Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.

Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!” 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

It is so embarrassing that Schumer STILL declined to say who he voted for. And yet another underscore on @rtraister.bsky.social's excellent piece on the Democrats who won't gtfo. nymag.com/intelligence...

While we're waiting to watch (eep, I hope) a new generation sweep into political power -- in some cases, against the wishes of Democratic elders -- here's the piece I published yesterday on the party's gerontocracy:

This is a great @rtraister.bsky.social piece on gnarled hands clinging to power but I love this quote. Aren’t we all looking for our “go to Northern Ireland and figure out the troubles thing?”

“Looking at our deeper history can offer…reminders of how it has very often been hard…but also that the violent inequities, the losses, the disappointments of that past have been the impetus for change…innovation and evolution. Against all odds these days, I am optimistic“ @rtraister.bsky.social

A searing coda from @rtraister.bsky.social, correctly indicting Dems' tendency to lean on and coddle gerontocrats: "The short-term grab at a familiar past got us through an immediate crisis, yes, but simultaneously assured a longer-term and more corrosive defeat." nymag.com/intelligence...

This is a very intense, interesting read from @rtraister.bsky.social about what the deal is with elder establishment Dems who scoff at the idea of retirement nymag.com/intelligence...

"It’s certainly not the first time an old world has been dying as a new world struggles to be born; the clash between past and future is eternal. But each age is gifted its own specific monsters, and ours are doozies." — @rtraister.bsky.social

I was closing a story last week and am late to this but was pretty bowled over by it

it's clear reading this @rtraister.bsky.social piece how little the Democratic Party thinks it erred in running Joe Biden at his age Also this memorable quote: "Many can’t imagine doing anything in which they won’t be heavily staffed and relevant all the time.” nymag.com/intelligence...

And here's @rtraister.bsky.social on the Olds v the Youngs: nymag.com/intelligence...

Bumping this biting and deeply relevant @rtraister.bsky.social piece from right before the primary, on election eve. This Fucking Guy:

Always grateful when reporters like @rtraister.bsky.social take my bits seriously. nymag.com/intelligence...

I’m going to be talking with @irincarmon.bsky.social about her stunning new book in Brooklyn on Tuesday and you have to register for it here; come talk and hang out with us!

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

Highly recommend this great piece from @rtraister.bsky.social from a couple years ago if you want to learn more about Tish James.

NEW from PP: You know how Krista Noem has been bottlenecking disaster relief? Turns out, you can get them greenlit —if you‘re a Noem donor! After donor asked, Noem quickly cleared project. Then she flew to town and dined at French bistro with the donor. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

hope =/= optimism [not the same things]

My sense is that most Americans had not heard of Charlie Kirk until yesterday. The first and perhaps only thing they're going to hear about him from the most trusted and important voices in American politics is that he was a model and constructive participant in good-faith political discourse.

This is what she lives with every day now: “The fear of leaving your family and letting them know, ‘If I don’t return, it’s not because I am abandoning you.’” Powerful story by @chabeli.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...

"But that one of the symbols of local resistance would be a man launching a sandwich is about as unexpected as things get. (That being said, a group of men dumping tea into a harbor did help inspire the Revolutionary War.)" @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/email/e53cf0...

Yeah Andrew has been the beneficiary of orders of magnitude more public assistance than Mamdani. A laughable dimension to attack his opponent on. Leading with this chin.

This rhetoric also just tries to normalize the idea that rent should be unaffordable. Since when is $2,300/month cheap?? Median household income in NYC is $78,000, so $2,300/month is still 35% of (PRE-TAX!) income for the average New Yorker. It's 14% of $200,000 (which is an acceptable ratio).

So you’re saying that Cuomo spent 725 years of Mamdani’s current rent on those records? 👀

Also, Andrew Cuomo spent $20 million of NY taxpayers' money to subpoena phone (& gynecological records!) of women who accused him of sexual harassment. How else might those 20 million have been spent? For instance: on resources and services for needy New Yorkers?

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

I think that the fascists have a different political project and that they do not have to actually deliver anything except cruelty against the out groups. Trump is authentically cruel and crass. People like that because they believe him on those things.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Wernher Von Braun, Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler-Werfel, the Elements, Hubert Humphrey, George Murphy, Oedipus Rex, Lena Horne, Vatican Two, Sexually-Transmitted Infections and masochism — just a few things I learned about obsessively listening to Tom Leher albums starting when I was 10.

Senators are Van Hollen, Welch, Schatz, Murray, Kaine, Durbin, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Smith, Baldwin, Markey, Warnock, Heinrich, Duckworth, Klobuchar, Hirono, Alsobrooks, Lujan, Ossoff, and Murphy. Both GA Senators and Baldwin from WI but no one else from a Trump 2024 state. No NY, NJ, or CA.

Spring is here, suh-pring is here Life is skittles and life is beer I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring I do, don't you? ‘Course you do But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me And makes every Sunday a treat for me — my childhood

“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Who could’ve guessed.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

More on Collins and the weird distortions and tidying up of her record that seem to happen every time her seat is up, this time with the (batshit) help of Planned Parenthood:

Susan Collins is now denying she got a hall pass despite other Republicans literally saying she got one. #mesen #mepolitics

The sheriff of Chesapeake, Virginia's second largest city, is calling himself “Detain ‘Em Dave”. He lost the GOP primary in June to a candidate who wants to crack down even further on immigration. No Democrat or independent filed to run. boltsmag.org/sheriff...

Why? Why don't they know? Whose responsibility is it to ensure they know, how are those mechanisms failing, and what can we do to repair or replace them? Those are the questions those who believe in journalism as public service should be asking ourselves. Because 48% is a failing grade.

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽