Bill Clinton was the Zohran Mamdani of 1992. Young, charismatic newcomer who campaigned relentlessly on people's economic struggles and ousted the out-of-touch member of a dynastic political family who couldn't connect with regular people.

The Anti-Defamation League has launched a "Mamdani Monitor" to track the new NY mayor. Sure, the president is a naked antisemite and his administration is brimming with neo-Nazis. But every time Mamdani calls someone "habibi" we're going to track it, because that's what really imperils Jews.

I wonder how much Meta is protected (or thinks it is) by the number of people who have its stock in balanced portfolios. You'd destroy a lot of wealth by doing what needs to be done (shooting the entire company into the cold depths of space)

Big internal conflict between the "We're gonna pretend we love Jews as a tool to promote hatred of Muslims" crowd and the "Wait does that mean we have to actually stop hating Jews because we're not down with that" crowd, no telling how this will get resolved

Someone ought to run for president on a platform of outlawing Meta and sending Mark Zuckerberg to a supermax prison for his crimes against humanity

When a party wins EVERYWHERE as Dems did, it doesn't mean they deployed a clever strategy. It means there's something fundamental at work. Voters are mad, they were mad in 2024, and they'll be mad in 2026. Every election is a change election. My latest at MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

When the government reopens and we get the BLS jobs reports we've been missing, Trump is going to invade Venezuela, Nigeria, and maybe Denmark for good measure

Let's hope Trump strong-arms GOP senators into killing the filibuster. It'll be the best thing for Democrats and the country in the long run. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fili...

Congrats to this guy on his move to Florida www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Tuned in to Fox News, the conclusions were: 1. Dems did OK, I guess 2. This is actually good for Republicans because they can run against these Democratic wackos

I’m told that the results of a single election reflect a perfect, unchanging, and inescapable spirit of the Volk, so I will expect us all to start respecting the American people’s desire for Woke Maximalism.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

If we really had a political media industry that was fair and balanced - then we'd have a deep discussion about how anti-trans bigotry from the Republicans/MAGA doesn't work when the data points against their leaders' incompetence is overwhelming. BTW cc: take note @governor.ca.gov ↘️

We live in a tech oligarchy, one that is increasingly right-wing even as its wealth expands no matter who is in office. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-fake-p...

“Cuomo closed by demonizing immigrants, forgetting his own family history. Mamdani, in his closing video, honored the legacy of New York’s Italian-American political leaders who fought for workers.” www.signorile.com/p/cuomo-disg...

“thinks Democrats need to listen more”: I think Mamdani, with his canvassing and his night-shift campaigning and his meetings with workers, has done a tone of listening too? The party is wide enough for Mamdani _and_ Spanberger! The press needs to stop forcing this strained dichotomy.

Looking forward to the 12-episode true crime podcast about Sandwich Guy

Spangerger's theory of how to communicate moderation to voters has always been to shit on other Democrats. A few years ago she was doing "My party needs to stop saying 'defund the police'" when nobody in her party was saying defund the police. This is her M.O.

Just remembered this hilarious promo from the failson of one of the Koch brothers about his company selling comically hideous shirts, which he said can be worn "in the boardroom, or in a discotheque-a, or in a nightclub, or on a yacht." Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEw0...

Amazing line in the WaPo editorial board screed against Mamdani: "while he no longer defends eliminationist rhetoric about Jews, he remains fixated with Israel. Whenever confronted with his most radical views, the undeniably talented politician simply smiles and pivots to 'affordability.'" So...

After Tuesday, Andrew Cuomo is never again in his life going to set foot in New York, a city he plainly loathes

Somebody was mean to Marc Andreessen on Twitter and he got so mad he decided to deploy all the resources at his disposal to destroy our civilization

This is an amazing clip. Trump basically says that he doesn't care what crimes CZ committed, because what matters is that he gave Trump a bribe

Are you kidding me www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

This Ross Douthat piece is a parody of pundit's disease. Voters think about politics exactly as I do, making fine-grained ideological assessments! If you lost it was because you weren't centrist! Only one who has never encountered an actual voter can believe that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

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Andrew Cuomo's entire campaign is a crime against humanity

Today's installment of Things Elon Musk Says Are About to Happen That Will Never Ever Happen gizmodo.com/elon-musk-te...

Guess who's going to be most hurt by the suspension of SNAP benefits? That's right, rural families. And remember, this is on top of the $186 billion the GOP budget already cut from SNAP. dailyyonder.com/halt-in-snap...

My explanation of Trump's statement on nuclear testing is that he has a long obsession with how awesomely powerful nukes are, and since he's constantly feeling both intoxicatingly powerful and frustratingly powerless, he literally just wants to create a big explosion and shout "Donny make boom!"

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

It's incredible that Mary Shelley was just 18 years old when she wrote "Frankenstein" and 200 years later people are still thinking about it and talking about it and remaking it. How many works of art have that kind of lasting impact?

The administration is trying to send Afghans who helped America back to Afghanistan so they can be murdered by the Taliban. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The point of shock and awe is to paralyze your enemy, enabling you to seize ground while they stand there in disbelief. That’s what Trump, Vance, and the GOP are attempting. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/shock-and-...

ICYMI, the Trump administration just erected a statue to a white supremacist traitor and key figure in the early KKK. apnews.com/article/trum...

Billie Eilish has a message for billionaires: “Give your money away, shorties.”

Great thread, and Vance is sneakily disingenuous on multiple dimensions here. Unions build SOLIDARITY between people of different backgrounds, which is exactly why the plutocracy and people like JD Vance have worked so hard to destroy organized labor.

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Andrew Cuomo wants you to know that if there's one thing that stands in opposition to "New York culture," it's immigrants. I mean what, are people going to start coming to New York from other places? What kind of craziness is that? It's never happened before and shouldn't start now!

The 2028 Republican platform is going to say we should make redlining legal again

Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes" wapo.st/4nuDGwf

"Inner cities" eh? Surprised he didn't bring back Reagan's "strapping young buck."

The next time you hear Marc Andreessen whining about how rude it is for people to criticize him and his peers because they're such geniuses carrying humanity on their backs to utopia, think of this list of head-spinningly moronic ideas he's throwing money at.

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Also if Barack Obama had saluted foreign soldiers, three different Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute "scholars" would have written entire books about how he had committed treason against America

People are "sharing AI-generated photos of themselves having luxury experiences." Why stop there? Maybe next they'll start sharing AI-generated photos of them earning a living wage and having affordable housing and health care. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Elon Musk's Grokipedia is going to be as successful as the political party he said he was going to start. If you're saying "Oh yeah, whatever happened to that? Does it actually exist?", that's what you'll say when someone brings up Grokipedia a year from now.