👇🎯 Americans, raised from birth on the comforting myth that our institutions are an actual immutable paragon of democratic/republican government, have a very hard time believing just how minoritarian & undemocratic they really are. When you describe the actual reality, many think you’re bonkers.

Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.

“I Study Fascism. I Ran Away Rather than Resist.” Rather hear from any random person at a No Kings rally.

Can NYC survive, financially, without Douchebag Sports Dot Com and related crypto betting application synergies?????

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

One thing the mayor-elect could do between now and January 1 is to call on Kathy Hochul to veto the bill on her desk that would ban one-person train operations in the NYC subway. Mamdani was absent the day of the vote, and banning OPTO is incompatible with lower cost (or free) transit.

Having been in a Gristedes I can confirm that this is 100% true nypost.com/2025/11/05/b...

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

Campaigning for statewide office in NY as a wacky Islamophobic bigot may have been a winner 22 yrs ago but probably not today, even against the flatfooted Hochul. There is however a different Czech-American NY resident, also a lawyer, handsome in a Rowan Atkinson way, who would do a whiz-bang job ☺️

Susan Collins cast the deciding vote today to block a measure that would have required congressional approval for Trump to strike Venezuela. The deciding vote. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Went to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition today and, inevitably, it was absolutely delicious. Cup of Coffee, 1961

Do the Democrats have a gerontocracy problem? Our distinguished panel says no

(sigh) trillionaires should not exist

This is great news for sandwich guy, of course, but it's also a big news story that other future jurors will see, helping to spread and legitimize the idea that they don't need to convict on charges that seem unjust. Jury nullification (if that's what happened here) is self-propagating in that way.

A little Hoagy in honor of the Hero of DC, free now from the Grinder of our justice system youtu.be/f5UIb4nR5WQ

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Storm at sea whale: eagerly awaiting scraps this ship may soon become. Fantastic rendering by Joos de Momper, 1610. It's his day today.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Houses - 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104551

Edward Yang (with scenes from his film "Yi Yi") - BOTD

Four decades later, there are still things to learn about Hüsker Dü and the Replacements and the Minnesota bands’ heyday eras. www.startribune.com/husker-du-re...

Ahhhhhhhh 🪷🕉️🍵🤗

I love a great pop contralto #nl open.spotify.com/track/5BIiGL...

Great. Now every Democrat officeholder over age 70 should be telling us their plan to do likewise. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

For this reason alone, Schumer should not be the Senate leader. Among Democratic voters, 8% support Israel's actions in Gaza.

Schumer literally said this his job as Senate leader is to "keep the left pro-Israel." That wasn't hyperbolic or rhetorical. That's truly what he believes his job is. It doesn't matter to him if that costs Democrats the presidency, House majority, Senate majority, or anything else.

“Do you know that I consider it immoral to teach in the schools that the Constitution of the United states is too sacred to change, almost to touch? Why, what are we, a lot of degenerates?" - Charles Beard, 1915

Humiliating

The non-stop Maddrey, Kaz, Shell scandals plus the Adams/Banks strategy of trying to suppress crime by blanketing the city in OT shifts really has done a number on PD morale — hellgatenyc.com/three-nypd-c...

It’s bizarre, but many Zionists (mostly older and conservative) are now liable to get angry and upset at the prospect of New York’s mayor-elect _not_ being antisemitic. A load-bearing myth to prop up their sagging moral high ground and justify or at least obscure military subsidies to Israel

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

tfw when even Reductress has got your ass

Pra quem tenha sertões no coração #nl🇧🇷 open.spotify.com/track/2PoD7V...

Jim Thompson-caliber stuff www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.

Now playing (11:30 AM PST): "A Colt Is My Passport" (1967) By Takashi Nomura Runtime: 84 min.

For a bit I forgot that the current political movement was won with a weak minority and is managed by annoying dorks who nobody likes who have terrible vibes. This video has 1.3 million likes and is a good reminder that better things are possible, even for those of us outside NYC. A good night!

“The sun may have set over our city this evening. But as Eugene Debs once said, ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’” Learn more about Eugene Debs and how @forward.com's earliest years were closely intertwined with him.

I did not write the headline, but I have an op ed on Prop 50 over at the @sfchronicle.com. Shorter version: the nationalization and polarization of our politics is what got us here, and it's also the most likely way out. It will take national partisan Democratic hardball to enact anti-hardball.

Also, I like how outdoorsy this noir is

True and I hope our new guy is different

In the end Mayor Adams stood for NYPD overtime abuse, free upgrades to Istanbul, and city employees parking on the sidewalk

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Does Washington have the state capacity to sic ICE on NY the way they have on Chicago? And are there enough Trump donors in Manhattan who might, just for the sake of their own day-to-day tranquility, deter their boy from federal occupation of NY?

My sixth or seventh viewing of Wise Blood (1979, directed by John Huston, and based on the novel by Flannery O'Connor). It's available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzNs... Some screenshots follow. Rich and strange. I expect David Lynch was a huge admirer.

Let every future speech by the mayor-elect of NY leave Van Jones clucking like a wet hen