Finally! Cut down version of my explanation for the why behind many Dems being in ineffective reactive mode while MAGA and some Dems (perhaps a certain mayor-elect...) actually force their desired convos to the fore. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Me looking at Brazil.

He's saying if you let me have access to the money again, I'm gonna supercharge ICE and finish my new bunker under the ballroom and start the Purge. There's literally no other way to read that. It's "we'll never seat another Dem member of Congress again and will contest every blue state vote slate"

Did the NYT ever run a headline saying "The sexual abuse by [Weinstein/Epstein/etc exposes the United States endemic pervert culture"?

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

Once again, SCOTUS undermines the rule of law, its own legitimacy, and the lower federal courts with a 'back of the napkin' explanation that doesn't even bother to analyze the issue under the standards for staying an injunction—all to enable a bigoted attack on a targeted group.

I’m trying to put my finger on what do all these cities have in common…

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

The fact that it will take close to a full year for this blatantly illegal bullshit to stop even though it’s cost a mountain of money is a sad commentary of our justice system.

I hadn’t realized this but fewer lawyers in public service is yet another reason to be happy about yesterday’s results.

“Siri, can you remind me, is it one person one vote or one square mile, one vote?”

Can’t have a proper democracy without proper representation.

Banana republic.

While it's good Trump will likely lose this case, this does not change the fact that SCOTUS continues to build a made-up, Calvinball jurisprudence including the Major Questions Doctrine and (coming soon) the Unitary Executive BS, that will be weaponized against the next democratic president.

I don't know, guys, how can you say the president is a budding authoritarian when he's saying... **check the tape**... that you need a government ID to buy eggs?

I hope the hire the most obvious spokesperson for the ad campaign.

I see the NY state democratic party continues to work hard at being the worst in the country.

She's saying "yo tango papeles" (I have a papers)

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Mike Johnson, probably: “what election? I’ve been extremely busy not releasing the Epstein files, I haven’t heard about any elections”

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

i can't stop thinking about this video. how the campaign started w/ Mamdani as an unknown basically...just like out reporting on the political apathy in 2024. figuring out why people felt jaded. and then working to bring about the opposite. beyond remarkable www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tur...

Predictions are hard, specially about the future. ~Nate Silver, deep down.

Regardless of ideology, lot to be said for candidates who haven't' been at this for 20+ years already and who came up in a post-2016 media and partisanship environment.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

A lot of those VA Dem voters are likely furloughed federal workers that know this.

Trump seeing the GOP getting its ass kicked in VA and NJ and reacting by doubling down on asserting his power and forcing the senate to nuke the filibuster would be perfect. www.axios.com/2025/11/04/t...

Not only is Jay Jones winning, but Del. Carrie Coyner, the Republican who shared his text messages with National Review, is currently losing her seat. youtu.be/OlqRGJeiUiw?...

Still early, but the three Democrats seeking new terms on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court are all performing very, very well. This is one of the contests we’ve been watching most closely at @boltsmag.org. Background: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Let’s get the NYT viz team to build the “neighbor-meter” to project the house next year.

The @hankgreen.bsky.social bump, folks.

I don’t understand why anyone pays attention to these markets. They run on the worst conventional vibes.

good Reddit

If your electoral strategy is to be a milder, less authentic version of your opponents you’re just condemning yourself to both lose elections and allow them move them further to the right.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Just incredibly talented.

More judges should be quoting the lies that Trump tells the public to avoid political blowback (contradicting what his own lawyers are telling the courts), take them at face value, and rule accordingly, as in this case:

🎯"Magnetism is the notion that if you want people to come to your cause, you must be attractive. This, of course, requires having a cause to which to draw people. And, like any magnet, it also means having a polarity that distinguishes you from your opposition."

Again, perfect world, but I would issue a “new age for cultural institutions.” Don’t just bring them back to pre-Trump funding. Earmark grants around political education. Reinvigorate them with clear purpose + resources to build institutional infrastructure

Great thread. Here you’ll find the words “political education” which are rarely uttered in our country but seem pretty central for digging ourselves out of the hole we find ourselves in.

Trump Family has sold our national security, economic growth, and democracy for $10+ billion over the last year. Absurd, public, illegal corruption has been normalized within the Regime, so of course the skeevy anti-democratic FBI Director is using government jets to impress his girlfriend.

Not even “to cut taxes for the rich”. Republicans have said again and again that healthcare is like any other service and people should get what they can afford.

If you understand the Supreme Court majority as GOP partisans, do you really think they want to throw Trump a lifeline in 2022 when he was sandbagging the party with crap candidates in Kari Lake instead of 2024 when he was the de facto nominee?

I’m sure the U.S. setting the standard that a government can kill “the friend of a friend of a friend” of a suspected bad guy won’t result in any unintended consequences.

PSA: Before this "dislike" thing gets out of hand, because I've seen some very big accounts misinforming people, here's what it actually is. It's a private option that lets you see less of topics you're not interested in on certain feeds. That's it. It's not a downvote, thumbs down, etc.