I think this is the reason Cuomo is clutching his pearls cuz if Mandami is elected, Adam's agreement with Trump becomes null and void and federal law enforcement will be arrested for breaking state and local laws... You betcha.... open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

Mamdani was on time and in the audience listening. Cuomo was a half hour late. He put on a show saying yes to everything, even promising to double on mental health services. The leader proposing the plan called him out "you'll clearly say yes to anything," pic 3 shows how deflated he was by it.

This is a superb essay from Frank Rich that spares few. He rips on Schumer, Cuomo, Netanyahu, the NYC establishment, you name it. (MSN, no paywall, originally from NY Mag) www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

Man, I really dislike Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo isn't running on the Democratic line, and he's praising Trump. Why is he still a Democrat at this point?

Trump Can't Hide From The Ghost of Epstein Jeffrey Epstein remains Donald Trump's Achilles' Cankle, and Virginia Giuffre's forthcoming memoir puts his lurid friendship with the world's most notorious pedophile back in the spotlight. thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-cant...

"The graveyard of defeated Democratic incumbents is full of moderates, not progressives....Of the 22 Democratic incumbents who lost their seats between 2016 and 2024, 21 were moderates." – @adambonica.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

The point is, you, the person reading this? You're awesome. You're beautiful. You're perfect just the way you are and the world is better because you're in it. You'll never be "enough" for the haters, so just do as much good as you can and love yourself for it.

If you ever have imposter syndrome because of something someone said On Here, remember that Michael Bay thought *Kate Beckinsale* was ugly and told her to lose weight. No, really.

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

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You're not going to draw a picture with photographic detail in someone's mind with your alt text, you just have to give the idea of the image so they have context to how it relates to the post, & your alt text doesn't have to be Shakespeare, it can be the most basic.

This video has a Know Your Rights segment that begins around minute 47 & several Chicago orgs that are helping immigrant groups are mentioned, including @icirr.bsky.social which has been a crucial resource for Chicago communities. I learned a lot & recommend!

Americans are not super hype about “AI” it turns out www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

In case anyone is unsure if the Republican party just has some "bad apples" or is openly a Nazi organization now, you could read this, the news over the last week, or just watch any Trump rally over the last 10 years. you might recall the one at Madison Square Garden was pretty informative. okaybye

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Border Patrol posted a video with antisemitic slurs to their Instagram. The 13-second video used the lyrics "Jew me, sue me" and "kike me" from Michael Jackson's 'They Don't Care About Us.' They pinned it. It got 3.4 million views.

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As far as I can tell, the ADL and AJC have yet to comment on this.

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.

Border Patrol returned to the O'Hare rideshare lot today after taking 11 people on Saturday 10/18. No official word yet on how many were detained. When we visited yesterday, drivers told us it was very empty for a Sunday. Last Friday 10/10, they took 18 people here (it's city-owned property).

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens. I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

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

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

get his ass kenny

Tens of millions of people are set to lose food stamps in weeks and conservatives are celebrating it right in the open on social media. They’re gleeful about starving children, literally saying “fuck them kids.” Yet another reason that “pro-life” is a misnomer. They’re loudly pro-death

we’re going to have to build a federal prison dedicated exclusively to trump administration officials and federal contractors before this is over

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak! But media elites find that boring.

Indeed, the point is to remove real academics and replace them with partisan propagandists. Plus, their "diversity" only ever extends to one "viewpoint": whatever Republicans are saying at the moment. An economist who said tariffs are bad would be deemed a Marxist and thus not "viewpoint diverse."

My favorite thing about AI is it has completely ruined online shopping :)

This week's newsletter is about D'Angelo and making art at a human pace. Separately, it is about how some things are bad but fine and others are not.

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago. The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump. zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

2. Stunning reporting — and photography. @nymag.com

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Rabbi Arthur Waskow (1933-2025), זכרונו לברכה ("may his memory be for a blessing"). A trailblazer and champion of the religious Jewish left for decades. A thinker and activist who put his body on the line many, many times for other people and for our non-human relatives and the earth.

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

The lobbyists are right, and that's part of what makes the current situation so bizarre: a majority of Congress has decided to make themselves irrelevant. Not just for policy, but even for corruption! That's historically unusual, politicians typically understand the benefits of having power.

"researchers have estimated that the end of enhanced tax credits will lead to 7.3 mill people losing their ACA coverage in 2026, of whom 4.8 mill would become uninsured. The loss of the additional subsidies are projected to increase how much...enrollees must pay...from an avg of $888 to $1,904/year"

The former Marion, Kansas police chief who ordered a raid on the newspaper that was investigating him is set to stand trial for telling a witness to delete text message evidence (via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social)

the kids are alright

Anand Giridharadas to Andrew Cuomo: "First of all, governor, it's 'Mamdani.' This is a very big, diverse city you want to lead. We should get the names right."

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All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

“what point was he trying to make” feels like a pretty obvious follow up question

According to astrology, we're supposed to rest on Mondays, and.... yep. Fuck I'm tired. really wanna be in bed resting

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Imagine if the entire subscription base of The Washington Post times THIRTY , quit in one day . and it also means something even more terrifying.... it means that Disney's IP ? Its catalog isn't enough for people to stay .Now look at what is .......

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

desantis knows how insurance risk pools work. these catastrophic plans are scams that rarely provide what they claim, and they break insurance markets. standard ACA repeal stuff. republicans are fully aware it will kill/harm vulnerable and disabled americans