Sherrilyn Ifill

Bucks County Democrats Prove 'All Politics Is Local' With Sweeping Election Wins - Bucks County Beacon In boroughs, townships, and school boards across the entire county, Democrats have shown that they’re the party that voters trust for their local leaders.

Bucks County Democrats Prove ‘All Politics Is Local’ With Sweeping Election Wins | In boroughs, townships, and school boards across the entire county, Democrats have shown that they’re the party that voters trust for their local leaders, writes @colincoyle.com.

Takeaways From Election 2025 Keep Fighting

My new one is up!

Takeaways From Election 2025
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

And…

Katyal is merciless. He is embarrassing Alito’s fanciful hypos and Alito is getting mad. But Katyal is unfazed and instead going in for the kill. Wow. Well done.

Yeah this one might be the winner! LOL.

It’s gonna take a legal mind of greater heft than Kavanaugh possesses to best Neal Katyal on constitutional interpretation. Enter Justice Alito with endless, detailed, reality-defying hypos.

Yup.

Heads up on this. Truly frightening.

There are a category of advocates who are permitted to talk over justices without getting slapped back.

The women justices (all of them) are working over the Solicitor General in this tariff argument like nobody’s business.

Summary courtesy of @taniel.bsky.social and a few others.

First 3 sentences: 🎯

OMG I love this.

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

UPDATE: Dems lead every city council race in Aurora, Colorado - and could flip a 7-3 GOP majority into a 6-4 Dem edge - including what would be a shocking upset of MAGA media star Danielle Jurinsky, whose claims of a "complete gang takeover" led Trump to call Aurora "conquered." #copolitics

In other words “it wasn’t me.”

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Sometimes you don’t win, but you scare the living crap out of ‘em.

Whenever they call Mamdani a Communist remind them of this:

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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Also.

Nice.

How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"

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One of the big ones.

Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.

What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

That was cold-blooded.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.