there’s something distasteful in the way people describe the poor as having only their economic plight guide their values. it feels almost condescending, as though they can’t walk and chew gum and think that disrespecting an historic office is bad.

"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters"

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Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold

We've officially hit 2nd longest shutdown in US history, surpassing the 21-day shutdown in 1995-1996.

At this rate, only 2 more weeks and we’ll surpass the longest shutdown of 35-days from 2018-2019.

This means that the 2 longest shutdowns in American history both occurred under Tr*mp. 👀

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

Writing up my thoughts on this into a long piece. The one thing that worries me is that large scale protests in competitive authoritarian regimes often precede authoritarian consolidation rather than a reversal of autocracy. Russia, Hungary, Turkey also saw large protests before backsliding further.