and right on queue we move from trying to ratfuck Mamdani out of being elected to trying to sabotage his mayorship before it gets started

Not a surprise, really, but still maddening.

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I mean, he has a whole day before early voting starts. Why the rush?

So, like, the gilded ballroom, it's all graft, right? I still think they meant 9,000 sq ft and someone accidentally added a zero, but the cost is getting astronomical. This is a Tweed Courthouse situation, right? www.themagazineantiques.com/article/buil...

And he still has an approval rating of around 40% because too many Americans are entirely checked out of the news and the Dems have mounted only a limp opposition. Sigh.

I mean, this is among the many reasons he's about to be the former mayor of NYC.

The publishing trades are reporting that Josh Shapiro is writing a memoir due to publish in January so... he's running for president, right?

No one can ever tell me Trump cares even a little about crime.

Trump's supporters say we call his policies "racist" too casually. But let me tell the story of a new policy - about to be unveiled - that is racist on its face. 1/ A short thread on Trump's reported new "whites only" refugee policy. It's truly vile.

So this is a Black Sox thing, complete with the Mob's involvement, yes? WILD story. www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

This guy looks like someone you want to ask where they were on January 6th, and yet uses the word "oligarch" in his campaign ad, which I guess is a thing we do now. It's a pretty solid ad, though, and I hope he gets traction (and has zero Nazi tattoos).

Trump thinks he is now the Boss of America. Public property like the White House is now part of his private portfolio. The federal civil service, stripped of protection and nonpartisanship, is functionally indistinguishable from the at-will employees of the Trump Organization. trib.al/rThN1xV

Same.

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Struck me at the end of Trump's first term, post-impeachment, that even when he got bipartisan support (like for CARES) he didn't invite Dems to the bill signing. I think about this bc there's a kneejerk political media instinct to ask Dems how they'll unify the country and it's getting very silly.

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

You don't say. Whomst could have foreseen?

My mother has a lot of opinions about slips and made me wear one under skirts until I left home and boldly abandoned the practice. So I know from slips, and Emma, girl, that is a slip. (Neutral color with lace at the bottom? Slip!)

Some of the destruction of our country is ideological but it's wild how much of it would just stop instantly if Trump died. Like, no Republican cares about this stupid ballroom, or his arch or whatever, and yet they are incapable of saying no.

It would be nice if the American cattle ranchers I'm hurting would acknowledge that I'm actually really awesome while I import Argentinian beef.

The Cuomo PAC is running TV ads in NYC that say (I'm paraphrasing, but not by much) "Mamdani didn't endorse Kamala, so the fact that Trump is now destroying everything is entirely his fault" which is an absurd thing to say, but also, nobody knew who Mamdani was a year ago.

Spoiler: He's not going to give it to charity.

Sen. Merkley has been holding the Senate floor since last night, giving a speech in protest of Trump, and it's getting almost no media attention.

Me too! I am so mad at those photos of the demolition. Who is this dumb ballroom even for? Why is Trump redesigning the White House like it's a tacky hotel?

Do we, as New Yorkers, think that Boston is better than us? If the sleepy town up the coast where the bars close early is pleasant enough to keep the wealthy despite higher taxes, the global center of culture and finance can do it way better. NEW YAWK NUMBAH ONE, BABY!

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

This, but every day. Do a press conference and say this, every day until the government reopens. Counteract the lie-a-thon press conferences Johnson is doing.

Why are Jeffries and the Democrats not doing daily press conferences to counter program the Johnson ones (where routinely bashes half the country).

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

See, this is part of why the ballroom is baffling. First of all, he's not paying for it, but second, this implies it's a grift, but how does he profit off a new ballroom? The White House isn't a hotel.

It feels telling to me that Halligan never specifies what the reporting got wrong. She just yells about bias. Very Trumpian of her. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

The Young Republicans of New York appears to have been mostly a dine and dash club for grifter racists. At least three incidents of stiffing hospitality bills: "a former Donald Trump campaign staffer alleged the group owed $7,000 to Redneck Riviera, a bar and live music venue in Nashville"

So, Trump pardoned a guy who threatened to kill the House Minority Leader, and I'm sure it will be met with a shrug (too early to tell, I guess), but if a Democrat had let that man out of jail and he threatened Mike Johnson, you know this story would have wall-to-wall coverage.

I yearn for a day when all of these assholes get their comeuppance, but I know that is unlikely. I wonder if Emmer hears himself. How is his unfettered worship of the orange man serving his constituents? How is taking away their health care?

This, from a sitting member of Congress and gubernatorial hopeful is straight up lying to her constituents. Stefanik, who knows better, is lying about the impact of restoring Metro-North service to Albany. It doesn't automatically make Albany (or Columbia) County part of the MCTD. It's just lying.

Also, if I may just point out how profoundly stupid the whole ballroom scheme is, I'm pretty sure someone in the chain said 90,000 sq ft instead of 9,000 sq ft, because 90k sq ft makes it the largest ballroom in the world by a LOT. It makes zero sense.

It will never stop amazing me the sheer number of people who collectively decided to just... let him get away with all of it.

MAYBE THE NATIONAL GUARD SHOULD BE STOPPING TRUMP FROM LITERALLY TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE?!?

Pretty much sums up the right’s political relationship with Jews

Not sure "if Trump could have silenced dissent by shutting down rallies, trampling on your freedoms, he would have" is quite the argument that the speaker thinks it is.

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

"I'm not mad. Please don't put it on the TV that I'm mad"

He always says things like "I'm allowed to do that" when he isn't actually allowed to doit. In this case, it's actually only about a 3rd of presidents, and in many of those cases the situations were resolved before troops deployed. The last was George HW Bush during the Rodney King riots.

This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”