"Don't get on your Ezra Klein nonsense" incredible

this is extra funny to me because I came of age politically when Ezra was the hungry outsider criticizing Dems from a new media platform (blogs) and now he's the establishment getting reamed out for his terrible political instincts

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Democracy is diversity It seems likely that, once all the votes are in, somewhere around 10 million Californians went to the polls on Tuesday. That's well short of last year's turnout of more than 16 million, but last year ...

Trumpism is about homogeneity, imposing an autocratic vision if we like it or not. Which makes opposition to Trumpism necessarily about diversity. Why not lean into that as a unifying message?
www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...

📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland.

Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found.

🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

Seeing the World Up Close Shortlisted images from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year, celebrating “close-up, macro, and micro photography”

Bees landing on flower petals, spiders building their webs: See short-listed images from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year, celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography.

Thanks @schaller67.bsky.social!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech

Watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring victory speech.

This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace.

Turn the volume up.

Particularly at the moment, this seems like a valuable idea for the Democratic Party itself to lean into. Trumpism is about homogeneity, about forcing Americans into his views and his systems. His panicky response to the results on Tuesday reinforces how uncomfortable he is with divergent viewpoints and centers of power. The Democratic Party could easily position itself as the home of diverse argument and diverse policy positions reflecting America’s diverse population — a rejection of the uniformity Trump wants to impose. It’s the party of Spanberger and Mamdani, not the party of Donald Trump and various Donald Trumps Jr. The centrists will say that this is what they’ve been advocating all along: tailoring message to the electorate. But they often argue that point while conceding two inconcedable points. The first is that this means the party should be willing to backtrack from or downplay support for civil rights if that support is politically fraught. But a party centered on America’s diversity needs to be predicated on bolstering and supporting rights for every American. You can’t be a party that stands for diverse voices and the party that agrees to allow some of those voices to be muffled.

Wrote about the election (at length). An excerpt:
www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...

As @jamisonfoser.bsky.social notes in this thread, autocracy delivers bad quality-of-life outcomes and Dems can have success saying that! His newsletter, which you should subscribe to, was prescient on that point.

If these elections had gone the other way — if the Democratic Party had underperformed or even lost one of these contests — then every commentator under the sun would say, rightfully, that Democrats were in disarray; that even the president’s deep unpopularity couldn’t keep them afloat with voters. But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago.

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

The Democratic Tea Party Is Here The party’s base is energized and mad as hell. And their rage isn’t just aimed at Donald Trump.

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

A Next-Generation Victory for Democrats Tuesday’s elections were often described as a contest between the far left and center—but what united the winning candidates may be even more significant for the Party’s future.

For much of the past decade, the Democratic Party has seemed stuck in a pre-Trump past. Yesterday’s elections felt like the turning of a generational page.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

of all the bullshit exemptions from following the law due to "religious beliefs," exempting *judges* from following the law due to "religious beliefs" might just be the most bullshit

I work for @thenation.com and we DGAF, fam.

Another point we get into is how the Tucker/Fuentes fiasco previews the coming struggle over MAGA after Trump. We also discuss how JD Vance is already carefully navigating these tensions w/that comment about his wife and Christianity.

You'll learn a lot from @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social here:

Henry Morgan and Elliott Gould in 2 of the first 3 shows, this is top quality shit here.

Everyone had the same living room setpieces. They perfected the stairs upstage with the Family Ties living room imo

Baked Salmon Patties Wholesome lunch and dinner entrees don't get much simpler than baked salmon patties. A quick mixture of canned salmon, bread crumbs and seasonings gets baked inside muffin cups, then in about 10 minut...

Baked Salmon Croquettes-super delicious, versatile, adaptable recipe for ingredients on hand, uses canned salmon, stupendous served alongside roasted veggies, freeze well. www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/bake...

quick pasta and chickpeas A 20-minute, 5-ingredient, abundantly flavorful dish that I cannot resist adding one slightly crispy and dramatically sizzling finish to.

This is an easy pantry recipe that is quick enough to make on a weeknight. (And if you like Smitten Kitchen, it has a “budget” category that’s worth exploring.)

“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”: https://theatln.tc/LNqNkLuT

People wonder the same thing about me, no doubt.

😱

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

The number in new Trump polling that’s most worth watching Even by the standards of Donald Trump's poorly reviewed second term in office, the poll numbers that have come out over the past week are miserable. An NBC poll found that two-thirds of Americans thin...

Lots of bad polls for Trump in the past few days, but I think the worst number for him is one some people may not even notice. www.pbump.net/o/the-number...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Party Did Not Accept SNAP

I wrote about Trump’s Gatsby party and SNAP

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

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918, viewed other people in instrumental terms, was a compulsive liar, and seemed to have a limited understanding of cause and effect. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0vC5o8

"So here we are, with Trump ordering the prosecution of his political enemies ... on the precipice of those charges possibly being brought down by a case about a guy who went bankrupt over a film about the fall of the Roman empire. It’s kind of poetic.

Sic semper tyrannis, motherfucker."

The racist subtext to the SNAP discussion (that isn’t always subtext) Clay Higgins, U.S. representative from the state of Louisiana, thinks it's the poor's own fault that they might go hungry if and when SNAP benefits aren't distributed in November. "Any American who ha...

A lot more White households than Black households get SNAP benefits, but there's a reason for the frequent racist subtext. www.pbump.net/o/the-racist...