lol check's going the other way this time, suckers

This is why I disagree when people say police unions aren’t real unions: they are often extraordinarily effective at securing gains for the workers who are members of them and advancing their interests. Those interests are just often not our interests! We sit on the management side of the table.

Twin Peaks Table Read With Me

It represents the existence of stories that are not "guy who looks exactly like me wakes up in anime world with huge penis" and "girl find out that she is secretly a princess and becomes the romantic focus of 10 differently hot werewolves"

This piece is great because it cuts to the point perfectly: these people want a cosmopolitan urban playground without libs, but guess what: libs MAKE the cosmopolitan urban playground! Newsflash dipshit! The things that make living in a city fun and good are all hated by your new cultural allies!

the bind which the united states is putting jewish community institutions in is not necessarily the most evil thing it is doing but it is among them

no exceptions. if you can't match Brad Lander I want you out of the fucking party

every Democrat accusing Mamdani of harboring or abbetting antisemitism in this country because of his opposition to Israel is a quisling who must at the least face a primary or be defeated in their next bid for higher office

If you suppress the voices of the Brad Landers of the world, you’re going to leave voices like Tucker Carlson as the ones people are listening to on this. It’s grim as hell.

If your Talia be Lavin, that's a good take you're havin'. If your Talia be Jane, that take be insane.

like just hit ‘em on the genocide man

Every single kids show I watched growing up had an episode about how too much computer was guaranteed to make you a friendless malcontent. It was obvious to the producers of PBS Kids' Arthur like 20 years ago

unironically speaking, it's that quite a few of them no longer understand how their own industries work

one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory" it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day

I hate how literal White House conservatives are allowed to call liberals stupid and unpatriotic America haters, but anyone to the left of center gets pilloried for being indelicate to conservatives. Next cycle, gloves off. Call them submentaloid hedonist pussies every day.

Corbyn is who critics said Bernie was, and Starmer is who critics said Biden was

i don't think it's politically wise or anything, but from now on people in cities should start insulting people in towns like they insult us. condescendingly grimace whenever someone brings up that they're from a small town. immediately remark "yeah, a lot of overdoses there i hear."

A lot of American Jews are cosmopolitan liberals, and thus deeply unwilling to accept that their parochial ethno-religious obsessions are examples of bog-standard diaspora nationalism, no better or worse. But it remains true.

we're getting word that the bug has endorsed cuomo

The visuals are obvious. Which do you want to pay for?

I don't think anyone would be brave enough to make it, but we really need a Rebel Ridge/Rambo style movie where a soldier goes on a rampage after ICE kidnaps his wife

If Mamdani wins, it feels pretty essential that he, the nyc dsa, and whatever faction of progressive orgs and dem party operatives he controls altogether never shut the fuck up about how the institutional dem leadership to the same side as some of the worst republican activists re: mayor endorsement

Zohran campaign seems like a pretty big vindication of RCV tbh: the more left candidate has clearly felt substantial incentive to reach out to center, and multiple other candidates have felt incentive to not alienate his supporters either.

its genuinely heartening to see how basically the entire field except Ramos and that generic rich white dude absolutely fucking hate Cuomo's guts

Read this thread please

honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat

It’s their sarcophagus and we’re just living in it, pal

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

Trump🤝 Putin🤝Bibi It's that simple, and the first bit of nuance I'd like the public to know is that the last two are welded together because they both want things that'd spike petroleum prices

Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims

One thing the Dem establishment never really got over was the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 nomination because she supported the Iraq War. Denial and anger followed rather than learning from that decision.

What you should be doing is drawing up articles of impeachment

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

Social Media really did doom us by driving elites crazy. Marc Andreseen became convinced the social contract had broken down and that there was no point trying to be a socially responsible wealthy person because there was no philanthropy he could do that would make people stop yelling at him online.

THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

Yeah man. Think we have to dismantle an agency that's sending masked dudes in civvies to raid baseball teams. Absolutely lost their fucking minds to try to do shit like this.

The hideous threats of Islamophobic violence against @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social are dangerous and morally reprehensible. I condemn this behavior to fullest extent. Hate has no place in New York City.

Related to current discourse

The NY political machine must be smothered

the iron law of institutions says that those who control institutions would rather the institution lose power than lose their own power within it. since 2016 that has been the organizing principle of the democratic party.

Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane

the israelis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them

Don’t worry, Israeli civilians, Netanyahu is safe and well in a bunker under the city. Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — 4 detainees have escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, DHS statement says.

ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.

My biggest advice to the left is to make "cosmopolitan" a buzzword. You can forge a coherent narrative between deportations, I/P, civic virtue, land use, policing etc all while positioning yourself as the least antisemitic person alive. The center has no answer for that

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

The pro-Israel fandom is just the pro-Russia fandom for people who wear suits