i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York

Josh Hawley voted for historic cuts to SNAP, which is indispensable to 42 million Americans' food security.

No, man, Republicans are in charge of the government. Do you think Democrats are the ones who keep telling the House to stay on vacation week after week in order to prevent the release of the Epstein Files? Because I'm pretty positive that's *you* who's been doing that.

They've got money for ICE, a golden ballroom, luxury planes, and Argentina, but not for hungry kids and families?

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people: Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

That is quite a good argument for ... negotiating with the opposition.

When hungry people who lost their SNAP benefits show up at Republicans’ district offices angry since they are running the country, their staff can attempt to explain to them that it’s not their fault because of the intricacies of the senate filibuster rule. While they hide.

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

Ok, so I was close

I mean if you see this guy as anything other than the boomers trying to drag society into the ground behind them, I don’t know what to tell you

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

wow. spoken like a current clerk to justice gorsuch

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens

Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid. Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.

$6 Billion contingency fund, folks. They think people going hungry is an acceptable pressure tactic.

This is exactly the position that EVERY democratic world leader should adopt. There is no viable way of dealing with Trump. The only method (outright bribery, and ever-increasing displays of submission) is not suitable for any democracy. Only alternative: "Develop new partnerships."

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

It's not a pipe dream if you vote. But you have to be registered. Check your status and register now: the deadline is Saturday! zohranfornyc.com/register

“For years, conservatives loudly complained that government spending was opaque, that their hard-earned dollars were being secretly misused, and that the government definitely did not need all the money it was taking from them. That was always hyperbole … until now.”

This is not a Kavanaugh stop. This is a Roberts murder.

100 PERCENT

WTF, @nytimes.com ?!?!? How is your headline "Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill" when you say "the GOP blocked a PAIR of Democratic bills to pay a BROADER swath of workers" in the subhead?!?!?!? Sounds to me like the headline should be "SENATE Fails to Pass Federal Worker Pay Bill."

The White House was three buildings connected by two walkways and Trump decided unilaterally to obliterate one of those buildings and one of those walkways to build a ballroom paid for by donations given by companies and people looking to curry favor.

Trump: me and my rich friends are paying for the unapproved $300 million White House demolition. Also Trump: I demand the federal government give me, the president, $230 million.

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.” Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”? Or do they just sorta do it?

Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

“Working class” in a lot of political discourses is a polite euphemism for white male.

Trump attacks the cattle ranchers and basically says he knows what’s best for them and that they should be grateful for him

I’m angry about so many things, but this one... The East Wing of the WH destroyed. How are members of Congress just sitting on the sidelines, watching it unfold? When did they become so cynical, so craven, so weak? This image reminds me of the morning of 9/11—the same disbelief, the same gut punch.

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

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.” -- the president who thinks the government ought to pay him a quarter billion dollars for all the investigations of his criming

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

Platner's tattoo is literally the specific piece of Nazi iconography from the "Are we the baddies?" sketch.

SPOILER ALERT: Even my seven year-old knows that Anakin Skywalker massacred Sand People and Younglings. He slaughtered women and children, man.

You’re allowed to say “I backed the wrong guy” and move on. When your first response to “your candidate has a Nazi tattoo” is to start making excuses, you’ve rather thoroughly lost the plot.

"Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare"

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

We're killing people but have no evidence they committed a crime. @kim.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov Enough.

Literally every Dem midterm (and beyond) campaign ad should be: Donald Trump and the GOP are destroying America. We’re going to stop them.

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com

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.