(my viciously snobbish take on the Frick, having finally been, is that if you live in Europe and have put even just *some* effort into going to the big museums there then it just isn't all that remarkable as a collection, but bless the yanks for giving it a decent go)

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.

#tbt sorry we missed this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"

my fun piece on the NYC/NJ elections is up! www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace

Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin

INVIGORATED by the appearance, in Brooklyn, on my phone, of someone's wifi being called "Routers of Rohan"

vv high bar but reckon Café Here in Red Hook is the best terrace to work from in New York on a sunny day, just preposterous

Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.

there are, of course, worse problems to have in this world but last night's exceptional results have actually made it weirdly hard to write up this election feature, quite tough to get an angle out of "all blue guys good 👍"

team of rivals (appoint sliwa to be rat czar)

may hire a plane and fly that post over Westminster 24/7 for the next few months

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

THEY'RE PLAYING NOT LIKE US AT THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN RALLY

Curtis Sliwa, for all his many, many flaws, has integrity. And to me, that counts for a lot.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

regret to say I will probably get capital e Emotional when Mamdani and Sadiq eventually end up meeting

can't remember who pointed out that Mamdani is merely human Bugs Bunny but I hope they know that I've thought about the comparison every day since first reading it

If we had lost Virginia, there was a very real chance that we’d be losing abortion access in the state, which would be a disaster especially for us in DC, which couldn’t possibly absorb all those patients. Watching with my abortion fund board member hat on, these results are a tremendous relief.

so I'm at this achingly cool election party in Bushwick properly terrifying twentyish mean girl spots me staring at my phone, asks if anything has been announced - I show her that Decision Desk has called it for Mamdani! to which she goes - facial expression not changing one iota - "okay, boots."

NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s! (1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)

A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

good news both for the fine state of New Jersey and for me personally, someone who spent two days in New Jersey and really wouldn't have enjoyed writing yet another "well here's what happened in that state where everything went to shit on election day" piece 👍

[voice of literally the oldest person who's ever lived, in the history of humanity so far] at a watch party and they're playing some music over the election livestream but I want to be able to follow the election livestream instead

Defeat is being projected for her in Virginia. You Winsome, you lose some

here is a mockup

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

I cannot

is it possible for a politician to be.......too likeable? defector.com/selling-zohran

Wow. 2025 NYC mayoral turnout has already exceeded total 2021 turnout BEFORE NOON.

One underrated aspect of Zohran is that he always wears a suit, always presents himself professionally while still doing fun and approachable retail politics. You don’t have to drape yourself yourself in hypebeast and post thirst traps, you can be fucking grown up respecting the office and be fun

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

hello from this New Jersey suburb, where an angelic child skipping home from school just stopped me in the street to ask me if I was "dressed as something" when I smiled and said I wasn't she said "oh, I thought you were dressed as Harry Potter" then she walked off

took the boat to New Jersey and for some reason I was the only person on the upper deck for the whole half hour so naturally:

at least once a week for the last six weeks or so I've dreamt of smoking a cigarette what oh what could my subconscious be trying to tell me, real head scratcher, this

will all be in the piece I'll write after Tuesday but I went canvassing with Mamdani volunteers the other day and several people whose doors they knocked on *thanked* them for being Mamdani volunteers, had never witnessed such enthusiasm for a political candidate

So did it work?

Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

boyfriend and I have just had a late dinner post-opera in a restaurant entirely full of people watching baseball and losing their entire minds, enjoyable experience, 10/10

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

hello from this Brooklyn sports bar where I'm watching the Dawgs game, and I am pleased to report that the Gators have a player called "Trey Smack"

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

The Guardian giving more and more time for what is essentially new age quackery is a bad trend for the broad left in this country.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...