Make Article I great again. Congress is complicit in the ongoing attack on the Constitutional authorities granted to it.

Sewell delivered over $3.2 million in investments, expanding health care access, supporting first responders, increasing public safety and improving infrastructure.

Please urge your friends and acquaintances who live in GOP congressional districts to call their Representatives and tell them to vote for the release of the Epstein files. If there is a 2/3 (or more) vote in the House, it may pressure some Senators to go along. And will make DJT shit his pants.

Supporting Trump = supporting child rape.

There’s a transitive property at work here: If you support Trump, you support a pedophile and because pedophiles are abhorrent, you are also abhorrent and I cannot support you or be around you at all.

So it turns out the Q-Anon weirdos were right about the sex-trafficking conspiracy, just wrong about the perpetrators.

If you are going to read one book before the next election cycle, I am begging you to make it this one: press.uchicago.edu/dam/ucp/book...

If men are so aimless and alienated from work, perhaps they should get involved in unionizing their workplaces. Channel that aggressive energy towards bosses where it belongs.

Moving forward, it would be a good idea to establish what sorts of online behavior should be disqualifying to run for office. Not knowing how much your past will come back to hurt you is likely to prevent some good people from throwing their hats in the ring.

You know what, I'm sick of hearing about health insurance and premium tax credits. Fuck insurance companies. I want to pay some taxes and be able to go to the damned doctor. I don't care who pays the doctor as long as it's a reasonable amount and I don't see the bill. Let the government bargain.

a dad joke for the day: What to spelunkers and Democratic leaders have in common? Caving. Can't wait to tell the kids this one tonight!

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Yes, the Dems lost, but let’s think about what the GOP won. 1. Skyrocketing healthcare costs for everyone 2. Air travel that is still shit 3. Thanksgiving and Christmas plagued by higher prices. 4. GestapICE raids 5. Confirmation that they are Dozy Don’s lackeys 6. The Epstein Files?

I know people are upset at the Dems’ capitulation, but here’s something we can try to do: When the Thanksgiving conversation inevitably turns to the Dems fecklessness, flip the script. Point out how much things still suck AFTER the GOP got what it wanted, because they ARE going to suck.

Don’t forget, we’re only a couple of weeks away from the “Trump’s Tariffs Stole Christmas” stories after retailers report the worst “Black Friday” since the term was coined.

Yeah, the Dems folding sucks and makes them look like a bunch of losers, but let’s wait a couple of weeks and see if the story shifts to: The GOP got what they wanted but air travel is still fucked and Thanksgiving is still too expensive and SNAP benefits are still held up, and ICE agents are

Here's an idea, maybe if we were kind and generous with immigrants, non-immigrant-Americans would have less of a reason to imagine that immigrants hate them.

Here's my humble suggestion to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on how to pay for some of his agenda: Progressive sales tax with higher rates on luxury items. If you buy a Rolex in the city, you should pay more than 8.75% tax. If you don't want to pay it, don't buy a Rolex.

A more affordable New York City should also mean more opportunities for young people to start careers working for city government.

So who should head up affordable housing in NYC now? Please make it someone that young people are excited to work for/with and has some competence.

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

How well do Americans remember who was president during major recent events? (@taylororth.bsky.social @today.yougov.com) today.yougov.com/politics/art...

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

This week's SNL cold open is going to be the Sandwich Guy trial transcript verbatim.

I'm inordinately proud of myself for thinking up "picking evidence from George Washington's cherry tree," as a way to describe "Originalist" jurisprudence.

I'm working on a theory that all politics and political coverage can be explained by the availability heuristic. If you hang out with ivy-leaguers, you'll think the ivy league is more important than it is. If you hang out with racists, you'll assume there are more racists than there are.

The basic dynamic of Trump is this: He is stupid. He thinks everyone else is stupider than he is. He cannot understand when people disagree with his assessment. Because he is stupid.

I am freakishly excited that in January, The Church Committee report will be republished. This may explain why I have so few friends.

Comparing high level Democrats to their Republican counterparts is like comparing apples to quinces.

It takes a special person to admit when they're wrong, but it really fucking shouldn't.

I wonder if the 2026 will prove a turning point for Republicans to realize that getting rid of Trump will be a better way to keep their jobs than continuing to support him. In the House, at least, voters might want people to represent them rather than lick Trump's boots.

Just a quick reminder that some people are rich enough that they can claim no taxable income and finance their lavish lifestyles by borrowing (at incredibly low rates) against their accumulated wealth. If they don't take a salary, no payroll tax.

“This is party civil war” says man who lost primary and is now running as an independent.

Has anyone considered that maybe Lil' Mickey Johnson has passed the point where he can't call the house back because either they will vote him out of the speakership because maybe there are some congresspeople who want to do their jobs?

BREAKING: Bari Weiss to replace CBS Evening News with "Half Hour Gorilla Hour." White House ecstatic at this "bold new vision."

I cannot believe it has taken me this long to cotton on to "Donald Chump."

What if we all started feeding AI deliberately false and patently ridiculous information?

AI is the Springfield monorail.

Today’s unsolicited advice: Do something Donald Trump can’t: Read a book. If you don’t know what to read, ask a librarian, a teacher, or a friend who reads. If you can afford it, consider buying a book from a store. Avoid finding books by searching the internet or asking an AI bot.

Unless the firm goes under, every layoff or firing is the result of a series of choices. It’s not “the economy” it’s decisions made to decide who gets to keep profits and how much.

I've never had an easier or more pleasant time voting in NYC than this morning. If you're un(der)employed or your job is flexible to let you out in the middle of the workday, and registered to vote, do yourself a favor and get out there.

In 2024 some voters blamed Biden for the school closures and covid restrictions that happened at least in part because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and in many places were over by the time Biden took office. Others blamed him for inflation without remembering China’s supply shock.

I wonder if the reason that Dem messaging is so much poorer than the GOP’s is that the GOP is able to focus on villains they don’t expect or want to support them and Dems can’t call out the real villains because they think they need the money.

Is the president pathetically ignorant of the U.S. Constitution, suffering rapid and dangerous cognitive decline, or delusionally sociopathic in his narcissism? (or some combination of the three?)

The Democrats' message seems to have been, "lets use government to make things better for everyone," which Republicans have turned into, "See, they think they're better than you! Fuck them!"

I kinda wish that some of those deplorables that HC caught so much flak over were actually deplored.

Just re-read Article II of the Constitution and remembered that the President has the power to call one or both houses of Congress into session.

Just think about how BAD the revelations in the Epstein files must be that Trump and the GOP would rather: tear down the East Wing start a war with Venezuela shut down the federal government destroy American farms let Americans starve pay $40B to Argentina than release them.

I’m betting I’m not the only New Yorker who sees Muslims praying on sidewalks in the middle of the workday and thinks, “Damn, I love this city.”