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Mamdani ran on such America-hating policies as [checks notes] free daycare

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he's right and he's right to say it

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There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York

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JUST IN: "Tonight was not our night," Cuomo says before adding that he has called Mamdani to congratulate him.

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I am at a massive DSA watch party in Astoria, NYC. Vibes insane. There's got to be at least 500 people here, and there's dozens more like it across the city. DSA is where you need to be. Join here: dsausa.org/join

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What if we're the ones we've been waiting for 👀

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dsausa.org/join

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Will the national media admit that Andrew Cuomo's attempts to make this a referendum on Israel totally backfired and Zohran Mamdani's intense focus on housing and public transit won it?

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Yes, and: every union local should have a smoker. Maybe an extra vegan one if you're that kinda outfit. Wheels for picket smoking a la the French grills optional but encouraged.

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As I understand it, the founders based a lot of their ideas on the theory that each branch of government would jealously guard its powers and this would serve to check the others. Not so! Every branch is happy to abrogate its powers, so long as it’s in favor of Donald Trump.

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Addition to the list of RPG campaigns I'll never have time to run and thus will haunt me forever: "the day DOGE came for Delta Green"

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Lots of North St. Louis is still in ruins and the Trump administration is directing the agency that should be helping rebuild to create concentration camps instead.

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Again, from a hard-nosed, amoral position: what’s the point of supporting a client state if they just ignore you? What are we getting out of the relationship?

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The US president issuing demands via social media to try and enforce an unstable ceasefire in the exact same all-caps tone as a frustrated teenage moderator in the chat room on a Counter-Strike server does at least rip the mask away from the absurdity that is modern international politics.

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Election day in New York City is a reminder that in the age of Trump, Democrats in both houses of Congress probably shouldn’t be led by representatives of a state / city party machine that couldn’t close ranks against a notoriously corrupt, disgraced sex pest they all hate.

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I have two or three advanced degrees in medieval literature, why do I spend so much time writing spreadsheets

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Pride Month has always felt bittersweet to me until now. I was jealous to the bone of those who could speak freely about their identities. I had to conceal mine, edit my words, make sure that I wouldn’t let it slip out. I was a watered-down version of myself. wildhunt.org/2025/06/witc... #pagan

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I am going to start drinking. It's a weird thing to start doing at 39, but like, it seems like a reasonable choice under the circumstances

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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...

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now seems like a good time to revisit @asherelbein.bsky.social's brilliant piece on magneto “They would kill us all if they could!” he says in an early issue, fleeing a nuke that he’s primed to destroy a small country he’s just tried to conquer. “We fight only in self defense!”

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Two contracts to go.

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My statement on the government's absurd and authoritarian proposal to proscribe Palestine Action.

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It turns out creating a situation where 25% of global petroleum liquids might go offline at any minute has an impact on oil prices, who would have guessed.

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When it comes to what motivates Trump, it almost always comes down to ratings or incarnating the anti-Obama. In the case of bombing Iran, the Venn overlap was a single circle.

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This is a kiddish hashem and honestly it feels nice to be able say that about a public performance of Judaism

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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.

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TONIGHT

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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

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incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

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No war but class war.

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I already linked to this piece by Spencer Ackerman, but I wanted to add one thing. Ackerman says that we should remember that this war started not today but in 1953. He's right. But I would be amazed if even 1% of the population knows what 1953 refers to in this context.

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not the immediate issue, but no country will ever negotiate a stop to their nuclear program again. not after libya, not after today.

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it should go without saying, but an impromptu war against Iran helmed by the dumbest person alive is a really bad idea

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The rational move for any country is to get nukes ASAP. Don't care for it.

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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

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Our Midsummer altar. #witchcraft #wicca #pagan

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with no plausible claim of self-defense, joining in a two-country effort obviously directed at regime change, this is not only a violation of art 2(4) of the UN Charter. it very much looks like aggressive war.

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Well fuck

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This is incredibly funny but, also, I hope everyone who is pro AI or a teacher that allows AI can see clear as day that the ultimate goal is to put the thumb on the scale of all of this shit. That's why they're forcing it on us. It's a joke.