The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever read about McCarthyism

Douthat has basically become the ambassador to the NYT for Breitbart nation. Only a matter of time before we get a regular show from him about Black crime and race & IQ studies.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

On the one hand it continues to be disgusting that he demands fealty and terror from his cabinet but on the other hand I love how much he hates Vance lmao

A hundred years ago, you say? Hm, like around 1920 when women got the vote? When Tucker’s great grandma was wearing flapper dresses, dancing the Charleston to that degenerate Jazz music, and scandalously smoking cigarettes in public? What pathetic little whiny weirdos these manly men are.

The more Dems can unify, the more they can exploit & deepen GOP splits. Last night showed the extent of Dem unity. It's not about being the same. That's what authoritarians require. But it is about being clear who's on our side vs who's against us. And who can be persuaded vs who must be fought.

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

A similar, smaller scale thing just happened in the Josephine County (OR) GOP. A bunch of county leaders and precinct captains quit the GOP and formed a group called “United Conservatives.” The OR GOP currently has no official organization in the county.

Strangely, snatching food from the mouths of children while posting AI videos of a king shitting on us didn't work out well.

I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Gavin Newsom closing his speech with the line “the best is yet to come” was quite a choice.

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Shouting out John Winthrop (shining city) and Eugene Debs in the same speech is what I believe the youths today call “range.”

Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.

There are 133 counties and county-equivalents in Virginia and New Jersey. In 127 of them, the vote shifted to the Democrats since November 2024. On average, the shift was 6 points to the left.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

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really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

The White House just posted this they are not mad they swear they are so not mad

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

folks we still got prop 50 coming in CA if you’re in line to lib out stay in line

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Absolutely disgusting response from Turning Point USA's spokesperson here, who targeted some random teachers and rained hell on their lives because he couldn't fathom not trying to squeeze some more engagement bait out of his dead boss.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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I feel like “Sewer Socialism vs. Gold Toilet Republicanism” is a promising framework for future political messaging. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Thinking about how different the discourse around the sandwich tosser might be if he’d decided to get a salad that day.

The OR GOP’s big fundraising event each year is the Reagan Dinner. This year, one of the speakers was a guy indicted for felonies related to his actions in DC ON January 6, raising the perennial question of “Which Election Would Jesus try to violently ratfuck?”

You can tell the campaign staff is good because you don't know any of their names.

Why use the word “died” when “liberated from his mortal coil” is sitting right there?

History has long functioned as an effective idiom in which progressives have spoken inspirationally about the future. Mamdani continues that tradition brilliantly here.

We've got you 👍

The full hour+ interview is available on YouTube in case you want to see him say this nonsense.

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

My Emily Youcis—the Nazi harassing Will—story is that I bumped into her in 2016 at the now-infamous conference that Richard Spencer hosted in downtown DC, where attendees threw up Hitler salutes. She was walking around shoving a microphone in protesters’ faces washingtonspectator.org/npi-alt-righ...

You can’t see it, but this is my surprised face.

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For @thehill.com I wrote about how the admission of Nick Fuentes into the MAGA big-tent this week shows that the Right's 'fighting antisemitism' crusade has always been cynical and hollow. All along it was only about going after their progressive opponents, thehill.com/opinion/whit...

In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea for voters to put the full force of the US state apparatus and military in the hands of a guy who bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support, and who was also granted immunity by the Supreme Court before taking office.

Johnson’s refusal to seat Grijalva feels like a foreshadowing of this GOP plan to stay in power post-2026 regardless of the outcome of the election. This thread is about a well connected Oregon MAGA activist who just podcasted it out.

Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR