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i would take a 30% shot on a candidate who would bust the filibuster over an 80% shot on a candidate who wouldn't

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

Finally got around to watching this and this is not nearly as bad as i expected. Like porter still would not be my pick but not bc of this

Scott Wiener is done waiting on Nancy Pelosi. He’s running for Congress San Francisco’s state senator previously said he would wait for Pelosi to retire before running, but polling and the emergence of a progressive challenger changed the game.

Scott Wiener is done waiting on Nancy Pelosi. He’s running in 2026, sources say

San Francisco’s state senator previously said he would wait for Pelosi to retire from Congress, but polling and a progressive challenger changed the game.

sfstandard.com/2025/10/16/s...

Graham Platner I love you

I hear you but hochul is not cuomo

Specifically del ray, FL, where, along with eugene, OR, sliwa has been

gonna need to see janet mills draw a clock

we have become too online

Asked their favorite modern day presidents

Cuomo: Clinton
Mamdani: FDR
Cuomo: modern day?
Sliwa: George Pataki

No more obstructionists. No more Susan Collinses, no Joe Manchins, no Kyrsten Sinemas, no more Getting Along To Go Along, no more Norms, no more Collegiality, no more Bipartisanship

But above all: No. More. Obstructionists.

“Every parade has the right to exist” - Sliwa

The Scarers of Monsters, Inc., walking out onto the Scare Floor

Me and the boys rolling up to vote for Crypto-Maoist Graham Platner over stalwart Dem Janet Mills, because he would abolish the filibuster, and she would not

Baltimore Orioles @Orioles • 10/17/24 We're proud to support LGBTQ+ youth and take a stand against bullying, today and every day. #SpiritDay STAND AGAINST BULLYING Spirit * Day

Baltimore Orioles @Orioles • 8h We proudly stand against bullying in all forms #SpiritDay STAND AGAINST BULLYING Spirit® Day

This was a choice. Extremely disappointing, which lately is extremely on brand for this organization.

Hal Steinbrenner is underhated.

bet

funny how easy this answer is when you're willing to be morally consistent

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor. I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor. Who would it be? David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist. Thank you for the correction. Very welcome.

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

In another since-removed post from 2020, Platner responded to a thread titled "White people aren't as racist or stupid as Trump thinks" by writing, "Living in white rural America, I'm afraid to tell you they actually are."

He cooked here

a man wearing a backpack is standing in front of a row of empty seats . Alt: Michael Jordan

Middle village/maspeth residents fighting urbanization

Here's the thing: The people who don't like it - particularly in parts of Queens - are going to whine about it at the public comment period so it's good for supporters to show up.

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

i dont want this guys life ruined but right wing media reaction to this would be very funny imo

Eugenio Suarez

When Pac-Man backs that thang up

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

his love of soccer is his worst trait and i dont care how popular it is. the global majority is wrong, viva basketball

what id like to know is what Illinois RTA is doing on here (and at a different # than metra)

absolutely unthinkable to help pass a budget as long as he feels comfortable saying this