🚨BREAKING: Democrat Marisa Sweeney has won her race for State Assembly in the 25th district in New Jersey, flipping the Morris County-based seat for the first time since 1977.

Great profile of the artist Rama Duwaji (Zohran Mamdani is her husband) in the latest RVA Magazine. Includes many examples of her excellent work. She's a Virginia Commonwealth University Arts grad. Virginia can claim her! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽, VCU. rvamag.com/art/rama-duw...

"By doing things voters wanted, he set unrealistic expectations. Soon, voters will expect ALL politicians to represent their interests. Then where will we be?"

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

One aspect of US political history that I think is underplayed is that on several measures—health care, housing, transportation, basic assistance—by the late 60s/early 70s, the nation was headed in a similar direction as European social democracies. Domestic policy was ambitious & liberal.

“I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” Lessons were clearly NOT learned on Tuesday.

I’ve been watching these prices drop all afternoon, and I am very close to having Sunday plans 💀

I love these Broncos unis dang 🤩

Do you know how insane it is to appeal a judgment that says you have to feed hungry people and you're the United States of America

Holy ass he said it out loud. They can't make us feed hungry people. This is insane. Like insane right? This is our tax money earmarked for SNAP and he's like no it's mine now, check out the ballroom.

Let them eat ballroom

Thanks to the Illinois’ massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year: —50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide —8-minute midday headways on rail lines —24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

even if they could somehow get a deal together in the senate next week, which seems extremely unlikely at this point, massive thanksgiving delays are probably baked in now.

This, in particular, is spectacularly hideous. It's like something you'd see on the wall of a car dealership where they put pictures of their top salespeople every month

It was better 10 minutes ago but oh my goodness the moon is gorgeous right now

What an avoidable disaster. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"If it wasn't for Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers would never win anything."

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History asked me to explain in 1000 words why the American jury is so important to our democracy for their civic education project. Here it is: www.gilderlehrman.org/community-co...

in most disciplines you would become a pariah for even suggesting this is worth researching, but in business schools apparently phrenology is alive and well

means testing things that are good for society is just poisoned puritan brain at work it's more expensive for taxpayers than just FEEDING THE FUCKING CHILDREN

Remember all the optics from the “huge” TPUSA stadium rally at Virginia Tech a month or so back?

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

I'd missed this: Democratic-endorsed candidates *swept* the 6 school board races in Mecklenburg County, one of North Carolina's largest counties (home to Charlotte). This means there won't be a Republican on the board anymore; the sole GOP incumbent was ousted.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Thinking of Emma Goldman’s prosecution and subsequent deportation for encouraging people to resist the draft and keeping a “wagonload of anarchist records and propaganda” at the organizing offices, among other things Different era, same fucking playbook

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

“Art is often the theory of the impossible, a land to which those who dream of our collective freedom immigrate in order to live and breathe without the burden of what has come before.” …I wrote something reflecting on the promise of the Mamdani mayoralty and the artistic act of creation.

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

THIS!! Politics is ab CREATING change. Dems have spent decades trying to triangulate, analyze, meet Most Likely Voters where they were at the last data point, and that's wrong wrong wrong on every level. People want to be inspired, and the way you inspire them is by looking ahead of where they are.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

When I run errands these days, I make sure I have my keys, my phone and my whistle. I wear the whistle in case I spot Homeland Security thugs terrorizing people and need to alert my neighbors. Lots of people are wearing them. That’s how Trump has changed life in my hometown, Evanston, IL.

This is so good—and in particular, I feel like in all the buzz about what a great campaign Mamdani ran, this point often gets lost He started by—guess what—*talking to people who voted for Trump.* He went on the Bulwark podcast. He went on Fox News. He demonstrated a willingness to talk to anyone

I’m not seeing any. 🧐 Can someone link me?

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

"Mamdani's win marks the end of civilization as we know it, and it's also a nothingburger."

Right before the holidays, the Trump administration is making sure that poor families starve and that no one can go visit their moms. 👍

goddamn. i loved going to work when i worked at goddard. everyone there was wonderful. folks should know that GSFC is basically setup like a military base and should interpret any take over on those terms

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

i'm still seeing people say things like "they don't intend to win elections", and, like, look at last night's results. those are not outcomes you can reject through slim efforts at trickery, those are overwhelming defeats that can't be ignored. stop letting your doom brain do their work.

Thinking about this Mary Oliver poem this morning. Don't hesitate.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Chicago all day every day now. I'm not even sure the rest of the country realizes what it's like here now.

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

“The real, key power of representation is that you not only look like someone who hasn’t been at the table, but that you in fact change the nature of which discussions are prioritized, and that you’re fighting for a different set of priorities that have been ignored.”

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew