If Platner keeps his lead in the polls, I think it's an interesting test to see what types of lefty ideas have permeated to the public. Left coded populism is compelling when presented by the right messenger. I also think that the left's promotion of second chances plays a role here too.

It kinda sucks that most debate on the left is an exercise of competing logics that are generally divorced from their real world implications. People plug in assumptions, often overbroad or not quite right, and plug them into an argument like it's a paper they need to finish for class.

One lesson I feel like the left should internalize more is that your actions and be both righteous and theoretically correct while ultimately dooming your cause. People act like conviction is free of consequence.

DHS has been lying about this shooting of an American citizen. 🧵

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Yeah I do think the various attempts to will elite capitulation into being were briefly a successful bit of self-fulfilling prophesying but for various reasons are failing now - huge protests, university's rejecting the compact, the press refusing to go along with Hegseth's new pentagon policy, etc.

Based on early numbers, there are easily more people participating in the second No Kings Day than in the first. Trump's strategy of constantly talking about this on TV and GOP govs sending in the national guard obviously energized the left. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

BREAKING Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal

An underrated aspect in the discussion of how lefties should hold Zohran accountable is the relatively narrow band of organizing philosophies that guide the vast majority of work people participate in. I think we're seeing how the lack of strategic diversity guides politics, not the other way around

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

A spectre is haunting NYCDSA and it's the spectre of Saul Alinksy.

this is getting very dangerous very fast and it is entirely the feds' doing. in fact the discipline and courage of protesters is the only thing slowing down escalation.

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

imagine this being your response to people showing up in miserable conditions outside an ICE facility when wearing one of these costumes has gotten the wearer shot with less lethal ammunition

Wow, Cathy Engelbert just got booed at the finals on live TV #wnba

Kah really said "...the refs are not doing a good job tonight" dueing that interview with Holly as politely as I've ever heard Kah say anything 😭 I need one of those NBA players to eat the fine 😂 #WNBA

Great article

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

This from @aselrod.bsky.social resonates with the conversation that @sifill.bsky.social had with us at Vassar last week: "We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation."

"no more superficial individual expression"

The Fever injury and fouled out squad could be their own WNBA expansion team.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

David Cross folks.

This is actually incredible.

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

Opposing prop50 from a pro democracy angle is an interesting example how of the logic of the left can distort a plain examining of the strategic picture and lead to creating false dichotomies. The work on prop50 is to fight against fascism. It isnt in conflict w/ democracy reform.

We've entered into the age of cardboard Funko pops

If this is happening ‘but I didn’t register’ will be the protective equivalent of tissue paper for everyone on this website.

Seriously, y'all. Were it not for a lone lawyer literally banging on the airport doors, these kids would've been stolen. Were it not for Judge Sparkle taking immediate action at 3am on a holiday weekend, they'd have gotten away with it. It didn't take a hero to do the right thing. Just a person.

This does not mean that there aren't brave individuals [there are]. It means that most people aren't brave individually and that's why there's strength in numbers.

One thing I haven't seen talked about on here is the genre of tiktoks where clips of heroic last stands are played over viral sounds with captions that basically read "Guys want to go out in a blaze of glory protecting my friends and family". They're pretty popular.

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

sometimes the comments clarify the bullshit: anyone who makes me feel bad about making accommodations with Trumpism, as a matter of my reflexive centrism, is more personally hurtful than the actual politics of Trumpism

Did Kash Patel really say "I'll see you in Valhalla" to a guy whose christian?

The lives of good, decent people have never mattered less to our government, media, and institutions.

it is legitimately exciting to see Mamdani doing the work to build the coalition he will need to make real changes in NYC

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

The NY Liberty's Ellie is the best mascot in sports and it's not even close.

Bobby Baccalieri gets the loudest celebrity applause at the NY Liberty game tonight.

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

Guess I'm going to have to post more now. Sorry everyone.

The question of whether Kamala would have been better than trump on gaza is especially cursed. I'm of the belief that the people who are in charge are incredibly important and as such she would have been much better than trump or biden. I think believing otherwise is pretty much doomerism.

The "Donald the dove" takes from various anti-interventionists might have aged worse than anything.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”