Mamdani’s social media feed is like a procedural for jobs that never get procedurals. It’s a smart way to spotlight city services, but it’s also moving because it gives dignity to people who are often overlooked.

The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!

After three days, the most striking takeaway from talking with people here is how *angry* everyone is. Heartbroken, weary, yes, those things too. But above all else, they are furious, and not shy about it. When Minnesotans are volunteering their feelings to a stranger, you know it’s bad.

This morning, I got to walk around the South Minneapolis neighborhood where my mom grew up. Seeing *entire blocks*, both sides of the street, with handwritten NO ICE and ICE OUT MSP signs taped to the front windows was one of the most moving things I’ve experienced in some time.

By the way, this is not something you say when you think you just won.

Amercians: The Constitution prescribes a separation between Church and State. Trump: I’m going to invade the Church if they don’t do what i want Americans: Which church? Trump: The big one

Did…the Trump regime lowkey threaten to kill the pope?

In a better timeline, Usha Vance responds: "my husband has the right to sleep on the couch but he doesn't soil our furniture anymore because he and I have an agreement that he’s not going to do that."

Sam Altman's insistence on being the centre of attention, the messiah of AI during all of this means when the bubble pops, he's gonna be the one they slaughter so that the shitheads who went from NFTs to GenAI, can slink across, unscathed, to their next grift. I hope he suffers.

You mean an entirely certain 100% chance? Because he is a liar and a fraud and the money he has already burned through is a sin. Everyone who has invested in him is a fool.

these are the stupidest people to ever live

Trump propagandists are pushing a vile new line of spin: His threat of genocide was *good* because it forced Iran to the negotiating table. Pete Hegseth just said it at his press conference. But this story is all nonsense. I took it on in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2087...

“I – as a doctor – absolutely don’t want my personal email and number to be accessible to someone who works for Palantir on the NHS, and might next month be working on systems for drone strikes. NHS staff have not consented to sharing their email addresses with Palantir staff.”

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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

I'm certain I'm not the first to come up with this, but maybe just give the asshole a rewired Staples easy button, a VR headset, and a copy of "Missile Command" so he can -think- he's doing the thing he seems to want to do.

in a stunning victory, Donald Trump has forced the Iranian government to profit tens of billions of dollars a year against their will

This fucking DEMENTED TACO in the White House just flustered his way into giving Iran everything they wanted. How in the world was this level of incompetence able to happen? America is worse off today than they were before.

So Iran now has a significantly more stable and sustainable revenue source in tolling the Strait on top of its commodity revenues; has made its neighbours all the more cautious about engaging in future conflicts against it; and has shown the profound limitations of US hard power.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.

it sounds like he’s taking a proposal that was already being negotiated and claiming it’s proof that he won this standoff - but is kicking the can 2 weeks because, likely, Iran has not actually agreed to open the strait. still, this seems like this is the least bad (realistic) immediate outcome.

I agree... and maaaaybe I'm just crazy crazy, buuuuuuut I get the sense that Mike Johnson isn't checking BlueSky all too often. 🤷

"If you remove him you get Vance." You're familiar with Donald J Trump's foreign policy where we remove a country's leaders one by one until we get to one we can do business with? No reason impeachment can't work the same way

But what actions are “we” taking? 🔹Strongly worded letters? 🔹Press conferences? 🔹Going on cable news? Or will you do your Constitutional duty and force an impeachment vote? The American people need to know you’re actually serious.

"The vice president was dead-set against this, but he didn't want to offend Trump, so ultimately he crossed his fingers and told Trump to go big" isn't the 2028 campaign message some people may think it is

1) don’t run again (voluntarily or term limited) 2) lose election 3) die of natural causes 4) you know 5) resign

The sentiment is correct but if I made a list of ways presidents stopped being president, being impeached and removed isn’t on the list, but…you know…is on the list 4 times.

At the constitutional convention, Benjamin Franklin argued that having impeachment would be good for presidents because otherwise we'd have no choice but to... you know.

“A mad king goes to war against the Persians” is, historically speaking, a pretty common cause of collapse for empires

If you really want to game out the confrontation, taking this last point seriously is how Congress can force a president from office even if supermajorities are unobtainable. The power of the purse is the ultimate power. Not one dime for a tyrant, demand he resign or else *nothing* gets funded.

ATTENTION MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Andy boiled down the choices you have before you:

Ways to get there: - 25A (by far hardest, useless) - Straight impeachment (H. majority + 2/3 S.) - Fund nothing until he's gone (fewest votes needed, just a willing majority in either house, but takes the longest) - Congress declares him 14AS3 disqualified (simple majorities) - uhh... [redacted]

I think it's a bad idea to create a massive refugee crisis next door to a not-terrible-stable nuclear state.

Please call your US rep and senators. Yes, I know it can feel like screaming into a black hole. Still. Call them NOW. reps.fyi 202-224-3121

call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.

Along these lines, this is how Alex Jones is responding to the latest.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Alex Jones. But there is nevertheless a very real schism ongoing around Iran. Marjorie Taylor Green (whose influence among the MAGA faithful appears massively reduced) called for the 25th Amendment this morning.

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

I keep thinking about how he set the deadline at 8 p.m. ET because it's prime time

uh maybe she should finish those up and introduce them today

A phrase I need to put on a t-shirt: Technologies bring with them the worldviews of their creators.

Are you going to impeach the president today? No? Then you do, in fact, support making a whole civilization die.

Inside the Palantir lobby, protesters, all wearing shirts with the message "sanctuary not surveillance," unfurled a banner reading "ICE Kidnaps, Palantir Profits. Let Our People Go." And other links to start your day. hellgatenyc.com/passover-pro...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

[Chuck Schumer scavenging through the post-apocalyptic rubble for scraps of food] He's gone too far. Someone should do something about this

Call me crazy, but an American-funded extermination of an entire civilization strikes me as worse than the existence of gender-neutral bathrooms.

Knowing Trump this can mean /literally anything/ between a nuclear launch and absolutely nothing.