crust that’s cut into squares for no damned reason” thing. this is why the rancid packers have been clowning you for 30 years

Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.

Let’s hear it for bike racks near grocery stores

let's hear it for the discontinued Mazda 2, one of the only contenders in the US market for a car that's just a little guy

I blocked the annoying guy with bad takes from Minnesota a long time ago but I will say since he is obviously inescapable on here: spending all your time online starting arguments is not healthy, regardless of your politics

Will brings up she can do this because her campaign "virtually prints money," but her campaign virtually prints money because she does stuff like this. There is an enormous appetite to do good things right now in a system that rewards greed and evil. This very contrast created that money machine.

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Awesome news, EMS are severely underpaid, and also lol

Why does liberalism feel stuck managing decline instead of building a future? www.waleed-shahid.com/p/why-is-lib...

Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.

Fun!

This is a great lesson about how the NYT plays word games to enable elite impunity. If the only thing that counts as corruption is felony bribery then nothing is corrupt as long as John Roberts is chief justice.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is great! I have noticed the primary people left using Twitter are the far right and Democratic politicians. There is no point in using a platform that by design is actively hostile to you.

The problem the Ellisons have is that Trump expects them to use CBS to turn his approval numbers around. They chose to play a game they can't win. Couldn't happen to more deserving people.

Those of us who are not Jewish have to be more on our guard against antisemitism than ever right now, not just in the world but inside of our own hearts No one is fully immune to the propaganda flooding social media from all directions or the rising hysteria of this moment

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Confirmed: House Democratic leaders have decided to use a stock trading ban bill as a campaign issue rather than actually pass something that had the GOP support to advance. Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.

anyways that’s enough brain damage for me but main takeaways here: -Gen Z conservatives are Hitler Youth 2.0 -Basically all of them support JD Vance as the next president -They hate Muslims, Latinos, and women (not surprising) -All of them complain about affordability and healthcare lol

I would like people to clock that this is the future of the party and it's a far bigger threat than Trump unless they lose and lose badly

"He's got a chance to reject the politics of apology. You know—the ritual where the City proposes a safety project, then you hear these objections, and then they 'study' it to death ... He's shown that he's good at communicating about transportation." - Janette Sadik-Khan, Getting excited.

My colleague Vickie Paladino continues to dehumanize the over 1 million Muslim New Yorkers that the NYC Council represents. It is time that the Council takes action and expels her. We cannot allow such flagrant racism within our legislative body. My full remarks:

Every neighborhood in NYC should have at least one pedestrianzed commercial corridor, but since some business owners are convinced every customer drives we get the relatively small number of people who actually do drive parking illegally because they feel entitled to not have to walk anywhere.

“The governor likes to pay lip service to the pressure that she feels from the left, but she has absolutely no vested interest in the left being successful. And she has deep vested interest in the billionaires continuing to be able to exploit people in this state.” — @emilyassembly.bsky.social 👏

Funny how they are portrayed as having free flowing traffic in the middle of the day, instead of constant bumper to bumper that it would actually be as it is in places where these projects were actually completed like the GW Bridge/Cross Bronx Expressway.

Since this would get released with top billing if it validated their priors, I’m gonna assume it validates mine instead

Just my opinion, but I think if an elected official posts a grossly bigoted, violent screed against an entire religion they should at a minimum be censured, but up to this point the council majority leader does not agree.

People across the world will likely spend the end of the year revisiting or newly discovering Reiner's art. When the other one dies, people will be looking for places to party and then they'll put him out of their minds.

the reason why the right was able to use immigration so effectively isnt because of any material policy change under the biden. the minute he won the right began saying he opened the border. the democratic response was no response so the right's narrative dominated. and that happened for 4 yrs.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

7:00pm: Snow is moving into the area! These are just the first bands of snow with this system. Coverage and intensity will pick up later tonight into the early morning hours of Sunday.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

“talking about god while radiating evil” is the load-bearing concept undergirding the evangelical-industrial complex

”faith-based oil driller” is going to be stuck in my head for quite some time I fear

A newspaper exclusively for bored rich people who are just excited Trump is finally shaking things up a little bit for their entertainment

An yglesias flashback

This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.

If we're being honest here the Republican-controlled Indiana state Senate is showing more backbone and fight here than Hakeem Jeffries and it is extremely embarrassing.

Impeachment is a tool for political accountability, not a “sacred” constitutional ritual. If it were truly about evidence, the Senate would’ve convicted Trump unanimously after his coup attempt—the same way every jury has unanimously found him liable or guilty when the facts actually matter.

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

We live in hell

So many progressive groups almost exclusively use Instagram for social media. If you have influence on any, PLEASE encourage them to post here more. Eventually Meta will kill their reach.

It’s wildly popular with ordinary Democratic voters, I suspect less so with many elected Democrats. Jeffries is there to suppress stuff like this on their behalf.

The guy loudly protesting the tube before immediately entering the tube kind of sums up our emerging tech dystopia