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Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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

It’ll be so nice to go through the holidays wondering if the government will pull its head out its ass!! Yay!! 😒

Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross

real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)

6 dead, 25 hospitalized in nationwide listeria outbreak linked to precooked pasta meals The recalled products were sold at stores nationwide, including Trader Joe's, Walmart and Kroger.

FYI

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I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out

There’s more to politics than what you “run on” Voters rightly consider everything you and your party say and do.

Ah. So it's not just that particular Dems have to run as moderates, it's that *no Dem anywhere can do anything overtly progressive*, lest it affect the party's reputation and make it more difficult for those moderates to win.

Little bit clearer what the larger project is, eh?

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Say want you will about Dick Cheney.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

OK to be serious for a second: Dick Cheney won. This is the kind of presidency he spent his entire career fighting to establish.

Like many revolutionaries, he was devoured by those who followed in his wake; but when it comes to his chief goal — formally installing an imperial presidency — he won.

SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.

“If you’ve never been poor, you don’t know what it is to be poor,” Jackson said. “I hope that it turns around. I hope that people get their SNAP benefits, and I hope we just come together where we can love each other and feed each other and help each other.”

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

After emancipation, Black schoolteacher & future Alabama state legislator William V. Turner reported to the Freedmen's Bureau that local officials were illegally withholding food assistance from Black mothers, telling them it "is not for negroes, but for the poor white women."

It will be very funny if nobody gets banned for insulting one of the main architects of modern conservatism when dozens of people did for defaming America's 38th most popular podcaster. It'll really show where postmodern conservatism is at as a movement.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the ongoing federal government shutdown could remove $7 billion to $14 billion from the U.S. economy, reducing fourth-quarter GDP by as much as 2% due to halted government spending.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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NAACP sues Virginia officials, accusing them of disenfranchising student voters The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information.

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses.

In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US.

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We should be cautious in interpreting claims filings right now, several hundred thousand people have been fired from the federal govt but most will be ineligible for UI because layoffs were either structured as voluntary deferred resignations (Fork in the Road) or for cause (provisional workers)

Ohhhhhh... So he was helping his big pharma friends at K-C make a deal? *That* makes much more sense than the idea that Tylenol causes autism.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

When white people react with hostility to sharing space with Black and brown folk, they don’t care if those folk were born here, migrated legally, or are “illegal aliens.” They only see non-white faces who “don’t belong in their space.” This is why “ordinary concern” about migration is basic racism.

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This guy’s a Christian pastor, in case you think Diocletian didn’t have a point.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

First, this is gobbledygook but also I get such a kick of a guy who wrote a book lamenting the death of expertise making a second career out of an expertise he hath not.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment