$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

WHAT WE KNOW, 11pm: —Liberals flip seat on Wisconsin supreme court. —Also flip important school board seats in WI, OK, MO. —Dems win Waukesha mayor race. —GOP defends MTG's seat, but Dems way overperform. —Big MO county rejects property tax freeze.

and both the libs and the mods are 100 percent correct

being "anti war" is one of those ideas that's so obvious that people spend entire intellectual lives probing the boundaries and precise extent of it but mostly it's just important and true guardeddomains.substack.com/p/fragments-...

New: Zhan “Johnny” Petrosyants, a close friend of former Mayor Eric Adams, was hit with a superseding fraud indictment yesterday that implicates two other individuals with ties to Frank Carone, another key Adams associate. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Please join us in wishing Council Member Sandy Nurse a very happy birthday! 🎂

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

may this be the beginning of something

really good piece at the Argument by Maibritt Henkel on the actual polling data on young men, in contrast to the insane discourse about them they're pretty liberal www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-bros-a...

people really really don't understand how bad this already is in Asia and Africa and how bad it's going to get everywhere else very soon

We'll say it again: We are beyond tired of the Brooklyn Democratic Party being implicated in corruption scandals.

We agree with @sandynurse.bsky.social. There's enormous potential in the BK Democratic Party — but we need leaders who want to unlock it. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Worth reading. The UK was almost 100% renewable power on Wednesday! The world’s going to solar, wind & batteries. Less expensive, doesn’t cook the planet! Meanwhile, in NY, Hochul acts as a Republican trying to gut NY’s climate law. Gah! Stop her, legislators! observer.co.uk/news/columni...

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

This new two-way bike lane on Lafayette from Prince Street to Astor Place will be a game changer for Manhattan's bike network. buff.ly/8DMjnff

"What do you expect from peace negotiations?" "The right to re-commence this same exact war for any reason at any time in the future." I feel like it's kinda hard to call that peace yknow

"Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government." Imagine taking the energy transition seriously.

The new New York City Transit-centric app from the MTA is live! www.curbed.com/article/mta-...

seriously what the hell is wrong with elizabeth warren right now www.notus.org/housing/eliz...

The big story of the Florida elections tonight was the lack of turnout differential. Swing was ~ all persuasion. That's in contrast to the specials of e.g. 2023 where turnout explained basically all the swings.

on some level yes her job was just to kill CBS News but they clearly thought they could do that without immediate, humiliating ratings collapse and well, it turns out that the people who watch the news (old liberals) don't want regime propaganda with public access characteristics

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Some are starting to see a pattern that could not exemplify Trump II more: that the president is timing major announcements or moves in the war to coincide with the opening and closing of the stock market. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

i’m rewatching the wire, some thoughts on episode 4, “old cases” 1. bunk/mcnulty scene in the apartment is as brilliant as you remember, but i am actually drawn to something earlier in the episode. it is when herc and carver bust into bodie’s grandmother’s home looking for him…

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

24 district leader candidates can defeat the Brooklyn machine this year, but they need our support — join me and pitch in today!

"A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge ruled Thursday that the defense in a lawsuit over a missing $2 million will have an opportunity to cross-examine former Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Frank Seddio for his role in allegedly bringing frivolous litigation to help his clients misappropriate funds."

We're getting a lesson in degrowth (i.e. that degrowth usually leads to increased coal consumption)

this number is so absurd I'm not even sure if Fetterman will vote for it

This is insane.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

*cough* prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

We're thrilled to endorse one of our own, @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social for Congress in NY-7! Antonio has spent his entire career fighting for the people and against entrenched power.

this is a tangential point, but one thing I notice about Zohran's messaging is that he doesn't swear. He makes points seriously because he has a serious job. Cursing is a signal to donors that you're feeling what they're feeling rather than a good way for people in power to interact with the public

The vulgar bully described here, Frank Seddio, is also a Brooklyn Democratic Party leader. Take the L train to Canarsie tomorrow and help Seddio's opponent, Stanley Scutt, collect petition signatures so we can vote Seddio out in June! www.eventbrite.com/e/get-stanle...

We need a complete shutdown on “No Tax On…” proposals until we can figure out what the hell is going on

I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding

my experience out petitioning in the last two weeks is that the libs are feeling good about politics again, lots of positive interactions on the doors, a fair number of "thank you for getting involved", people want to see positive things happening locally anecdotes obv but it fits all the real data

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

BLUMENTHAL: Is the agent who shot Ms Martinez sill on the job? NOEM: Our officers conduct operations every day- B: Is he still on the job carrying a gun? N: I dunno B: Would you agree he shouldn't be? N: I'll get back to you B: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying if he is

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

The biggest presidential scandal and coverup in American history

demanding the money back is an A+ play because -everyone wants money back and agrees with you -the true answer, that corporations not consumers paid the large % of tariff taxes is not going to fly with voters -actually refunding $100b+ into above-normal inflation would be a horrible policy

New Kings Democrats endorses Jibreel Jalloh for State Assembly in District 59! This district needs fresh leadership that is accountable to the community, and Jibreel will be a fighter for making our Brooklyn neighborhoods safer, healthier, and more affordable for all.

New Kings Democrats is proud to endorse @eonforassembly.bsky.social for State Assembly in District 56! He'll be the kind of fighter our party and our communities need while championing housing justice, affordable childcare, and high quality education for all.

he's an actual mercantilist he thinks that a negative trade deficit is like a negative balance sheet where the country is losing money the tariffs are the means of moving the balance of trade into positive territory so that "the country is making money" it's stupid but it's a real ideology