Mayor Mamdani chats with New Yorkers while walking the six miles from City Hall to Gracie Mansion, fulfilling the promise he made in his inauguration speech to “be outside” as Mayor — “because this is a government of New York, by New York, and for New York.”

Aaaand it only costs like 400 billion dollars! Art of the deal

Aaaand no more bombing them. Art of the deal

🇺🇸 So many individuals here are devoid of humanity

In case anybody in the US was wondering about foreign entities hacking our critical infrastructure, rest assured that this fella has it covered

As Trump threatens scorched-earth attacks on Iran, a joint advisory from US agencies warns Iran-linked hackers have hit US critical infrastructure: "In a few cases, this activity has resulted in operational disruption and financial loss." www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

More detail of the scenes unfolding across Iran tonight in this thread 👇

There are innumerably many reasons why any exchange of nuclear weapons is horrifying to contemplate. But I want to dispel rumors that newer science suggests that large-scale consequences would be much less severe than perceived during Cold War era. That simply isn't the case.

Additionally, soot, smoke, and other particles generated by large-scale conflagrations in fuel-rich regions (which includes cities, ports, & large petrochemical facilities) can be lofted into stratosphere, where they can linger for months to years & disrupt global climate.

Essentially all locations on Earth are connected via atmospheric circulation (i.e., global wind patterns). Radiological or other contamination can spread far beyond its source region, especially if initially lofted to great heights by a large explosion or ensuing conflagration.

This isn't even a question of "nuclear winter" (a real, if still scientifically debated, hypothetical risk stemming from a much larger-scale exchange). Instead, it's a question of large-scale radiological and toxic contamination as well as disruption of global weather patterns.

I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.

Redistricting has already been used across the country to tilt the map. Virginia is one of the last places voters still have a say in how those lines are drawn. If you’re there… this matters. #VirginiaVoteYes

“He didn’t literally mean he would wipe out an entire civilization” Then he shouldn’t have fucking said it. He’s the President of the United States. He has sole launch authority over the world’s most sophisticated nuclear arsenal, and words mean things.

Trump and Hegseth learning in real time that sovereign countries are a lot harder to intimidate than battered wives and United States senators… Not the same thing.

anyone attending the white house correspondents dinner is a fucking traitor

Currently, Axios is pushing a narrative that there are some secret talks about a 45-day ceasefire between Wirkoff/Iran/allies — but in the article itself, it says “chances are slim” and nothing is confirmed. Markets open soon. That’s all. Meanwhile, Iran keeps tweeting ⬇️

Could becoming a cephalopod be the highest form of reincarnation

There's a huge opportunity for someone to do the right thing in this moment and somehow I still trust that it will happen and the subsequent catharsis will fully mend us

Monsters

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

It cannot be ruled out that this is a threat to use a nuclear weapon against Iran

So tired of having a mentally ill president.

The blood of millions will be on their hands when he nukes Iran. Neither the 25th nor impeachment are quick enough solutions even if Congress had the balls to do either. He needs to be arrested and put in a prison psych hospital.

He is going to nuke Iran if he is not removed quickly.

It's unbelievable this is our reality

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old sexual predator wake up on Easter Morning, snort some Adderall and insult the world’s 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from ‘Epstein Files’ before?

Must be a coincidence! 😬🤷🏼

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Moulton: "She was about to be deposed in the Epstein case. That's why Trump got rid of her."

🇺🇸If we have unalienable rights, why are they being debated 🤷🏽

Virginia voters plz vote YES for redistricting for fair elections

Sauer missed his calling as a voice actor for animated villains

Somehow Sauer's voice is more grating than RFK Jr's. I don't know how that's even possible.

Kavanaugh twice says that he thinks their arguments about other countries adopting different rules is a good argument as a policy matter (ugh). Sauer falsely claims "almost every other country" doesn't have birthright citizenship, which is wildly wrong.

Sotomayor now jumps in and is reading directly from Wong Kim Ark, specifically language which appears to completely reject the SG's argument that the key question is "allegiance." She also hits him on the specific historic comments of the drafters making clear that birthright means birthright.

D.C.’s biggest bully just pulled up to the Supreme Court to try to intimidate the justices into ending birthright citizenship. No sitting president has ever attended oral arguments — but this one thinks the Constitution is optional and that the Court must bow down to him.

New story out this morning from the Washington Examiner saying that it's an open secret inside the Border Patrol that the current Border Patrol Chief has bragged for decades about going to Thailand and Colombia to sleep with a bunch of sex workers. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Pay attention folks

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Pay attention folks

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I reckon he has nothing better to do He needs to be sitting in criminal court as the defendant

If you didn’t see it coming, you weren’t paying attention. And he doesn’t have to do it formally to defy Congress, he can do it with actions that they can’t stop.

SCOTUS deciding whether the 14th amendment stands or not 🙄

Reminder that about 35 countries use mail and voting. Basically countries that have mail service and voting have mail-in voting. Donald very well may believe this lie that no countries have mail-in voting, because his handler Putin told him so, but it’s not true.