Adults posting up now all around the neighborhood at George Middle School in North Portland, which is letting out in about 10 minutes.

A perimeter of parents and what appeared to be a priest and other faith leaders were out all around the neighborhood surrounding Chavez as students were recently dismissed.

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

Republicans are still trying to make a "deal" happen where squishy Democrats pass the CR in exchange for a phony vote on extending ACA subsidies. I wrote my Senators using @resist.bot to say "no deal".

The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.

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Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

I wrote about baseball!! <3 www.theverge.com/report/81448...

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

"Bluesky on Saturday night felt as livebloggy as it ever has — traffic to the site spiked during the game. Again, people I had never seen mention baseball were right there with the sports fans, all of us holding our breaths through each agonizing and euphoric moment."

This measure lost 64% to 36%, remarkable.

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that

and his open corruption, don't forget the open corruption!

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

Yes, that's true, Jack. 1993 is the past.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

Zohran’s win offers the Bay Area a glimpse at a better future — one where we’re not locked in a room with Gavin Newsom for another four years.

doesn't this feel great? don't you want more of that? fantastic, get your fighting shoes on

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council. @pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

ironically, it goes to show that they should watch more wrestling

Didn’t folks say “identity politics” was the reason we weren’t winning

spend all year fucking with federal employees, see what happens to The State Exclusively Populated By Federal Employees

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide. The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists. Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

Who lost in Aurora Colorado? Everyone endorsed by The Police association. Huh.

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani are all going to out-live Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Bill Ackman, and most of the other oligarchs who have looted our political system for their gain. And so are most of us. Plan big. Organize even bigger.

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.

BREAKING: Mississippi Democrats have now flipped two state Senate seats—putting them on the verge of breaking the Mississippi GOP's supermajority. Theresa Gillespie Isom has defeated Republican opponent Charlie Hoots, who she leads in the current vote tally by about 2-1.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Remember when they said they need a Left Rogan for the “youth” Which youth?

Bluesky rn

So many times SO MANY TIMES I have said I don't trust any politician who throws trans people and immigrants under the bus. Look at this dude. LOOK AT THIS. He's here for ALL OF US. There is NO EXCUSE for any politician who doesn't step up like this. No excuse.

Republicans are unprepared for Democrats who fight back, much less play the offense, but this is what it looks like.

It’s real real interesting to see what happens when you win a major American election after your own party leadership refuses to endorse you, so you don’t owe them or their pollsters and lobbyists jack shit

I love Zohran not because he's a socialist but because he's a wife guy

Seattle throwing on the goal line when Marshawn is right there??????

This Mamdani speech is absolute 🔥🔥🔥

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

We think of Zohran as a nice guy. But thank God he knows when not to be.

Mamdani: “We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”

Mamdani just going right after Trump. I love it. He gets it. None of this mealy-mouthed Schumer stuff, just giving as good as he gets.

I choose to believe he's a big fan of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, which makes him even more endearing.

MAMDANI: "We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great."

COME ON NOW MR MAYOR