John McKevitt

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

Farewell sweet Prince

Eugene Debs, a Midwestern socialist? The coastal divide is being united

Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off:

"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."

And Teen Vogue’s politics has been wiped out.

Well, not every billionaire is selfish...

😉

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

DOGE’s Gutting Of USAID Weakened Disaster Response For over 30 years, USAID had a leading role is disaster response for the United States, a capacity shattered when it was shut down.

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Even more relevant now that Dems are going to control Virginia.

Democrats need to run on "clean energy reduces your electric bill, as does stopping AI bullshit"

learned via this obit: "An uncharismatic Nixon functionary—someone who might never have risen to power had Texas Senator John Tower not drunk himself out of a Pentagon appointment that instead went to Cheney—decisively shaped the destruction of constitutional governance in 21st-century America."

Correct answer: Chuck Schumer.

Here's what that looked like. Tactical excellence.

He doesn’t do this. He doesn’t “weigh options”. He doesn’t think.

Glad you included Gillibrand.

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

Polymarket running ads like this is purely predatory. 4/5ths of the bettors on their marketplace have Mamdani winning, which means they’re facing the possibility of a massive payout. mischaracterizing the overall odds to get rubes and Cuomo supporters to bet in Andrew’s favor softens those losses.

Oh — the situation has escalated.

Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.

"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

Rooting for Zohran despite not living in New York because I very much want other Dems/Libs to see that it’s not only possible to win without ceding ground to the “middle” or throwing marginalized under the bus, but to do so DECISIVELY.

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this dot gif

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

After a judge ordered Donald Trump to make SNAP payments, the wannabe king declared he will defy a court order and won't help people afford groceries.

Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.

Congrats to John Roberts on fulfilling his life’s ambition: to shit all over the civil rights act and the voting rights act. A bigger piece of lawyerly shit has never existed.

Future of Gerrymandering? Here’s How Weird Things Could Look.

Could soon have a 38-0 Republican map in Texas and a 52-0 Dem map in California. I’ve seen healthier democracies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

The coaching to use active destructive words is so comical