“I’m here to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative”

seriously how long has it been since we had dems in LD-21? Ballotpedia only goes back to ‘01 and it’s been solid red the whole time.

big win for my mother specifically, LD-21’s strongest soldier

a grand coalition emerges 😎

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

Brick, both culturally and partisanship-wise, is like if Democrats were winning a partisan boroughwide race in Staten Island. Mayor Lisa Crate just pulled it off, for Brick Democrats' idk, uh, fourth improbable win in a row?

grand unified theory of jersey city round 1 (provisional): voters chose based on resistlib energy (Solomon) or path-of-least-resistance name recognition (McGreevey); Trump overshadowing election helped Sherrill while hurting the nonpartisan technocratic JC mayor candidates who this user favored. sad

Morris County was once the rock-ribbed Republican heartland of New Jersey, most famously producing Chris Christie before turning purple in the Trump era. it just elected a Democrat to the state Assembly who ran as a progressive on the anti-machine Fulop slate

man I did not know that political theater could punch me in the gut quite as well as the mamdani victory speech did in that crowded park slope bar

park slope bar erupts in sustained cheers

LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL

i am tipsy in a bar in Park Slope and getting ready for the whole place to explode in roughly five minutes

TRANS RIGHTS WINS ELECTIONS

I also think Dems trapped Miyares with their special session on redistricting. All of a sudden, at the close of the race, he was back in Richmond issuing legal opinions to help the GOP. Re-polarized the race.

i am also displeased that i may have to Hand It To Mikie

if i have to vote for jim mcgreevey i am going to metaphorically kill myself

dooming about a McGreevey vs Solomon runoff in December why? because we deserve only suffering that’s why

Can we normalize eating a raw onion like an apple?

my franchise: exercised

second the notion

Can confirm that the blurb is Alexandria’s boilerplate “you forgot to flatten PDF” docket entry. Silly mistake, but there but for the grace of gd…

having a job… it’s “good” folks

the oregon militia thing is so goddamn dark that I’m not gonna post about it (for now)

if I were a district judge I would be tempted to grant this fact-bound motion rather than the (dodgier, and structurally more significant) appointments clause motion. We’ll see what happens.

Comey’s challenge to Halligan’s appointment.

chat is this a good question to get from a GWB appointee

my popular front

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

One King

spotted at JC No Kings: unicorn, axolotl, pikachu, giant Palestinian flag, giant (Andor? Star Wars? don’t yell at me) flag, recruiters for ICE rapid response trainings, kids, moms, a guy with a beard and fedora whose sign had the entirety of “The New Colossus” printed on it

The Jersey City Resistance Choir is leading the crowd outside City Hall in a round of “We Shall Not Be Moved” Cringe is good, cringe will set us free

Running to win an election in a state that keeps sending Susan Collins to the senate probably requires different strategy than running to win the most likes in my replies on Bluesky.

Trump's score settling eventually uncovers an actual quite serious crime, essentially through the monkeys-with-typewriters method (if you prosecute everyone you hate, statistically sooner or later one of them will actually have committed a felony)

The full 7th Circuit opinion from Judges Rovner, Hamilton and St. Eve is here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/34/56/954fcc...

A great thread about what’s going on right now, the fine details, and also gives a comprehensive answer to the question I had a few days ago about this versus just, say, spending when Congress hasn’t appropriated anything at all.

Extraordinary NYT story: Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted. They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Whooooooo.

Still haunted by this:

sickos yes

beans + feet = shrimp

Mods are asleep post brassicas

I Am Not Taking Health Advice From Second Century Forum Posts

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

coming back around to “oh so they’re just stealing from the treasury”

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done: A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30. 1/

“Very good job, counsel.”