Brooke Shannon

Today is a good day to remind you that none of the classic vote studies thought very highly of women's political competence.

Essentially the thesis of Chuck Klosterman’s fantastic collection of essays “The Nineties.” So good!!

In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade.

It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.

The answer to both is "pretty"

Oversight looks like insurrection when you're a criminal organization.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."

Behn: My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country.

Please @democrats.org take this Dirty Donald nickname and run with it

There’s something so nice about having lunch with a colleague outside in the sun. Just chattin over some fries and a Coke. I could never work remotely, I enjoy those opportunities way too much

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

*only

I think for the 8 who defected, it’s the o my strategy actually. But for the party, they should use that mess up every day to justify supporting actual progressives

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Gross and sad!

Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.

every Democrat in the country should not only endorse Mamdani within three hours but they should denounce and condemn Andrew Cuomo and demand he retire from politics forever

Awful piece. Just because so many white people are culturally ignorant and don’t know that Aunt, Auntie, Cousin are all terms to describe family members or close friends of our parents - even if that’s not their blood connection. The racism, the desperation, the sheer…..smallness of these attacks!

I'm having so much fun reading these lol

Is it.

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Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

MAGA says everyone in D.C. is smiling since the Trump invasion. Let’s look at some facts:

- Small retailers and restaurants report much lower foot traffic since the National Guard and federal agents began patrolling.

The difference (and it's a biiiiiiiiiig one) is that Kennedy sent the Guard to enforce federal policy (civil rights), not to lead a national takeover of local policy (fighting crime).

Really excited for #MPSA this year! Public policy people: get your papers in soon & let's have a big turnout! #polisci #publicpolicy www.mpsanet.org/conference/i...

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

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"Please make war against the people of my state, who I took an oath to serve."

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95%

So technically, yeah.

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

Useful for understanding the political science of it all, instead of just today's politics. (And, it helps with the dread tbh)