We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Or, if you are Robert Reich, against change, as the case may be

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible

Crazy enough that one of NYT's marquee podcasts hosted an outright white supremacist, but it also blows my mind to see the paper of record run with "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" in a just-asking-questions sort of way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Doing my part to reassure Heritage Foundation creeps by promising I will never have them over for dinner.

Mamdani says he'll pay for free buses and free child care with new taxes on rich people and corporations. Meanwhile billions of dollars in budget deficits loom for New York, with federal spending cuts making the picture much worse and threatening social programs we already have. Ugly details here.

Yeah, true. I should have been more precise, but the point remains that setting up a false dichotomy of public subsidy vs. more housing supply and doing just one would cripple CA's ability to make serious progress on homelessness in anything like a reasonable time frame.

Bad take that collapses two separate issues: homelessness prevention (where money helps but the main thing you need is a large supply of housing) and helping people when prevention fails (which absolutely requires public funds). thehill.com/opinion/whit...

PSA for other East Bay residents, my household just got targeted by this scam. (I turned the guy away.) If anyone from AAA comes by asking about your PG&E statement, tell them you're not interested. abc7news.com/post/aaa-thi...

I mean the difference between the people who do this and actual ICE officers is just that the former group haven't gotten their application approved yet.

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.

Can't wait for ADL to take a break from hounding Mayor Mamdani to preemptively absolve her of all her past and future statements.

"[F]ind candidates suited to their constituencies and focus on cost of living issues and opposition to Donald Trump’s autocracy. Full stop. It’s not more complicated than that. That’s your opposition message." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

The actual electoral record of outspoken transphobia remains pretty bad in the United States.

Add me to the voices expressing disgust at the ADL. With all the real threats to American Jews - and there are many - this is nothing short of insulting. That they do this while excusing, waving away, and providing cover for actual fucking white nationalists makes it doubly so.

Yesterday's other big theme, besides how much the electorate hates Trump, is that voters really want more housing built.

I truly never thought I’d see the day when Marin County voters went pro-housing; but they appear to have opted to upzone parts of Sausalito(!) and rejected the housing-centric recall effort against the mayor of Fairfax.

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane

The logical corollary of this argument appears to be that a gerrymander explicitly intended to preserve white political dominance passes constitutional muster, but only if the white vote doesn't command an outright electoral majority.

They're realllly trying to thread the needle with an argument that would annul California's gerrymander but not Texas's. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

If Mamdani truly wants to govern on behalf of all New Yorkers then he will appoint at least one bald deputy mayor

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Honestly on his promise to address housing affordability, the passage of Props 2-5 is such a big deal that I think Mamdani is going to get to coast a bit.

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

the main response to losing to a blue tsunami i've seen by people in TPUSA is "more mass deportations and ending immigration" completely gave up on the multi-racial populist project, all in on George Wallace ideology

The only disappointing / genuinely baffling result I saw from last night was on New York's Prop 6, and the only explanation I can come up with is that even on a generally good night it is impossible for the voters to Be Normal.

I'm having a difficult time squaring last night's election results in NY, VA and NJ with the fact that SFUSD only recently brought back eighth grade algebra

They're calling it the most thermostatic election in American history

america yesterday

However you feel about Andrew Cuomo, it’s pretty cruel that he has to become Anthony Wiener’s roommate now

Sandwiches do 2d8 damage at close range but unfortunately you take a significant penalty on attack rolls if you're more then ten footlongs away from the target.

Very telling which people think Nick Fuentes is the person attacking their city, or their ally in defending the city

This is a smart analogy because living in new apartment buildings is famously like being forced to spend all day inside one of the meatpacking plants from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. nymag.com/intelligence...

Keep your eyes on the prize. NIMBY local govs, the realtors, the CBIA are standing in the way of housing abundance. This “populism vs abundance” shit is a sideshow for people who can’t name live legislation.

As for his "opposition to free parking," what are you referring to, exactly? People have been throwing that word at Donald Shoup for decades, but I've never seen an example of his alleged opposition to free parking. What are examples?

Interesting that this is coming from the New York Post of all places.

lol, I was wondering why this all sounded so familiar

Just picked one YIMBY group and here is their top leg priority for 2025 prosperitycalifornia.org/legislation/

I am once again begging and pleading for the people who write these pieces to check out the sponsored bill list on a real YIMBY group's website.

• Pretends YIMBYs only care about zoning maps. ✅ • Ignores YIMBY policymaking in the "success story" example. ✅ • Cites discredited and methodologically suspect research uncritically. ✅

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the Washington Monthly is at it again washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/t...

Trying to square the circle here between Dylan O'Riley and @himself.bsky.social on civil society: publiccomment.blog/p/varieties-...

Well, Tiberius was a pedophile who abused children at his private retreat.

The fact that the president is focused on remodeling the White House while Stephen Miller commands his security forces makes me think the proper analogy isn't so much Caligula as it is Tiberius and Sejanus.

The premises are good, but the logical extension of those premises? That's bad.

Saying this was considered so beyond-the-pale overtly racist it made Enoch Powell a pariah in the woke cancel culture of 1960s Britain.