In 2024, the Democratic Party’s outer-borough collapse in NYC voting mirrored its national crack-up.
We went back to those areas to see how Mamdani did with the working-class, non-white voters Democrats lost.
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power.
We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
Be warned.
The White House website has updated it's Major Events Timeline to include some extremely political content attacking Democrats. Every structure, symbol, and system has to be debased to serve the MAGA-agenda.
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Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
The lower courts doing their best to maintain Checks and Balances despite the erosion and corruption of Checks and Balances within the Supreme Court
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Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Short note and short video (roughly 2.5 minutes) by Timothy Synder on No Kings and propaganda.
“Many people who consider themselves non-political or independent, or moderate Republican, or who even voted for Trump last November, can’t avoid seeing what’s now come so clearly into the open.”
— Robert Reich
Sunday Thought: The Big Reveal
Understanding the dangers facing US educators in Trump’s America.
A good thread.
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This is why I'm saying to be careful what you say online. By all means, oppose this administration vocally, loudly, and publicly. Just don't snitch on yourself in the process.
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The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes book cover. Black letters on a gray background. Each letter in the author’s name and title of the book has neon green streaks guiding the reader’s attention to a focal point, the subtitle printed in significantly smaller black text at the center: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
This was recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein show the other day. I was halfway through the book and didn’t yet see why he was recommending it as especially relevant, but I finished reading it tonight, and it’s pointedly relevant. A must-read: The Sirens’ Call (2025) by Chris Hayes. 1/
“If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump's deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.” — Greg Sargent
Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.
Enjoyed a few chuckles reading this.
“Is America Contagious?”
Discussing global politics
Article by Anna Merlan, journalist and Mother Jones contributor
He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.
Our dementia-addled President In Name Only hacks it up on the golf course again this weekend while rage-boy Gestapo Miller seethes and plots the 4th Reich.
A pretty good possibility is that he causes massive civil disorder in the US and implodes the whole administration in a ball of fire when it turns out America in 2025 is not, in fact, Germany in 1932. I think he could even get jailed for his troubles. Or worse.
He's not a historian, he's not even a competent demagogue, he's just a sneering brat who spent his entire life fantasizing about being the guy who gets to say things like "We will crush the radical communists and restore our fatherland." He thinks it's a cheat code around having to do politics
Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man.
But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.
“Trolling the American people with the idea that Congress has no power and Russell Vought is running the government to destroy it is an odd choice for a president who is already deeply unpopular.”
Jane Goodall and the hand of a chimp
Rest in peace Jane Goodall you made this world a better place
swelling words
the apogee
of silence
a sky a canvas
ask rothko
#Photography Mary
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That was a silence for the Ages
The US military’s top brass were silent as the secretary ordered a return to the “highest male standard.”
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
Wrote about today's fundamentally weak fascist spectacle www.splinter.com/sleepy-trump...
It offers lots of valuable insight and long term food for thought throughout. Ultimately, he identifies a problem and ends the book with a where might we go from here position, suggesting a solution. I’m not persuaded by the end of book suggestion. Still a wonderful read. sirenscallbook.com /2
