I despise Trump with every fiber of my being, but I’d be alarmed and enraged if another country’s military bombed Washington, DC, and kidnapped him.

“The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.” —Simón Bolívar, 1829

Thanks to Ozempic, my fridge is full of neighbors’ pumpkin and pecan pies with tiny wedges carved out.

According to the WSJ’s breakdown, Mamdani only lost the majority of households making >$300,000 and <$30,000. Everyone who’s not very rich or very poor put affordability front and center. It’s always the economy, stupid.

So fantastic to hear people on my street spontaneously break into cheers when Mamdani’s win was declared. Glad I don’t live anywhere else, including the Upper East Side.

Thanks, NYT, for clarifying that you’re looking for quality, not quantity, in protests.

Trump is more Imperial Wizard than wannabe king, drawing upon a history of homegrown hate to intimidate and terrorize.

That Trump is still alive, “exceptional” health or not, shows how many American lives are lost early because of unequal access to health care.

Dada Antifa vs Ubu Roi (King Turd).

Trump is a Don Quixote dictator, brain-addled from watching Fox News, tilting at wind turbines, waging “glorious” battles without provocation or cause, enjoining employees to play along with what they know to be preposterous nonsense.

Stephen Miller must’ve studied Nazi Germany and concluded, the only thing they did wrong was invade foreign countries instead of German cities.

Just learned that Kant had dementia in his 70s, so never mind doing brain teasers and Sudoku.

Reading Peniel Joseph’s Freedom Season (about the fight for civil rights in 1963) to remind myself how very, very hard it has always been to make any progress toward social justice.

If this were 19th-century Japan, every single one of those generals would have committed seppuku.

Regarding those who vote for the feels, how can Dems give them more than their glee from hatred, revenge, breaking things, and inclusion in a dominant group? Dems need to focus on those who don’t vote out of despair, cynicism, and/or inertia. Which Mamdani is doing.

Congress and SCOTUS have bestowed almost unlimited executive power on a man who does not have power over himself.

So why wasn’t there a significant decline in autism rates for US babies born in 1983?

My mother’s rural Midwestern church prayed for Charlie Kirk’s assassin to be a leftist. These fools want civil war.

My only worry about Trump’s failing health is that he’s so vindictive, he’s going to try to take all of us with him.

When the National Guard takes over Times Square, I hope tourists plug their gun barrels with Statue of Liberty tchotchkes.

I, too, love NY—but holy fuck is it expensive to live here. Manhattan Buy Nothing Groups are the new Filene’s Basement. Instead of fighting over discount wedding gowns, we compete for free toilet paper and dry beans.

In future, when the United States is ready to reckon with the crimes of the Trump administration, the Republican party should be banned.

New Yorkers aren’t as insulated from economic inequality as Americans in other areas. For example, I’m in a low-income apartment building facing a luxury high-rise. Based on what I see on their giant TVs, rich people are complete idiots.

Are we going to decriminalize euthanasia for people who need care but can’t pay for it, or are we just putting them in camps?

At a time in which higher ed in the US is fighting for its very survival, it’s good to see that Amherst Magazine is leading with a story on Ultimate Frisbee.

Zohran’s baby baskets are lovely. Care, not precarity.

Zohran’s victory is especially vital because many young people are parched for ethical role models who don’t seem like chumps or losers.

Happy Don’t Rank Cuomo Day for all who observe

The nation I’m most worried about having nuclear weapons is the only one to have used them against another country.

MAGA people were peasants far longer and more frequently than they were factory workers and coal miners. Here’s their chance to get back to the land and pick some lettuce.

Long before ChatGPT, I had my university students writing essays in class in longhand, with no devices or books. Or else a few would copy straight from Wikipedia or the textbook.

Trump and RFK Jr are returning Americans to a state of nature in which life is nasty, brutish, and too short to need Social Security and Medicare.

American women will need to have more babies for the same reason as in the nineteenth century, to make sure at least one survives childhood.

Any American who still supports Trump should have their citizenship revoked until they pass an exam on the US Constitution.

My mom, an outspoken Dem in MAGA country, is certain that should they ever come for her, her friends and neighbors will do nothing. Trump is nothing without his base. They are not deluded; they want this.

I remember how much drugs and sex we all needed to get through the last stagflation.

If humans were more like chimpanzees, the females would have banded together to drive out the mean bully before he could do much harm.

Amusing to read rationalizations for sheer idiocy. The emperor has no marbles.

Wall Street must have been on his retribution list.

Not liking this movie, Revenge of the Idiots.

Ok, money people, now is when you prove conspiracy theories right and replace your lunatic figurehead.

For a Democrat to take deep-red Pensacola/Escambia Co, FL (while not the district as a whole), something must be amiss.

Go ahead, cripple Social Security and Medicare, tank retirement accounts, increase taxes and consumer prices. Even Elon won’t have the money to buy enough Republican votes.

The Opposition is gonna need better music.

Is there anything this Republican Congress will balk at? Dropping bombs on Canadians? Raiding the Treasury? Ending Social Security? Disbanding Congress and the Courts? Trump will keep pushing for more and more until he’s stopped.

The security guys in my building would do a far better job of protecting US national security than these jokers.

For a not insignificant number of Trump voters, the daily reports of increasingly serious acts of incompetence and illegality make this season even better than the first.

Not content with shifting aid from the old, the poor, the sick, and the disabled to himself and other billionaires, Musk now wants all our sympathy and compassion, too.

Musk’s solution to the trolley problem is to fire the guy installing the lever.

Even high school kids know enough to vote for the smart girl for class president, not the bully who had to repeat a grade.