I think the technical term for a political faction that produces candidates like Cuomo in 2025 is "structurally fucked"

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

did someone hitch their entire political project to a dying pedophile gameshow host who's only good for elections where he's on the ballot but not an incumbent?

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

If I had been an NYC resident, Lander would have been top of the list in the primary. This makes me feel very good about that choice.

Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

“Tonight shows that Dems need to run more progressive candidates who use #2 guards on their beards & talk like spoken word poets. Of course, I’m just extrapolating the results from 1 race in the most unique city in the world & applying it broadly! I’m a TV “political analyst!” - Literally, everyone

This is probably my favorite part. Musk and Trump and Miller at the end, too.

so many good pictures out there

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Farewell sweet Prince

GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED

Bill Ackman to *holds earpiece* continue living in Chappaqua.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

this is objectively hilarious

lol. lmao.

*tapping the sign with great glee*

Brilliant point. I was saying this on The Argument live show: Dems saw "I'd Take Some Mean Tweets and $2 Gas Right Now!" bumper stickers for four years and said: Okay, motherfuckers, we can not care about scandals too.

There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

If anyone feels even molecule, an atom of sympathy for this guy losing his job, make sure to read this to get that shit out of your system Jason summed up why this hiring was awful from Day 0 back in 2022

DJ Durkin? The former Maryland head coach?

Not a single person in this photo both read and understood Gatsby

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

My three-year-old was reading Chris Cillizza’s Substack when she turned to me gravely and asked “daddy why did the woke mob put a flier on the nice man’s Tesla?” And when I told her “because the illiberal left is embracing violence,” she started crying.

A fucking ouroboros of conspiracy

The University of Michigan has turned out odious right-wing bozos like Ben Carson, Tom Price, and Jeremy Peters but I don't remember any New York Times articles wondering if the school is indoctrinating students because the NYT only pretends that's a thing when it suits their agenda.

Bari absolutely rocks. Her two ideas for stories are "I have this famous person's phone number" and "I heard libs were doing some weird stuff out there." Absolutely replacement level suburban dunce.

I could have predicted the second item months ago but the first is *chefs kiss*

Whether or not the Trump regime understands this, they are gambling that their propaganda machine / internet-powered phantasmagoria will be enough to dampen and overcome any popular backlash to the mass pain they’re imposing. One way or the other, we’re going to find out.

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management. Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

The Gamblers (flipped), by Hendrick Ter Brugghen, 1623, 📸 by Cameron Browne

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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

this mans entire legacy is Pervert Tech, everything he does advances the pervert cause

Someone better film this and feature it in every campaign ad forever

Absolutely incredible he doesn’t see just how much Sliwa hates him. I think Sliwa would rather Mamdani wins than Cuomo

I had to explain Milkshake Duck to someone the other day. It remains nearly as useful a concept as leopards eating faces

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

They are illiterate swine, encouraged and enabled by apocalyptic nihilists

I know they're all at their houses right now hitting refresh every 30 seconds getting madder and madder. imagine being a maga freak coming over here to get in fights and instead you end up on 15 blocklists called "fucking losers" and you get to watch it happening LIVE

"we couldn't make it as smart as a phd, so we made it as slutty as a phd candidate"

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

Really shocking the Nobel committee wasn’t more impressed by this

Story time. Back when I was in college, the Westboro Baptist Church was a thing. They’d go around having obnoxious protests where they’d blame everything on societies acceptance of gay people. They would protest at veterans funerals and college campuses alike. Well one year they came to my college.