Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

I insist that you read it. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

Yesterday I learned Rhea Seehorn played a witch teaching you how to play Magic: The Gathering in a 1997 PC game m.youtube.com/watch?v=XCSw...

I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”

#BrokenTimes just asking coy questions.

Genuinely asking “Would a coin celebrating a man who led an insurrection against the United States undercut the principles of the United States?”

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents. by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

Democrats need a leader who is aware of the American political events of this century

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates. In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.

Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Trump is getting closer in appearance to a Kentaro Miura villain

Zuckerberg quote is highlighted here but this is also worth watching to see and hear all these tech leaders - Gates, Cook, Altman - groveling and calling Trump “incredible”. Watching their faces, if you know what Trump is, the idea of flattering him is viscerally revolting

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

It is extremely hard and brave to be a woman who wants to take away other people’s rights, including women’s, and for that I am feminist

On some level this feels almost worse than destroying the East Wing. This is a mockery of the very idea of serious public service as opposed to kleptocracy

This speech in 1 sentence: we are staying in power, come hell or high water. Listen to him carefully. No, seriously, listen! These guys aren’t joking. Be as deadly serious as they are.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

have you poured one out for dick cheney

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ouch

Trump and Karoline Leavitt's backpedaling on his threat to defy courts on SNAP shows Trump is not all-powerful: WH knows breaking the law to take food from the hungry is terrible politics. On the pod, @ddayen.bsky.social is terrific on the limits of Trump's power: newrepublic.com/article/2026...

Unsurprising that, after his party got its ass whipped, Trump would lean into vote fraud horseshit. A little surprising, though, that no one has yet told him that anonymous grocery shopping remains not just possible but the norm.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

Appreciate him articulating this explicitly although people will continue to rationalize bsky.app/profile/atru...

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.

I'm sure principled intellectual Ross Douthat also had a version of this one pre-written titled Cuomo's Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think, where he says getting elected mayor of NYC doesn't mean much for national politics, and the election certainly isn't a repudiation of Mamdani's politics

Zohran Mamdani won. So why does it feel like he lost?

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

To Understand The 2025 Election, We Spoke To Three Black Customers At An Alexandria Tatte

Fortune 500 companies waking up to the election results

Holy fucking shit

Chuck Schumer looking at the NYC mayoral results

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe"

When Willie O’Dwyer (NYC Mayor 1946-50, born Bohola, County Mayo) died in 1964, the NYT generously acknowledged that despite appearing to be a bog-trotting Paddy he was also able to read and enjoyed the sort of books you, dear subscriber, might have around the house.