“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Every post 2024 op ed: “Has wokeness gone to far?” By Women Are Things

Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...

Benne and Eggsy when they see the outside cats: can we be fwends 🥺👉👈 Jimmi Pickles when she sees and outside cat: Foul Knave! How darest thou defile this sacred land with thy presence! I shall drive you back to the FIRES of HELL where you BELONG

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

GOLDEN AGE bsky.app/profile/carl...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

When we were on Twitter the line was “Twitter isn’t real life” and now that Twitter is deliberately stirring up bigotry it’s “Bluesky is a bubble you have to be on Twitter” and I think that is a pretty clear statement of value.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

The scent of Benne’s tail activates Jimmi Pickles’ Berzerker Mode

“Cows are now possibly getting more tax relief than renters,” writes @briangaar.bsky.social. But don’t worry, we also outlawed a lot of things that weren’t happening! If you’re wondering, that’s a total of 547 amendments since the Constitution was adopted in 1876. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/05/w...

Will be amazing when SCOTUS realizes that Congress has other powers also.

The scent of Benne’s tail activates Jimmi Pickles’ Berzerker Mode

Pretty sure “Voter Reform” is a wing of the Ministry of Love.

None of this is going to happen and the halal carts in nyc are already there and amazing, but this is the id of MAGA politics, "we can won so we can force everyone to do what we want" projected onto people who don't think that and wouldn't try. bsky.app/profile/stac...

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish

one thing that is clear from the precinct data is that "Asian" needs to be disaggregated (in ways that weren't really the case in 2024) Zohran ran up large majorities in heavily South Asian areas while running closer to even in heavily East Asian (primarily Chinese) areas

Appreciate him articulating this explicitly although people will continue to rationalize bsky.app/profile/atru...

ah well, it was fun while it lasted

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.” The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Off their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Extremism on both sides. Sad to see. bsky.app/profile/sara...

Meanwhile in texas we added a bunch of dumb amendments to the state constitution preventing tax raises on rich people and banning non citizen voting, a thing that is already illegal

The West has Fallen. The Mayor of New York City is an Arsenal fan.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Zohran KWAME Mamdani

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

"The more rainbows I can paint, the better."

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Here is my review of @attackerman.bsky.social's Reign of Terror from when it came out; no book connects these dots better newrepublic.com/article/1631...

The thing about making being "Woke" worse than being a Nazi is that the people who listen to you are going to conclude that being a nazi is ok, since unlike the former it has fewer social consequences among their peers

OK to be serious for a second: Dick Cheney won. This is the kind of presidency he spent his entire career fighting to establish. Like many revolutionaries, he was devoured by those who followed in his wake; but when it comes to his chief goal — formally installing an imperial presidency — he won.

Similar to the Nazi group chat semi-apology responses, I think it is remarkable that the “Groyper” war is being framed pretty exclusively in terms of antisemitism, while the racism is unremarkable for them.

Pretty consistent with his whining about black people winning pulitzers from a few years ago. bsky.app/profile/hami...

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

I do not think he should be mayor, but this is so much healthier of an approach to take toward a democratic election than anything we are hearing from Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is going to leave NYC the moment he loses. Sliwa seems to truly want to stay in this great city.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?

This quote continues to rattle me to my core: "So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them." That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

Not a dunk on Dave but they’re doing it because they want those candidates to lose and this is how they ventriloquize their views into without being “biased” bsky.app/profile/dave...

Healthcare but only for my friends

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email