Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.

"I can't tell you what sights they showed me," Trump said after meeting with The Cenobites. "But I think a lot of people are gonna be very happy with what they showed me." "The President can spend his time how he wants," Schumer cautioned. "But he should consider the kind of message he's sending"

This is really despicable and deserves to be Andrew Cuomo's political obituary. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

I think this guy may be the single worst democratic politician of my lifetime

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

that’s nice and all but this is the quality of “resistance” that snyder‘s pamphlet suggests

Olivia Nuzzi committed such a brazen and egregious violation of journalistic ethics that she should have been driven out of the profession entirely.

The Republican Party as it is currently constituted will destroy the United States — politically, economically, socially and culturally. The democratic reform of our federal system isn't only justified in itself, but necessary to force its moderation into a party compatible with liberal democracy.

guy who picks greenland

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

he wants to be careful, but he also makes sure to mention a trans person is involved. no reason to be careful about that

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

oh these are moderate views on the right?

This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies. He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.

Area Critic (Me) Needs New Job. Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!

Hosted @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in Washington today! The color coordination wasn’t planned. 😂🌹💫

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

I have my issues with this site but it’s cool that my account automatically blocked JD vance when he showed up here. that’s a good feature. wish I could block him in real life

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

haven't fully processed yet how trans people spent years trying to convince people the material harm giving money and cultural cache to a billionaire was doing and she just came out and said "i am using the money from the childrens book you cannot get over to legislate transphobia into existence"

I think a really underrated idea for Matt Yglesias would be to try: (a) Shut the fuck up (b) Get a new job that contributes to society in some way, like garbageman or veterinarian

This sets up a false binary between the pragmatic and the righteous (or in his view, self-righteous), when the fact is that there's a long, honorable history of moving public opinion on moral and social issues by advocating for progressive positions before the majority is all the way there.

i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis

they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection. Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.

It’s not even a gerontocracy question, here, really; the three dead Democrats all had cancer diagnoses before primary season & yet chose to run anyway (and nobody stopped them)

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

fun interview where you can listen to an ostentatiously devout catholic justify sending innocent people to foreign gulags www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

white supremacist country with a white supremacist president

Translation: what will you give us Andrew Cuomo? Answer: Anything you want to get off my back. Prediction? Immigrants. Give us NYC's black and brown immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

most places burying the lead but BACK ON PBS running day and date!!!

they’re withholding this student’s diploma for acknowledging genocide. wild how every higher ed institution I’ve ever engaged with is policing thought crimes among its students

It’s crazy what a loop this is; people endorse him because they think he’ll win and fear retaliation, so he seems to be in a stronger position, so more people endorse him. It’s crazy!

is this good?

Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

this is a nazi rally

Jesus Christ. You can't say "It's contested." You can't say "Agree to disagree." You can't say "Let's move on." You have to say, "Mr. President, that is a lie." If it means he never talks to you again or yells at your boss, THAT'S FINE. What have you lost? More "opportunities" like this one?