The corporate death penalty is the only death penalty I support

Dr Oz: "Americans will lose 135 million pounds by the midterms.” Yeah, that tends to happen when people can't afford to eat.

Nazis!

We’re up to 124 wins - including 35!!!! red to blue flips — and 9 more going to run offs. We still have 37 races left outstanding, but far and away the best election night @runforsomething.net has ever had.

Pro-Tip: $3 =/= $2!

When the horses were in the starting gate, all the way back in February, Zohran Mamdani was polling at 1% and didn’t even rate a mention in the pollster’s write up. What a remarkable race he ran. emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...

MINT THE COIN

His fucked-up upbringing led him to believe that this is a show of strength.

Also: Biden has NEVER been a communicative powerhouse. He failed miserably as a POTUS candidate in 1988 & then again in 2008. It's just not something he's comfortable with. And that's a TERRIBLE liability in a president.

Biden's policies worked. But he didn't communicate what he was doing, or how much lower inflation was in the United States compared to elsewhere.

This came sharply into focus for me as a teen just after the 1967 war. It became crystal clear that liberal zionism was an illusion & only served to create a safe space for conservative Jew insanity. Israel shut down its Peace Corps, then started building alliance with South Africa.

I still don't have any predictions...but I do have priors bsky.app/profile/oluf...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

NEW: Voters didn’t just elect a socialist mayor in New York City. They also voted in progressive candidates in several of the state’s largest cities, flipped county legislatures blue, and chose a new Democratic assemblymember in US Representative Elise Stefanik’s backyard.

file under "running government like a business" 🙄

This is a strange hack punditry, in which everything anyone does is the Democratic Party's fault. Dems' mistakes are their fault. Repubs' mistakes are the Dems' fault for not stopping them. No party is perfect. But we should examine their actual actions. You can't learn anything from this punditry.

Can't indict a ham sandwich 🙄 & can't convict a sandwich thrower. 🤣🤣🤣

From frontline foodbank provider Dr. Lupe Rivera to Country Supervisor @supjanicehahn.bsky.social , Congresswoman @repbarragan.bsky.social & premier expert on administrative burdens, @pamherd.bsky.social a multi-level look at SNAP cutoff threat: www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...

misogyny

The guy's a mob boss. That's his ethic, that's his personality, that's his value system.

I feel like this is a @democrats.org 2023 tier meme but whatever we posting it.

Conservatives have spent years weaponizing “protect and think of the children” to great effect. It is odd to me that there seems to be no plan of action from the regime for the consequences *actually violently threatening the safety of children in public view*.

hero

OK, there's a good point here, but faulting Warren's "I have a plan for that" as inwardly focused is just nuts: "In that formulation, what her policies said about here was entirely inward looking. 'I'm ready for the job.' The job of what?" FIXING THE DAMN PROBLEM, fool!

Your reminder that the blogosphere is STILL a better source of political analysis than the M$M: "Just eight days before the election, we were all reading that Semafor story headlined "Left-Wing Ideas Have Wrecked Democrats’ Brand, New Report Warns." Wrecked! The brand was wrecked!" 1/2

Remember when Neil Gorsuch's mom had to resign from the Reagan Administration and he told her, "You didn't do anything wrong. You only did what the president ordered. Why are you quitting? You raised me not to be a quitter. Why are you a quitter?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Go...

This, re Pelosi failure to immediately move for impeachment after J6, is clearly her greatest failing. It does nothing to detract from what she DID accomplish to honestly recognize this failure, the results of which now loom so large.

Sure, try that one, a lot of people are dumb enough to believe you

New from Trump: I'd like to be Mamdani's bitch

PREACH

This Douthat thing is quickly turning into "why you should never take us seriously again"

Chunky Reese Witherspoon definitely ruined the workplace

The ideal Heritage policy is (1) an extra half-vote for each child for straight married couples, (2) repeal of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, and (3) retroactive repeal of birthright citizenship.

"Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel... The surge in complaints has been in part the work of a small group of pro-Israel actors" @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Duh

Cutting off SNAP in order to starve a population into submission is a war crime.

This is what I don't get: Douthat is *boring*. I realize that's not his worst feature, but he is so utterly predictable. There's not even a hint of "Well, I don't agree with his solutions, but he correctly highlights a good question." Just boring.

The big news unsurprisingly is that it affects the two DC area major airports, Dulles & National (Reagan). Since members of Congress fly out of those, particularly National, THEY will be inconvenienced and so watch for some kind of shutdown compromise BS. #DoNotFundFascism #HoldTheLine

👀 DC too. "ABC News obtained the list of airports, which includes Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, Boston Logan, all three New York City-area airports, Chicago O'Hare and many others. Sources said the cuts could start as early as Thurs." 🧾 abcnews.go.com/US/flight-ca... Full list after the jump ...⬇️

Riffing on a really great book about one of America's worst missed opportunities.

"why has trust in experts been eroded?" idk maybe it has something to do with how misinformation has a multi-million dollar marketing budget and an infectious disease researcher has a $0 one.

“Do you know that I consider it immoral to teach in the schools that the Constitution of the United states is too sacred to change, almost to touch? Why, what are we, a lot of degenerates?" - Charles Beard, 1915

For half a trillion, I'll do less damage!

If Tesla wants to pay me $1 trillion to be their CEO, I may not have a business degree but I can guarantee I'll do less damage to the company. And who knows, my radical ideas like "build good cars" and "support politics that let businesses survive" might even improve things.

I expected Republicans to completely melt down over the election results. I did not expect to see so many centrist-liberal editorial boards do the same. (not express some guarded concerns, but completely lose their shit).

Sobering to remember a time when our government was encouraging us to use government programs. We’ve become accustomed to Republicans sneering & denigrating those who need government assistance unless they are oil companies or farmers.

One thing you see in the 1940s and 1950s is that the posters emphasize procedural aspects of the program - don't lose your card! make sure your employer has the right SSN! adjust your name after marriage! - but the key purpose is "Don't Lose Benefits."

Instead of following this model with his Great Society programs & overall agenda, LBJ thought he had to defend vs rightwing attacks by going to war in Vietnam. Tragic example of a road not taken.

I am so extremely honored to say that #TheDoubleTax has been included in the weekly round up by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: jbhe.com/2025/11/onli...

See also, @theguardian.com which has a partnership with OpenAI, and routinely vomits out uncritical pieces on AI which are little more than PR pieces