Twiggy DBE

Person from New J*rsey is the real DEI truth nuke but nobody is ready for that conversation

Ok after that one I’m now thinking it’s possible

Steve walked so Dickson could trot

A goofy take I genuinely believe is that Steve Weatherford should’ve won SB 46 MVP. If it didn’t happen then it never will.

I am done with collaborationist bullshit

Look, we're just as confused as you are. Within two days, the Brooklyn Democratic Party endorsed and then un-endorsed Governor Kathy Hochul for re-election. At a moment when voters are looking for clear, principled leadership from Democrats, Brooklyn’s party chair is focused on advancing her own personal agenda that seems to change from day to day. Here’s what we have been able to piece together. On January 31, Brooklyn Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn called a meeting of the party’s Executive Committee with just two days' notice. She lobbied the District Leaders to endorse Kathy Hochul for Governor and, carrying a large number of proxy votes at a meeting on February 2, she won the passage of this endorsement. Today, on February 4, the party chair invited a few District Leaders to a hastily convened Zoom meeting to discuss rescinding the endorsement they had just made. Obviously, that Zoom cannot constitute a meeting of the Party or a vote of its Executive Committee if many District Leaders had not even been told it was happening. Less than two hours later, the party announced that the endorsement was withdrawn, though we suppose the Party Chair could invite a few folks to join another meeting and put the endorsement back on tomorrow! From start to finish, this process, which purports to speak on behalf of all Brooklyn Democrats, has been driven by the whims of one person. This is a farce. And it is also a wake-up call that the Brooklyn Democratic Party needs to change. There are 42 elected District Leaders on the Executive Committee, hundreds of elected County Committee members, and a million Brooklyn Democrats who should be engaged and active members of the party. Instead, it is run as the personal vehicle of a single leader, with no democratic process and no accountability. Today, that structure allowed something embarrassing to take place.

But over the last several years, it has also had more serious costs. Democrats have been losing ground in Brooklyn because the party has no capacity to support strong candidates and win elections. The brand of the Brooklyn Democratic Party remains synonymous with insider dealing and corruption at a time when Democrats need a mass movement for liberal democracy and strong government by the people and for the people. How can we win crucial elections over the next several years with party leadership this petty and self-involved? We are supporting a growing slate of District Leader candidates who are committed to the vision of a more inclusive, more competent, more effective party. And we are still calling for more Brooklyn Democrats to run for County Committee through our partners at Rep Your Block and become voting members of the party, because the party will not change unless the people mobilize to change it. The Brooklyn Can't Wait coalition stands for change and we are ready to win the leadership seats to finally put the Brooklyn Democratic Party on a sound, strong, democratic footing. Join us.

a statement out from @newkingsdems.bsky.social with what we were able to figure out about the Brooklyn Dems' endorsement-no-wait-disendorsement of Governor Hochul

here's the basic story as best as we have it

As someone with Crohn's who takes it once every six weeks, I find the ads even more haunting. I cannot escape.

It is kind of a miracle drug tho.

When Wynton Leaves Jazz Considering regime change at Jazz at Lincoln Center

What remains of Skain’s Domain 🎺

YouTube video by WrestleWire Jim Ross loves Skittles

Not the point, but the Slim Jim table portion reminded me of my favorite Jim Ross bit. Seems quaint in comparison!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_6...

I just got a cool baseball jacket can’t wait to wear it at a game

Shocked to not see Ayaan Hirsi Ali on this list given that she pops up everywhere in the orbit of Bari-connected reactionary centrist welfare orgs. I guess Niall won that rock-paper-scissors game for this gig.

Will follow up by Spring ball

Snagged it thanks! Had one just like it as a wee lad

Why is John Yoo in The Atlantic let alone not ostracized from polite society?

Yeah, you were wrong.

this is some fox's book of martyrs shit. jesus christ.

yea she’s the goat

The most egregious punt decision I’ve ever seen

Finally getting around to reading @mtkonczal.bsky.social 's Freedom from the Market.

Among other things, really enjoyed learning this anecdote about Frederick Law Olmsted fundraising for a howitzer for abolitionist militias in Kansas. www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/ju...

Yeah alright that’s pretty reasonable criteria

Palmcorder Yanja

Has anyone asked Zandi about this?

It all comes back to the Chevy Chase Dog Park

www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-exc...

Maybe this is only news to me, but my big takeaway is that we should be thanking Tooze for convincing Schumer before the onset COVID that the response to the 2008 crisis was paltry and we needed Big Fiscal during the next downturn.

He saved the economy!

Rachel's mentions here are pure, distilled Bluesky (derogatory)

Sorry if this is obtuse, but when does CBS News plan on airing the postponed story on CECOT?

This Might Have Been the Biggest Waste of Time and Money in the History of Golf The PGA Tour is on the verge of finishing off LIV Golf for good.

Wrote about the thing that animates Bluesky the most: Golf!

LIV Golf is very close to death, or at least as close to death as you can be when your funders do not care about losing billions of dollars and could continue to do so forever. Sad. @slate.com on how we got here: slate.com/culture/2026...