Matt Disaster

The old heads in progressive organizing are — rightly — still mad that Obama dismantled his campaign operation rather than turn it into a lasting political instrument

Jewish New Yorkers do not need protection from Zohran Mamdani. They increasingly do need protection from the friends and fellow travelers of Jonathan Greenblatt

Park Slope Boomer Reform Jew not as bad as Connecticut Jew™️ — the group most likely to want to be WASPs — but still has some of the same "hey white people, I'm just like you" assimilationist tendencies that can lead to some pretty atrocious decisions

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

But the police very soon had much bigger fish to fry, as out-of-state influencers swooped in to get in on the content-rich environs of the Portland ICE facility. On October 2nd, local police arrested Nick Sortor of Washington, DC, on suspicion of disorderly conduct. After Sortor was released the following morning, he told his 1.2 million followers on X that he had spoken to Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Bondi later opened an investigation into the Portland police.) Sortor, who was also invited to Trump’s roundtable on “antifa,” went on to publicly attack the Portland Police Bureau for being “Antifa-infiltrated,” an allegation that the Trump administration appears to be taking seriously — the word of an influencer being, apparently, much weightier than the thin blue line.

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

I'm convinced Jay Jacobs is trying to sabotage NYS Democrats. He consistently orchestrates losses when Dems are winning in droves everywhere else. The seats he lost last round flipped the House. George SANTOS won because Jacobs failed to do any research. If he won't resign he needs to be removed.

New York's Democratic Party will leave NY a red state outside the cities before long. Jacobs's tantrum and Schumer & Gillibrand's betrayals are just the rotten head of a badly decomposed fish.

Nassau County Executive results: Nazi pig Bruce Blakeman defeats Democrat Seth Koslow 54/46

Nassau County District Attorney: ICE bootlicker Anne Donnelly beats Democrat Nicole Aloise 55/45

Nassau County Comptroller: GOP creature Elaine Phillips beats Democrat Wayne Wink Jr 55/45

Hempstead Town Executive: John Ferretti beats ex-troop ex-cop Democratic nominee Joe Scianablo 53/47

Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath

Just so you know this park is Flushing Meadow Park and the other side of the park is where CitiField and the USTA is and there's a push to now and a 50 acre casino plus 25 acres of shops and "ammenities"

Really, shouts out to Mamdani for naming fecklessness last night — “mediocrity,” as he synonymously put it — as a problem for Dems.

Jay Jacobs pretends to have some winning formula, when his record atop the NY state Dems is a litany of failure. He should acknowledge his mediocrity and step back.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.

I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Cheney died, democrats swept, prop 50 passed, and today is Wednesday, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!
#AEW

They thought "mass deportations" meant millions of cartel members getting shipped out, but now they're starting to realize that if Trump is going after random grandmas it's because either (A) there aren't millions of cartel members or (B) Trump is choosing not to deport them (and both are Bad).

As a Jew, it’s gross watching Jonathan Greenblatt sit on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social dunk on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to proudly launch a fucking Mamdani Monitor after Greenblatt assertively defended Elon Musk & tells you everything you need to know about Greenblatt & his “leadership” of ADL.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

This too is fascism.

Lord, and doesn’t include Musk/Murdoch’s infinite propaganda on Cuomo’s behalf

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

ICE quietly furloughed its congressional relations team during shutdown It’s the latest example of ICE reducing congressional visibility into its operations.

Does this mean there's nobody at ICE responding to congressional requests to visit detention facilities to make sure people aren't, you know, dying?

THIS.

And a really cool system of publicly financed elections. Every one of these things kicks open the door a little wider for campaigns and voters.

zionists are having crashout because they are realizing they're losing power and control of the narrative and they are lashing out at everyone and everything except themselves for squandering the 58 years they had to end the occupation and turn themselves into a respectable democracy

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

Vaccines are probably the most significant thing human beings have ever done.

#GetYourShots

this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.

Looking at the electoral maps, and Upper East, Whitestone, Staten Island — the places that are isolated by lack of mass transit naturally become reactionary and insular. It’s why the transit secretary loves fucking with bike lanes and congestion pricing and yet another reason why cars are the devil

AOC: We know that Donald Trump has not only been convicted of committing crimes, but that the supreme court has given him a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and the danger of this moment. But we cannot respond to that with cowardice.

Mary Sheffield will not only become the 1st woman mayor of Detroit, she is now the youngest Black woman in U.S. History to be elected to a major city.

It's almost like there's a structural problem with how public conversation is organized in a capitalist country founded on settler colonialism and related ideologies.