Democratic women have made history tonight: Abigail Spanberger will be the first female governor of Virginia. Mikie Sherrill will be the first female Democratic governor of New Jersey. I’m looking forward to seeing these strong, dedicated leaders deliver a bright future for their states. 🎉

Zohran has now gotten more votes, in New York City alone, than 49 members of the U.S. Senate did when they get elected; It's likely that, when the final tally is complete, he'll have gotten more votes than half of all Senators currently in office. *This* is what power and purpose looks like.

quite a chart from WashPost www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Among voters 18-29: Prop 50: +58 Sherril: +37 Spanberger: +40 Mamdani: +61 And gender splits (also 18-29): Prop 50: +48M, +66F Sherril: +12M, +62F Spanberger: +15M, +62F Mamdani: +42M, +72F But tell me again how Gen Z is MAGA?

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Just for those not aware, Margaret Mitchell is an AI ethicist who was fired by Google after co-authoring the famous "Stochastic Parrots" paper that criticized the entire project of ever-larger LLMs way before most of the people now blocking her had ever heard of them. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/t...

Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Valuable reporting here. I think the key thing is the use of Venezuela to accustom American armed forces to lawless murder. The goal then is to get them to do the same thing inside the US. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

History repeats.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I wish people understood the theatrical principles of emotional preparation, foreshadowing, and dramatic anticipation. If this is you, four years from a GE, what pitch and volume do you hope to reach in 2029 when you finally announce, to absolutely nobody's surprise, you are endorsing another party?

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration? Banana republic shit

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

On the same day in the Telegraph:

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!

This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.

UPDATE: Three days on, disabled veteran and US citizen George Retes is still missing after being kidnapped by ICE. His wife has phoned every law enforcement agency in the area, they all say they don’t know where he is. It was his daughter’s third birthday yesterday. This is America now.

incredible that mainstream media keeps announcing that the story they "missed" during the election was biden's age, even though it got constant coverage for years, and not "donald trump was close friends with notorious pedophile jeffrey epstein"

We are seeing an increasing number of satellite launches where the owner, and even the owner's country, is not announced, contrary to the spirit (and arguably letter) of UN Res 1721B.

LAUNCH of secret commercial satellite by Falcon 9 from Canaveral at 0504 UTC Jul 13. Suspected to be IAI (Israel)'s Dror-1 communication satellite.

w here’s a picture MN can celebrate. State Senator John Hoffman discharged from ICU today after being shot numerous times during assassination attempt. His family tells me he’s moving to a rehab facility and still has a long road ahead.

i regret to inform you that you will simply never be able to craft a coherent vision of queer liberation without feminism, no matter how much you want to leave women out of your visions of a sexually free world

Things are looking up...for measles. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The Trump administration isn't just claiming the power of a king, but a power so egregious that it was abolished in the Glorious Revolution long before the version of the monarchy the US rebelled against www.stevevladeck.com/p/165-tiktok...

The New York Times is trying to reverse-engineer a pretext for their Mamdani piece; the product of what I'm imagining was a very panicked editorial meeting www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...

For no reason other than it's pretty: A chicory flower.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

For an overview about how difficult it is to sue federal agents under current law, and Congress's repeated failure to legislative in this area, see: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

NYT editors put Claudine Gay on the front page Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25 and pretend to be "centrist" and fair Christopher Rufo openly bragged about his plans They put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12

Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review. Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."

"It's not like the president is a baby brained moron," a White House official said, laughing nervously. "He's not, you know, a big stupid asshole who doesn't give a shit about anything except attention" www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Incredibly grim to learn that Jeff Bezos and his wife, in addition to hanging out with the Trump family, are huge fans of The Free Press, and see it as the future of media. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

There are so many messed up things going on at the same time right now, but I don't think I will ever get over how the ICE job postings advertise STUDENT FUCKING LOAN FORGIVENESS as one of their benefits: Terrible people application link for proof: www.usajobs.gov/job/840035800

The sad irony in all of this is that Redstone once positioned herself as a champion of First Amendment rights. In 2022, she told free-speech advocates that press freedom “must constantly be defended” even when it “comes at a significant cost.” Here's John Oliver's take on all that: 9/12

Redstone's desire to settle the case is driven entirely by avarice: She stands to make more than $1.5 billion should the Skydance merger gain official approval. She effectively paid Trump a bribe in exchange for government approval of the multi-billion-dollar Skydance deal. 4/12

“The complaint ... describes very basic editing techniques that journalists have to use to effectively do their jobs. This is not news distortion, but the type of editorial choice that the Constitution and a properly functioning FCC are meant to protect," we said at the time. 3/12