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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

submitted 12 hours ago • 466 comments

I didn’t have “arguing if the Constitution is constitutional” on my 2025 bingo card. Did you?

submitted 13 hours ago • 405 comments

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

submitted 20 hours ago • 216 comments

Zohran Mamdani says, "For too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability. We're actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like mayor Adams has done, or to respond to it and resolve it, like I'm planning to do."

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Breaking: After a classified briefing with Cabinet officials, Sen. Chris Murphy says: "I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the programs." "The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."

submitted 1 day ago • 338 comments

When you lie about your credentials, your drinking, and your leaking of classified war plans, why would anyone trust you about the air strikes?

submitted 1 day ago • 518 comments

Tesla is basically a memecoin at this point. Great news, everyone "Sales dropped ONLY 28% in May despite the overall EV market growing 27%". I can't think of any other company where people would write articles this delusional.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This should be an all-caps headline. No president has ever — or would ever — grant an enemy permission to strike a U.S. military base. Yet that appears to be what Trump says he did.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

If I had to sum up what I’ve learned from analyzing mountains of election data—and what Mamdani’s campaign exemplified perfectly—it’s this: Stop moderating. Start energizing.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

submitted 3 days ago • 643 comments

The amount of ways in which this president is just shattering the foundational norms of governance is just breathtaking.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

submitted 3 days ago • 312 comments

In a June Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani received more votes than 22 sitting US Senators received in their most recent general elections.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Populist economics is a very effective way to fight fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

this is your friendly reminder that you simply cannot predict what LLMs will hallucinate. For example, Anthropic invented MCP, Model Context Protocol. Claude – the model Anthropic develops – does not yet know what it is.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Pupdate: Looking good; feelin’ good

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PUPDATE

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone. This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Another thing I can’t get over about the Democratic establishment’s backing of Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayoral race is how much hostility they’ve shown to Zohran Mamdani, an extremely gifted young campaigner whose energy and charisma the party sorely needs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

How wild is it that women & femmes have been screaming online about rape and death threats for 15+ years and men still think we are talking about “arguments”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

the dem establishment attempting to purge every pro palestine politician from the party while the actual voter base is now majority pro-palestine is going to wreck party unity and cohesion if we let them keep doing this.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

[Stockpiling tea and buns]

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

one good thing about electing a left wing mayor in nyc is that the office will probably be only minorly relevant nationally - allowing the mayor to actually govern. if cuomo wins, he will be planning his presidential run during his entire unpopular mayorality

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

There should be an earnest call to pack the courts by Dem leadership. It should be a thought out campaign to explain to the American people why it’s necessary.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

submitted 4 days ago • 598 comments

the question people like this never answer is “why?” why would jews be unsafe with a muslim mayor? why would a palestinian state endanger jews? why should jews be afraid of anti-genocide protesters? their answer is “muslims are violent people” but they know that’s too bigoted to say, even for them

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

More to come later today but here is a first look at what just a few hours of observing with the world’s largest camera can do. 🔭 edition.cnn.com/2025/06/23/s...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

which means it's a finance problem, not in the sense of "it takes money" but in the sense of "we need to exchange present and future to mutual advantage"

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In China, EV factories have become an unlikely big-ticket tourist attraction, with people signing up by the thousands to visit. from @zeyiyang.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/china-...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

die young or live long enough to see yourself do k-fold cross-validation

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Again and again, the Free Press spent years complaining about illiberalism and when confronted with the first truly authoritarian government of our lifetimes went from being soft apologists to full throated endorsers

submitted 5 days ago • 127 comments

not to get all partisan or anything but i think going to war with Iran for literally no reason beyond puffing up Trump's ego would be bad

submitted 10 days ago • 159 comments

Trump's rationale for going to war with Iran

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments