I 100% agree that NYC isn't a replicative environment to be transposed onto the national stage but I do seriously hope that in the coming weeks and months people actually grapple with how a Muslim nominee was besieged by people in his own party and out on the basis of being Muslim and nothing else.

the Fascism Knowers all fleeing the country to whine from foreign lands was just another type of elite capitulation. i hope they enjoy their employment elsewhere because i am disinclined to offer it back to them should they return.

AaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaa

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

“I spent years gleefully threatening my neighbors livelihoods and human rights, and now they wouldn’t spit on me if I was on fire? MODS! MODS!”

This is the fundamental question of the year, isn't it? If an idea that was once taboo has become normalized, do you have a right to continue to treat it and its adherents with moral repugnance, or are you obliged to bow to the shifting bounds of public opinion?

looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Jeffries: "Thune is divorced from reality. It's a clown show over in the Senate. 15 times you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill to the Senate floor expecting a different result? That's the classic definition of legislative insanity. Has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith."

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

>It’s real >It’s all real

"Open minded" in the sense their skull was left open to the air after the lobotomy

The “conservative feminists” and the anti-feminists have exactly the same theory of what gender should mean and imply but the “conservative feminists” think if you say “and it’s so beautiful” after explaining the obligation to pump out as many kids as possible, that means you’re pro woman.

i am glad that trying to pogrom hispanics reduced his support amongst hispanics. the laws of gravity still exist somewhat

Also on this point, something that a lot of folks don't appreciate is the fairly large swath of people who would qualify as "natsec liberals" who are now fully radicalized onto a "fuck the state of Israel entirely, not just Likud" platform It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Love our hater queen

This is it. The American electorate is ~30% people who genuinely want cruelty, ~49% people who actively oppose it, and ~21% ignorant dum-dums. That’s not to excuse the dumbasses, but the majority of this country does not actually want this immigration policy.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

If Jay Jones texted that shit in 2016 would a critical mass of Dems have blanked their ballot and let Miyares win? I think so. But they are furious now. Their new standard is: Make the guy apologize, then vote for him, because fuck it, Republicans would.

The way people tried to hang the very normal number of train derailments in the Buttigieg is how we need to stick plane crashes to Duffy. The U.S. had gotten very good at making sure large, scheduled flights did not crash and now they are crashing

it’s so telling and fitting that silwa was the only one to call and congratulate mamdani cc @theophite.bsky.social

The DCCC has poured a ton of money into keeping you in your seat. You were being recruited to run for Senate. The idea that you don’t have room in the Democratic Party is absurd. You’re mad that you’re not in charge.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s so normal and so many people are so weird about him. And it becomes really hard to miss the fact it’s mostly because he’s Muslim

never forget

Roberts: "We didn't stay this case" 🤨👀 sooo you're admitting now that when the Court's conservatives try to be like 'we didn't make a ruling! all we did was stay the lower court's ruling! there's no implication to take 😇' that's fake as hell?

racedep is dead and the democratic party is alive

Oh, now he's worried about the continual accretion of power in the executive branch

TIMES SQUARE M&M STORE NOW GOVERNMENT OWNED. ALL THE M&M'S ARE GRAY.

Also remember that the ‘Great Power Peace’ Mearsheimer et al promise is in fact still characterized by constant warfare between great powers and lesser powers (see: 1815-1856; 1870-1914)

something that the dems have always struggled with (for at least 15 years now) is that the public doesn't believe the GOP is actually like that, it's always a "negotiating tactic" or "just red meat for the base", even if it's literally written GOP platform stuff. anyways:

What's even more incredible is the ADL caping for them

Zohran is a generational political talent and I'm very happy he's mayor and Cuomo is not. Also Spanberger and Sherrill do not seem to be generational political talents and yet they obviously did very well and Republican turnout cratered in their elections.

I don't think that Lori Lightfoot thinks that Lori Lightfoot has beautiful, luxurious hair

funniest outcome last night was nearly 2 in 3 politically active Californians slamming the 'yes' button on the 'Delete Republican Districts' measure

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

We are doing little a wojakposting as a treat

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

Mamdani going through this list and upzoning every one that went Cuomo + 40

Spanberger-Sherill-Zohranism lives

Nightmare blunt rotation

Dudes rock

The popular front is reborn

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Dudes rock

I believe in Blexas Dummymander