Across NY & MD, I'm counting 12 Democratic incumbents who lost (or, in one case, are trailing) to a challenger to their left. —2 congressmembers (both NY) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —6 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD) A thread to break this down.

Speak to their needs, which are the same as yours. Help them put food on the table. Make sure they can afford rent. Get medical care for their children. Themselves. Candidates are campaigning not on abstract political categories but on making people’s lives materially better, and it’s working.

Let’s go, Frida Kahlo!!!

Gnash Bridges

Ah to be a fly on the wall of Bari Weiss's elite media group chat right now

We had moderates. They gave us decades of disastrous foreign policy, eviscerated social safety nets, soaring inequality, privatization, managed decline, and a party so terrified of confrontation that it treated rising fascism as a messaging problem instead of an existential threat.

The vote or die contingent is mad that people voted?

“No one in public life thinks about how to keep unemployment low and workers secure without encouraging the growth of bubbles, which contribute greatly to increased wealth inequality and then produce widespread damage when they inevitably burst.” Great writing about a bad man.

I keep wanting to say something about the Buttigieg “radicalization” interview but it’s so funny on its own.

Darializa Avila Chevalier is projected to win the Democratic primary in New York’s 13th Congressional District, a stunning defeat for incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat All three progressive candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani won their primaries

*Unreal Tournament announcer voice* DIRTBAG LEFT MMMMULTI KILL

If you have contempt for the people enabling the party’s entrenchment, impotence, and malignant stasis, declare your candidacy. Because if elected Democrats won’t hear the people — won’t FIGHT FOR the needs of the people — we’ll take their fucking jobs.

Ma’am, the DSA is taking over your party from the left. Stand for nothing, fall for nothing—and make way for people who stand for something righteous

I’m on day eight of no hearing in my left ear and 30% of normal in my right. I’m nearly sure it’s an extended remix of a normal vestibular migraine, but I was just thinking that in many functioning countries (most of them!) I wouldn’t have to guess with increasing panic. I could get checked out.

Decision Desk HQ projects Darializa Chevalier wins the NY US House 13 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:49 PM EDT

Graphic design is my passion.

Between Zohran's huge win and the whupping Lander put on Goldman tonight, it's clear the NYT is wayyyy out of touch with the real New York City. I love that town and the people in it.

Checking-in on the other 2 NYC candidates where Mamdani was involved: Claire Valdez, the Mamdani-endorsed candidate, has a large lead in #NY07 (54% to 38% with a third of the vote counted). Rep. Adriano Espaillat & challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier are nearly tied in #NY13, 47.7% to 47.3%

Brad Lander, who earnestly asked me when I interviewed him outside an anti-Backpage rally at the Village Voice in 2012, why the sex worker counter-protestors couldn’t just start their own website, which has confused, charmed, and obviously congealed in my head for years

I’m gonna do a comparison thread for that liberal Bojack account This should be fun! 🧵

HELL YEAH

"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of Luxury!" - Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, &c.

At three tomorrow the Land Rover will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, Dracula.

Remind me to delete all my social media accounts before “Sorrow in Usha’s Eyes: The Quiet Tragedy of America’s Conservative Wives” goes to press.

I spent several entire minutes trying to find some tradcath natalist-cum-nazi play on “Between two Ferns” but in the end I am defeated.

I found the most wonderful thing in the world, and it is this Korean woman van-camping on Jeju island with her four enormous, precious dogs (Maru, Baechu, Bella, and one whose name I can’t catch). If there’s a heaven it’s probably this.

Hire trans women including me who would love to work full time for you!

The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does.

All of Trump's go-to riffs are clearly things that someone tried to explain to him using extremely small words and basic concepts and that he still didn't understand, but still latched onto specific terms to create his own Ralph Wiggum version

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Trump’s new Homeland Security task forces are supposedly fighting an immigrant “invasion" & taking on human smuggling networks, foreign gangs, transnational crime, & “terror-related activities” But they seem mostly to be doing drug war, & going after U.S. citizens reason.com/2026/06/23/t...

*does a line of ketamine, puts on $8,000 Miu Miu jacket, spends 17 minutes determining optimal framing and focal length for jowl minimization* now, I do feel bad about the dead poors, but the impo

This idea that blacklisting or socially sanctioning someone for their *political positions* is bigotry is just horrendously stupid at face value and it is odd to see the NYT even try to peddle it. Goldman doesn't even call Israel's occupation of Palestinian land an occupation. That is condemnable.

This is unbelievably cruel and unusual sentencing.

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The cratering of CBS News ratings is enjoyable, but also irrelevant. They didn't put Weiss in charge for ratings. They put her in charge to appease Trump, so he'd continue to favor Ellison companies with regulatory/policy decisions worth billions. There's only one viewer who matters.

Mr. Hatch Mayhew: Baby Hatch Hatchimal Hatchbug Balloon Bananimal Belly Gujo Hachiman Gifu

I would tag him, but "@pigballs" gets me nothing.

i have my bsky shortcut on a clapper

“Our work has never been about one person,” Zohran Mamdani said at a DSA rally in Brooklyn. “Our work has been about one movement.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social reports on the socialist electoral movement gaining ground in New York City.

every single time I open a tab to come here I just type "b" and slam my fist immediately into the return key assuming it'll give me the timeline because what else could I possibly want and every time it gives me the google results for cardi b

I check in on Twitter to respond to DMs from clients once a week or so. Yesterday, I stupidly checked the timeline and 80% of the tweets on my "Following" tab were Nazi comments and anti trans shit from people I didn't even follow. It's horrifying. Every post is like that, Pigballs.

For my birthday I’m sharing the link to a group I’m fond of, the Urban Growers Collective, which is a grassroots Black-led, women-led non-profit farm in Chicago working to build a more just and equitable local food system. Please donate if you can. 🤌 www.urbangrowerscollective.org

Great read.

wahhhh i got my heart broken and im soooo sad and won’t shut up about it so here’s a simpsons meme

Some of the SpaceX investors in the records are easy to identify: the Indian politician Abhishek Singhvi; Betsy DeVos, the former U.S. secretary of education. But others on the list are shell companies whose ultimate owners remain hidden.

Goodnight brothers, sisters, and siblings. Dream of a better future. Or boobs or whatever your thing is.

“People are addicted to being selfish and stupid zealots” is an incredible way to speak about your fellow human beings fighting against and suffering from rising authoritarianism. Ceding ground to fascists doesn’t bring you more safety. Just less ground.

sitting on my hands trying to resist going to find this one