Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing. All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009. Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.

Here are a few things I’ve learned about how authoritarians exercise power. ( Sounds like David Brooks has finally read George Orwell's 1940 review of "Mein Kampf".)

How we’re still going to mess this up: by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer

Conspiracy theories are an easy way out, the fact that Americans freely voted for this monster is much more frightening and depressing than any conspiracy theory.

So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be

A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/opinion/trump-comey-christie-mafia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Miller and Vought are the ones ruling the USA. They are stinky and vile.

I’m doing it because he’s freaking out the business-as-usual power elites and driving establishment members of his own Democratic Party bananas.

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Republicans are behaving as if they will be in power forever, and nothing they do will be reversed. Republicans are also assuming that if Democrats regain power, they will be too spineless to employ those same tactics against Republicans.

Something I’ve always thought. To most Americans, their “freedoms” are just abstractions.

📌The White House just released this new photo of Stephen Miller because they thought it makes him look younger.

If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

A common talking point in far right publications in the 1970s had to do with a bunch of Cold War executive orders laying out a range of “emergency powers” a POTUS could temporarily take on in a crisis. They used to say this was the blueprint for communist takeover. Turns out they were just jealous.

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

Turns out the constitution and bill of rights only apply if our government upholds them. Once people who spent their lives undermining it got into power that all went away.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

The NY Times still doesn’t get it. Hurting the Civil Service is the point.

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

A couple of things in the latest Pew survey show how America got here. 8% of respondents never heard of Vice President J:D. Vance. 36% never heard of House Speaker Mike Johnson. 56% never heard of Senate Majority Leader John Thune. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

45% of respondents never heard of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. 26% of respondents never heard of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Our country has many millions of people who don’t have the slightest idea what’s going on in this country. It’s like they don’t live here.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Trump: "I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. We have a Secretary of Navy who came to me, 'cause I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at different ships, the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. And I look at those ships... "

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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)

One of the more worrying parallels between the US today and the Nazi‘s takeover of Germany in 1933 is the role of politicized armed units. Having a paramilitary ICE, staffed with loyalists, is very close to the role of SS and SA in early Nazi Germany. And don‘t be fooled by the versions of SS/SA 1/

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https://www.rawstory.com/ali-alexander-2674000748/ I think Ezra Klein should interview him

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So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

You can tell that trans women are women because we get blamed when random white men do crimes

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Imagine getting shot for not being racist enough while in the middle of saying something racist? It's like the deadliest Showtime at the Apollo ever.

charlie kirk died for what he believed in. in a very literal sense: he believed in a world where gun deaths are inevitable and the solution to problems is violence. he excused his own death years before it happened. and if anyone else had been killed he'd already be weaponizing and relativizing it.

Opinion | The Charlie Kirk assassination is Trump’s 9/11. by Bret Stephens

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids. This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

last december i wrote that democrats needed to behave like an actual opposition www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...