“No one or nothing will ever divide us” says Andrew Cuomo while giving one of the most divisive and disgusting concession speeches in American political history

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Fucking sucks dude. I wasn’t a super fan but I liked the guy and thought that the apology he gave for the reditt stuff was pretty good. But yeah man.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

This is the current political situation. This was the political situation in 2016. I'd argue this was the political situation in 2010. It is perhaps true that it has been the political situation since 1980. In any case, it remains the situation. No one who matters believes it.

This is goddamn right. Make them do it.

It will never be 1995 again. Sorry! It is what it is.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)

no one person should have a billion dollars

CBS will be ending Stephen Colbert's run as host of The Late Show, days after he criticized parent company Paramount's $16 million payment to Trump. Here's why the Left has a censorship problem.

1. His win is causing institutionalists to have to face a reality they have been denying for a decade. 2. And forcing them to face their coming irrelevance as they are cut off from the right AND the liberal spectrum. 3. The right is terrified they are no longer only fighting old school Dems.

a place to start go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall

They laundered a white nationalist talking point in service of a corrupt mayor’s reelection campaign and want to pretend like it’s the Pentagon Papers redux.

this isn't hyperbole or caricature! It's a straightforwad, accurate characterization of what he said.

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

sorry i don’t think Zohran’s win indicates how state or national races will go. Zohran campaigned against unaffordable basic needs and an old pervert. problems that are unique to new york city and no where else in the country

We’ve got secret police black bagging people and sending them to gulags, the scary parts of communism are already here idk what these people think a public grocery store will lead to bsky.app/profile/jame...

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

If New York Democratic Party elected officials don’t get fully behind the Democratic nominee for mayor, they should all be run out of politics.

the question after that is why this scrutiny is directed at protestors rather than cops - who have every conceivable advantage on exactly this score (set personnel, formal responsibilities and hierarchies, etc) and who as a matter of public record consistently fail by exactly this standard

the next question to ask is if there is any actor or action in a position to impose this discipline. in some contexts there may be (say, a coordinated, pre-planned picet) and in others not

how this point interacts with the norms of commentary on protests: if it's true that *any* destruction and disruption will attract a disproportionate amount of attention, then fingerwaggers labeling protests and protestors basedon these scenes are in effect demanding blanket, total discipline

guess we will soon see how this take ages

This is a civil war. A cold one that must be fought peaceably and politically if the country is to survive. But that is the scope and scale of the fight we're in. Between evil and those of us, as flawed and divergently motivated as we might be, who stand against it.

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

Wikipedia, remote governance, remote and in-person education, basic accreditation, perceptions of world politics and domestic events occurring down the street, everything is being turned on its head by a genuinely transformative technology that is, of of today, largely controlled by billionaires.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.

We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party

The main reason why most Trump voters are sticking with Trump is that they are Republicans committed to supporting the Republican candidate for the presidency, who has been Donald Trump since 2016.

In every election he has run, there have been more Trump voters in New York City than there have been in both of the Dakotas combined.

Conservatives have understood at a visceral level for 70 years that the defeat of fascism by the liberal order was destructive to their legitimacy. So while many tried to write themselves into the history of liberalism, others tried to rewrite the history of fascism. The latter camp is now ascendant