The Center Cannot Hold

House Arab I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

I just read the New Yorker's funny piece about their history of fact-checking and I've recommended it to colleagues (we take it very seriously where I work) and then I got this and, if I had a magic wand, I'd ask every journalist in the country to read it: "House Arab." bidoun.org/articles/hou...

@naomiaklein.bsky.social about to sell a lot more books.

So the NY Times headline is "NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland," but we're going to ignore Al Udeid Air Base, host of the US Air Force in Qatar, and why the U.S. military, hosted by an ally, didn't scramble shit.

When are people going to go in the opposite direction: branding the "democratic" opposition to Zohran as the servants of landlords, billionaires, and the capitalist class?

URGENT: When Medea asked Rep. Darrell Issa about Israel bombing Qatar, he refused to answer. Instead, his staff tried to grab her phone and then called the police. She was held for questioning and then, after this video, arrested.

I can tell you for a fact that all of his waiters at his table of success are tuned in right now.

You know, they call Saudi Arabia the New York City of the Middle East

Can someone ask Mayor Adams at his next presser for his opinion on Washington Post columnists being grabbed and bone sawed alive? Would he advise them to instead hire columnists as their waiters at his table of success?

Cuomo's scavenger hunt is Andrew just driving around the city, trying to "bump into" Bill Ackman all day

The Adams scavenger hunt is going to have stops in Turkey.

@katiehonan.bsky.social My entire thread is your photo of the inside of the bag of chips. When does it become your most seen photo ever?

the reverence for herr's chips in chinese culture dates back to the qing dynasty

The City should sell shirts with that picture of the money in the potato chip bag with some play on the slogan: "The City: Media worth funding."

Any politician calling to online nuclear reactors creating toxic waste that will poison everything for thousands of years for a stock market fad that will have deflated and disappeared before the first watt of energy is produced should be mocked, shunned, and tossed from the public square.

I would use a shittier version of any product, software or hardware, if it committed to eschew a.i. and surveillance. There is nothing that offers A.I. that interests me and I think we should demand the right to turn it off in anything that we use.

The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City “We understand these are our last days.”

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Seconding you can find a mega supply of them from a kid who has outgrown them and most kids don't seem to learn anything resembling the rules, so you don't have to waste your time with that shit

The president has been briefed by Mark Penn, a pollster who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president and decades-long friend of Mr. Trump, on a range of polling that showed Mr. Cuomo could still be competitive as an independent candidate. Both men have pushed Mr. Cuomo as the best candidate despite his loss in the Democratic primary, including in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. One of Mr. Penn’s firms did extensive work for a pro-Cuomo super PAC in the primary. And in a previously undisclosed call in recent weeks, Mr. Trump spoke about the race directly with Mr. Cuomo, an old associate and foil, according to three people briefed on the call, who were not authorized to discuss it.

Bombshell report from The New York Times reveals that President Donald Trump spoke directly to Andrew Cuomo about how to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...

They enabled genocide with the Kennedy center and the rise garden intact so I can't be too upset about that tbh

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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Alternatively, instead of focussing on a list, imagine Dems saying "Trust Women," and holding several days of hearings (they don't have to be congressional, they could be in hotel conference room streaming live on YouTube) questioning Epstein survivors about what happened, how, and who they saw.

New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign An investigation by THE CITY uncovered Adams donors who insist they didn't donate, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don't live where they claimed to.

This is Hochul's mayor. This is the landlords' mayor. This is the police's mayor. This is the "capitalists' panicking about Mamdani"'s mayor:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

If five top former nypd officials are accusing Adams of enabling police corruption for personal gain, what is Tisch's response? Is there reason to believe she has looked into it, changed anything, put a stop to anything, or is simply standing by Adam's claims of innocence?

The city's landlords and billionaires are panicking at stopping Mamdani. Any union, church, or Democrat has to answer for why they would get in bed with this shit show.

The same landlords who paint over an electrical outlet to justify jacking the rent are now telling themselves they can renovate Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo's reputations.

Andrew and Eric jealously watched the Zohran and Brad bromance and are trying it for themselves, but no one told them November isn't RCV.

If you're a deeply flawed candidate with high negatives and a massive ego in line to split the vote in November, Stay In Line!

Watch the victory speech.

Every progressive in NYC, dsa member, and campaign staffer for Mamdani better be familiar with the story of the India Walton 2021 Buffalo primary win

Andrew Cuomo Is Garbage | Defector Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. As a voter in the New York City mayoral race, I keep thinking about the rats and the garbage cans. Th...

Just seems like if you can't even commit to putting the trash where the rats can't eat it, you're not the Serious Get Things Done mayoral candidate defector.com/andrew-cuomo...