This is Brad Lander bait

Alex is a mensch. Confrontations like this are really important because they both build solidarity and wear on the collective psyche of the fascists. Every act of resistance matters.

I can't say for certain what's going on with MTG but my suspicion is that she was deeply invested in QAnon and the idea that Trump was the redeemer, and the Epstein shit has created an entire worldview collapse

You either die a gyro Or live long enough to see yourself become the filling

GODDAMN I love the smell of Trump's antitrust revolution in the morning Smells like Matt Stoller's fascist bootlicking

this is scary, it's open seasoning on law enforcement

Glory glory hoagie threw ya glory glory hoagie threw ya

LOLOLOLOL What a titanic embarrassment for this regime

What Heritage wants is "family voting" where the man controls the votes for the whole household and bigger families get more votes.

The guy's a mob boss. That's his ethic, that's his personality, that's his value system.

It's maybe the least of his sins, but Trump is just the tackiest guy. He's a mobbed up redlining developer from Queens who desperately craves acceptance from the Manhattan set, but never cared to learn the basics of how to mimic class. He can't even pull off dictator chic right. He's Temu Saddam.

The "conservative feminism" espoused by Leah Libresco is basically the protagonist of "all we wanna do is eat your brains" by Jonathan Coulton. Basically wanting to destroy your entire way of life and pretend it's just a civil discourse, a conversation, a meeting of the minds.

Leah Libresco's main shtick is to bring a mildly self-effacing "aw shucks" personality to her advocacy for Catholic theocracy, and she can fuck herself, quite frankly

“The worst October since 2003.” When you elect fools, idiots, thieves, and Nazis, that’s what you get.

I have a family member in memory care and this is what they do outside the rooms to help those who can still somewhat help themselves avoid getting lost

Nancy Pelosi, man. What can you say. Historic. One of the greatest speakers of our time. Got the ACA passed. Got the Biden agenda done. Always knew her counts. Yeah, some frustrations about gatekeeping and not letting in new talent. But a historic, titanic figure of American politics. What a career.

Matt Stoller's antitrust revolution marches on!

ADL is setting up a "Mamdani Monitor" while the right's leading think tank is all "if I'm nice to Jews they might invite me to dinner and ewwwwww" I've taken a lot of leftist groups to task for their bullshit but it's outrageous to see key institutions focus all on that and zero on this stuff

lol

I've called him "President Magic Businessman who will make me rich" but "President Low Prices Who Will Make Low Prices Comes Back in January" is also a great descriptor of the banal aspirational stupidity that led to Trump returning to office

who would have guessed that the dumbass who won the popular vote by a sliver because median voters just thought of him as President Low Prices Who Will Make Low Prices Comes Back in January would be eating shit like this, after not solving any problems and kidnapping many defenseless people for fun

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Mamdani direct into my veins on the main line

bubble bubble bubble bubble pop

I don't think these guys are actually afraid that Mamdani will make Jews in New York less safe. Nah, they're upset that being anti-Israel is no longer a dealbreaker for major political offices outside of specific communities like Minneapolis or Dearborn. Well, there's one person to blame for that.

Ever since William the Conqueror invaded England screaming "Li ouvrier del monde, joignez vos ensemble!" communism has been a failure

If you want a picture of a Democratic future, imagine hyper-engaged, suburban wine-moms stomping on J.D. Vance’s face — forever (or, you know, in the 2028 election) www.vox.com/politics/467...

If Republicans want to know why Latinos shifted to Dem by 30-50 points last night, well, they can look up videos like this, which spread like wildfire around Hispanic communities. Somehow, a lot of Latinos convinced themselves Trump wouldn't do this. They know better now and are voting accordingly.

Yes, white people tend to vote Republican, this isn't news and hasn't been news for a very long time, the only question is what the shifts are from baseline

"wine moms" want people to be kind and want shit to work. A lot of cosplaying revolutionaries do not want that. And so they mock wine moms because they're the antithesis of revolutionary socialist realism posters, even though wine moms are the backbone of American anti-fascist action.

One last thing, I guess, about Zohran. Cities are under constant attack from MAGA. And Zohran's campaign felt like a love letter to cities: the pluralism, the communities, the neighborhoods, the activism, the people, and the culture that makes cities great. It was NY but could have been anywhere.

*taps sign*

A group of Dem Senators is going to sell us out for nothing but hot air. This is coming next week.

Flabberghasting that Trump knows that the shutdown is really bad for Republicans but Senators Shaheen, Cortez-Masto, Kelly, and a handful of others are desperate to bail him out in exchange for absolutely nothing

These are counties that voted for Donald Trump. They are also extremely heavily Latino. The under-reported story of last night is that Latinos have turned on Trump massively. Many Latinos voted for Trump because of the "magic businessman will make me rich and only deport criminals" theory.

Just admitting on live TV that he doesn't want US citizens to have representation in government because he doesn't think they'd vote for his party

Voters: "we are sick to death of Trump's bullshit and we will vote for anyone who stands up to him even if they say dead kids are the only way to get people to change on policy" Senator Cortez-Masto: "help I am a smol bean and what if we gave Trump what he wants in exchange for a pinky swear"

Chris Murphy is sub-skeeting the 8-10 moderate Democratic Senators who are desperate to cave in exchange for a *promise* of a vote on ACA subsidies.

I was trolling X for schadenfreude last night and most of the fascists had prepared themselves for a Mamdani win. What was driving them all nuts was Jay Jones winning, and not only winning. Winning by five points. Panic in the air over there.

My birthplace, represent. This is a bunch of angry normies taking their Trump anger out on the Moms for Liberty whackos. Whatever "sea change" there was on education for Republicans is completely extinguished.

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

Been a long journey since this, when a lot of us first heard the name of Zohran Mamdani.

Good God this guy is good

🗣️ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ▶️ "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up!" “A city built by immigrants and now by an immigrant.” “To get to any of us you will have to get through all of us.” INCREDIBLE.

Tonight's results are going to put the fear of God into MAGA redistricting efforts. None of them will want to risk diluting their seats in this environment.

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.

This getting called at poll closing is a brutal and hilarious result

When I got started in Virginia politics 25 years ago, I would have laughed you out of the building if you'd suggested to me that this was even possible.

This is correct, completely correct, and anyone doing factionalist division of our big anti-Trump affordability and dignity tent can GTFO