Yeah can anecdotally confirm that I'm seeing this when I talk to members my local. We run the gamut from lowest quartile earners to middle quartile depending on bargaining unit and everyone is pretty stretched.

These are all things I agree with.

BREAKING: We have counted over 1 million #nokings attendees from over 250 cities and towns. We're still waiting for data from the rest of the 2,400+ locations. Please send over anything you come across! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Didnt go to No Kings Version 1, but went to Hands Off!No Kings 2 was easily much bigger in NYC than Hands. Makes sense. Hands Off was a little of "well fuck, we gotta show the flag to slow their momentum" and this was more "Yes we are preparing for American-Maidan if you invalidate the midterms"

1,000 people out in Trump county LI exurbs from what I've heard. We outnumber them

Reporting from the NYC Labor Feeder March: Free Palestine is now treated the same as "Get Up, Get Down! New York City is a Union Town!" Its utterly non controversial

Look if I had CTE before I was 40, I too would like Cuomo

No one likes this answer but it's the correct one. The consumer stuff will never make money. The b2b tools will. But that doesn't work with the bosses dearest desire to fire all their employees and make money from sugar floss.

The corollary to this dynamic: if you are good at politics/organizing you are going to shift as conditions shift. If your politics are an outlet for your mental maladies or a form of entertainment, then you have contrary incentives. This results in an ever more concentrated "Crank Pool"

TOUCH THE STOVE! TOUCH THE STOVE!

This is a very fair point!

Theophite's assumptions are my base case as well: Google and Msft (fine), META (fucked), OpenAI(smoldering crater), Oracle (not fine). Also think companies like Coreweave and Anthropic are also pretty boned. The use case exists, but the business case remains ephemeral because the moats are fake.

Why yes I am propagandizing about the Civil War to my two year old. You gotta start em young!

Cool thread. My alternate framing to this dynamic, unsurprisingly, is going to center consumerism as politics. We’ve had “sacrificial, participatory, and enduring relationships” to institutions, and now we have “transactional and self-centered relationships to institutions”. Amenable to RW and LW!

Hey - look who else is a fan of Bobby "rape is epic" Walker.

#onit #grindset

"Critique Taken Too Far" Day

Mills entering the race against Planter: totally fine Gillibrand, Schiff and Kelly backing a centrist septugenarian over a chud-coded progressive while strong-arming Kleban into droping out: something I'm actually angry about

Caillou's dad: (texting) caillou is freaking the fuck out

True Sewer Socialism has never been tried...yet

We also shouldn't forget that the last person Schumer recruited for Maine, Sara Gideon, flamed out with millions still in the bank despite a VERY favorable midterm fundamental backdrop. That's also coloring people's reactions.

People are making up a guy to get mad at, because very few people are saying Platner should be anointed. Rather people are upset that internal recruitment focused solely on a candidate with 40% statistical likelihood of dying in her first term. A lot of Left punchers showing their asses today.

Tish is who she is thru pure cunning and skill. She's a black woman with 7 siblings. She went to CUNY. She got her Assembly seat by running on the WFP line(!) and made a deal with Cuomo to become AG only to bide her time and knife him when the time was right. She's Flinty as Fuck

Tish has 2 kinds of speech: 1 incredibly eloquent and softly spoken, with occasional black church soaring oratory highs and this kind, the "HIS NAME IS MAMDANI" New York accented "I will bury my enemies" talk. Having been to both, I can say that they are equally enjoyable.

This is the correct view.

If you have an MFA you should be forced to wear a shock collar that goes off whenever you write anything approaching auto-fiction or anything without a plot.

Big Side Benefit of anti-corruption: Right Wing politics is primarily funded by people who got rich thru zero/negative sum behavior. MLMs, Car-dealers, Crpyto grifters, hustle influencers etc. You go after them and conservatives run out of money.

Me too

I legit think the Bulwark is going to endorse public financing for Worker Cooperatives in the next 2-4 years.

Yeah I’m going to keep hammering this drum: who the armed men in the employ of the state are loyal to is consequential, they are not an undifferentiated mass, and specifics matter a lot here. Blue state govs and big city mayors need to be quietly looking through FEC records and making staff changes

Been nearly a year since I finished my dissertation and finally feeling the itch to "Write BIG IDEAS" again. Not sure on what

Tish, please use this newfound notoriety to run for governor.

More and More People are Saying It

"Governing by Online Crashout" is certainly a *new thing* but I wouldn't say its conducive to the thousand year Trumpenreich.

These are simple questions, AG Bondi.

Update: This remains very true!!!

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

My favorite "White Ethnic" thing during this time of year is exceptionally Italian guys wishing my wife a "Happy Yom Kippur." It never stops being funny to me

If your response to Jewish people being stabbed to death and mowed down by a car in Manchester is “Gaza” you’re a charlatan and an antisemite and you need to get in the fucking bin. I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough. And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.

Additional Benefit: School is boring when its too easy.

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

"These gangbangers, they have no idea of the sheer toughness it takes, the steely self-control and manhood, to sit in a chair in the corner while Elon Musk fucks your wife"

One Battle After Another is an excellent movie AND an excellent film. 2.5 hours went by quick. Go see it!

Atlantic City. Everyone on the East Coast knows it's Atlantic City.

The GOP is increasingly a grifter ourobouros of MLM types stealing from each other. Their average staffer is an internet poisoned groyper who has never been in a romantic relationship. Their donor base is 8 billionaires and their super pacs. A poor set of tools for Governing and Statecraft.

Today's General's Spectacle seems like a turning point in a future history titled "The Rose Revolution: Democratic Consolidation and Civil-Military Relations in the 2020s" and is the primary subject of a chapter titled "Why The Military Revolt".

Credit when they Do The Thing.

This administration has again and again revealed itself to be in philosophical agreement with the greatest monsters of the 20th century: the New York Yankees

Good news folks! The Khive dead-enders are pro corruption now!

Apparently Hakeem Jefferies praising *the most corrupt NYC mayor in 50 years* is good and I am a dipshit for thinking its bad.