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Cuomo is beatable!! I was reluctant to get my hopes up but come on NYC do the right thing!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A new Emerson poll finds Cuomo at 35% in the first round, and ending up with a 9% lead in the final round of RCV over Mamdani. Trump’s approval rating is 27%, and Eric Adams’s is 19%. emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-poll/

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Can't wait for the Democratic Party to shove Gavin Newsom down our throats in a general election and then blame leftists when he inevitably loses because he sucks shit

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

Newsom is to the right of Neil Gorsuch on trans rights.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit - Gavin Newsom has clarified that this goes even further. The transgender runner will compete "in her own category." California is basically instituting a sports ban. www.kcra.com/article/cali...

submitted 4 days ago • 189 comments

Trying to take a centrist approach without regard to the substantive views is exactly how you wind up pitching Separate but Equal as a compromise position. Newsom should be run out of democratic politics.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

god I fucking hate Gavin Newsom, example #18,209

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

this from Tapper really jumps out: the commentariat thinks electability is based on who is accommodating to them personally. “these people said I was wrong so now they can’t win”, he says, as he goes on CNN to help make his own prophecy true.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis

submitted 8 days ago • 269 comments

Richard Posner called SCOTUS our House of Lords. Even the heritability often seems apt (“that’s Scalia’s seat!” I recall GOPers fuming when he died towards the end of Obama’s term and they blocked replacement).

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If you think of Supreme Court justices as philosopher kings who care about holding the American republic in their trust, you will be perpetually surprised and disappointed. If, instead, you think of them as very similar to 6 Republican and 3 Democratic senators, then things make much more sense

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

POV: Starbucks' website uses a photo of you without your knowledge to promote their "welcoming environment" and allyship A "welcoming environment" means actually paying us fairly, staffing us properly, & finalizing union contracts with strong protections for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC workers!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 9 days ago • 313 comments

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's single vote could have stopped Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that will slash Medicaid & SNAP benefits spending by almost $1 trillion. Instead, the self-described moderate fell in line and voted for a budget that will take food and health care away from millions of Americans.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

submitted 10 days ago • 374 comments

we need a Democratic party for the left

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

There has rightfully been a lot of debate about Congressional Dems' strategy in approaching Trump's second term. On the politics there is at least some room for arguing about its effectiveness, I think it has been a miserable failure but there is a squint and you see it theory of the case. However,

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment