Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

I'm a Pepsi Max Cherry + Ginger Ale man myself but same energy.

"FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington."

But who in Washington could possibly be worthy of an award from a cartoonishly corrupt organisation?!?

At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.

Why Obama failed to close Guantanamo In his 2008 run for the White House, President Barack Obama promised to shut down the prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and on his second full day as president he issued an exec...

Whilst responding to something about Obama and Guantanamo, I found www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... which has the sweet summer innocence of 2017 quote:

"It just doesn't happen in, you know, traditional American justice that someone is essentially arrested and disappeared with no access to attorney"

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

A lunatic quoted in satirical comedy, angered, emphasized his lunacy.

Same but ~50 (right knee - basically custard inside, everything snapped or worn out, went from easily walking 20+km a day to struggling to even do 1km)

Disability is a minority group you can join at any time

Many of us were “young & otherwise healthy” when we became ill

We were working & couldn’t imagine being unable to earn a living

We didn’t plan to become disabled. We didn’t plan to stop working

It can happen to anyone

Trump's FCC just scrapped a Biden-era cap on the maximum price of prison phone calls between inmates and their families.

Telecom and private prison companies — which donated to Trump's campaign — lobbied for the rollback.

This regime's cruelty and corruption knows no bounds.

The Kavanaugh Stop’s Legacy: 50 Days, 170+ Detained Citizens, Zero Answers It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the col…

Don't forget to call this a Kavanaugh Stop.

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I would immediately exile myself to Mars in shame.

There are signs that Morgan is becoming a cause célèbre for neo-Nazis in the United States. The white supremacist Paul Miller, who gained notoriety for making hate-filled videos while wearing Nazi garb, said on social media that he was working to secure Morgan’s release and directed followers to a crowdfunding campaign that he said was from Morgan directly. “I am in contact with @GasChambers_,” Miller tweeted on Sunday, referring to an X account that says it has raised money for Morgan. “We are going to pay the bail for Kenneth in the next few days he will be free. Gaschamber was very kind and gracious. We just spoke on the phone. We are going to get kenneth out very soon.”

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

And 7 minutes of added time? WTAF? Still, Taylor has succeeded in his usual "main character" spaff by gifting Brighton a goal and denying United several opportunities.

(Also wtf Gary Neville? He is downplaying every cynical Brighton foul as "robust challenges")

#Football #SportsBall #EPL #MUNBRI

Given that PGMOL said it wasn't a red when Mbeumo was fouled in the box with the ball, they can't then (legitimately) give a red for out of the box without control of the ball.

It's just Taylor doing his usual incompetent "look at me! I'm important!" bullshit decision making act.

Then giving Brighton an absolutely ludicrous joke of a free kick (plus a yellow to Dorgu) for what's effectively a dive by Minteh and that leads to a Brighton goal.

Just bare faced corruption from PGMOL.

#Football #SportsBall #EPL #MUNBRI

Another Anthony Taylor masterclass in assery. Challenge on Amad a clear penalty - not given (clearly no touch on the ball!) Georginio kicks the ball away to deny a quick free kick - no yellow card. Foul on Mbeumo on the edge of the box - nothing.

Shambolic.

#Football #SportsBall #EPL #MUNBRI

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Sooner we can shift Fernandes off to the Middle East for his retrirement, the better. Pretty much everyone else had a good game but he wasted most of the match.

#Football #EPL #SportsBall #LIVMUN

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

waking up and groggily trying to piece together what people could possibly mean by “trump diarrhea video” i hate this world

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

A few months later, Congress was considering a bill to appropriate $1,000 for a marble bust of Taney, to add to the collection of busts of previous chief justices on display in the Supreme Court’s chambers. But lawmakers objected strenuously to the idea of lifting even a finger to honor a man who, in the words of one, had spent his life fighting to place the entire country “under the iron rule of the slave-masters.” Sumner, evidently a world-class hater, predicted that Taney’s name would be “hooted down upon the page of history,” which would “fasten upon him the stigma he deserves.” Ohio Senator Benjamin Wade framed the question of whether to commission the Taney bust as a simple matter of fiscal responsibility, warning that his constituents would “pay $2,000 to hang this man in effigy rather than $1,000 to commemorate his merits.”

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

a little jealous of silksong the way i am of bloodborne, a story contingent on a skill i utterly lack and am not likely to gain in my increasingly late 30s. shall return to games where you click "attack" to attack or pick a dialogue option to make a scary lady 2% more made of shadow-thorns

If you need to be "inspired" into voting against fascists, rather than just vote against fascists out of general principle, that says more about you than it does about the libs.

Good lord, the Last Week Tonight report on Weiss (B) is brutal. And all it's doing is quoting (and fact-checking) her own words.

#LastWeekTonight

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states