every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Interesting to see @meganwachspress.bsky.social observe that the Sierra Club’s staff were clear-eyed about the need for clean energy development while the *members/small-dollar donor base* were more resistant to it.

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

hear hear www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Hyped for the next @volts.wtf @spears.bsky.social collab 🔥

There is absolutely no legitimate reason a single human being should need $1 trillion in compensation. The median Tesla employee earned $57,000 last year. That disparity tells you all you need to know about whether Elon Musk values the people who make Tesla work. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Horray for me... who has 2 weeks of work travel coming up soon that's going to involve 3 passes through the Atlanta airport. I'm sure this can't end up horribly wrong in any way.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

not to take anything away from mamdani, i think lander also deserves a lot of credit he showed courage when cuomo was leading by going after him hard & was able to put his own ambitions (& ego) 2nd to keeping someone unfit for office out of it

We do need to make sure we hold the Dems to passing a new Voting Rights Act once they get back in power which abolishes gerymandering entirely. Blue state gerymandering may be required to save the republic, but it is long term bad for voters (just like Red state gerymandering is bad for voters).

I can't believe we had to go to the Supreme Court to learn that tariffs are inflationary. Most of us learned this watching Ferris Bueller and didn't have to spend a bunch of taxpayer money or cripple American businesses just to get through the Voodoo economics scene

The way I hear national news outlets cover California’s redistricting without putting the context of Trump’s unprecedented and blatant move to rig the election is so baffling. It’s such a failure of accurate journalism that has led us to the largest threat to our democracy.

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.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

this is also why Nassau County cannot run the NY Democratic Party. You just can't have a statewide body run by people whose primary condition is hostility towards *the majority of Democrats in New York State*.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Earth shaking is confirmed by local media (gift link): www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

This person took this when they called the race

Just want to see one (1) news story on how toxic the Republican brand is among average, everyday Northeast urbanites, and how that should be seen as a major crisis for Republicans. Unfortunately I won’t bc this is still a country where cows and empty land get strong political representation

—PA Dems 2 open statewide judge seats in PA —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, + defend swing counties —Dems flip NY's Onondaga & Dutchess counties, a first in decades, & PA's Luzerne County —Seattle GOP city attorney trails big —MN Dems defend state Senate —Dems defend swing leg seats in NY, WA

—Larry Krasner & Bragg win —Coloradoans fund free school meals —JD's half-brother loses —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff —PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once 'ground 0' of right-wing takeover —Charlotte approves transit tax —Dems flip CT towns like New Britain.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

TONIGHT should send a clear message to all those elites - the people who run Big Law or have been in charge of elite academic institutions who decided to bend their knees last 10+ months - Americans coast to coast are paying attention & thankfully their brains haven’t been cooked by X. #NoKings

As the government shutdown stretches its way into the record books, Americans are feeling its worsening impacts. n.pr/4qXUWNs

A working families party capture by one family in my Town likely led to Dems not being able to gain town board seats. There is a story here about something shady going on, the primary was very weird here as well.

Before Bedtime I got to tell my daughter that those postcards she helped me write, they helped win the PSC Election in Georgia. That is a memory I'll have for a long time.

My county now has a Democratic legislature for the first time in decades! midhudsonnews.com/2025/11/05/d...

Woo hoo! Context: www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

everyone watch this: climate scientists assess the now-notorious Gates memo

The Virginia Republican Gubernatorial candidate ran on transphobia and lost horribly I look forward to all the think pieces declaring that trans issues are a loser for Republicans and that Democrats should embrace trans rights

🤞I helped write 500 postcards to voters for this race. Excited for this outcome!

Fellow bitter southerners, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

elections should follow mario rules

White apartheid South African unfamiliar with how ballots work in New York State. More news at 11.

As per usual, the most useful write up of an issue like this is by the fine folks at NY Focus

Direct File is survived by its code, lovingly preserved on GitHub for potential revival whenever the leaders of the executive branch are no longer bent on looting the country.

I don't think people outside of NYC fully see how incredibly RACIST Cuomo's campaign has been. It rivals any of the most racist campaigns of the 20th century. Just racism all the way down.

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

Mamdani: Today is a day that we have been dreaming of for more than a year. I'm so thankful to the more than 100,000 volunteers who have brought us to this point. We are on the brink of making history. On the brink of saying goodbye to politics of the past and to usher in a new era in this city.

I voted! I saw 2 neighbors at my poll station (working as poll workers), and I believe I saw our Candidate for County Leg voting there with her family. Get to the polls NY! You have until 9pm.

Today, Georgia voters decide whether to shake things up at the Public Service Commission. Georgia Power’s plans to build billions of dollars of gas plants are at stake.

It’s Election Day, New Jersey.