It’d be truly amazing if the political media simply stopped focusing so much on the horse-race polls and covered the actual issues. They aren’t political consultants. Their job isn’t to say “this issue resonated w that group.” It’s to tell us what the POLICY implications of the policies are.

luckily after tuesday, the trump administration is soberly focusing on economic issues that matter, like shutting down 10% of US flights and depriving people of food

these testimonies make it 100% clear nobody in ICE thinks of themselves as the bad guy they're all army rangers in black hawk down surrounded by 1000 somalis with RPGs while joe strummer plays in their beats headphones there is no reconciliation here

lol

Look, I was serious when I told you that Ezra Doutghlesias would not recognize the median voter even if she ran over them in the Milwaukee suburbs with a shopping cart: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

lol lmfao even

Pretty clear now that generic ballot polling in 2025 is mostly off. NJ and VA electorates were 8-10 points left of 2024 (R+2) with robust off year turnout. Suggests a generic ballot environment favoring Dems by mid/high single digits, which, credit to them, is what NBC, CNN, and Quinnipiac have.

Wokeness was load-bearing for the economy.

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Text from a friend:

The GOP took a beating in the 2025 elections across the board. The president is in rapid decline. The House has been shut down for two months to block the Epstein Files. And now this. We should have “Republicans in disarray” stories across the board right now.

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

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

When I was an exchange student in Bavaria in the 1980s, my teachers still remember how the American GIs fed them when they were hungry

Critical insight here. Social media-led homogenization of thought has led pundits to think you need a one-size-fits-all approach to campaigns. WRONG, we were collectively reminded Tuesday.

Brilliant. Should be a model everywhere

As I was saying

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

We need to remember that local/state elections are, in fact, local. Each segment of our citizenry has specific concerns & needs. We vote for the candidate that promises to address those specific needs within the overall political landscape… but remain committed to those who voted them into office.

"Democrats were searching for a leader. They found something better: a coalition."

i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out

too big to fail speedrun

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.” Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

I know you've been holding your breath for *my* take on the election, so here it is. BREATHE.

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

This guy is so fuckin dumb.

I'm pretty sure when I was in high school in Tennessee in the 1980s, marijuana was the state's top cash crop.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Bahahahahahaha

The manosphere bros are freaking out.

I wrote a lot about Ken Griffin at my job because he is a prominent art collector and art patron but since I was laid off I can point out he doesn't even live in NYC; he moved his hedge fund's headquarters from Chicago to Palm Beach in 2022.

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

The corporate media keeps insisting that "HEY EVERYBODY, A RICH GUY SAID SOMETHING!" is worthy of news coverage but in most cases it really isn't. New Yorkers had an election yesterday and a lot of them were fine with "Mamdani's talking points." I'm sorry Richie Rich isn't happy, but who cares?

just want to reiterate that the first amendment isn't something you "hide behind," it's something that constrains the government's ability to limit your inalienable rights. that distinction is very important

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech

Stage One: Denial.

Absolutely correct. There clearly *is* a social media site where the users are trapped in an unreal bubble that bears no resemblance to reality, but a lot of reporters are trapped on Twitter there with them so they just can't see it.

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Again, these maps have got to be causing a massive panic in any state where they're considering gerrymandering.

And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....

They’re calling it the wolfiest wolf who ever wolved, folks. And the boy, he cries wolf, but nobody comes. Big strong men come to me with tears in their eyes and say “Mister Trump, your last three wolves were chihuahuas.”

Meemaw got into the schnapps again, somebody get her walker