There was a press conference about how Trump was making Americans healthy, and a man standing close enough to smell him collapsed and the picture cut to a test card. SACK THE WRITERS. TOO RIDICULOUS.

*Mostly* Harmless.

So far this week: Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement

The case study that popularised the concept of 'cognitive dissonance' has been debunked. Presumably psychologists will take this information and reframe it, allowing them to maintain their belief.

Oh no, the solar future is one of abundant, free, clean energy.

Reality calls their bluff and 'stop him or he will gain the power to destroy America' becomes 'this is no biggie, it's not like he can do anything'.

A big split in recent elections has been that tertiary-educated voters have voted D, those who didn't go to university voted R. Last night, Dems wiped that split out in most races.

The current President needs big gold signs up at the White House to explain what room he's meant to be heading towards.

Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, packing SCOTUS, and an Inauguration Day start on the demolition of the Epstein Ballroom should be the minimum starting position for any Dem.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Liberal pundit class has tried to deal with this problem by pretending that even though they got exactly who they wanted running the campaigns they wanted somehow someway it was the left, who didn't get who or what they wanted, who lost those elections. No one is buying that.

I look at Newsom, then at AOC, and we have to be pragmatic, and recognize that Dems lost a Presidential election running someone who looks like one of them. Don't repeat a mistake. Whatever our heart says, America just isn't going to elect a 59 year old cop-adjacent establishment Californian Dem.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Wow. JD Vance’s younger brother is losing in an absolute landslide in the Cincinnati mayor election after JD endorsed him.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Democratic strategists somehow already concluding the moral of the story is Gavin Newsom with an 86 year old running mate.

BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.

Mike Johnson hasn't heard about any elections and he'll get back to us.

Please check all that apply

The anti trans playbook didn't work tonight.

Legally binding contract.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

The world seems like we are going backwards at the moment, so it is important to take the time to spread awareness of advances. Scientists have developed an enzyme that converts organs into universal 'O' type. This is huge. www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

Republicans have milked more money by ending student loan relief than they have made from increasing tariffs.

There's a real argument that a whole tranche of political advisors can only conceptualise politics as explaining why they lost, they just don't factor winning into their models.

Being a Brit on BlueSky means seeing 1000x more messaging about an election in New York than your local council. Might as well message Zohran about my bin collection.

The entirely important, and in no way ridiculous, trial of a man who threw a sandwich 'at point blank range' continues. Here the victim describes being caught in the explosion.

Come Up With Any Aspect Of American Life That's Better, Not Demonstrably Much Worse As a Direct Result of Dick Cheney Being VP Challenge.

It would be a useful exercise to make a list of Democrats and moderate media types who frame Cheney nostalgically, and not as the person actually at the wheel when America steered itself into a twenty year war it lost, economic crisis, and a culture of sneering cruelty.

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

There are sitting Senators whose *kids* are past retirement age. Optimistic me thinks that there's an inevitable expiry date and a dam bust coming. When the Boomer Senators finally go, there will be a surge of younger politicians. Pessimist me thinks Turning Point USA are banking on that.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

I really would love the Republicans to run the Democratic Party.

Isn't it basically market research? The claims are not plausible, but they're not for us, they're not meant to be checked against some objective reality answer sheet, they're there to identify the people who either believe it's true or act like it is. www.salon.com/2025/11/02/e...

In my book, I talk about how the Nazi were basically only good at breaking things. Something a toddler can do. Evil requires no masterminding. brandyschillace.com/book/the-int...

This is a really interesting phenomenon, I think. The first time I became aware of Diana Dors, for example, was probably the Prince Charming video. Alec Guinness is Ben Kenobi. It's always a bit odd to me that they were in other things.

The great mystery to solve is why Republicans lashed themselves to the mast of this very strange, very stupid person.

The most obvious, direct political messaging possible right now is 'Republicans say prices have gone down, what do your receipts say?'.

'Off balance sheet debt through a special purpose vehicle or a joint venture tied to assets'. AI data centers are going to great lengths to hide how much they already borrowed because ... ?

The effort to make us forget that Covid forced governments round the world to take fast, effective steps for the collective good is probably greater by this point that the efforts taken to contain Covid. America *ended child poverty*, then voted to reinstate it because it was off message.

Guys, be careful how you describe this. She's not a side piece, she's a leather-upholstered love seat.

Ooh, Cold Fusion, look.