donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

The turn against standardized testing is actually pretty bi-partisan! You can find red-state legislators arguing about how terrible it is (and how not career preparatory it is) and blue-state legislators talking about how it isn't equitable. Parent groups have also agitated against it.

This is a sort of annoying posture by Kerr doing the 'I'm just a small bean" routine. Again, the rhetorical trick here is pivoting to the corporations. The players get 50% of the revenue! Fewer games would mean substantially less money for them too How many players would agree to a 10% pay cut?

this is just so so so so so grim. i could not reject this more fully.

Here's the reality. Simon, like a lot of the NY Times class (I'd say precocious 'thinker/writer from HYP' is a shared class) really finds social lefties really really obnoxious (which, they can be on colege campuses) and has grown up with 'liberals' as the institutions they fight against.

It is interesting how many more DSAers are on Twitter rather than BlueSky

I was pretty anti-Pete for lots of reasons (and mostly, because I knew too many people like him in college and they sucked). It's also the case that Pete clearly thinks of the gay community as the cis white rich gays who are 'successful' but not 'that gay. I don't see him representing my gay world

My dream is an urban candidate that tells the public transit unions to fuck themselves. You shouldn't be able to just unilaterally decide not to finish a bus route. Yes, looking at you, MBTA.

it's often very hard for extremely successful and powerful people to understand that mild criticism from those they have power over is not equivalent to actually being oppressed.

I agree with this. That said, there is a tension in that folks at the top of the socioeconomic ladder fighting to take advantage of every tool in their status competition against each other.

And these bastards never expect to pay for their asshole nature

Bring back 1900 immigration policy for everyone!

We went a couple of weeks where the government was de facto, but totally unconstitutionally, run by a triumvirate of the VP, speaker of the House, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and we all just shrugged and muddled through and then pretended it hadn't happened.

I wrote about state-level ADU reform and the differences between @strongtowns.org and YIMBYism. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...

A lot of people have observed that the Democrats’ deep unpopularity comes from the fact that absolutely everyone wants to complain about them and nobody wants to defend them. This is true, but a lot of THAT dynamic comes from the fact that Dems are regularly punching their supporters in the face!

Primary Tim Kaine.

It's pretty clear the end state of MAGA is Pol Pot. All expertise is bad and must be destroyed.

Between their plan to destroy the health care markets of the country and stuff like this, the GOP really just wants to destroy the normal functioning of America.

Twitter is just one upmanship sociopathy after another. Also, the tech sector and the public advocates it produces might be the worst class of people ever produced by an industry in human history.

Also, Helen Andrews has been a misogynist since college and Leah virtue ethics herself into Catholicism and frequently betraying her friends, so yeah. Fuck, the late 2000s YPU should have no discourse impact on the world.

God, this is horrible. The world doesn't deserve to hear a bad POR debate circa 2008. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

The idea that Mamdani voters in NYC don't have ambition or work hard. Trust me, those Mamdani Bodega workers putting in 65 hour weeks are working a lot harder than fucking Manhattan Institute assholes.

The NYC mayor‘s election might be the first big election where Millennials and Gen Zers realize that their broad participation can literally dictate the outcome of elections. That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.

It's also like...it's kind of funny how the reactionary centrists types make literally no effort to actually persuade, which will literally just angrily repeat the message. I continue to say, if all you have to offer the left is Joe Manchin, don't be surprised if they take their chances.

The problem with Simon's project is that the Democratic Party he advocates for would literally not accomplish anything except buying a few more years for another fascist wave We have actual problems to solve in this country. The problem is that they don't believe in anything. x.com/simon_bazelo...

Trump: Our way of life is crumbling. the darkies are destroying our country. I alone can fix. Democrats: Medicare should cover vision and dental!! Are you insane?

There are days in which I am optimistic and there are days where I expect to die in defense of liberty for someone else to enjoy. Essays like this make me think of the latter.

It is hilarious that the reactionary centrist types argue endlessly about dialogue but their hope for progressives is that we are literally beaten down by Trump so we are forced to agree with reactionary centrists. How about you make a persuasive argument, assholes./?

The defense of Platner makes me even more concerned for multi racial democracy than the Trump admin. We are in a dark era.

Every day, it becomes clearer to me that the true root of this fascist backlash is white elites who are seeking to 'redeem' governance and culture to their rightful heirs. Centrist Dem pacs so clearly hate on spec the queer, poc folks who were able to shape policy for a bit.

Platner went to Hotchkiss? For real? This is who you people are fronting for?

Young conservatives when I was at Yale liked to troll Nazi aesthetics. Young conservatives now are actual Nazis.

It's important to note that "Democratic" consultants find online leftists more problematic and personally annoying than they find Nazis.

The funny part is that Matt's conclusion at the end is wrong. Helen would gladly do the horrible thing and put women back in the 50s. Helen in college was pretty clear about her feelings towards women and she thought it was a good thing they would suffer in masculine instituons.

The reality is that if Lander isn't given Deputy Mayor, they have to clear the way for him to get the NY10. Otherwise, the DSA folks are setting themselves up for an ugly primary and also some very ugly recriminations from liberals on not supporting someone who torpedoed his candidacy for the left

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

The last week makes this more true. Someone like Platner should not be a US senator. The problem is that Collins is currently not acting as one during the Trump admin. She is delegating legislative power to Trump. We are in fall of Rome territory now.

This isn't hard, you don't need a whole intellectual argument. Helen Andrews hates women, like on spec. This was something we all sort of understood in college, but maybe it was treated a joke? She is a sadist who believes others should suffer. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

How do you have a viable nation with these people? www.propublica.org/article/idah...

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

Obama was elected by a much bigger margin but the media was primed to accept criticism of him and to legitimize resistance against him because they see white conservatives as representative of America It’s why they actively downplay any resistance against Trump today, of course

My Republican defrauding hero and hot mess queen is back on the prowl. apnews.com/article/trum...

John Roberts is a white supremacist who has made it his specific life’s work to make it harder for black people to vote, and when they do, to make their votes count less than white people’s. Just because he looks like a genteel northeasterner doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the soul of Bull Connor.

We are paying for our forefathers unwillingness to fundamentally break white supremacy in the South.

These people are evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

White conservatives are fearful of POC spaces because they imagine we are planning to do to them what they plan for us in their spaces.

This feels like half baked, but maybe because it's the Bulwark, it feels like the review is missing the clear right-wing social views emerging as well as the ways in which social media amplified people of color and gender and sexual minorities...and these men really really hate that.

The DSA discovering that Mamdani is not actually a communist is really funny to see.

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s