If there's one thing successful strategists always do, it's let the enemy choose the grounds you fight on.

I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices

Not a good look for the Governor, as she approves a new natural gas pipeline as well as gas for a crypto-mining operation. Both decisions fly in the face of NY's climate law. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n... @doreenharris.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov

@americanprogress.bsky.social needs to cut ties with this creep immediately, and publicly say why they’re doing it.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts

again not to throw cold water on things but an analysis of my correspondence would show that I too mentioned Donald trump much more often starting in 2016

"Wood-chipper, feet first" is not a sentence. There is no verb, no subject, no object; it threatens no one. It is the reader who fills in the missing information, deciding how it ought to be understood. Therefore, it is the Bsky mods who have made a violent threat, not Mr. Oswalt. In this essay, I

Rogue board members colluding with aggrieved alumni inside DOJ to run a bad faith kangaroo court that makes no factual findings but has the power to usurp the board's basic authority to hire and fire the president. One wonders at how many other schools the same playbook has been or is still running

Oh you’re telling me there should be entities that can protect the public from the effects of the unfettered pursuit of short term profit by corporations? Shame you guys did everything you could do dismantle them

November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...

Ban the death penalty for everything except a broad application to white collar crime.

Yesterday, Times Tech Guild members showed up along with hundreds of NewsGuild members and supporters to protest the shameful behavior of Condé Nast leadership.

So now, the public is (predictably) herding *away* from Trump, toward a more sympathetic view of immigration and ... here are Dems, stuck with the panicked reactionary stances they took on the advice of the Moderate to Win bros, unable to properly ride & harness this shift.

It's another layer of national degradation and moral decline to see the political media treat child rape like just another horserace issue.

Let's not overregulate the doomsday machine we wouldn't want to stifle innovation

After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

Just checkin' the facts!

This is it. This is the message.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

I wonder if this could be the opening quotation on his next book?

WE TRULY LOVE TO SEE IT

Does being rich make you stupid or does being stupid help you get rich or is it like a combination?

I don’t have much hope that the economics discipline is willing and able to reform itself from the inside but here’s a pretty damn freaking obvious place to start.

Is this man not over the age of 40? Ibuprofen is a wonder drug.

Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.

It’s time for one staffer with nothing to lose to just dump everything online. You will be a hero forever. We will put up statues. Someone will write folk songs about you.

new meme

It would make America a banana republic to investigate the very obvious crimes of the former president that he is extremely guilty of

it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this

i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.

what is cool about this michael wolff / trump / epstein stuff is that he had those emails in 2015 and decided to not tell anyone and let us turn into a full fash grifter state instead

The curious case of the reprehensible piece of shit in the nighttime.

Hear me out: the 1000-year mortgage.

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

It Happened To Me: I Had Phone Sex With RFK Jr. Because of 9/11

As someone who has professionally tried and now almost given up on pushing meaningful, moral messaging on my senators, they do not say this because it is not why they did it. They won't even lie and say the moral reason was their motivation. It is a huge problem.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

There is a reason that they are feeling “isolated.” There is documented evidence that may archaeologists have consistently been complicit in taking cultural heritage from Gaza and also using alleged excavation needs to encroach on Palestinian lands. Let’s not pretend we don’t remember. 🎁 link.

Anyone who thinks getting a bullet-pointed summary of a book is equivalent to reading it, has not read an actual book in decades. And this is basically most of our elite business leaders and successful investors.

Fine, I will write the next James Bond. INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through EXPLOSION BOND: This film is for grown ups

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

Frankenstein was tremendous but why are the aesthetics of just about every new movie “video game cut-scene”?

daydreaming

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Democrats mostly don’t want to do the things they say they want to do, which is a very big problem.