The Mars Travolta

Okay but how do you fit all the cows in?

The other 97% were from Tom Nichols complaining about BlueSky users

Panel truck in New York touting Andrew Cuomo, reads, “Me need more cops, not less”

We need more language police, not fewer

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

That just proves the system workser

In b4 the usual suspects on the nation’s opinion pages tell us, “See? We told you our institutions would contain Trump’s excesses. This proves the system works!”

I just noticed the MS Teams sidebar has a ”Discover” icon. Absolutely goddam not, MS Teams.

Fun fact: Andrew Cuomo has the third-highest vote count in the history of NYC mayoral races

This is absolutely playing in my head in the voice of Orson Welles.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

In a race to the bottom you don't want to come second.

Anecdata: In my little Republican-leaning town, the Democrats received the most votes. We were voting on the Board of Education, Finance, Planning and Zoning, and Zoning Board of Appeals. Take that for what you will.

Just incredible that New York could elect an immigrant as mayor, especially one from a national background and adhering to a religion viewed with suspicion by many of the country’s politicians, just totally out of character for a city that hist—I’m sorry I’m just getting a message in my earpiece

You are very kind. Thank you and thank you

lol

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Rando replying to me: “LBJ murdered JFK because the Kennedys were out to utterly destroy Johnson in November, 1963”

Don’t waste my time telling me *why* you think someone conspired to kill JFK. We can imagine any number of reasons why any number of people would want any given president dead. If you can’t tell me who fired how many shots from where and what happened to the bullets you’re just a gasbag.

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

Our family chat is lit

Not sure this nonsense is gonna get you that fiftieth follower

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

I really hope he’s prepared. I am pretty nervous about it, though. The sheer size of the NYPD’s budget covers a phenomenal amount of PR staff, per Alec Karakatsanis’s new book. bookshop.org/p/books/copa...

This line even has the advantage of being partially true. Outside of the 1,000 richest men in the country and their media companies, Trump is absolute poison right now. But Zohran also beat all the Democratic contenders too.

I assume what we’re looking at here is the limits of tagging by machine-learning algorithms.

Okay but who did the other 25% of Islamophobic posts about the NYC mayoral election target? The Hidden Imam?

I like to think Mamdani knows they’re coming after him with everything they’ve got and a few things they don’t and has a plan for it. But it’s at least possible he’ll be vibe-intoxicated and caught unawares.

Andrew Cuomo announces independent run for head of the DOJ anti-Mamdani task force

I have gender *phoria* so I haven’t been looking to make a move, but if I gotta trans myself to see the Broadway cast of Hadestown again this year, I’ll do it

Prediction: the line will be that Mamdani merely got washed into office on a Democratic tide. They’ll find some people who got a higher vote share of their two-person race than Mamdani got in a three-way contest and declare, balefully, that he “ran behind more moderate candidates.”

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Even if his argument supported his position, having sold scratch offs to people for years, I'm not usually convinced by the wisdom of gamblers