Mamdani has been the best realistic choice for mayor of NYC (a place where I do not live and would love to hear less about) for a long time now. That being said - I do not get the hype.

I think that the idea there cannot be a religious liberal democracy is a little wacky. Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Greece they all do just fine. Or mostly fine.

People said Donald Trump couldnt run a strong economy into the ground in less than a year but they constantly underestimate the elite level that this man works at. Top tier guy at being able to wreck shit that he's been handed.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

i can't believe Larry Ellison is buying the Jeremy Renner App

Reminiscent of the old stories from the USSR about you could always tell who was kissing the ass of the secret police and dutifully reporting on their neighbors because they didn't get their homes and businesses raided when everyone else did.

Sam’s Law of Media: The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions

We must pay billions to farmers Because we cut off their customers with tariffs And pay billions to Argentina Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited Because that is America First

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

Why wasn’t the GOP able to get more Democrats on board? These are questions we might be asking in an alternate universe where the media is worth a shit except in that universe Trump wouldn’t have been elected a first time let alone a second.

Rumor is @governor.ca.gov is getting *tons* of pressure from rich donors to veto SB 79. If he caves, we'd be condemned to a permanent housing crisis — and lose 3-5 electoral votes in 2032. Call and tell him you have his back. Our democracy is more important than rich people's views! 👇 #SB79

And just like that, all my dreams are coming true.

I think President Trump is brave to shut down the government instead of releasing the Epstein files

(solemnly) You've had mail.

That 27%? That's your actual rock bottom of Trump support. That's where we get him to by next year, God willing

I think of it like an unofficial version of the five French Republics. We had the First American Republic (Revolution-Civil War), Second American Republic (Civil War-Civil Rights Act), Third (Civil Rights Act-January 6), Fourth (J6-now).

among many other profoundly appalling implications of this is the continued proof of that they are *genuinely fucking existentially terrified of whatever the hell information is in play here*, i am increasingly certain that the wheels are genuinely going to fall off of the great vehicle shortly

This may sound bad but in context, they're doing it to protect a pedophile

Message to the National Guard

I agree with this but I also don’t blame them! If you’re in a political party where your policies are guided by general human empathy, it sucks ti watch people starve or whatever!

I think if this were “clear” they wouldn’t be begging Democrats to help avert a shutdown, though.

This photo of an ICE agent firing a pepper ball at a journalist clearly hiding behind a van should be everywhere

Six words. All it takes to bring down a government.

If Trump believed a government shutdown was in his interests, if he really believed it’d grant him new powers, then he wouldn’t be warning Congressional Democrats they’ll be sorry. “If you do the thing I don’t want, I’ll do what I’m already doing” is not the sort of threat anyone should fall for.

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If your response to Trump doing bad things is to turn around and make up reasons to be mad at Democrats, you’re a dumb person and you learned nothing from 2024. Get a clue, Josh.

And "the president rambles about his violent fantasies" is big news because "the president is a violent fantasist who doesn't know what sort of things he shouldn't say" is a big story, not because the crazy things he says are about to happen.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

“There are two n-words now, and you can’t use either of them. And, frankly, if it does come to use… we’ve got more of them than anybody.”

remember when I said yesterday that I’m totally certain he has said the hard r in front of reporters on AF1 but those reporters think we don’t deserve to know

You don’t have to read between the lines. Trump is literally saying, publicly and out loud, that he is at war — actual, military-involved war — with Americans and American cities he personally dislikes. That impeachment is politically off the table is a national scandal.

I remember Astead being a little asshole and saying he had no regrets about his coverage of Biden's age and would do the same of Trump if it became the issue, where you at now you sniveling little fuck

I love Pritzker, but this is how Newsom talks, how Schiff talks, how Murphy talks, I even saw Ossoff talking like this! It’s pretty common now.

lol

Melania better start inserting herself in meetings and serving as his interlocutor *now* if she wants to be President Edith Wilson part 2.

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

these clips from the secretary’s speech have the same energy as a 9 year old boy who decided to start a secret club and is explaining to his friends why they should all call themselves “the vipers” from now on

I don't think flying the people in charge to DC to yell at them that they're fat and lazy is a good way of getting them to do what you want. Panic all you want, but that doesn't even make sense.

I think this is correct and, in that regard, find it endlessly fascinating/telling how many ppl who spend all their time online, specifically a lot of pundits & commentators, are no longer able to tell the difference between stuff made for content engagement & the real, unadulterated thing

👀Black Folks tried to tell y’all that AIPAC bashing bs was antisemitic and Hogg was a grifter but NOPE…some of y’all never listen. I’ll stop saying “I told you so” when folks start listening. Anyhoo…let me go file this in the drawer with the rest of the ”WE BEEN KNEW” receipts. 🤷🏾‍♀️

I know it's popular to be scared all the time, but this doesn't seem like an administration that *wants* a shutdown, as some people claim.

I think Coates is an amazing writer. But he has the Jon Stewart problem of pointing his finger at things he decries as bad and then when we need his help he throws up his hands and says "who me? I'm nobody! I can't help!"

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Klein sucks, but this did happen?

They're making it a guarantee that we modernize the Court when we win the presidency and Congress again. Just so shortsighted.

I think there's a real case to be made that they were each stronger in different areas - Harris in blue states and the popular vote, Biden in rust belt states. But what's done is done and we'll never know the other way.

Pelosi spent July 2024 screaming at Biden that Ezra Klein's prophecy of doom will come true unless he drops out, to which Biden argued it was fucking July, no one even knows it's election year yet. Pelosi won, and a top trending search on election day was "why isn't Biden on my ballot, did he die?"

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...