For a long time, the New York Democratic machine was corrupt, sclerotic, hostile to progress, and completely implacable. That started to change when 13 women came forward, at great personal cost, about the sexual harassment they experienced from Andrew Cuomo.

Exclusive: A Post reporter obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Tulsi Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.

Remember all the banks who financed the American concentration camps. They will pretend they just slipped into providing billions to put kids in cages otherwise.

Was I wrong?

"if you introduce a tertiary character, you must either justify their usage or consolidate them with other tertiary characters" - most books on narrative craft

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

LMAO -- GOP Rep. French Hill is literally right now during a news conference touting the bipartisan housing bill and the president's support for it, unaware that Trump moments ago angrily announced he won't sign it

Technically, they’re Remains now.

I know a lot of suburban and rural older white ladies who are intensely active and involved in their communities, many of whom volunteer serve on local dem committees. They, almost universally, hate the democratic establishment, status quo dems, and are clamoring for proactive progressive policies.

BREAKING: BOSTON (AP) - Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote.

So many NYC machines lost tonight And in the schism between WFP and DSA, WFP candidates were found lacking Mamdani - good at legislating and politics and bringing a squad along into office

Mamdani is in the big leagues now. Lander won, but we expected that. The story is that Valdez, also backed by Mamdani, beat Reynoso. The Brooklyn party told Mamdani in public to back off. A mayor from outside Brooklyn who can tell the Brooklyn party to get in line is powerful indeed.

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

And one more thing: all the cranks demanding third parties should take a look at what Mamdani has done. He won his Democratic primary and then threw his support behind other primary challengers and won those. He's the King of New York, and he did it as a Democrat and with Democrats.

Generally speaking, polls have shown the Democratic Party's problem is not being seen as too woke, but weak and ineffective. Judging by tonight's primary results, Democratic Primary voters are intent on fixing this www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

I would simply suggest that if people want to defend democracy and see defeating incumbent democrats as the way to do that, then the failure lies not with the challengers and voters but with the incumbents who failed, often repeatedly, to meet the moment while squandering energy and donations.

Maybe party machines should not be decades behind their constituents.

AOC on the Reflecting Pool: They talked a bunch of smack. They said they had to repaint the pool, and now they’ve turned it into an actual swamp.

The State Board of Education will vote on incorporating more Christian stories into public classrooms as well as on deemphasizing race and cultural diversity in history lessons.

Narcissists have a history with reflecting pools

Let’s hope it sticks. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

Indiana's Lt Gov is lashing out at Indiana Jews for standing by their Muslim neighbors instead of hating them. Antisemitism and Islamophobia are deeply intertwined, and can only be countered in solidarity. indianacitizen.org/lt-gov-beckw...

Additionally, watching fans from all over the world experience the nice things about my country has been so beautiful to watch. I’m not gonna let some idiot assholes ruin that for me. Shit already sucks and I flat out refuse to let anything ruin sports, one of the few things that still bring me joy

Before I could finish, Bhattacharya cut me off to say something like: “what you’re doing is political!” I replied: “More political than speaking at CPAC?” He responded: “I’m in a political position and you’re not!” And then stormed off. So I have it straight from Jay, I’m safe from schedule P/C!

Just 10 days after the SpaceX IPO, the stock has plunged and the average investor has seen most of their initial gains disappear. And don't forget: rules protecting investors from volatile new stocks were gutted — at SpaceX's behest. The universe's largest Ponzi scheme?

"I don’t want to speak ill of anyone who has passed," writes @rbreich.bsky.social. "But the truth must be told: if any single person was responsible for the financial crisis of 2008, it was Greenspan."

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This is like saying, “Why do you think it was called Windows 95? Because it was the 95th version of Windows that Microsoft released!”

Josh Marshall: "The 'fight' element is what polls tell us pretty clearly Democratic and gettable D-leaning voters want pretty much everywhere."

The Mamdani effect is: - saying what you will do if elected -doing it and doing it well - proving that government works and can even work fast Turns out (NYC) voters really like that and want more, DSA or not!

Every now and then Facebook posts a banger. Being Buddhist, it being the hols, and with all this discourse about MA, this seems right to post today. We can’t let one sketchy situation stop us from doing what good we are able.

About two-thirds of Americans think AI is moving too quickly. Women (68%) are more likely than men (58%) to think this.

Alice Smith covering Fleetwood Mac's Dreams at Afropunk (omg I miss it so much) youtu.be/W62iYiGxlhg?...

I hope we never forget who bought into this AI scam despite shit like this happening every week. Never forget and lord it over their heads forever

Whoopi Goldberg is one of the most talented Americans ever. One of the few performers to “EGOT” and the 1st Black Woman to do so—having won all 4 major U.S. entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Jennifer Hudson is the 2nd Black Woman and John Legend is the only Black man and to EGOT.✨

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

Mark Zuckerberg thought long and hard how to make things even shittier, and came up with

“ I watched my baby take his first breath, and I watched my baby take his last breath,” Vellesiya Wiley said, eight days after a police officer shot and killed her 1-year-old son in her arms in Senatobia. The family is seeking an independent autopsy and demanding the release of video footage.

I have some serious questions about how this ended up languishing in a USA archive for almost 80 years. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

they have it across from the giant Ferris wheel so it looks extra shrimpy omg I am crying

RESULT: Brad Lander has ousted Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary in #NY10. The AP called it within minutes of polls closing.

i fly like pinky get high like brain

Pretty cool story

oh my god

Ah, see, looking more and more like the incompetence of an unqualified contractor who is the neighbor and friend of 47.

I'm not gonna say the Times had this story ready to go but

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?