The thing is, Elon Musk is a human pump-and-dump scheme. Tesla Motors' board knows that their brand is intimately tied up with the world thinking Musk is a genius. They're incentivized to keep acting as if he's a genius. Because the second they admit he's a con man, their bubble pops.

I can't even begin to tell you how much I'm not going to read this.

You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life? We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.

A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism. “I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.” zeteo.com/subscribe

But who would actually write such a ridiculous thi--

We stopped at the historical marker for Harriet Tubman's birthplace and found someone had left three apples and a whisk broom in the grass. They form an arrow pointing north.

Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

As a professor of African American Studies, I endorse this message ✊🏾🤭✊🏾

The right is producing content for what is essentially a reality TV show for a national fascist counter-reality that anyone who wants to believe can immerse themselves in and pretend is real (and use as “evidence” for decision-making) but it doesn’t replace actual reality that we can all still see

More amazing news from last night. Zyahna Bryant, the woman who, as a high school student, launched a petition in 2016 that eventually got the Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue removed, has won her race for the Charlottesville city school board.

For your hope-scrolling delectation, may I present:

Well, it appears that the unbelievably shocking scandal of “auntie gate” didn’t sink Mamdani after all :)

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Look what we did, Virginia! "Ghazala Hashmi, a Democrat who was elected as lieutenant governor, became the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office in any state." #Virginia #VoteBlue #BlueWave #Hashmi

Mickie Sherrill got an MA in history so the humanities are COOKING!! Clearly the humanities are the best prep for bold careers

So real for this

Or governor of Virginia! (Spanberger majored in French at UVA)

More amazing news from last night. Zyahna Bryant, the woman who, as a high school student, launched a petition in 2016 that eventually got the Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue removed, has won her race for the Charlottesville city school board.

Super-problematic that people aren't respecting Mike Johnson's boundaries

This is the only meme from last night, actually

The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime. It's simply untrue. Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.

Had to share this from twitter just because

My brother-in-law lives in Brooklyn and is always quick to point this out. The DSA in NYC has been effectively organizing and getting people elected for a decade. Mamdani is a generational talent and the DSA infrastructure positioned him to succeed.

Bluesky rn

let the exododus commence

Young men too 😮😮

Showed this to my wife and she was like "On the one hand, good for him. On the other hand, this used to be the normal thing that literally everyone would do."

Be nice. Have good ideas. Hit the streets. Talk to the people, all of them, maybe in multiple languages. Silence and defeat your opponents with positive conviction. Be nice. Have good ideas…

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Gonna start selling this on art.com bright and early tomorrow morning 💰

PHILLY, BABY

just in: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is on track to win easily. With roughly a quarter of the vote reporting, he leads Pat Dugan 81% to 19%. Krasner already beat Dugan in the Dem primary... and Dugan kept running as the GOP nominee. (My write-up: boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...)

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

zohran breaking 50%.... what will michael conforto do tonight?!

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Predictit increasingly confident in a 50%+ finish for Mamdani.

Ghazala Hashmi will take the Lieutenant Governorship in Virginia. She's the first Muslim woman to hold any state office in American history, and she'll lead the oldest democratically elected assembly in North America.

this tweet from lt governor elect hashmi made me cry last week so I’m glad to see she is winning quickly

The racist attacks against Hashmi in the final weeks of the race were disgusting. Islamophobia is no longer a workable strategy in 2025.

Current Predictit numbers! Jay Jones looking like a lock for VA AG. Spanberger projected to rack up a double-digit victory. (NYC projection not based on any hard data yet)

Great work, clanker.

Following all of the software engineering, data engineering, etc subreddits is really depressing right now because all anyone talks about is a) how bad hiring is, and b) how bad the actual work itself is now due to dealing with LLMs in the workplace.

The noise you hear is the collective swallowing of a thousand right whinge commentators' words www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I hope he is awarded the highest possible honour for saving lives.

Publication day for Wakara's America! substack.com/home/post/p-...

PA folks! VOTE! It's especially important to RETAIN all three PA supreme court justices. This was on the back page of my Philadelphia ballot, a whole page of questions about whether to retain judges at various levels. The answer to all of them was YES.

The Thanksgiving sermons preached in 1761 to celebrate the fall of Quebec and Montreal have the same vibe as the crusade chronicles celebrating the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. In this essay I will...

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE