It’s ludicrous to let Musk avoid personal responsibility by hiding behind “grok.”

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

The fundamental problem in Democratic politics is that most D politicians want to please big donors, whose goals are the opposite of the D voters’ goals. By pledging to work with Rs, they show the donor class that they want to get along with them.

To all the people who don't care what happens to trans people: that is my son that they are attacking. What would you say if someone attacked your son? “Put on your big boy pants and suck it up.”? “Don’t be a purity pony.”?

We, the voters, can accept failure. We can’t accept complacency, cowardice, or laziness.

Centrist Democrats only control us if we let them. This is speaking too broadly, of course, but look at Schumer. His fate was to sit on the mayoral inauguration stage or retreat to the background.

Extra appropriate in light of the Post story about Rama Duwaji's boots. Socialists fight not just for mere subsistence but human flourishing, which includes comfort, sensuous pleasures, and beautiful things bsky.app/profile/apoc...

I’m fine with other people having more money than me. I’m not fine with the elite creating some much income inequality that they can force others to suffer unnecessarily.

Republicans have decided to weaken us by attacking our children. That must not stand.

Must you rub it in, lol?

@eschatonblog.com, right again, here on Dems' insistence on supporting that nasty loser, Son of Mario. www.eschatonblog.com/2026/01/hope...

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

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Immigration is one of the best things about my city. Otherwise, there is not a lot to brag about.

The problem with hiring a doctor who will lie for you is that you have hired a doctor who will let you do stupid things like this. And evidently his wife is not around to monitor his meds, which is an important task. I kept a list of meds and a schedule for administering them to my husband myself.

The worse he looks, the happier she looks. He does not look well.

This entire house is open to the world. What would you do if there was no toilet paper in the bathroom?

But I am hoping for a very exciting funeral.

The only way to deal with a malignant narcissist is to fight him. He will not let you do anything else. If you give in, he will demand more. If you try to bargain, he will let you give concessions and then refuse to do the same. If you do nothing, he will take that as permission to do his worst.

Your work in 2025 to protect the ACA ended with sky-high heath care premiums. At some point we need to get results, not assurances that you are working hard, in an era in which Congress is being bypassed by Republicans.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

It just occurred to me that we might end up in a world where we will be expected to endure mass shootings at daycare centers because nobody will do what needs to be done to end this nightmare.

It‘s so ironic: Vance’s beloved Scots-Irish were considered too barbaric to live with civilized colonials, back in the day.

Aiming their ads at couch warriors is an example of faulty reasoning. The pertinent word here is “couch,” not “warrior.”

After 1 1/2 years, my mourning period is over, I have arbitrarily decided. I will put away my widow’s weeds (dark tee shirts) and resume my regular clothing (baby Deadpool and tacos tee shirts).

Anothet great appointment. I was an ed reporter at the Village Voice, and THE great sacred cow of white NYC liberals is maintaining the segregated “gifted & talented” public schools, which Mamdani has promised to dismantled. Samuels has worked towards this already. www.amny.com/education/ka...

The one thing they want is the one thing they will never have. They will never be cool. They will never be culturally important and respected. It drives them crazy.

Beauford Delaney (American, 1901–1979) Untitled [Jazz Club], 1950 Oil on canvas 71.4 × 91.8 cm. Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #HappyNewYear

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

Will this be the year? We can only hope.

Women are fooling themselves if they ignore the fact that they think they have a partner but he thinks he has a servant and breeder who is his intellectual inferior. It does and will affect their lives negatively.

Lol

People sound so noble and fair minded as they welcome conservatives who threaten my son’s life, freedom, and rights into his own political party. The more abstract someone writes, the more likely it is that they are trying to deceive you.

The best thing we can do for kids is to help their parents give them a good home. People want an easy answer but the answer is to create a healthy society. Our society based on inequality, scapegoating, and persecution is the worst possible thing for them.

The purpose of billionaire taxes is to reduce their money thereby reducing their power thereby reducing their ability to thwart democracy, not necessarily to fund government programs. That’s just the gift with purchase.

ButIf we froze income tax payments due to their waste, theft, and fraud, we would get into big trouble.

To little, too late.

It’s nice to see some things never change, like McArdle’s passive aggressive support for the most disgusting and harmful billionaires on the planet.

Somebody doesn’t become an ally when they decide it’s more beneficial to attack Trump than to ride his coattails.

The moment in which you have eliminated from your life anyone who tells you “no.”

Shopping carts should have horns.

Heh. If you can edit your prompts to be clearer, you can also edit your writing to be clearer. If the chatpot works better than your brain, maybe you are in the wrong profession. Ditto for choosing to outsource your work.

If the only way to gain power is to move right, why are we being told to accept people on the right who appear to be moving left?

People have the memory of a goldfish-or are trying to push the D party right.

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

Akhenaten his ass.

Anyone who thinks the trans panic is about protecting women hasn't been paying attention.

Example of a 'commonplace' cylinder seal from Bronze Age Mesopotamia, engraved with motifs and rolled across clay tablets to imprint a design. Whilst elite seals have received much attention, those used in everyday life are often neglected 🏺 #Archaeology 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...