Seven years ago today, 11 Jewish people were murdered at the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In their names, we will continue to stand up against hate, bigotry and the rise in antisemitism taking place around the country. May their memories be for a blessing.

Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
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you’re the fucking speaker of the house, you interminable dipshit, this is literally your job to know

"I have not asked the president for the identity of that person because they want to remain anonymous, and I respect that," Johnson said. "I've heard the rumors, but I'm not 100% certain.”

Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy

Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy

SCOOP: Brad Lander is telling allies he's planning to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

I think political writers actually should have an opinion about a guy in his 40s having a Nazi tattoo. The decision to keep it on their body may tell us more than their website.

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

You can call it a Republican problem. You can say Dems lost the messaging war, ceded the ground, or drifted away from voters. But essentially, the through line is this: like other times in recent American history, societal unrest (a crime spike) was followed by finger-pointing at immigrants.

A lesson for the Labour Party - even if you deported a hundred thousand migrants, or five hundred thousand, Nigel Farage would just tell people you hadn't, and they'd believe him.

Press who got years out of Hillary’s emails deciding amongst themselves that people aren’t all that interested in the White House destruction (and every other example of Trump breaking laws and norms.)

Governor Kathy Hochul is speaking on stage, but the crowd keeps interrupting to chant #TaxTheRich

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I am losing my gd mind seeing the number of people on here who are so doompilled that they cannot imagine that telling millions of people, including tons of MAGAs, that they’re out of food money and they also can’t have health insurance anymore might have any effect whatsoever on anything

“I’m the speaker and the president,” Mr. Trump has joked, per NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...