Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.

There’s a great irony in someone posting a thread like this while not allowing replies on it

Spent five minutes on Twitter and was quickly reminded why I left

Van Hollen and Cory Booker are “the Piker crowd”?

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

Everybody harassed in any way by ICE agents should swarm this fund if it’s happening anyway.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Part of why the final season of The Boys has been disappointing is because its so damn on the nose, and i do kinda think when they were writing it they were trying to be really wild and out there to prevent exactly that. And yet.

They’re weird freaks, we should call them weird freaks every day, I don’t care if it gets old, if you support them you’re also a weird freak.

I can't believe these fucking freaks have convinced Americans that Democrats are the weird ones.

Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.

This is obvious but another factor powering the ongoing anti-"gerontocracy" campaigns is that the House is so close. Dems have lost multiple votes they might* have won bc of old members getting sick or dying. *Rs can usually flip somebody on a close vote

Hours after I held a press conference exposing Mayor Bass’s secret deal to allow rental homes to be turned into vacation rentals, filings were published showing that Airbnb is spending big on a PAC to get her reelected.  This is what pay-to-play politics looks like. 🧵⬇️

Why is it that we get a lot of these “perfect campaign ad” moments that never seem to show up in Dem campaign ads?

Man, there are some crazy “labor vs. capital” charts, lately. @ianbremmer.com

They fucking love losing. They love it. They think it makes them better, that it's a virtue!

Everyone should watch The Good Lord Bird. Criminally underappreciated, just like the man it’s about.

A) this made me feel pretty ok, not much info B) I def didn’t tap 223 times the way it says I did so maybe I should be concerned it’s wrong about the rest

I thought about this immediately when in Abundance they wondered why European union-friendly cities build more cheaply. Healthcare is a huge cost!

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Would love to know what Rob Bonta’s waiting for

look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2

Ted Turner was briefly so destructive to film preservation that the GOVERNMENT created the National Film Registry to keep some films safe, then Turner was like “fine! You like preservation so much, here’s a channel that just shows movies unaltered for 24 hours!!!” and it was the best channel ever.

I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.

This should be disqualifying. Note that I think Schiff elevating a republican to ensure a Senate win in the general election is also disqualifying and I’d support anyone who might primary him, not that anyone legitimate will. Stop elevating Republicans for any reason, full stop.

This is insane

i don't understand how Old Spice's marketing team landed on this ad for their Super Mario Galaxy Movie tie-in where an astronaut smells a stick of deodorant, thinks about Mario, and then kills himself. i don't understand how that's not a joke, it's exactly what happens in the ad

tim heidecker drinks the blood of the forsaken youtu.be/Exu1SEZE9Ug

Honestly wondering why I didn’t mount a run, I’d be better than half these schlubs

it's incredible how they can't do the right thing even with nothing to lose by it

Huge and long overdue changes to International Feature at the Oscars

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

is there any better metaphor for the democratic party than an old man on his deathbed trying to impede progress

I feel like it’s irresponsible on both a human and journalistic level not to fact check something like this. You’re letting them live false, ignorant lives (bad human), and you’re missing the real opportunity in seeing their reaction to misunderstanding the world (bad journalism).

How little do you have to know about housing politics in California to believe the California Association of Realtors et al are interested in housing abundance?

I used ChatGPT’s app to ask who the commanders should pick and it named two dudes drafted in 2024

Holy shit, way to go The Strokes. And props to Coachella for airing it all and not shying away. variety.com/2026/music/n...

YES YES YES YES YES

The political history of the U.S. since the 1970s is basically that thing where a species' predator disappears and the species overpopulates and destroys the whole habitat. If centrists really wanted a "Normal" right, their top priority would be to bring back the left

the two most successful recent democratic presidential campaigns ran with progressive-coded messages -- obama 2008, biden 2020. the campaigns that adopt cautious centrism - harris 24, kerry 04, clinton 16, gore 2000 - fucking lose. so of course ny times editorial board wants dems to do the latter.

One of the big reasons I support @saikatforcongress.bsky.social - he’s the only one willing to say (or less charitably: who understands at all) that we need to boot these guys from leadership.

YES, A FAILED IMPEACHMENT MEANS REPUBLICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP'S CONDUCT. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON TO DO IT

Good thread

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Some people associate authenticity with honesty, which is wrong. Trump is in my view the most authentic President of my lifetime, and also the most dishonest.

My colleague did this

Must admit it will be hilarious to watch the stock market skyrocket whenever It Happens, a final dagger in the “great business man / markets love him” bullshit

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman