obviously the nimbys of the world continue to fight a desperate rearguard action, but it's amazing how much the winds have changed on housing policy... mostly through the relentless ideological agitation and political activism of yimbys

ICE managers, Navy officers who gave orders to launch missiles, others need to really think if Trump is going to save their asses.

So I feel like the obvious GOP strategic choice now is, "outrage wave is real, so find a way to fold on the shutdown and give back those ACA subsidies to blunt the wave."

And what they'll actually do is send ICE to invade NYC and N.Va, which will backfire spectacularly.

The latest, 11pm:

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—Krasner & Bragg win
—JD's half-brother loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
+ Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

i'm deeply glad he won but i do want to note that these are not exactly results that suggest that populist socialism is an instant win button in national politics

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

FUN FACT:

My favorite part of tonight's election results is that all three of the major trump endorsements (Ciattarelli, Miyares, and Cuomo) LOST bigly.

And trump handed out 53 down-ballot endorsements in New Jersey and Virginia. THEY ALL LOST.

Every. Last. One.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

It’s a blue tsunami everywhere.

Tariffs poll lower than syphillis.

MAGA controls all three branches of government and shut it all down to strip millions of health care and hide the Epstein files.

Everything is worse than it was a year ago.

Americans are FINALLY waking up.

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

I see your proportional representation bet and a raise you rolling back the Imperial Presidency:

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Prop 50 wins in CA.
The gerrymandering wars will continue until A.) there are no more gains to be had for parties in redrawing districts, or B.) we eliminate DISTRICTS.

I'm team eliminate districts--multimember districts with proportional representation is better for America.

Let me dwell on that analogy. Obama was more platitudes "hope, change, post partisan". Mamdani is much more concrete policies, a new deal if you will.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

this was fun. let’s do it again.

Congress could pass Kevin Kiley's (R-CA) bill prohibiting mid decade redistricting. That would be smart for R's to do, assuming they plan to compete in elections.

It would be a "bill of peace" or olive 🫒 branch.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It is my firm believe that we should more consistently refer to Trump's economic and political agenda as "national socialism".

Would you say that the major UK political parties now are more "European" like these days in terms of the binding control of the central offices over candidate selection?

I'm a comparative government junkie

I recommend multi-member ranked ballot, like Australia, for proportional representation.

Puerto Rico has multiparty system different than the mainland, kind of like how N. Ireland has different parties than the rest of the UK.

Stunning he thinks that none of the 4-5 congressmembers from PR would conservative.

Mostly the GOP just sees brown people.