At the grocery store buying a sack of onions as I plan to make French Onion soup this weekend. Realizing these are the most onions I’ve ever bought in one trip. We got brown, red, shallots, white

What a queen

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.

The decaying mind trapped in a room with paintings of all of his predecessors staring at him is extremely Gothic

This mentality has plagued cinema for a hundred years and still hasn’t abated in the mainstream. Join us gamer aficionados in the “Consumers Hate You” prison

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Continue to believe the most underreported story in America right now is how middle of the road and liberal Americans alike feel about all of this, and it’s not something that can actually be quantified in a poll

there's definitely an essay in this, about how this entire generation of right wingers have spent their entire career smashing the drywall and kicking the legs out from under polite society, seemingly so sheltered that they honestly never considered that it might end up affecting them too

same mental impulse that says that well, *I* don't need vaccines, they hurt my sensitive skin. society must give unto me infinitely and i owe nothing to society in return. it's all over, and I really think it's all connected, psychicly.

Calipers Bros, we are so back.

Ah so every major airport in the country

Everyone keeps assuming they’ll fix this before Thanksgiving because “surely they understand how bad that’ll be for them“ and boy I don’t know if you have been paying attention lately but uhh

I was lucky that I was raised by someone who was very adamant that housework and care work is as much the responsibility of the man as anyone else in the house. Something I know for many male friends and peers was very much not the case and they can barely function

the entire problem here is that men have consigned overwhelming amounts of care work and tasks of social reproduction over to women when they genuinely need to pick up the slack

The Murray Rothbard articulation of the conservative movements goal to “undo the twentieth century” is often cited in their attacks on the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement, but they very much mean the Second Wave feminists, too.

Last thing about Tuesday‘s elections. Polling had a considerably large miss in favor of Democrats because they over indexed on 2024. The actual results pointed to a ~D+13 national environment rn. It wouldn’t be irrational to also question the generic ballot numbers currently showing D+4-5

Even as much of a film buff as I am, I was not aware there was an adaptation of Dennis Johnson’s TRAIN DREAMS coming out. I had a fantasy of adapting that into a movie when I was in college, but I’m sure this is leagues better than whatever that would’ve been

Yes

Nearly 2 in 3 Latinos say it's a bad time to be Latino in the U.S. — a spike in pessimism since just last year and a total reversal from three years ago — according to a new @axios.com @ipsosgroup.bsky.social Latino Poll in partnership with @noticiastelemundo.com www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...

People like Helen and Ross live such hollow and pointless lives, totally bereft of value, that they have to dress up their petty, pathetic, and vile resentments in the language of existential civilizational conflict to give themselves any meaning

Most men don't ever see this because its the water in which they swim. They do not perceive it, and to the extent that they do, they notice the incredibly mild and frankly feckless ways in which it is policed in society, because they are used to more impunity with it. That's all that's happening.

Ross is definitely the sweaty coworker that asks the women in his office too many questions about their visit to the gynecologist

The monomaniacal focus on this issue has been by literally everyone else but him. They whipped themselves into an entirely false constructed media hysteria based on the mere intuition that his physical presence alone is a hate crime

Tbf a self described socialist coming within four points of winning a majority of high income households is certainly something

Americans, especially the American Left, continues to underrate how profoundly racist European countries are. Like yeah, we have our own wretched history, we are also usually considered an *exception* on assimilation for a reason

I think this thread scans for where we are today. If the generic lead expands though, things start getting very weird, particularly in the Senate and Governor races

its really funny because mamdani is going to pilot a handful of state run apartments and grocers which will be more academic than utilitarian but his most impactful policies will be stuff like slashing fees and processing times for new businesses, upzoning housing, and expanding transit subsidies.

For anyone who’s ever been a Bay Area resident, this is the most insane result from yesterday

This comes from basic misreading of risks Trump presents to US and global systems in how so many believed he could become a Putin style autocrat Instead, Trump embodies radicalised overreach by a structural minority whose inability to cope with inevitable backlashes leads to paralysis and violence

Democratic voters for a long time, after the double punch of the Reagan and W. years, were constrained in their imagination of what kinds of candidates they needed, and what kind of governance was needed. The Trump era, if nothing else, has represented an unshackling of that at increasing velocity

People are tired of electing managers.

The funniest consequence of SCOTUS potentially slapping Trump down on the tariffs is him insisting he can do it anyway, or putting the entire GOP Congressional caucus in a bind to make them vote on giving them back

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

One thing happening here is that there are a lot of Latino communities that understood themselves to be quite distinct from recent immigrants in 2024—often quite reasonably, there are like 7th generation Mexican-Americans in the Southwest—but it turns out that DHS does not make that distinction

Young men in 2024: we want to be the boot stomping on faces forever Young men in 2025: step on my face, cia dommy mommy.

He does have decent political instincts and on some level he understands if they’re the ones in charge, they’re the ones getting the blame. He just views it as beneath him to negotiate with Democrats, and Republicans who have to exist after Trump are terrified of a D Senate actually governing

Really need to emphasize this last part here. You have nothing left to lose but your addiction to yelling at the pundits. They’ve been wrong about so much for years, but especially this rancid, wretched year Free yourself of them

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.

real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)

There is so much ink spilled about what Dems must do to win back young men. Meanwhile, no one seems to have any opinions on why Republicans "shut up and get back into the kitchen" campaign isn't working with young women.

This prediction panned out

Mamdani aside, it’s results across the Hudson River in New Jersey that show MAGA is in deep shit. In counties like Passaic looking like Hispanic support has completely collapsed & reversed only a year later. Dem Mikie Sherrill won governor far better than expected. www.latintimes.com/latinos-sour...

This country, the modern version the world used to aspire to, was built on the backs of its diverse urban centers and would be a revanchist backwater unworthy of anything without its liberal beating heart

i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

I hate to give it to him, but Gavin was smart to realize this was the only statewide thing happening this year and it’d be the only avenue for extremely angry Californians to express their displeasure with the federal govt that they've acutely experienced this year

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Woke II will be totalizing