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this is why i am pretty confident there will not be a meaningful attempt to do an end run around mamdani. a lot of elite cuomo support seemed to be based on “well, he’s probably going to win and he’s a vindictive asshole and i don’t want to be on his bad side.”

That sentence is so insane

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

Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.

ah, but is it as scandalous as biden old?

whoa! (gift link so you can read without the paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

I could play with the Rubin Skyviewer for hours. Off in one corner of the first image released is this rather lovely little galaxy car crash, which are always my favourites. 🔭 skyviewer.app/explorer

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

I sincerely do not have words for the evil these people are committing.

This simply would not be possible in a democracy.

the biggest crew of goddamned idiots you ever saw

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

have we considered that maybe all the ice agents are just really ugly

Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

Note: it's not that he disagrees with the details, or the mechanisms -- he finds the *concept* of accountability for law enforcement incredible. I don't think it's an act, either. The authoritarian mind cannot process the powerful answering to the powerless. It literally makes no sense to them.

We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

As on tariffs, Trump’s mass deportation policies are so disastrous that he can’t continue them. It is a terrible curse to be led by a man who is as stupid as he is evil.

Compicit in America's slide into authoritarianism, simple as that.

bsky reply etiquette psa

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

congratulations assholes, you’ve bullied Gavin into getting off his right wing podcast circuit and back to pretending to care about his constituents again that’s a hell of a fuckup on your part

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Yes… Hahaha… Yes!

there is not a single fast-casual chain bread that surpasses the cheddar bay biscuit. the cheddar bay biscuit is one of the greatest foodstuffs this country has ever produced. if you went back in time and gave a cheddar bay biscuit to george washington, the intensity of flavor would kill him

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

Board members were reportedly worried they were opening themselves up to charges for bribery. Which is reasonable since they’re giving Trump a bribe.

since people give the nyt so much crap for milquetoast headlines, someone should acknowledge that this one is pretty 💅 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

The fucker is hallucinating in the oval office

currency of the realm in republican politics is a blithe contempt for life and indifference to suffering

Yes, Joni, we are all going to die. But it shouldn't be our SENATORS who are killing us.