a Goldman–Lander primary would be the most Bluesky-poster election of all time, on a per-vote basis

choo choo! www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

if you're ever trying to understand a news story in the UK, just remember: It always goes back to Kim Philby

"Is authoritarianism acceptable so long as health insurance premiums are low?" is an interesting question, but I think it's a little different—high health insurance premiums *foster* authoritarianism www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

very funny that the Pats are good again. sorry everyone

these are the first 32 seconds of the Canadian Premier League that I have ever seen and they are absolutely perfect

keeping the old ways alive

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

yes, it does seem like explicitly saying "no more prayer" might raise some legal issues! blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

at the death

alright, we made it to the weekend, one last post

Earlier this week, Mother Jones video correspondent @garrisonhayes.bsky.social visited a Nashville food bank where he talked to folks who’d recently lost their SNAP assistance. Here’s what they had to say.

with @nlanard.bsky.social we ran the numbers on where Mamdani-mentum peaked—and checked back on the neighborhoods where Democratic support cratered in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

criticism: big cost getting thrown in a van: no cost

i don't think republicans are getting anywhere insisting that people have to starve because of a roughly 16-year-old Senate tradition

at a certain point people mostly stopped naming their kids after political figures, but what's truly wild is that the last person I can think of what's named for an American president was Ted Lilly

Not even two days after Zohran's election and we already get new subway lines

i need you all to stop what you're doing & take 1 minute & 35 seconds to listen to curtis silwa on rat abortions

this was such a weird hit. you're not supposed to spend money emphasizing that your opponent went to the naval academy.

oh wow elise stefanik is running for governor

"Grok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, continues to falsely identify the man when asked to explain who collapsed at the White House." dandiamond.substack.com/p/a-man-coll...

lots of chatter about who will be blamed for the shutdown but it sounds like people broadly blame the government and understand what "the government" is

Goldman is gonna have his work cut out for him against Lander if Lander runs.

i was ready with some sick quotes from northerners after the John Brown trial if it went the other way, but this'll do

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

choosing to read this as a positive sign

#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

lots of people don't like NYC—largely for bad reasons that reflect various prejudices that in sum present a major obstacle to all manner of societal achievements—but I don't think our mayor will be as salient in the midterms as the actual president!

jesus christ

we're gonna send him to Galveston

"She enthusiastically complimented my bangs and I was later disturbed to discover that she’d been arrested in 2022 for breaking into the apartment building of a New York City councilmember and vandalizing his office building with homophobic messages." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you." "This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.

"This guy lives in Chappaqua. He doesn’t know anything about the streets." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

this is gonna end with some DC sandwich spot called Felony Footlongs

Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

i love that john rocker's mind cannot comprehend halal carts

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

we were spared a longer piece from me on this because I was out of town for the official Zohran Mamdani soccer tournament, but I did think it was worth noting he pandered to soccer fans more than any candidate in American history www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Plaintiff atty start by quoting Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino's own words. "If someone strays into a pepper ball, that's on them. Don't protest." The atty goes on to list off incidents of federal immigration agents tear gassing neighborhoods, shooting journalists with pepper balls, etc.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

sorry i'm just thinking of how andrew cuomo spent the final days of the race being driven around new york city in a white ford bronco

The Times parsed the vote using similar categories and again found that the single most determinative factor economic-like factor in the election was "commute by transit" vs "commute by car." It edged out renters vs. homeowners. There's still outstanding data but I expect these trends will hold.

check in on your landlord friends today

i'll flip this: I should be able to board an airplane with my costco card

In 2021, we published a series of portraits and interviews with people shot in the eye during the George Floyd protests. One of them, Soren Stevenson, just won his race for Minneapolis City Council. www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-...

Prop 50 in California passes easily. Kevin McCarthy falls $99 million short of his goal of raising $100 million to oppose it

In 2017, the Virginia House was 34 D/66 R.