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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

This piece is so cool

People, respect the picket line. Even if there aren’t Starbucks barista unions in your area, DON’T GO INTO STARBUCKS DURING THE STRIKE. Solicit your local coffee shops. You can get a $7 pumpkin spice latte anywhere.

Republicans once again threatening us with a good time

Between this and the district court ruling that SNAP funds need to be restored in full for November, it's a big day for sandwich news

From a literary standpoint, I’d say this is the most important photo ever taken of Trump as president. Captures everything about the guy.

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

me, every time another legacy outlet runs a terrible op-ed with a bad-faith, rage inducing question in the headline:

(1) We don't know that this was a jury nullification situation. (2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged. And that's fine. It's what juries are for.

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

full thread of updates : bsky.app/profile/tani...

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

Wow everything's coming up Milhouse tonight

have to say from the first push alert of the morning this has been one of the greatest single newscycle days in a long while; hopefully an amuse bouche of things to come

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

NAIL BITER

NYC to Cuomo: it turns out that “No” really does mean “No.”

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

What I learned tonight is the future of the Democratic Party is a trans Muslim CIA agent wine mom who wants to eliminate capitalism and barter with people on the free bus.

I better see no less than six stories this week in the NYT about Mamdani voters talking about their economic anxiety in Brooklyn diners and what the GOP can do to win them back.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Just let me get the leak of what the NYPD group chats post about Zohran

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

my bf, a generational hater: “i’m gonna redeem a 3-day free trial to the nyt so i can watch them crash out when mamdani wins”

I am of two minds right now. 1) I have no belief nor do I have any faith in the two party system, and 2) GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SEE THE REPUBLICANS GET DOG WALKED AT THE POLLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TONIGHT.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

I hope Republicans take this as a warning that anti-abortion, anti-trans bullshit doesn't play well with voters bsky.app/profile/chad...

Fuck yeah PA

This obit absolutely lives up to its killer headline

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

If there are two things about Americans that are both double edged swords, it’s that we really hate incumbents who we feel let us down and most of us have the baseline belief “the government should leave me and everybody else alone if we aren’t hurting anyone.”

this is looking significantly worse for the gop than 2021 was for Ds. will pundits treat it as a sweeping rebuke of Trump? or are they not allowed to put that in the papers now?

damn mamdani killed dick cheney and he’s not even the mayor yet

I note many Americans here are reacting to news of Dick Cheney's death about the way Brits reacted when Thatcher died.

Yawning at the limited government folks warning that a democratic socialist mayor of New York is an existential threat, but who remain guardedly optimistic about an authoritarian president.

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

TLDR: Teen Vogue's coverage is about to be watered down in a way that serves no one. The politics section, which featured cutting edge stories on repro rights, the economy, and more is now gone. Black women are no longer at what remains. Everybody loses. This is #TheDoubleTax.

Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:

Per NYPost's scoop, some of the ways Mamdani's wife has "quietly steered" his campaign are weighing in on his logo design, being "a major source of support for him in private" and once posting on Instagram, "Couldn't possibly be prouder."