They can’t find someone who can win against this? Organize to point out how bad this is to the normies who aren’t seeing it?

I can't believe we're losing democracy to a guy that's just mailing it every speech

I heard Tylenol was trying to buy NBC!

If the GOP want to continue down their current path (Deport Omar! Deport Mamdani!), then Dems need to start calling for the denaturalization & deportation of Melania, fight fire with fire - plus there are far more unanswered questions about her immigration to the US than either Mamdani or Omar.

No, We Don't Need 'Pro-Life' Democrats open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Kamala Harris: He had no plan for actually bringing down costs and prices for the American people. He had very few plans for what he would actually do that was about the American people, and not his vengeance on his enemies.

The American health system is so fu**ed. They'll save your life some of the time, but they'll really make you work for it. Also, I'm getting the feeling you get worse treatment and care if you're a Black woman 🤔

Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent… Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.

Study Links Trump Being President to Increased Use of Tylenol open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

If the working class voter is just wrong about such issues, it’s not a great sacrifice to appease them.

Oh FFS Trans people are estimated to make up 1-2% of the population of the United States; however, trans people make up less than less than 0.002% (10/500,000) of US college athletes, and even fewer of recent Olympians (0.001%) identify as trans.

Is there really that much pro-trans messaging coming from Democratic candidates and representatives? I don’t see it. They’re just not actively threatening to trample on the rights of trans people.

Harris didn’t have trans issues front and center of her campaign, she ran on almost entirely economic issues and to protect democracy, both moderate issues. Telling the democrats that they didn’t go moderate enough after that loss is stupid and just makes the progressive base less likely to show.

Throwing trans people under the bus to “win back working class voters” doesn’t work. Even if that’s what working class voters wanted (they don’t), the other party will just lie like they do and say they support “transiting kids on the playground” or whatever. Trans people’s lives matter more.

COMPLICIT

It’s really important that people understand that Democratic messaging around class isn’t going to fix white nationalism. It’s past time that people acknowledged and accepted the truth of where we are as a country.

This will not age well. Hagiography of a notorious hatemongering grifter will be as positive long term as glorifying Bull Connor or Lester Maddox.

I don't want to live in a white christian ethno state.

There should be no doubt as this funeral is being broadcast who America is … however it doesn’t mean this type of white nationalism can’t be beat back. Instead of white America ignoring the reality of this truth folks who don’t stand for this need to link arms with those who have BEEN telling you!

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

Journalist: "Are you tired of winning yet?" Donald Trump: "We get tired of winning. Not that tired. Thank you very much."

And they have been for years. Oligarchs buying newspapers makes for easy propaganda tools.

Follow-up: "Are you aware that Brendan Carr wrote the portion of Project 2025 on the Federal Communications Commission, and that he is merely implementing that document? Does it concern you that this effort to eliminate free expression is a blueprint for fascism, led by Trump??"

WELKER: Do you believe Brendan Carr's comments were appropriate? RAND PAUL: Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.

The Big Fall Canvass continues on this gorgeous Sunday across the five boroughs. Every door you knock, every conversation you start, every palm card you hand to a neighbor gets us one step closer to winning a city we can afford. Sign up: zohranfornyc.com/bfcv

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

I originally wrote this column in the wake of Colbert’s cancellation. But I think a lot of its ideas remain true in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. READ: https://loom.ly/Oem8hSE

Former Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah, the last remaining Black columnist working in the Post’s Opinion section, outlines circumstances of her firing, pushing back on some narratives. https://loom.ly/sv9dweA

My column on Jimmy Kimmel, Big Media owners and the shrinking of free speech in American media. https://loom.ly/P8pK0Gw

I’m worried it can still get stupider

Many assume bc I'm Jamaican that any vernacular in which I write must be Jamaican, and the story must be set there. But I'm more fluent in Trinidadian, more likely to use that. Or whichever vernacular I can effectively imply. In "Riding the Red," the language is from nowhere near the Caribbean.

They’re not sending their best.

Next time, can we try a Speaker who isn’t eager for the rapture?

On this beautiful Saturday in Brooklyn, it was honor to receive the endorsement of Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (@voteyvette.bsky.social). "Unlike his opponents, I have no doubt that Assemblyman Mamdani will never surrender this city...for the sake of his own self-preservation."

15 Off Broadway Shows to See in September www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t...

Just read the NYT obit as a comparison. Took them 11 paragraphs to finally give a mealy mouthed slap on the wrist for “including inflammatory comments” in his tweets as if it was not his main focus. In earlier paragraphs he is described as “fresh faced” “bold” “ambitious” “kingmaker” “a genius”

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I made a little video www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Day 2 and I have not missed Hulu. This kind of thing has to be somewhat of a jolt to these companies. So many people have a sub to so many things they don't use much and just forget about. But then something happens, and boom, easy to drop it.

An illustration for our times

A president who is crashing the economy, destroying public health and terrorizing immigrants keeps slipping in the polls. He could: A) stop his bad behavior to stem the slide or B) try to crush free speech to cover up his failures. Right now, he’s choosing B.

I wrote in my Substack about why Trump is not a king — including in his inability to take a joke (with thanks to @bagleycartoons.bsky.social for letting me use his cartoon!) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

Right, and then the MBAs took over and now it's garbage

Honesty, I have no idea what "woke" means in the first place, other than that it's something Trump hates. And "woke right" makes even less sense to me. What's with this nomenclature?