You can’t be pro-immigration without being pro housing. @opennewyork.org is organizing for more homes for new neighbors and lower rents for New Yorkers.

My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.

Yes. With a splash of gaming being typically less social than drinking.

I was 20% trolling 80% sincere here when I said the pan-American birthright citizenship zone is “western civilization”. Ask Lafayette, Garibaldi, and the GIs buried in Normandy if Europe gave the Americas ideals of equality and liberty or vice versa? www.instagram.com/reel/DR6XpAg...

I will not take lectures from men banning drag queens reading fairly tales to children on the English Origin of American Traditions.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

A digression on racist uncles and their Nazi nephews.

Early Modern European States:

They are right vis a vis changing media consumption but afraid to confront how algos discover and feed existing preferences rather than create them. Vichy Twitter is the only platform aggressively warping the algo, the results are troubling but inconclusive and it’s losing market share.

i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones

NO ONE FORMS POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY SEE IN THE WORLD. THEY FORM POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE. There are many, many, many important implications of this!!

The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them

i've been wrestling with--on a theoretical-liberal-theorist level--the perennial tension between professionalization and accountability technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...

Yeah the affordability nonsense is an even-vaguer-than-usual reformulation of the same economic policy message Dems have run on as long as any of us have been alive. The reason it has suddenly started working is that there’s a deeply unpopular incumbent and inchoate doomerism everywhere.

What’s the legality of doing joint federal campaign - media foundation fund raisers? I’d love to see the billions of dollars working folks hurl at candidates every 2 years become a lasting endowment for left wing media rather than being hovered up by consultants and the ad tech companies.

Remarkable that the only person JD Vance shows consistent loyalty to is the least likable man in America. Vance describes hearing Theil do some Randian monologue as “the most significant moment” of his time at Yale. He met his wife there.

Police say he then turned the epic vulgar roast on himself

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

The real reason he didn’t want to release the Epstein files.

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

All of this is correct.

Subordinating your foreign policy to domestic coalition management always works out great. Never backfires horribly. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

"A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the Capitol was arrested on child molestation charges, according to Florida officials, who said he tried to use an anticipated Jan. 6 payout to silence the victim." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is true on policy. The reason reactionary centrists refuse to accept it (besides that she lost) is that for all her moderation she did not show contempt for the Democratic coalition, its cosmopolitan nature and egalitarian values. They don’t want policy moderation they want hippy punching.

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

People get mad as shit (it’s been me!) when @besttrousers.bsky.social turns up in your mentions and says “give me quantitative evidence for your intuition” but honestly it’s such a public service!

"Fewer people" housing policy vs. "more people" housing policy:

The Clash had Red Scares number.

They aren’t concerned liberal arts will leave you qualified only for a job as a barista. They are concerned college will thin the pool of potential baristas and make the rest less docile.

Note that the “admissions must select the absolute cream of the crop” guys are exactly the same as the “college is basically worthless indoctrination now“ guys.

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

At this point the most exculpatory explanation possible of the known facts is that Trump knew about Epstein's rape of minors and eagerly swept to continue exploiting them as malleable victims as soon as they hit the threshold of majority.

Classical Authors: Amid strife and famine even noble citizens may bow down to a Ceaser to secure peace and plenty but alas, the corruption of absolute power means they will come to be ruled by a Nero. 77 million Bored Americans: WE WANT NERO! WE WANT NERO! WE WANT NERO!

Replies to this are an interesting demonstration of the Impossibility of Gradations Of Badness in the minds of many posters.

Regret to inform you that I have become and air fryer guy. Couple of hash browns in that bad boy with some scrambled egg. What a way to start the day!

"In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily." prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

@nytransitmuseum.bsky.social whips. 10/10 dork friendly weekend activity.

Call your senator now! Remove Chuck Schumer, Expel the cowards from the Dem Caucus. Never vote for filibuster defenders.

Remove Chuck Schumer. Expel the 8 from the Democratic Caucus.

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Make “I will vote to end the filibuster“ your primary red line.

i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again

act.dsausa.org/donate/membe... I lapsed in my dues at some point. Im rejoining today. We need determined opposition with a vision for a just America. DSA are the best org out there organizing for that. @socialists.nyc

First rule of negotiation. Know your BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement). The BATNA was the end of the filibuster, the worst minoritarian institution, bane of all Dem policy goals - whilst the opposition would take full blame for their hated policies for 1-3 years. The Dems lost.

A “deal” that leaves millions facing higher health costs in exchange for empty promises is a betrayal. Americans are counting on Democrats to stand up for them, not give in. The Senate should reject it, and I will vote NO if it reaches the House.

Chad Dekha Jai 🌗

Small but undeniable W for democracy that Trump pivoted from “statuary marble” bathrooms, to walking in front of used car lots with oversized scissors declaring he’s cutting price tags on overstocked inventory.

shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now

"the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

the opaque algorithm controlled by a bad actor that mostly shows me things i disagree with.... very bad. The opaque algorithm controlled by a bad actor that mostly shows me things i agree with... very very good