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I am fascinated by a question @lastpositivist.bsky.social raised - will the mundane reality of Mamdani's governance cause anyone like this to reconsider their fantasies or the basis of their fantasies? How much do they even believe this crap themselves?

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Everyone likes Debs.

I TOLD YOU, WE'RE AN ANARCHO-SYNDALCAIST COMMUNE. WE TAKE TURNS TO ACT AS SORT OF AN EXECUTIVE OFFICER FOR THE WEEK.

~ Some 12th century peasant, according to the president

The Democrats are on track to sweep the midterms and 2028, and if they know what they're doing by then, they'll have the mandate to pendulum swing literally every issue from GOP fascism to policies that will benefit everyone. We need Mamdanis running for every seat to make that happen.

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Let us together contemplate the stages of pundit grief

1. It's Inconcievable
2. It Can't Happen
3. It Won't Happen
4. It's Unlikely To Happen
5. It Must Not Happen
6. *%&&*Q$#!!
7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened

Happy Anniversary! On this day, November 5th, one year ago, we had one of the Greatest Presidential Victories in History — Such an Honor to represent our Country. Our Economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down. Affordability is our goal. Love to the American People!

LMAO he's trying to be Mamdani!

So if I understand this correctly, the right's response to last night is a combination of it doesn't matter and you should all be deathly afraid of what comes next because the Democrats might do things with the government.

lmao, all of us (yes this means you) are too online, but none of this are *this* online

A table. American left, European right. Socialist = social democrat progressive = centrist moderate Democrat = conservative moderate Republican = ultraconservative conservative = fascist

Now that a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" has won the NY mayoral race (and I couldn't be happier about that) and after I'd read a CNN article about other "moderate" Democrats winning, I made this little table to help translate between the American and European political spectrum.

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture--

which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

Had to share this from twitter just because

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

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.

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

LIB OUTTtttt

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.

YouTube notification with a hideous corporate artstyle cartoon of a purple-skinned person with a tiny head and giant hands turning some knobs and the text "We've changed some of your settings; We couldn't verify that you're an adult. Learn More" followed by the options "Got it" and "Verify age"

I'm going to kill and murder

Was going through some Russian WWI footage and kept seeing this one tall guy amongst the generals and got curious who he was. Funny that all I had to do was google "wwi russian general very tall"

The Republican healthcare plan is “become a bestselling RW cartoonist”

i know we've all spent the last 50 years depicting the subtle, sneaking, cunning influence of fascism in books, movies, games etc. and that has been a noble endeavour but i think it also bears reminding that real life fascists once in power are really unsubtle and idiotically buffoonish

this is very sweet (and Shawn is a long term socialist, I'm glad he's still out there on the streets in his, what, eighties?)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems, or saying... SIMON: You mentioned that. SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from Scene 5 to Scene 6 and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth. SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth.

possibly the funniest exchange of all time

This is just garbage history. Blacks started voting Democratic under FDR because they benefited from New Deal programs even if unequally!