Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
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Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
“publicly funded police forces enforcing rules made by an elected legislature are a progressive reform” sounds insane but is just basically true
Like, media are *not* freaking out and they would be if this was Biden. Think of the palace intrigue stories we'd get and analysis from medical experts.
I hate doing, "Why is no one covering this!?" but it is truly bizarre that Trump basically being kept out of public for 4 days now has merited a couple of articles and a few live feed updates from Maggie Haberman.
He's def dying i think the main question tho is is he dying at a slow, normal pace or is he suddenly dying much more quickly
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
UPDATE: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, says that "all of the class members that were on planes today have been deplaned and are in the process of being returned to ORR custody." He add that he didn't file by 4 p.m. because he wasn't aware of the court's order setting that deadline.
It is pretty clear that dooming about authoritarianism drives more clicks than just about anything else right now and it's really driving some unfortunate behavior and sloppy thinking.
21. it’s genuinely preferable to be completely apolitical than do this cool kid vulgar populism shit bsky.app/profile/samd...
The fact that basically no one recognizes him is its own form of punishment i guess
"NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE" says President Donald Trump, seen here just this weekend
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Worst wish that Fairy Godmother ever granted
Just another episode of that assholes SubwayTakes show
Maybe being a "good NYer" isnt something that is dependent on where you were born and is instead about what you contribute to your city by living in it, but I'm not trying to reinvent xenophobia and anti-freedom of movement beliefs from first principles.
Personally, i wouldnt hold up "native NYer" as some inherently virtuous and morally superior state of being when that group includes Donald Trump, but 🤷🏻♂️
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Jeremiah Moss quite explicitly fantasizes about an immiserated and near dead NY as his preferred version of the city & talked about how "pleasant" it was here in the depths of covid ravaging the city bc ppl he didnt like left. Fuck that guy to the absolute maximum.
I think this renewed trend of "ironic" hatred of outsiders from a group NY cool kids is at least partially the fault of Jeremiah Moss being treated for years like someone who had a valid point instead of the misanthropic, antisocial crank that he is.
From a friend, in case anyone thought it was just an online thing
Maybe the fit of rage Trump flies into when he doesnt get the Nobel this year will be the thing that finally does it 👀
These are literally kids…
Relatedly, am I surprised to see Himanshu Suri (aka Heems from Das Racist) indulging in some reactionary anti-transplant bullshit? Not particularly, but that doesnt make it any less disappointing.
I'll note again that all of the ppl talking this way on this guys shitass little program think of themselves as on the left & are no doubt big supporters of Mamdani but none of them are capable of realizing how reactionary positions like "we're full" are absolutely antithetical to his entire ethos
Horseshoe reactionary politics is the new theory of gravity
"We're full" Man, shut the fuck up
it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia
if/when newsom runs, he will do so of his own volition, with his own donors and supporters, this ominous intonation of “liberals” implies a command and control structure that simply does not exist in american politics and *definitely* does not exist on the left of center spectrum
i think it’s bad, actually, that people who have both a professional and a social responsibility to tell the truth weaponize their professional standing to deliberately mislead people
“This is the only statement authorized by Mayor Giuliani.” Of all of the statements in the world, *that* is the one you authorized?!
Third stop on this picture perfect Sunday was New Jerusalem Church of God Apostolate in Jamaica, a wonderful congregation under the leadership of Bishop Altamont George Blackwood. I'm so grateful for their hospitality and the opportunity to share the vision of our campaign.
UPDATE: Judge Sooknanan asks the govt for a status update WITHIN THE HOUR on the status of removing the Guatemalan children from planes, after previously asking for an update without a specified time
AHHH NOT ONE OF ERIN REED'S DUMB ASS MAPS WHERE SHE UNDERESTIMATES BLUE STATE PROTECTIONS AGAIN
Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level more than 8%. www.nber.org/papers/w32461
This is incredible. The DoJ has burned all credibility with the courts.
Its cool how he keeps ratcheting up the stakes of an issue he entirely created himself and thinks he's better served by painting a loss here as some sort of devastating blow to his own administration than downplaying that potential outcome.
Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — China hasn’t purchased any U.S. soybeans for the months ahead, after Trump's tariffs on its exports. fortune.com/2025/08/30/r...
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
DOJ insisting that they're the good guys for trying to deport 600 children in the middle of night is really uh, something.
When u believe the government has magical powers and politicians just aren't saying the right words to unlock permanent leftist utopia, you do tend to have mysteriously broken understandings of administrative realities.
Lorenz is ironically a very good example of the thesis that upsets her so much: social media is very bad for many people.
Ed Snowden was the exact kind of paranoid, low trust person who is easily swayed to Trump and a skill that everyone needs to cultivate is the ability to sniff those kinds of people out and disregard them, because they aren’t good sources of information.
Like, does Eric Adams not know who we all hold responsible for rents going up every year under his tenure?
The thing about nonsense takes like this is that what they're really saying, while failing to realize it, is that *they've* become more comfortable with blatantly evil acts as time has gone by. Literally all they need is some lip service from the villain that they're doing it for the right reasons.
The two things to be most angsty about regarding 2026 (which is still so far off) is certification and seating, but both of those are only really Cool Zone if it's the 50th Democratic Seat in the Senate being contested and the 218th Democratic Seat in the House
FEDWATCH: With reciprocal tariffs “hanging in the balance, the Administration will shift more levies to 301/232, thereby sustaining the impact on PCE and likely increasing the tariff pass-through, which could lift core [inflation] .. well above 3 percent .. bonds are likely to react negatively ..”
DoorDash spent years misleading its delivery workers out of their hard-earned pay. We held them accountable and secured $16.75 million to go back to its workers. Eligible DoorDash delivery workers in New York should file a claim by November 21, 2025.
Raddatz: "One of the things that they're trying to do in D.C. with the National Guard is have them back up federal law enforcement." Gov. Wes Moore: "They're picking up trash."
Also, Orban was able to cement his power early on thanks to a parliamentary supermajority that allowed Fidesz to rewrite the constitution to lock in their advantages (even though this may now be fading). There’s not really anything comparable in the US system
Serial plagiarizer and MAGA mouthpiece Benny Johnson recently claimed he fled DC after “my home was burned to the ground” and that “people were murdered in my front yard.” Neither of those things actually happened @kenbensinger.bsky.social found www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
This and the following comments in the thread are basically correct. People imagine original 1960s Magneto as some kind of mutant nationalist/chauvinist, but he wasn't, he was just a generic bad guy who did evil things because they were evil.
Another kick in the teeth to his own voters
“Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period… Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment”
👀
In New York, everyone between the ages of five to 21 has the right to free K-12 public education, regardless of their immigration status. Officials with the public schools want people to know that fact and not live in fear.
This is, of course, one of the risks of wanting all of your media to look at you and say its the exact same kind of communist you are.
Every time I see "Magneto was right" posting in the wild I'm always like "weird to hold up a guy whose main argument always winds up at 'genocide them first' but 🤷🏻♂️"
For British ppl in particular bc all of this sort of reactionary positioning basically boils down to being like "i want to go back to when everything sucked more"
People have really twisted up immigration (where the executive branch has nearly unlimited authority and all sorts of "What's the worst that could happen" power cessations from congress) to everything else (where the executive branch doesn't, and honestly doesn't even touch.)
From the WH pool this morning: Trump left for an “unannounced location” at 9:27 a.m. His motorcade then drove to his golf club in Virginia, arriving at 10:02 a.m. “There was one person in a car who gave the motorcade the middle finger as it drove by,” the pool report states.
Just saw this TikTok from someone in DC.
High engagement-low info ass hobbyists
I've got ppl in the mentions again earnestly insisting that Trump can end mail in voting and I am begging this site that if you are going to be this obsessed with politics then please learn the absolute basics of how government & elections work.
Right, like i dont think we should be sanguine about everything he's doing but a lot of ppl are convinced that nothing he's doing could hurt his own voters and like...ppl really need to update their priors on what the electorate looks like & how it votes
"ICE will just grab random brown ppl to suppress the vote!" ok, so they have like maybe a ~50-50 chance of grabbing a Republican voter then? Higher in some parts of the country? Yeah, this is a totally foolproof plan that doomers have concocted out of whole cloth for Trump.
What Trump and a lot of doomers have in common is a deeply misguided notion of what the present landscape of the two party's voter coalitions look like
The headline calls this unexpected consequences, but I would call this extremely expected consequences.
Pretty much all right-wing growth with young men comes down to this, and most articles about Democrats doing poorly with male voters completely bypass that.
i also like Cracker Barrel more than I like any opinion columnist
Bluesky doomers: "Everyone will be too intimidated by the presence of an ICE agent at a polling place to vote! Trump will win!" Reality:
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
“Since Mr Trump singled out India with an unexpectedly draconian double dose of tariffs earlier this month, he has reportedly phoned the Indian prime minister on four occasions to seek a compromise. Each time, the Indian leader refused to pick up.” (The Telegraph)
I saw a high profile commentator the other day say theyd kettle ppl in polling stations and it was maybe one of the dumbest "stop the vote" theory suggestions I've ever seen in my life for a variety of reasons.
I have yet to see a single "they'll send ICE or NG to intimidate ppl out of voting" doomer actually explain how that would work, esp in regards to the sorts of high propensity voter that makes up a good chunk of the Dem voting base now.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Heckuva job, Donald
This is the kinda stuff right wing media said when Michelle Obama oversaw a school nutrition program fyi. Glenn Beck transcript is from 2010.
"Gender did not exist in 1998" Judith Butler: "am I a joke to you?"
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
Republicans in swing constituencies are retiring left and right. you think that’s because they think Daddy Trump is going to rig the elections?
I get that not everybody is an electoralist but it takes some effort to ignore the absolute streak of beatings the GOP is taking in elections right now
I don’t think there’s really an alternate theory of Joni Ernst not running for IA-SEN reelection to “she was gonna lose”
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
It is hands down the most annoying aspect of this site
Just another day of the ownership and leadership of the NYT doing what they can to help run interference for Trumps anti-democratic goals
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
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This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Hungary is also a unicameral state without hard federalism that is the size and has the rough economy of Indiana. There is no comparison. None.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
These ppl straight up have brain damage
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Same thing the President said over a decade ago