A mostly older, white crowd from Ohio, NY, and MA, with education levels ranging from high school only to law degrees, fwiw. Surprised by all the Slotkin appearances above all.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

True story: someone I know who drives in Manhattan as a necessity for her work and was initially very skeptical of Congestion Pricing, told me a few days ago she now wishes the toll were even HIGHER. Without a doubt the best local policy enacted this decade.

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

I believe giving the worst person on the planet the most power was a bad move.

To expand on this: I have never gotten to an airport more than two hours in advance (and seldom more than 90 minutes even for international travel), and I have never missed a flight in my life

My "LA's transit revolution is overblown and good urbanism just isn't in the city's DNA" hater take remains undefeated (And more positively, WMATA's turnaround is nothing short of incredible and we should all learn from it)

Zabar’s Cardvaark cookie ACQUIRED!

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

once a week the president says into a microphone out loud "I simply love dictators, it's so great how they order people around, nobody disobeys them, it's wonderful"

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

‘I did better than Mario in 1977’ is the most id moment from Andrew M. Cuomo that you’ll ever see.

New Yorkers say build housing

Just as a reminder: New York is a donor state and massively so.

Literal perfect weather for going door to door for New Jersey’s next Governor! @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

I think about how someone could write "Hilary the Hawk, Donald the Dove," and remain employed a decade later at the most influential opinion page in the anglophone world despite that. Or perhaps because of it.

LFG

Perfect October Saturday to help elect New Jersey’s next Governor, @mikiesherrill.bsky.social! I’ve missed knocking doors. Can’t wait to do it again soon!

“Prim little hall monitors” buddy just cut to the chase and use the homophobic slur.

kind of hard to avoid concluding these guys just ... think Nazis are fine.

Anyway, I’m sure “don’t form a parasocial relationship with a guy solely on the basis of a slick campaign video” is a lesson everyone will take to heart.

GLORY TO KATHY HOCHUL AND THE HUDSON VALLEY

Metro-North to Albany is actually so exciting! gothamist.com/news/metro-n...

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

Trump has an incredibly small number of actual principles that he holds to for non-selfish reasons, and hilariously, one of them is that public corruption should not be punished.

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Here’s to a real one

good!

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

If we had one president who treated red areas even half as badly as Republicans treat blue ones, the meltdown would last for generations.

We're reopening the case as to whether the Triborough Bridge needs a Kennedy name slapped on it (it doesn't): nygroove.nyc/rfk-bridge-t...

Many people (me) have been saying (since 2016)

Cold meds are dead, and Kimmel is alive!

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

Let's hear it for legacy media!!

Charlie Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden in 2023.

"Today feels more like 2003 – the height of post-9/11 hysteria with the launch of the Iraq war – than any time since. This – what you're experiencing today – is the supercharged version, fueled by two decades of letting the computer make us mentally ill."

We've been here before literally within my lifetime, when the Dixie Chicks got blackballed for daring to publicly oppose a falsely-elected President and a war based on lies. It wasn't lights out for freedom then, and it's not lights out for freedom now. We gotta just keep speaking up.

I’m a big believer of the mantra: everyone always tells you how to beat them

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.