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I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.
Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries
The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...
prisonculture.substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
why won't lefties embrace a panopticon of nonconsensual surveillance and monitoring, "efficiency," algorithmic propaganda, faux art slop, and mass job replacement that also has the little side benefits of torching the planet and hoovering up natural resources
is the problem really that lefties aren't enthusiastic about technology, or is the problem that "technology" has broadly lost its valence as an apolitical and universally positive force in public life, and must now be re-justified through a culture war lens?
February 18, 2026 at 3:16 PM
why won't lefties embrace a panopticon of nonconsensual surveillance and monitoring, "efficiency," algorithmic propaganda, faux art slop, and mass job replacement that also has the little side benefits of torching the planet and hoovering up natural resources
This is a very dumb question and the answer is obviously no, he can’t.
BARTIROMO: Could the president just implement an executive order to get the SAVE Act across the finish line going into the midterms?
REP. MARK HARRIS: That's a great question. I don't know the answer to that, quite frankly.
REP. MARK HARRIS: That's a great question. I don't know the answer to that, quite frankly.
February 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
This is a very dumb question and the answer is obviously no, he can’t.
Then the City Council should be loudly advocating for the wealth tax that Hochul has been blocking rather than targeting the mayor who’s trying to fix the budget fiasco Adams left behind
On @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social's "The Rush Hour," Finance Chair Linda Lee spoke about the Mayor's Preliminary Budget and expressed concerns about increasing property taxes to close the budget gap.
February 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Then the City Council should be loudly advocating for the wealth tax that Hochul has been blocking rather than targeting the mayor who’s trying to fix the budget fiasco Adams left behind
I don’t disagree with this but I wish the discourse around party loyalty was just as aggressive and critical when it comes to statistically more disloyal “moderate” voters and progressive/left candidates.
You'd *still* rather have Fetterman in the Senate than Oz.
You'd WAY rather have Cortez Masto than Adam fucking Laxalt, who's insane.
Corey Booker? Are we pretending he's a problem now?
Newsom is a slime - and still a better governor than Brian Dahle would've been
THINK! CRITICALLY!
You'd WAY rather have Cortez Masto than Adam fucking Laxalt, who's insane.
Corey Booker? Are we pretending he's a problem now?
Newsom is a slime - and still a better governor than Brian Dahle would've been
THINK! CRITICALLY!
No, let’s say the quiet part out loud:
Vote Blue, No Matter Who itself has been a failure of a test. Very clearly, we need to better evaluate politicians we’re supporting blindly.
John Fetterman, Graham Platner & his tattoo, Catherine Cortez Masto, Corey Booker, GAVIN NEWSOM?!?
Think! Critically!
Vote Blue, No Matter Who itself has been a failure of a test. Very clearly, we need to better evaluate politicians we’re supporting blindly.
John Fetterman, Graham Platner & his tattoo, Catherine Cortez Masto, Corey Booker, GAVIN NEWSOM?!?
Think! Critically!
February 18, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I don’t disagree with this but I wish the discourse around party loyalty was just as aggressive and critical when it comes to statistically more disloyal “moderate” voters and progressive/left candidates.
The unreported side of this @gothamist.com story is the NYPD has been clogging arraignments with hundreds of low level arrests that by law should be desk appearance tickets. It’s part of a continued NYPD violation of the mandatory appearance ticket law without judicial consequence.
Subway crime is up. The NYPD blames the cold weather.
In the first five weeks of 2026, major crimes reported on the subway system increased 17%.
gothamist.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:43 PM
The unreported side of this @gothamist.com story is the NYPD has been clogging arraignments with hundreds of low level arrests that by law should be desk appearance tickets. It’s part of a continued NYPD violation of the mandatory appearance ticket law without judicial consequence.
It is unconscionable that Democrats haven’t been introducing articles of impeachment regularly. Pirro and anyone else involved in the unethical failed sham prosecution of Kelly, Slotkin, and other Democrats should be impeached and disbarred.
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
February 18, 2026 at 12:54 PM
It is unconscionable that Democrats haven’t been introducing articles of impeachment regularly. Pirro and anyone else involved in the unethical failed sham prosecution of Kelly, Slotkin, and other Democrats should be impeached and disbarred.
This is indistinguishable from Völkisch fascism
Somewhat beside the point, it doesn’t describe either Western, European, or American history. It’s just using “Western Civilization” as a stand in for whiteness.
Somewhat beside the point, it doesn’t describe either Western, European, or American history. It’s just using “Western Civilization” as a stand in for whiteness.
February 18, 2026 at 5:05 AM
This is indistinguishable from Völkisch fascism
Somewhat beside the point, it doesn’t describe either Western, European, or American history. It’s just using “Western Civilization” as a stand in for whiteness.
Somewhat beside the point, it doesn’t describe either Western, European, or American history. It’s just using “Western Civilization” as a stand in for whiteness.
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That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.
I wonder what a MacBook would look like that was essentially focused on purely maximizing the efficiency gains since the M1 without squeezing out speed gains that don’t help the average user. How many days could that computer last on a charge?
February 18, 2026 at 4:56 AM
I wonder what a MacBook would look like that was essentially focused on purely maximizing the efficiency gains since the M1 without squeezing out speed gains that don’t help the average user. How many days could that computer last on a charge?
RFK Jr. is either a never nude or always skips leg day and wants to hide his little chicken legs
February 18, 2026 at 4:14 AM
RFK Jr. is either a never nude or always skips leg day and wants to hide his little chicken legs
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
February 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
Conservatives never actually cared about people coming here “the right way,” it was always just white nationalism
How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap
Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.
www.newyorker.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Conservatives never actually cared about people coming here “the right way,” it was always just white nationalism
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Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
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As we saw during the brief woke era, the country is run by middle-aged white men who are absolutely freaked out by the rise of a young, diverse, liberal workforce with high expectations. AOC is going to trigger *all* of that.
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
As we saw during the brief woke era, the country is run by middle-aged white men who are absolutely freaked out by the rise of a young, diverse, liberal workforce with high expectations. AOC is going to trigger *all* of that.
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Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Marco Rubio also feels no guilt or shame about being a spineless worm who will say or do anything, no matter how heinous, if he can ooze himself just a little closer to people with actual power
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 16, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Marco Rubio also feels no guilt or shame about being a spineless worm who will say or do anything, no matter how heinous, if he can ooze himself just a little closer to people with actual power
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This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
If you take what Platner claims to be in 2026 at face value, I'd align with him over Mills. But I'd rather one term of Mills than 3+ decades of another likely Fetterman, and I don't think anyone should ignore that he until very recently had a Nazi tattoo, consistently voted GOP, and other red flags.
February 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
If you take what Platner claims to be in 2026 at face value, I'd align with him over Mills. But I'd rather one term of Mills than 3+ decades of another likely Fetterman, and I don't think anyone should ignore that he until very recently had a Nazi tattoo, consistently voted GOP, and other red flags.
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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
These are the ramblings of a man who is not mentally well
Trump’s follow up post says he’s going to issue an executive order on voter ID.
“If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
“If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 AM
These are the ramblings of a man who is not mentally well
Yet another day Democrats should be introducing articles of impeachment immediately.
Bondi is a disgrace, just like Trump, Kash Patel, Bovino, Homan, Miller, and the whole rotten administration.
Bondi is a disgrace, just like Trump, Kash Patel, Bovino, Homan, Miller, and the whole rotten administration.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Yet another day Democrats should be introducing articles of impeachment immediately.
Bondi is a disgrace, just like Trump, Kash Patel, Bovino, Homan, Miller, and the whole rotten administration.
Bondi is a disgrace, just like Trump, Kash Patel, Bovino, Homan, Miller, and the whole rotten administration.
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The damage done to Minneapolis is probably the clearest example of how Trump is simply not like other presidents. Besieging and occupying a city for weeks like that is nearly unheard of
Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."
February 12, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The damage done to Minneapolis is probably the clearest example of how Trump is simply not like other presidents. Besieging and occupying a city for weeks like that is nearly unheard of