Excellent stuff. These same media also sneer at those who dare report what Trump actually says and does, as if that automatically signals Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's nihilistic cynicism from a group who knows it's failing the moment so instead has chosen to lash out at those who still care.

Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People." h/t @jamellebouie.net newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Zohran's campaign was all about costs and affordability. But he ALSO went hard at Trump's lawlessness. He attacked economic AND authoritarian power. He ran the most pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory. That *complemented* the affordability issue! newrepublic.com/article/2027...

“This firewall in the punditry between Trump and economic messaging—that is not how working-class voters thought about these issues,” a Dem strategist tells me. I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

The results decisively refute need for false choice between "anti-Trump" and affordability. In exit polls, Spanberger and Sherrill both got 50% of noncollege voters, and both got *huge* majorities of nonwhite noncollege voters. That reverses Trump gains bigly: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

An absurd media narrative in runup to the election said Dems must choose between being "anti-Trump" and running on substance. The lesson from this election is that anti-Trump politics *is* affordability politics, and affordability politics *is* anti-Trump politics: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Government says “this isn’t just a sandwich” — it’s the “screaming,” “cussing” and attempting to instigate. There’s an objection; the judge says, “I guess we’re just going to interrupt both sides. A lot.”

Ends by stressing that the jury doesn’t even need to figure out any of the verbs because the government can’t prove the adverb — not w/o the ability to inflict bodily harm. “Your gut should be telling you” (again, don’t think this one was intentional) “throwing a sandwich is not a forcible offense.”

She expresses dismay at having been interrupted. Quote on the screen from Sandwich Guy about Latin Night: “These fascists are racists.” Plays video. Point is that he did not “succeed” at stopping an immigration raid, because you can’t interfere with something that was never going to happen.

Now the parties are on the phone arguing over whether she was permitted to say — as she did — that Sandwich Guy was worried about a raid on the LGBT club’s Latin Night, and what to do about it.

Lawyer is Sabrina Shroff, for those asking. She proceeds to arguing that Sandwich Guy couldn’t have impeded or interfered with the mission of “high-visibility crime patrol and prevention” because he drew two dozen officers to the scene.

Compares the incident to when an 8-year-old is “in the middle of a bedtime temper tantrum” and “takes that stuff animal with which he sleeps…and throws it at you. Are you offended?…Are you scared you might suffer bodily injury? No.”

Says assault requires a “reasonable fear of immediate bodily harm,” and none exists given agent’s long-sleeve shirt, long pants, boots, gloves and ballistic vest that is created to “keep you safe from military rifle fire” and so is “definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich.”

While the government prosecutes this case “in some purported effort to keep law enforcement safe and free from food fights,” CBP employees “are joking about it.” The gov, she says, is trying to turn a “gag-gift worthy moment into a federal criminal offense. We ask you not to allow them to do that.”

Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

“A sandwich that Lairmore testified he somehow felt through his ballistic armor on his chest, armor that is specifically made strong enough so that it stops a bullet from piercing a soldier’s heart.”

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Maybe unleashing secret militarized police on the public while taking food from the poor wasn’t the electoral masterstroke we all thought it was.

Staten Island not beating the allegations.

this is objectively hilarious

gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

Yes you dipshit, all tariffs are revenue raising - they are fecking funds collected ON TOP OF THE GOODS collected from PRIVATE BUSINESSES & INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS.

Don't tell Donald Trump, but Texas is deep into wind and solar power

"Drug trafficking is bad. It is a crime. But it is only very rarely a capital offense. This is not drug enforcement. This is murder." ICYMI:

Trump lawyer claims our founders wanted tariffs without Congressional representation as precedent to let Trump do what he wants…..except for the ones at the Boston Tea Party, you heathen. #scotus #tariff

Clean up on Aisle Supreme Court much, Gorsuch?? You will not escape accountability, but yeah, it’s about time you did your damned job, SCOTUS. #scotus

The Trump administration tried to hide how taxpayer dolllars are being spent by taking down the OMB's apportionment database. In response to this illegal removal, we sued the administration—and we won!

If the wine importer wins at SCOTUS today, it means Trump will have to pay back all the tariffs they paid. So now people are suing to line up to get paid back ASAP. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kagan: “ It has a lot of verbs, it has a lot of actions, it just doesn’t have the one you want.” #scotus

What Democrats did last night is just the beginning. Next year, we are flipping the House and the Senate blue.

I guess the plan to have Mike Johnson lie in shutdown press conferences every day for 3 weeks didn’t work out.

Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps. We live in Idiocracy.

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

Trump Admin: “If nobody pays the tariffs there’s not a problem” Hey GENIUS: No international trade IS a problem!! #scotus

The Democratic Party is back. We won up and down the ballot last night because our candidate promised something Trump couldn’t: actual solutions.

The women justices (all of them) are working over the Solicitor General in this tariff argument like nobody’s business.

Good morning to these future governors!

The Trump administration has killed IRS Direct File, the program that let you file your taxes for free. Direct File will not be operational this coming tax season.

Ha! Kagan: “ It has a lot of verbs, it has a lot of actions, it just doesn’t have the one you want.” #scotus

I wish we had SCOTUS cameras so I could see if Sauer really is sweating like a pig

Can’t wait for the corporate media to call sweeping dem election results a “problem for the left.”

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

This morning I can see 67 votes to convict on a bill of impeachment.

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not