Puget Bob

Higher % of immigrants leading to heightened concern about illegal voting, hence greater support for ID laws.

I didn’t “dismiss” it.

Tomorrow’s NYT will no doubt explain why Mamdani’s lopsided victory is a problem for him.

Sorry, I don’t get the connection.

Mamdani should recognize that his election shows that he is wrong on the issues and should abandon his policies and preferences for a bland Park Slope technocratic corporatism.

@nytimes.com tomorrow

Blowout.

Maybe the GOP should reopen govt now

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

OK, but it’s one small, rather quirky state that’s as far as possible from the southern border. Can you really extrapolate to the whole country?

Ketchup on the walls of the White House!

this is genuinely wild

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

This explains the disadvantage that Democrats always face: their ideas are often subtle and nuanced, as opposed to the Republicans’ “hit ‘em over the head with a club” mentality.

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

Uh, no driver to pay?

I think Klein means in *both* directions. And it’s not purely a “left or right” axis. Policy is multi-dimensional.
But note that today, more people say Dems are too liberal than say Repubs are too conservative.
Whatever the reality, it’s perception that drives voters.

I hope you win. I also hope that you don't drift toward authoritarianism, the way "revolutionaries" like Hugo Chávez did.

Gosh, even conservatives used to agree that the rule of law and a dependable, impartial court system were critical for a stable and sound economy.

Good morning America!!

Today is the day we get to send the GOP and its minions packing in races across America.

CA, NY, NJ, VA and PA (and any other states)

GET OUT THERE AND FUCKING VOTE THE ASSHOLES OUT!!!!

Vote FOR democracy, decency, the rule of law, and voting rights.

Just DO IT!

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Trump said in 2016 “My rich friends will be mad at me because I raised their taxes!”
That was fun.

The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Mitch McConnell, John Roberts and their creature, Citizens United has destroyed Democracy.

mamdani is going to break 50% and centrist pundits are going to convolute themselves in new ways to say he doesn’t have a mandate

As @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social has been saying, Dems need to widen their tent to have any hope of regaining power.
The Left's thought police need to be tamped down.
Personally I'm pretty far left. But I acknowledge the simple truth that we can't change things unless we first win elections. Duh.

A cynic might say that MTG is trying to moderate her image in preparation for a run for higher office.
Let's not forget that she asked Trump for a pardon before she was even sworn in as a Representative!
And of course she liked to boink dudes she met at the gym.

Unfortunately, with the decline of local media and the rise of social media, like it or not all politics is national.
Are we condemned to just sit and watch as local media continue their death spiral? Is there *any* chance we could summon a consensus that they should be preserved and nurtured?

Rampaging inequality threatens the whole idea of America. Government has the *right and duty* to "promote the general welfare" by addressing it.
But we mostly stand helpless, with our hands tied by conservatives' selfish and self-serving ideology.
#TaxTheRich

Strongly suspect Trump and the Republicans *do not want* to hear what Smith has to say.
Now they have TWO coverups to handle: Smith and Epstein. They'll be pulling out all the stops to try to discredit Smith. Don't let them get away with it!

Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Release the 2nd volume of his report Cannon has kept bottled up for months!

It seems clear that Republicans *want* an ignorant electorate. They should be so proud of what they've accomplished! 🙄
Making college unaffordable was a big step in the campaign to dumb down the populace.

I guess we now know that MAGA doesn't have a clue about the actual meaning of "socialism".
If Trump does it, it *can't* be socialism! Socialism bad. Trump good. 🙄
Were Americans always this ignorant, or did it begin when we stopped teaching civics? Is our children learning?