The Gray Matters Report

Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing' Families The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...

Several teachers fled with a student and hid in the back of a pick-up.

They were 'terrified of being found. They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school, they didn’t know.'”

-- Nathaniel Meadow, parent at the Rayito de Sol daycare center

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...

This is incredibly important:

we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself

and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats

we must be relentless, we must not shut up

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

This week, WaPo published a “profile” re: Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance. Curiously, the profile omitted Buskirk’s ties to “Christian Nationalism” via American Reformer (where he is a director), which supports William Wolfe’s organization. This guy ⬇️ 1/

Brilliant decision on so many levels

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Judge scolds prosecutors in James Comey's criminal case and orders them to produce trove of materials from investigation.

@apnews.com

Their intractable problem is that the younger generation & minority communities have already been learning and understanding who Israel is and what its values are - that's why they're turning against it

"Rebranding" e.g. another veneer of bullshit over the reality that Israel is committing genocide

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

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.

New York Post headline: How Zohran Mamdani's aloof wife, Rama Duwaji, quietly steered his campaign from behind the scenes. Response: They saw one of the most successful campaigns in history and thought: a woman must have done this. Thank you New York Post, very woke.

HAHAHAHA!

👏

Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/

I've always loved this anecdote from Mira Nair, filmmaker and mother of Zohran Mamdani, about pitching a studio exec on MISSISSIPPI MASALA (1991) and being told he'd only fund it if it had more white people

"I said, 'Well, all the waiters in this film will be white. Of that, I can promise you.'"

there are nazis in the white house kidnapping people off the streets and disappearing them to human rights abusing states while posting antisemitic memes and calling jews disloyal and we have never gotten a letter from the uja expressing anything resembling a similar fear for jewish safety.

unfortunately yes

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

Last night in Mississippi, Democrats flipped two state senate seats, breaking the GOP supermajority. They also picked up a state house seat.

www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Recipe: the key to creamy cream free soup is hiding in your pantry Person: OK i'm hiding in my pantry, what next?

Heading to bed shortly, but a quick update: With 98 of our 222 races called, we've got 72 wins.

Haha unless

"You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose" - quoting Mario Cuomo after defeating his pos son is a sweet twist of the knife

they were not running away they were running towards

ok this is what I was waiting for because this is how I roll, so to speak

(yes ouch sorry couldn't help myself)

this considerably ups the yum factor!

thank you and heartily approve

I'm assuming condiments but that may be vicarious

bon appetit!

filling descriptions appreciated

hello from NYC and me too

just you wait