It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

LFG @joelanderson.bsky.social @davidshoemaker.bsky.social x.com/awfulannounc...

More evidence that "leadership" has completely failed the Democratic Party. #DEMpoli #MApoli #WhatAreTheyHiding #WhoAreTheyProtecting #AccountabilityNow

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Remarkable kindness and empathy from the Jewish community of Bondi and abroad in light of this horrific anti-semitic shooting. Instead of pouring fuel on the fire and joining hatemongers to condemn all Muslims, they are openly and loudly rejecting it. We stand in solidarity against hate and terror.

Happy Hanukkah, when we celebrate the transformative power of energy efficiency! 🕎

Only in America!

Katherine Clark, Seth Moulton, Richard Neal, and Lori Trahan voted yes. All of them like the idea of Trump having this money to spend on war. #Massachusetts #mapoli

Aha- 1. Develop recommendations based on faulty research from the Fordham Institute. 2. Pay corporate #edreform to develop a whole new suite of tests. 3. Leverage corporate AI to score the exams. 4. Use the results to undermine teacher professionalism. Profit.

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

If Trump does go through with his threatened invasion of Venezuela without Congressional approval, that should absolutely be grounds for immediate impeachment proceedings. We would need mass, popular mobilization calling for his removal from office. It has to be a red line.

"Quiet, piggy!"

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva has officially signed onto the Epstein discharge petition. That means there are now 218 votes — and a full vote must come to the floor.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger will win the Virginia gubernatorial election, projects Decision Desk HQ

God bless used bookstores.

New PRESS BOX w/ @joelanderson.bsky.social: How Zohran Mamdani Won the Hearts and Minds of the Media (and New York City) With guest Eric Lach of the NYer open.spotify.com/episode/5oND...

I suspect many American institutions--law firms, universities, the news media, the Republican Party--were more susceptible to authoritarian takeover than was expected because they were already so dependent on the largess of billionaires. If you depend on oligarchy, you can't fight for democracy.

For my money, the Senate Democratic caucus seems to be one of the most serious foreseeable hurdles to any project of constitutional restoration. Not because of a pivotal member or two getting cold feet, but rather a pervasive sclerotic disbelief at what time it is.

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life. Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

Today: - Ron Wyden releases bombshell investigation in the NYT that Trump admin is hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in Epstein’s bank transactions - WSJ releases bombshell Epstein file story that includes Trump writing near confession - Nancy Pelosi says the Epstein story is a distraction

Please don't just assume I don't need a video of a red panda eating sweetcorn on the very day I hear there are no Epstein files.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

the interesting thing about the Diddy verdict is that House Republicans are about to vote to take away healthcare from tens of millions of Americas

Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

MAGA is building concentration camps—and bragging about it.

Word of the Day: OBLITERATED Which is: What America's airstrike did to Iran's nuclear stockpile OR What POTUS did to America's status in the world

What a deeply heartfelt and yet screwed up situation.

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

When NO KINGS reigns over your parade. #SAD 🤣

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

The Persistence of #TacoTrump

As Trump puts pressure on higher ed, Boston students look to historically Black colleges www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

I’ll never understand why serious journalists feel it’s their job to write fan-fic about the United States president. There is nothing true about Trump’s propensity for deal-making. He’s an inveterate scammer who wants to be a dictator. That’s the entire game here.

Kraft has no plan to reduce traffic congestion in #mapoli’s Boston, no plan to improve access to jobs or opportunities or resources. His plan is to deprive people of their mode choice. Does he even talk about transportation policy with his chauffeur? He might learn something.

First mayoral forum on the books Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?" Mayor Wu: Ward 18 Domingos DaRosa: 18 Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know Alex Alex also didn't know Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3

Kennedy is lying, Sen Hassan is right. Dangerous quack David Geier never got $5m. His father was awarded $2.5m initially in a suit against the Maryland Board of Physicians but that was overturned on appeal. thedailyrecord.com/2019/06/27/g...

Taking bribes from crypto billionaires? Totally kosher. Inviting AIPAC affiliated, Trump supporting billionaires to dictate primary outcomes? No problem. Survivor of a mass shooting wants to help support a new generation of leaders? GET THIS GUY OUT OF HERE!

#Framingham at its best - photos by Art Ilman, Metrowest Daily News

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD candidate whose sudden arrest by federal immigration agents made national headlines, walked out of a Louisiana detention facility after a judge ordered her release. “Thank you for all the support and love,” she told supporters outside. trib.al/UkF8nkC

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages