Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

We all know Crisis Pregnancy Centers rely on tricking women seeking abortions, so kudos to Yelp for giving customers a heads up that these groups don’t offer abortions or even referrals! Of course, this means they've made an enemy of Texas AG Ken Paxton: jessica.substack.com/p/yelp-is-ta...

This narcissistic attitude that sees a vote as a curated extension of your personal brand or a version of a celebrity endorsement is going to be the death of this nation.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

it is remarkable how support for a guy with a SS tattoo is uniting podcasters across the political spectrum

In the Curse of Michael Myers Paul Rudd soothes a crying orphaned baby by saying "It's okay, man."

Funniest part of Cuomo talking point about how number of bad things like homelessness rate going up since he fled office is that he’s currently campaigning with and touting the partnership of the guy who oversaw that

On one hand Cuomo is cartoonishly corrupt but on the other, he is also a creep personally and useless politically

You’re scared of Spanish? Do you also piss yourself when you see your own shadow

Lots of people rightly criticizing the gutter racism here but I also want to point out how contemptibly cowardly this idea is.

Meanwhile, if you try to prosecute a member of the in-group you'll get fired bsky.app/profile/kyle...

They will brutalize you and then charge you with crimes for breathing on them bsky.app/profile/mulc...

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

When you're wealthy, white, and male, you get to be a "kid" into your 40s and then, whenever you're ready, the keys to the kingdom are here waiting for you. Privileges from birth, responsibility whenever you decide to feel like it. If you're not wealthy, white, & male ...

BREAKING: Six people, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, have been indicted on charges of "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees" and "Conspiracy to impede or injure officer," in connection w ICE protests at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

again, it is so incredibly easy to not get a Totenkopf tattooed on your body

DOJ managed to spell Kat Abughazeleh's name wrong 3 of 9 times they use it in the same document

Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

If Platner had served 5 years in the state legislature I might legitimately find some of this stuff a lot more forgivable. He's a new man, he's a public servant, we've seen him in action. But because he didn't it's just "Trust me, I didn't mean it, and you're silly for caring." No, I don't trust you

The core skill of successful punditry is identifying a viewpoint that powerful and influential people already subscribe to, and then providing an endless, and endlessly flexible, stream of rationalizations of why that viewpoint is correct, regardless of real-world outcomes.

Yglesias already knows how he's going to argue he's right, regardless of outcome. PLATNER WINS: "See? Voters don't care about woke stuff." PLATNER LOSES: "You should have nominated a moderate." MILLS WINS: "Good thing we nominated a moderate." MILLS LOSES: "Imagine how bad Platner would have done."

It’s socially rewarded to shit on Dems no matter where you are on the ideological spectrum, which is a bad situation.

me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer Dad: what is cosplay me: *explains* Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip

if we don’t put all of these people in prison for a long time we may as well not have a country anymore

It is astonishingly ugly. People I once thought were decent are spouting delusional, baseless, vile stuff about what they "know" Mamdani believes and about what he's going to do. In NYC, this has turned into a real "Well, now we all know who we are" election. There'll be no bridging that rift.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE: -they observe the social environment (largely through media) -they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?) -they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role -they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Has anyone actually written something on the apparently inability of the reactionary mind to grasp the basic themes and even overt text of Tolkien? Like at some point Gandalf turns directly to camera and says “the Men of Gondor sure are insufficient to this task, we need the hobbits to do it”

as a nerd myself I’m biased, but I do sort of think there’s an alternative masculinity here built on resolute strength in defense of the vulnerable, rather than being a guy who says gross things sometimes and has shot people. you can even still have the muscles

pretty clear a lot of dem pundits love Platner because they’re desperately insecure about their own masculinity, no? every time they vote for a woman or some nerd they die a little inside. they want senator muscles so they can feel okay about themselves again

With corporate America pushing AI to replace workers, our education system putting AI into classrooms and kids using AI to do their homework for them, feels like we're on the precipice of another Dark Age. Which is ironic and unsettling since tech is ostensibly to give us all the world's info

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

If you are reading this piece today, you may be interested to know that I found Adam Bonica on moderate candidates compelling. Ht @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

Platner taking his campaign in a “they’re trying to get me” direction after the tattoo is a flashing, Fetterman-shaped warning light for what he could be like if elected, and I think it’s enlightening to see who can see that and who can’t because he’s “upsetting the right people”.

don't think it's an accident that the discourse around elections has grown increasingly more asinine with the rise of AI

"winning elections" is like "writing a book" or "making art" in that everyone wants to find that one easy shortcut, and the only answer is doing the hard, painstaking, day-to-day work on the ground (or sitting in the chair)

I was right about her 10 years ago.

An absolute powerhouse of an essay by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

I'd like you to show me ANY U.S. journalism coverage of this report that mentions the electorate's beliefs (especially what dems stand for) are primarily being shaped by a massive and hugely effective right wing propaganda campaign across AM radio, local broadcast TV, cable, and the internet

Retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner: "The deployments we’re currently seeing inside American cities…are not only un-American and wrong, they’re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-helped-l...

This is brutal

What an appalling thing to say in light of all the shit being thrown at Mamdani right now. Shut up, you whiny bitch.

There is simply no reason for people to lose SNAP benefits other than evil

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐