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US approved sale of chips to UAE after UAE put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company.

Zohran Mamdani knows how to win Not just in New York — Mamdani's campaign shows how to inspire voters nationwide

The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth.

They would rather lose elections than change.

The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis.

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Elon Endorses Cuomo, with pictures of Adnrew Cuomo and Elon Musk

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

Murphy Brown's daughter slaughtering Teen Vogue and calling it just another lifestyle choice

Two of the media organizations that have really "met the moment" in national coverage are Teen Vogue and WIRED.

Along with student-run college newspapers in general. And scores of local start-ups.

The main hope for journalism (in its dark times) is the next wave of journalists.

Teen Vogue changed my life and their politics team was doing incredible journalism comparable to very little other publications. I can't say I'm not disappointed with this decision. Sending y'all love❤️

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Yet the media is covering the Trump Shutdown as if it's a huge political problem for *Democrats* — ironically an attempt to pressure Dems into helping Trump staunch the bleeding of his own popularity by rescuing him from his own shutdown.

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's what they've been doing. And that's the reason they refuse to swear in Representative Elect Adelita Grijalva."

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Radical hypothesis:

If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.

-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...

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This is not our job.

Just as there are so many more useful things that reporters could do than crowd into the WH briefing room (for North Korean-style agitprop), there are so many more useful things to report and write about than "here's where Dems are missing the mark."

The end.

Lex and Teen Vogue covered politics the way corrupt big media has stopped doing. Speaking the truth and speaking up for the vulnerable and silenced, Teen Vogue and Lex were a crucial counter-balance to the lies and bigotry spread by Fox, Weiss and Sulzberger’s nyt. But real journos aren’t going away

‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.

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This is terrible news and more evidence (as if we needed it) that the media is anti-meritocratic. Teen Vogue did amazing political work.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Lex and Teen Vogue covered politics the way corrupt big media has stopped doing. Speaking the truth and speaking up for the vulnerable and silenced, Teen Vogue and Lex were a crucial counter-balance to the lies and bigotry spread by Fox, Weiss and Sulzberger’s nyt. But real journos aren’t going away

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

And there it is. Vogue laid off @leximcmenamin.com, leaving TV without anyone on politics bsky.app/profile/lexi...

Fox News Ran AI-Generated Racist Videos as News, Then Tried to Cover It Up The fake videos featured Black women with "seven baby daddies" complaining about SNAP cuts. Even if they'd been real, this would still be journalistic malpractice.

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Me too

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4. I think I’m coming around on expanding the court. Get a good slogan for this and run with it. Have regular people care about it.

How Governors and Mayors Can Protect Nonprofits from Trump's NSPM-7 | ACLU President Trump’s new directive, NSPM-7, targets charities and advocacy groups under the guise of national security. State governors and local mayors can protect them by refusing to cooperate with pol...

Our local and state leaders must not voluntarily collaborate with the Trump administration's attempts to target people and groups that the president doesn't like.

These types of politically motivated federal investigations make our country less free, and need to be rejected.

People keep making these mistakes. Whoopsie Nazi tattoo. Whoopsie Auschwitz float.

Frame it as unpacking the courts or unfucking the courts.

Liberals seem not to like “pack the courts” language.

The Federalist Society packed the courts.

The Supreme Court is the most powerful body in government right now.

To listen to me and Elie Mystal talk about that and other court-related stuff, you should check out the latest episode of my new podcast, B*tch, Listen.

Also listen to find out what Elie’s favorite weapon in a video gamee is.

Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning How did a socialist with almost no governing experience become New York’s mayoral frontrunner? November 3, 2025 at 6:15 a.m. EST

the bezos post is a cancer

I'm sure Gaines had no problem using the bathroom with Jenner at Mar a Lago. Yet, she never shuts up about trans people in bathrooms.

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.

This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.

How are Reform getting away with this?

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When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

people like this get security details to make themselves feel important