Gam Silroy ❌️👑

I’m seeing people saying “ah, they’re all just revealing who they were all the time” and it’s simply nonsense.

I’ve seen people I know radicalise online and they genuinely weren’t like this before.

Entirely too many people who believe "people can just work with their hands" have never done any kind of actual manual labor in their lives or maybe remember a summer job from their youth with rosy retrospection and don't realize how different that labor is in your 40s and older.

He's both a model (relentless cost-of-living focus, cheerful and informative social media) and a fluke (crooked mayor gets bigfooted by hated ex-gov, ZM wins primary).

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins:

Baldwin (WI)
Bennet (CO)
Booker (NJ)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Klobuchar (MN)
Ossoff (GA)
Peters (MI)
Rosen (NV)
Schiff (CA)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warnock (GA)
Welch (VT)

loooooooooooool

Additionally, the point isn't to defend Mamdani's political reputation, but to defend the countless people whose lives would be ruined by yet another manufactured crime panic.

I'm getting a lot of responses from blue wave accounts talking about Trump. Frankly, that is already a known threat. What I'm trying to raise the alarm about here are the NYT, The Atlantic, and other reactionary news outlets that still carry legitimacy in liberal urban circles for some reason.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

US income inequality Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As a genuine observation from someone who did (many years ago) get cut with a knife whilst interrupting an assault, if you are close enough to use pepper spray you are already too close to the angry man with the knife.

Resisting the urge to claim this was all an elaborate plan to reduce the price of Tylenol so that Kimberly-Clark could buy them.

Honestly, it is a more plausible conspiracy theory than anything the HHS Secretary actually believes.

There was a conversation on here earlier about personhood and AI and why on earth you would want that—with @faineg.bsky.social and others, but I can’t find it—and it occurs to me a that a chunk of the SV elite is coalescing around an idea that automation is no good unless it FEELS like slavery

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

This comes up a lot in terms of frustration around a lack of awareness wrt TV/film premieres

I've written a lot about how in the old days you could gain awareness of new stuff thru osmosis when everyone watched primetime TV (and saw the same ads) ditto radio ads and print newspapers with big ads

When you think you are getting a read letter for all that work and you just get another puzzle

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

All the attempts at a gotcha in response to what is effectively a call to sit and listen to what a directly impacted and highly knowledgeable Black woman is telling people about her living and organizing conditions

Thats very fair!

Did you know research was done that shows that men that use "toots" are 85% more likely to have a micro penis?

The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.

WSJ headline, over a torn LGBTQ BLM pride flag - the growing divide in the rainbow coalitoln

🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.

Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.

I did.

Lots of meanings in the current moment, but joyous today on a glorious day for the NYC marathon.

from people magazine Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam By Greta Bjornson | Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown By Bailey Richards Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Thank you for sharing this

Why I Call Myself a Socialist Is the world really a stage?

Someone on the other site posted wallace shawn canvassing for Zohran Mamdami and I will never miss a moment to post one of the most moving pieces of writing ever written by an American Socialist...

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Luv 2 see a line at the polls for early voting!

Carlos Jimenez, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was on his way to work at a food bank when he was shot by ICE officers in what a DHS spokesperson calls “defensive shots.” On Thursday morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., ICE officers were at Vineyard Avenue in Ontario when Jimenez, who was not in the target vehicle, attempted to pull in front of the officers. According to Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Jimenez was trying to assist and provide aid to the person who was being stopped by ICE officers. After Jimenez was shot in the shoulder, the LA Times and LA Taco reported that he drove to his brother’s house so he could take him to the hospital.

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Chat did I hop universes again?