Sick story dude. I mean a Muslim democratic socialist just became mayor of NYC but I'm sure they were totally gonna make second rate Yale philosophy professors the number one target. Truly the most persecuted amongst us. God I hate this loser shit.

the Fascism Knowers all fleeing the country to whine from foreign lands was just another type of elite capitulation. i hope they enjoy their employment elsewhere because i am disinclined to offer it back to them should they return.

“Jason Stanley isn’t afraid” wrong. Factually inaccurate. Jason Stanley is in fact an absolute coward.

I'm sorry, this is pathetic. Stay and fight you coward.

Pardon me?

Is this Lakewood?

Repeat after me: I am not wetter than Marjorie Taylor Greene. I am not wetter than Vaush. I am not wetter than Shadman. I am not wetter than Matt Yglesias. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be wetter than I am.

This is good, but a true Blueskyer would call it "X"

It's Death by Lightning Day!

Jesus

What a remarkable thing to say.

where i'm at rn

This is incredibly Hamilton flavored. Is Lin Manuel Miranda cool again, or is Mamdani cringe?

The real question is who would J. Jonah Jameson have endorsed in the New York mayoral

Goodbye Brooklyn's Rose...

Anyway I am a doggo of my word

People seem to be claiming last night shows that Dems can win by nominating "appealing", "charismatic" candidates. But these people have been complaining for months about how lame Mikie Sherrill is and she won by as much as New Jersey Dem gubernatorial candidates ever win by.

This is just blithering nonsense. There's no content here. In what sense did Spanberger and Sherrill fail to channel the energy of the party's base without alienating swing voters?

What is this? Honestly even worse taste than I expected from them.

This is so funny. Terrible NYC politician crush on Eric Adams is over (really has been over since he endorsed Cuomo); terrible NYC politician crush on Curtis Sliwa has begun.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Ok, one last race call for the night from a bellwether county... The Democrats have FLIPPED the Erie County, PA (Trump+1) County Executive position by 24 POINTS!

can't believe auntgate didn't work

We need to bring back "The Democracy" as a nickname for the Democratic Party.

He's running.

This is trying too hard, it's embarrassing.

We got Blotsylvania but this was not the year for Blork

I still can't believe how much hand-wringing there was about Sherrill and she's winning by almost identical margins to Spanberger.

I believe in the thermostat.

DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT THE "BAD" MIKIE SHERRILL CAMPAIGN EVER AGAIN NEVER

Why *is* NJ a +1 D environment?

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

Anecdata time! Turnout apparently very high in my very white, educated, liberal precinct in Philadelphia today. And that has to be about judicial retention since there's no competitive normal races.

Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:

🚨BREAKING🚨

I feel like the best this kind of nonsense can hope for for Cuomo is losing a vote to Mamdani for every vote gained from Sliwa. But probably it's worse than that.

I don’t really think the press is in the business of selling Dem policy to the public but on the other hand the obvious question that follows “the Dems have to sell it” is “to whom if not through the medium of the press in their capacity of transmitters of the fucking news, you moronic prig?”

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

It is...not the job of the press to explain to the public what was in a major piece of legislation?

The "fucking loves this shit" alliance against the guy who's moving to Florida if the people don't submit to his rule.

Ben Vereen, the mayor from Zoobilee Zoo.

@xtpd.bsky.social wants me to skeet this terrible AI slop I made, in support of his contention that Paul is the Drake of Marvel Comics.

Kids today don't even know about his dinner with Andre.

I guess, as a Philadelphia Phillies fan (though not one who was actually myself traumatized by 1993, since I only moved here in 2002), I can take comfort in Blue Jays fans learning what it's like to choke away a World Series in extraordinarily heartbreaking fashion.

I'm starting to see people cite the characters in "House of Dynamite" as preferable alternatives to our current leadership, and while that is probably true given how bad our current leadership is, those guys are also very bad at their jobs.

Roberts is saying this? Feels like a "physician, heal thyself" situation here.