The Graham Platner defenders are like Gavin Newsom podcasting with Steve Bannon and Ezra Klein declaring that Charlie Kirk did politics in exactly the right way. They’re caught up in the idea that 2024 was a referendum on American culture, the bigots won, so appealing to them is just savvy strategy.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

All these pedophiles who want to fuck 16-year-olds because it's "biologically normal" never expect to die naturally of typhoid or dysentery at the age of 32 even though that, also, is biologically normal for humans

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

It’d be so funny if he dies and the white house just looks like this from now on

The government is shut down. He refuses to meet with Democrats to discuss opening it. Every interview he gives, he says he hasn't heard about X, Y, or Z, so he can't comment on it. Makes you wonder what he's busy doing.

Releasing a health care plan is not negotiating. It's...releasing a health care plan. Odd that the House speaker doesn't understand that basic point.

dan quayle was famous for one thing and george w bush just stole it right out from under him. you ask anyone these days "who's that politician who said stuff wrong all the time" and nobody's saying quayle. entire legacy erased

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

I feel very strongly that the new stupid ballroom should *not* be torn down. I believe the next Dem President should, a week after taking office, have a Drag Queen Story Hour there, and then use it for a rotating exhibit of Black/Latin/East Asian/African/Queer art. We're going full troll, people.

every debate question is like “zohran, you want to make life better for all new yorkers. number one, is that realistic? and two, are you fucking stupid?”

NYC Mayoral Debate MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull

he wanted to provide us a helpful visual metaphor for what he's doing to the country, the least we can do is run on it and unlike other Trump scandals this doesn't require you to memorize details, you can just show people a picture of the fucking half-demolished White House

this is hands down the most confusing graphic I have ever seen, I’ve been staring at it for like five full minutes

just guessing but I suspect the reason they're haphazardly bulldozing half the white house is not going to end up being very smart

This isn’t specific to our current moment but one completely irrational thing that Americans are forced to do is to go “well he won 53% of the 50% of people who voted so clearly 100% of people demanded this” and I mean what the fuck, how the fuck does that make sense

Points to whomever projects the image of Trump and Epstein in the east wing rubble

well i think naming a ballroom after your best friend is something to be celebrated tbh

just looking around at politics everywhere and a HUGE advantage Mamdani has is that he isn't obviously a fucking freak

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Markwayne Mullin may not be the dumbest person in the Senate but goddamn he’s up there.

I'll tell you this much. If I ever run for office and they "leak" that I said Republicans are a bunch of fuckers, I will not retract it. I will say that I said it because Republicans are, indeed, a bunch of fuckers.

Bonus primary points to which ever Democrat promises to demolish whatever fucking monstrosity ballroom Trump builds

every true crime doc: for decades the police tripped over their own dicks and tried to pin the murders on random people and then suddenly someone called and told them exactly what happened

So much stuff happens that I bet you already forgot about the whole “circumcision causes autism” thing. I bet that just went into the pile despite it being the craziest fucking thing you’ve ever heard

You can't replace a window in a New York City brownstone without hiring four engineers and a signoff from three preservation committees, but you can just knock down half the White House with a bulldozer and no permits?

NYT White House desk not beating the Stenography charges.

I don’t have a bucket list; I have a list of things I’d rather die than do.

The ACLU and other organizations sent a letter to ICE, demanding the release of pregnant detainees. www.jezebel.com/pregnant-ice...

With how much gusto do yall think they wrote that headline

Nope

I think Illinois should eliminate the 3 GOP districts we have here, tbh

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, is about to cross 20 hours of continuously holding the Senate floor and speaking to "ring the alarm bells" about authoritarianism.

Trump attacks the cattle ranchers and basically says he knows what’s best for them and that they should be grateful for him

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

This week Trump –released vid of dropping feces on protesters –swung a wrecking ball into the WH –demanded $230M from the Treasury as an “apology” –saw a pardoned J6 rioter arrested for trying to kill top Dem –said he’s greater than Lincoln or Washington. It’s only Wednesday.

the next democratic president needs to roll up to the white house driving a crane with a wrecking ball on day one and smash this thing to bits not even kidding, get your operating license and take the first whack at it yourself

I can think of a reason.

there are a lot of things that should never be connected to the internet but your bed is near the top of the list

Give me the confidence of a white woman desperate to be an influencer using her pedophile husband for content like people wouldn’t find out

Last week, we co-hosted debate night bingo with Seniors for Zohran, some of our most enthusiastic and active canvassers, at a community center in Chelsea. They were joined there by a…familiar face. Tune into the final debate tonight at 7pm on NY1, WNYC or YouTube!

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

The lies leave his mouth so quickly

Trump take egg

[me in any place, anywhere] nobody knows how to drive here

an under discussed angle of the louvre jewelry heist is that all the crown jewels stolen were from Napoleon III, the one no one cares about now. ooh wow you won the crimean war. big deal. get a life, bro

I hope they fuck up the demolition so bad the entire thing collapses and frees the souls of the slaves who were forced to build a palace of oppression