Pro Tip: If you're traveling the next few weeks on the Northeast Corridor, book whatever seats Amtrak has left at this point ASAP before prices go way up and availability disappears.

Give it up for the Problem Lovers' Caucus, everyone.

(*reads news*) “… hey Siri: play 'Holding Out for a Hero' by Bonnie Tyler, please? Top volume.”

"Memphis International": Ah, so the Trump administration _also_ wants to snarl a global logistics hub (FedEx HQ & central distribution) at the onset of the holiday season?

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Say what you will about Ross Douthat (no really say it) but I do appreciate that he brings people onto his podcast that are **actually influential** to American conservatism. The GOP in 2025 is a woman who thinks Apartheid was good for South Africa and that White Flight was caused by Black violence.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

One gets a clearer sense, any non-public details aside, of how this institution ousted Jill Abramson as executive editor before she could even finish hanging pictures in her office.

Unironically yes, because none of the listed items below are austerity — and Republican House leadership has opted for over six weeks to stay adjourned rather than negotiate?

Pictures of rude, robust health, the lot of them.

From Soundcloud rapper to the king of New York in 8 years: folks, it's what hip-hop dreams are made o— … (*puts finger to earpiece*) … I'm sorry, _mayor_ of New York. Anyway, in our next story …

To name something far from the top of the list of issues here, but indicative of DHS's total lawlessness: why are federal law-enforcement agents discussing official business in a Signal chat?

Never been a better time for journalists and politicians to get off of X.

“wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized”: Ah, here it is — the confident ignorance with which people pluck a word from AAVE, pretend it always meant something else, and then vilify the bogeyman they just made up.

all the other things aside the Daily News asserting that Zohran Mamdani has never indicated any position on any kind of nationalism other than Zionism when a) he has been a very vocal opponent of Hindu nationalism and b) his father is a world famous postnationalist scholar is so damn lazy

i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read

Re: the last repost: Ritchie Torres, is that you?

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

Nepalese food?!?

Okay, so: the center-left probably can’t compete on volume with right-wing influencers. The funding differential makes that a tough haul. They _could_ try, tho’, to fight back asymmetrically — by treating social as earned media, and using organizational resources as leverage for getting attention.

I'm getting the sense that the Black Twitter diaspora has granted Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) the McDonald Exemption, too. Given my getting into him around 'Lonerism' or so, when his records still had guitars, this turn of events is … wild.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Right — I thought from the first photos that the image included text-recognition artifacts, but no: that's just what's on an exterior wall of the White House. Paper. Scotch tape and paper. Is grandpa doing alright?

Perplexed by Ryan Adams. He combined country music with a snotty punk rock attitude, and is also racist and stupid? A head scratcher.

This from @gregsargent.bsky.social is exactly right. newrepublic.com/article/2027... Donald Trump's authoritarianism and the punishing reality of everyday life under his rule are inextricably linked.

Thinking about this Mary Oliver poem this morning. Don't hesitate.

One thing I learned from the past few decades is that voters tend not to comprehend nuances like "the filibuster" or even "the Supreme Court." Mostly they just blame bad things on the people in charge, and Washington correspondents should understand that too.

The right is producing content for what is essentially a reality TV show for a national fascist counter-reality that anyone who wants to believe can immerse themselves in and pretend is real (and use as “evidence” for decision-making) but it doesn’t replace actual reality that we can all still see

we really need to get cops out of the business of “checking in” on folks struggling with mental health shit

Good Lord — the arrogance of the NY state Dem apparatus is outstripped only by its bumbling fecklessness.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane

our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care. and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.

Don’t need a chief justice to tell which way the wind blows.

Can’t be arsed to bring a smidge of heat to Elon Musk, needed days of prodding over Nick Fuentes, yet before Mamdani got a single night’s sleep as mayor-elect … What a joke.

“He should take notes from successful mayors … including Muriel Bowser”: (*removes glasses*) … I’m sorry, who? You told him to take notes from _who_, now?

As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate

BIG TENT

It took the ADL like four days to respond to Nick Fuentes breaking into the mainstream last week

Not sure what’s gone worse for the White House tonight: the election returns, or getting AI to draw a basketball correctly.

The next governor of New Jersey identifies as an attack helicopter

Mm-hm. One loves to see it.

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california democrats hire this queen immediately

The GOP vile anti-trans campaign failed miserably. Earle-Sears made it her dominant issue - and lost hugely Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)

On the Wall, Writing Spotted by Republicans

Earle-Sears: you might win some, but you really lost one.

Asking a venerable pol like Keir Starmer to just “be a social media star” seems as reasonable as asking Australian shepherd to be a quokka.