A couple people on here theorized in my replies that Trump's bulldozing of the East Wing was the work of a narcissist attempting to punish us for No Kings. And I wonder now if doubling down on the SNAP and airline pain is his attempt to punish everyone for Tuesday's election results.

This is going to be their next desperate play: It’s not the tariffs. It’s not exploding healthcare costs. It’s not the gutting of industries and technologies of the future. It’s not the violent roundup of immigrant workers. No—the economy is shit in 2026 because “democrats shut down the government.”

he’s saying exactly what we’ve been saying, he’s absolutely right, and any colleagues of his should listen to him every part of the country that could just told Donald Trump to go to hell and we demand our elected representatives follow suit

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Carrot talks to Inmn about "Where Would You Go if You Left the US?" a dive into considerations when thinking about whether it feels like time to leave, whether due to political persecution, identity, or wanting to get out of a destabilizing fascist state.

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

they had trump and musk and bloomberg and schumer and gillibrand. they had twitter. they had billionaire-funded "A.i." slop propaganda. and we beat them like a drum.

just thinking about billionaires panicking because all their money couldn't stop mamdani and that warms my heart

Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around. Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it. variety.com/2025/digital...

Daily News staffer tells me "there is a lot of frustration and anger within the staff about today’s Mamdani editorial. It doesn’t reflect the majority of the staff and we worry it will make it hard to fairly cover the new administration." Says they don't even know who all members of ed board are.

i feel confident saying that zohran mamdani has likely never said or done anything as remotely antisemitic in his life as the horrifyingly islamophobic things being said and done right now by people in positions of power and authority in the jewish community in reaction to him

New York City: a muslim socialist is going to become our mayor Dick Cheney: over my dead body

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Remarkable: In Virginia and New Jersey, Spanberger and Sherrill erased the GOP edge among working class. Per exit polls, each got 50% of noncollege voters, big gains over previous contests. Shocker: Anti-Trump politics appeals to working class, too! New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Wrong—the Arms Export Control Act and Foreign Assistance Act both have provisions which enable the Presidency to withhold aid under specific conditions— and these provisions override individual MOUs that are held between the USG and a foreign country because they are actually-existing binding law.

Oh my god it's literally copy paper. Look at the seam between "Oval" and "Office"

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was "that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

It's so funny that people consider Zohran radical. Like that's really funny to me. Like damn how far to the right is the average centrist man they should really examine that shit.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

@joindayenu.bsky.social is looking for a director of campaigns and organizing

Because he's more interested in defending Israel's impunity to commit war crimes than in defending American democracy

If you're a Jewish New Yorker who can't understand why people in your city voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , ask your children. They probably did too.

New statement from Chuck Schumer: “Despite not doing anything useful, and in fact being actively harmful to the process in a number of ways, I am here to take credit for other people’s hard work and risks.”

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Unbelievable

Bahahahaha

Lmfao

Internationalist solidarity is here and the future, more and more people are saying it

God what a beating. Imagine being on the other side of this if you were a thin-skinned narcissist with your entire self-worth wrapped up in being a winner.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Mazel Tov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , Mazel Tov NYC 🎉🗽❤️ Join the movement, join JFREJ: jfrej.org/membership 📸 Zachary Schulman

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Never before in my life have I felt so much warmth and affection for NYC 😂 Well done.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

May tonight be a beautiful reminder that Regular People Hate This Shit #rphts

Is a 62 point lead a lot? because I’m concerned that massive wins of this sort will cause Democrats to learn the wrong lesson that standing up for principles and people and getting votes is more politically successful than spending 50 years trying to make a family of imaginary bigots like you.

My 60+ lifelong democrat parents are following the MAMDANI results very closely and are super excited for him to win. Did I mention they live in small Louisiana town with no connection to NYC?

I look forward to reading a bunch of op eds tomorrow chastising Republicans and declaring that they will never win elections via an obsessive focus on persecuting minority groups which the public finds alienating. Oh? What’s that? We won’t see any articles like the pundits are also transphobic?

I scream-laughed...

Nobody is actually giving you a good answer so here's why she's wrong: the negative trendline against Israel in public opinion predates TikTok's emergence by nearly seven years. Also, the largest shift in opinion on Israel in a single demo since 2023 has been among Democrats aged 50yrs and older.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

It took about 4 hours for the Teen Vogue fundraiser to hit the initial $20k goal. I think it's entirely possible that the market would support something like what OP suggests. I'd be thrilled to subscribe to Teen Rogue.