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not really clear whether it means anything for the outcome but such a contrast between Mamdani's campaign as a running love-letter to existing in NY—Sidetalk-style Knicks stuff, subway videos, a million bodega videos—and Cuomo running as someone who, well, acts like he lives in Westchester

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Virtue signaling is good and was apparently a load bearing support that was preventing a lot of people from doing and saying heinous shit.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is far-right propaganda masquerading as journalism. Biden is an 82-year-old retiree who has no formal role in the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the current president's brain continues to glitch over the word "groceries."

submitted 21 days ago • 156 comments

ICE behaving exactly like an organized criminal gang, example No. Infinity

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

submitted 26 days ago • 290 comments

Leader of millennia old religion with 1.5 billion followers is pro-religion, pro-religion followers.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 27 days ago • 631 comments

Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer and now the interim U.S. attorney for NJ, announces that the Trump administration has arrested the mayor of Newark at an private prison that ICE had decently contracted as a detention center. His arrest is seemingly for trespass.

submitted 27 days ago • 238 comments

we are seeing levels of winging it previously only theorized by our top scientists

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 28 days ago • 132 comments

Really pushing the limits of the "we can't call him racist because we don't know what's in his heart" media defense.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

submitted 28 days ago • 215 comments

This is why I’ve gotten aggressively into the NBA this year. The problem is that now every game feels like the end of the world.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

submitted 28 days ago • 258 comments

a Chris Murphy-retweeting pope. The ResistLibs really do have the Mandate of Heaven

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

Genuinely so much of our problems are caused by people on all sides underestimating how stupendously dumb he is.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

There is no substantive case that can be made—none—that this is just or that this is moral. Or that this is good for the United States.

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments