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This is a totally rational observation, he’s going to have a hell of a time with entrenched, mind-bogglingly corrupt institutions like the NYPD Rather than an indictment of Mamdani, I say this as a warning to New Yorkers to stay heavily engaged. He can’t solve anything without the community’s help

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

as a jew, i feel relieved and vindicated that cynical fearmongering about israel did not win this election for a sex creep and grandma killer, a win which would have been declared ‘on my behalf’ and which i and most of my fellow jews did not want

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

I think there’s a decent argument Zohran’s win is the biggest socialists have ever won in American history. Socialists have never governed a city anywhere near the size of New York. It doesn’t just feel good. It’s a generational opportunity to build social democracy—and show that it works.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

I will knock doors, give what $ I can, help secure endorsements, use every connection I have to help a Hickenlooper challenger. And I know I’m not alone.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Doug Co should keep rejecting the Republican crap, they are racist bigots who will drag down anyone foolish enough to stick with them. Got my whole family down there to vote in a June off year election, the normies are pissed!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

- focused like a laser on cost of living issues - spoke with “problematic” podcasters - refused to language police when media elites asked him to It’s really funny that Mamdani ran the perfect centrist campaign as a Democratic Socialist

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

the worst people are very upset this morning and i think that’s wonderful

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

"What they fear is not an antisemitic mayor, but one who will symbolize the ongoing collapse of pro-Israel hegemony in the Democratic Party, and perhaps in U.S. politics more generally." Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for NYC Mayor.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

NY Post headline: “CUO-NO!”

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Crow, Neguse, Petersen. Coloradans, boo them! I’m not the biggest DeGette Stan but I’m grateful she meets the minimum bar on many critical issues.

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Good morning! Joe Biden’s chief Middle East advisor wants you to know Trump has brought us to “the best place we can be.” (And the White House wants you to know he said that.)

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Every morning, a new story about how many Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops while looking for food. But we’re supposed to believe Iran is the big bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Spectacular topic, spectacular headline, spectacular byline, transcendent art direction

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

“The concert, hosted by Senator John Hickenlooper…” Hickenlooper is one of the most pro-Trump democrats in the senate, voting with him far above average, and he had the gall to stage this empty stunt as a protest against Trump? It’s just insulting. A raised middle finger is more honest.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Colbert's racist questioning of Mamdani gives Good Liberals more permission to treat their own Islamophobia as natural

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Genuinely surprised the Washington Post released this lol it unambiguously makes Israel look evil

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

In court today, a senior state official testifying on behalf of Gov. Jared Polis said he wasn’t aware of any evidence that an ICE subpoena Polis decided to comply with is related to a criminal investigation, as Polis has maintained, & he wasn’t aware of any efforts Polis’ office had made to check.

submitted 2 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 2 days ago • 67 comments

Boosters keep insisting that LLMs are not really energy hogs… but these data centers keep growing and they’re all powered dirty — and regular people nearby are stuck with the immediate consequences while we wait for the planet to catastrophically warm. It feels pretty malicious to me?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 2 days ago • 755 comments

A tiny apartheid state of 7 million people is terrorizing a region of hundreds of millions while committing genocide please tell me how this isn't Bond villain shit

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It’s obviously not everyone, but it’s just as obvious that there is an anti-Muslim contingent in the Democratic party.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Commentary: Even though Colorado is ostensibly a “blue” state, many supporters of the Colorado charter school industry are solidly on board with President Donald Trump’s agenda for public education.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

As military action and the threat of war spreads, this new paper by @akjorgenson.bsky.social and colleagues provides detailed analyses of the climate effects of military expansion and war with data from 104 nations. Read the whole paper here: academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 3 days ago • 1130 comments

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

The thing that is infuriating is that the vast majority of people who will die over this will be innocent Brown people but 90% of the discourse will be about Americans possibly dying

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Turns out although you've researched Iran for 30 years when wars break out, your first response is human. As an Iranian-American, I am horrified & deeply sad. As a scholar of Iran, I can say that no Iranian regime will ever agree to unconditional surrender. We woke up to a more dangerous world.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Erik Kurilla, the top US military commander in the Middle East, began planning for joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran during the Biden admin, per a former US official. While Biden didn’t approve strikes, his team knew of + permitted the prep that enabled Trump’s move. www.huffpost.com/entry/erik-k...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The Democrats’ biggest brand challenge is that voters don’t think the believe in anything The Democrats’ biggest operational challenge is a leadership that consistently proves those skeptical voters correct

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

America: Unilaterally and illegally bombs Iran American newspapers: "How will the terrorist Islamic Republic respond terrorist-ly?"

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Hours after the Minnesota attacks: “we condemn political violence, political violence is never okay” [one week later] “Bomb the Iranian savages back to the Stone Age, peace through strength!”

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To say that American foreign policy in the Middle East is being conducted entirely on behalf of a foreign state is reminiscent of antisemitic tropes and has the potential to lend credence to the narratives of those who hate the Jewish People. It also, unfortunately, happens to be true.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

We live in a stupid country

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments