I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE LET'S CIRCLE BACK AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE SOMEONE WILL SAY TURN THIS IN BY THE END OF THE DAY DESPITE ALL MY RAGE YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF AT THIS STAGE

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

These insults pick up a weapon that Elon wields poorly and wield it against him expertly. This dynamic:

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

I want to see Democrats run on a 'American energy renaissance' platform that is basically just a way to cut red tape around interconnections and *any* energy project that is connected to the grid. (wind and solar will win. period full stop. let's stop clutching our pearls about natural gas.)

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

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"I have to be polite to the lying Nazi robot or else all my posts will disappear and no one will see them"

OneBusAway 25.4 for iOS has been submitted to Apple for review! 🎉 this new version contains our long-awaited trip planner feature!

When he's right, he's right folks.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

wow, fucking amazing. Give me a half billion dollars and I'll be able to predict that Spanberger will win *before* Election Day. www.theverge.com/column/81520...

So says Ross. (who is apparently only two years older than me 😬)

Maybe @jaketapper.bsky.social can find out why what's left of the White House is being turned into a memory care wing.

A 7 point margin for Harrell is *probably* surmountable for Katie Wilson, but that’s definitely a larger gap than I’d want to be down. Meanwhile I have absolutely no idea who’s going to win for KC exec.

Prop 50 was called the moment that polls closed in California. The blowout showed how showing up to fight is the most important thing in Democratic politics right now. It also means that (pending SCOTUS) Dems have largely neutralized Trump's gerrymandering push. From me: prospect.org/2025/11/04/c...

Why did the attacks on Mamdani’s socialism fail? A key reason: He made clear he was a “sewer socialist,” a forgotten American tradition created by left-wing mayors who asked to be judged not by theories but by whether they deliver public services effectively & fairly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

You might think you’re ready for this needle drop at the Cuomo watch party. I promise you: you are not.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Goddamn, what an absolute rout of Cuomo. Mamdani up over 50%

new NoVA winemom yard sign just dropped In This House We Believe: -Black Lives Matter -No Human Is Illegal -Women's Rights Are Human Rights -Science Is Real -[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871] -Love Is Love

Fired up, ready to go! Gonna be a good night! 🔥

Poll closing times (US/Pacific) 4pm: Virginia 5pm: New Jersey, Pennsylvania 6pm: NYC, Minneapolis 7pm: n/a 8pm: California, Washington

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it

“Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words” 10 quotes worth remembering, and that’ll be glossed over in MSM obits, from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture.

Republicans have turned ICE, Border Patrol, and the National Guard into partisan paramilitaries, sent to so-called "Democrat cities" and "Democrat towns" and "Democrat neighborhoods," to terrorize thousands of good people who want nothing more than to sit under their own vine and fig tree!

Paging @ezraklein.bsky.social. I thought your last podcast/column about big tent liberalism was thought provoking but was missing a critical dimension for not bringing in media consumption. No idea how democrats fix this, but it needs to be identified as a proximate cause of our crisis.

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

::Fussiest, most priggish tone you can imagine:: Paul, it’s a diaeresis, not an umlaut.

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My toddler upon hearing my reaction to this skeet: “no daddy, no laughing.” 😂

What if the blue jays winning this fixes the timeline after the cubs fucked it up in 2016?

Hey, let’s also add fan dancers to the mix, right in the middle of my huge pervert problem.

These are gorgeous. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus... cc @volts.wtf

The subway on Halloween night is one of the greatest things about NYC.

This but he’s checking out the couch while Erika glares at him.

Omg

I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

Coming from a country that removed and imprisoned its last president for inciting an insurrection, this is an A+ troll of the US.

So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan. 2026 preview site from the regime just went up. This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026. I'm beside myself.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

I've been calculating the amount of each Seattle neighborhood elementary attendance area that overlaps with its walk zone. In how much of the city can kids walk to their assigned neighborhood school? Here's the answer!