god’s only child

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

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"

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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75 year old congressman from Virginia announces he’s running for reelection. His previous post is about death of his colleague, Gerry Connolly, who also represented Virginia and died at 75.

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

Liberals and progressives are the only ones with any agency, according to most political discourse. You *never* hear about a conservative need to understand liberals. It’s always on the left to fix things.

Why Democrats won't build their own Joe Rogan "This is not a cultural war that you can win just by doing fucking podcasts" + Meat Loaf’s wikipedia drama, eating disorder Twitter turns on Trump, DDG on Kai Cenat

Ever since I wrote this piece after the election, organizations reach out to like "do you have time to talk about what we can do to support progressive creators?" I reply: I don't need an hour, they need money. Full stop. That's what we need. And just like that these orgs vanish!

people who were too young to be working full time in 2007 are about to find out that while inflation wasn't fun, it's actually nothing like a recession

You guys what if it wasn’t a coincidence that they only ever complained about the ‘cancellation’ of climate deniers, misogynists and race-science freaks

whatever happened to gun girl? she in charge of the nukes now?

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

People on Twitter complaining about lower engagement on Bluesky is a specific kind of influencer culture brain rot because I’m like my sibling in Christ the numbers aren’t real

My limp wrists have already served their time doing real work out in god’s country, it’s not enough!

RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms" The farms will "reparent" them.

I’m on an SSRI cocktail largely bc I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere lmao

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

(third in line to the presidency btw)

10 minutes ago Jonah Bromwich The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation has resigned from the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan rather than agree to file a motion seeking to dismiss the corruption case against the mayor. In his resignation letter, Hagan Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor "would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials." He added: "If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

so much wrong with this and the framing - obviously! - but also a great example of how certain media fixation with “coming up with a clever name for blatantly obvious shit/trends” ends up whitewashing whats going on and misinforming an audience. it’s a media pathology

we live in hell

a maximalist strategy of opposition against every nominee as unqualified would have stood a better chance of creating the kind of public outrage that might have led to more republican defections, but i'm sure the imaginary family that chuck schumer relies on to guide his decisions disagreed

If you wish to vote in New York City's mayoral Dem primary in JUNE (=the election that'll pretty much decide the next mayor), you must be registered as a Democrat *BY FRIDAY.*

An insanely early deadline bound to leave people vote out. At least make sure you're not one of them if you're interested!

especially when your entire view of the world from outside of your community is ragebait and brain-cooking facebook groups

is the weird little internet poisoned weirdo who has all of our social security numbers in charge of doling out refunds now?

feeling a little unclear whether or not we still have to pay taxes at this point

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:

Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

A inspirational figure in how to harness anger into work that is actually useful

You can read our story, which broke the news, here:

hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

Party leadership is just incapable of accepting responsibility for anything ever

Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple. Elon Musk has tweeted about political topics regularly since taking over Twitter, often belittling some liberal causes. But what he stands for remains largely unclear. For all his copious tweeting, Elon Musk continues to defy easy political categorization. Alexi Rosenfeld/GC Images By Jeremy W. Peters Dec. 10, 2022

one of the great newspaper whiffs of all time, at this point

www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/b...

Internet Archive rocks man

one of the best moments of the past decade online was when we found out that Nancy Reagan was a 5-star glorp glorp general of the studio backlots…we need another moment like that