Somehow I feel like Hakeem Jeffries is not the man for the job.
The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Somehow I feel like Hakeem Jeffries is not the man for the job.
Capital yearns for pedestrianization.
The Manhattan luxury apartment market surged in the month after Zohran Mamdani's election: “There is no Mamdani effect.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Capital yearns for pedestrianization.
This is the thing. There will be elections. Dems will win. They will regain power. It probably won’t be enough power. But even if it is, Dems are either a) temperamentally too chickenshit to use it (Schumer) or b) actually kind of into corruption themselves (Jeffries), so we don’t get off the ride.
I'm not an 'there won't be elections' doomer. I'm a long-term doomer. I think the pendulum will swing back and Dems will regain power and then face an even more hostile press than before and won't have the votes to restructure the courts and we'll be in this awful cycle for the rest of my life.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is the thing. There will be elections. Dems will win. They will regain power. It probably won’t be enough power. But even if it is, Dems are either a) temperamentally too chickenshit to use it (Schumer) or b) actually kind of into corruption themselves (Jeffries), so we don’t get off the ride.
Hakeem Jeffries is awful, come at me Blue MAGA.
A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hakeem Jeffries is awful, come at me Blue MAGA.
He’s from Morningside Heights. People really need to log off.
New: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's brother called Zohran Mamdani an "enemy" of Jews during a private charity dinner last night — an inflammatory comment that comes on the heels of the incoming mayor's decision to retain Tisch as NYC's top cop. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/04/n...
NYPD Commissioner Tisch’s brother calls Mamdani ‘enemy’ of Jewish people at charity dinner: sources
Benjamin Tisch, the younger brother of the NYPD commissioner as well as the CEO of the Loews Corporation, took the shot at Mamdani while delivering remarks at an annual charity gala hosted by the M…
www.nydailynews.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
He’s from Morningside Heights. People really need to log off.
Newsom East.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports:
What Josh Shapiro Believes
The Pennsylvania governor has spent his life preparing to lead an America that might no longer exist.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Newsom East.
I don’t actually think the turnout should surprise us *that* much. Yes, specials typically have lower turnout, but why would Dem voters turn out in ‘22 in an extremely gerrymandered district for a very unpopular president? It’s different from comping to ‘22 in a swing district.
Aftyn Behn is going to fall a little short here but the shift from 2024 in today's election in central Tennessee is looking like ~15 or so points to the left.
The big surprise to me is total turnout, specials normally are very low turnout but this may have more voters than the '22 midterm in TN-07
The big surprise to me is total turnout, specials normally are very low turnout but this may have more voters than the '22 midterm in TN-07
December 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I don’t actually think the turnout should surprise us *that* much. Yes, specials typically have lower turnout, but why would Dem voters turn out in ‘22 in an extremely gerrymandered district for a very unpopular president? It’s different from comping to ‘22 in a swing district.
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The most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.
NYC folks: is Apple Weather giving you impossible forecasts today? Last I checked you’re not going to get five inches of snow when it’s 37 degrees out.
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NYC folks: is Apple Weather giving you impossible forecasts today? Last I checked you’re not going to get five inches of snow when it’s 37 degrees out.
I’m increasingly convinced the AI hype train is just people who don’t understand other people’s jobs being convinced AI will take them (but their own jobs will be safe). Clearly all architecture is is drawing some lines and labeling rooms, right?
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I’m increasingly convinced the AI hype train is just people who don’t understand other people’s jobs being convinced AI will take them (but their own jobs will be safe). Clearly all architecture is is drawing some lines and labeling rooms, right?
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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser compares AI to 'mad cow disease' and says execs pushing it aren't very creative people
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser compares AI to 'mad cow disease' and says execs pushing it aren't very creative people
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
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Guy did nothing but post. But my god was his good at it. Luther tier.
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Guy did nothing but post. But my god was his good at it. Luther tier.
Housing theory of everything dictates that this is also tied to the death of walkable communities. The browsable bookstore depends on people popping in for a look more than the big box bookstore with row upon row of Kamala’s bio.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Housing theory of everything dictates that this is also tied to the death of walkable communities. The browsable bookstore depends on people popping in for a look more than the big box bookstore with row upon row of Kamala’s bio.
Did we not have a whole thing about illegal orders less than a week ago?
The silence from national level Democrats on the murder being committed in our name by the US military is getting more and more deafening by the minute
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Did we not have a whole thing about illegal orders less than a week ago?
Blue MAGA really needs to stop with this stuff. Afghan refugees have plenty of reasons to do something awful because of things that are out in the open.
I fucking guarantee you that the shooter was told he would have to do a favor for Donald Trump if he was granted asylum. I guarantee it
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Blue MAGA really needs to stop with this stuff. Afghan refugees have plenty of reasons to do something awful because of things that are out in the open.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Dire traffic jams + bus lane enforcement could actually be great for urbanism.
Robotaxis will tranform cities more than we yet realise: my latest for @economist.com
— The tech will get cheaper. Dire traffic jams unless cities learn to love congestion taxes
— Denser city centres (few parking lots), but also more sprawl
— Cycling gets safer
www.economist.com/finance-and...
— The tech will get cheaper. Dire traffic jams unless cities learn to love congestion taxes
— Denser city centres (few parking lots), but also more sprawl
— Cycling gets safer
www.economist.com/finance-and...
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dire traffic jams + bus lane enforcement could actually be great for urbanism.
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one thing I will say, optimistically, is that as many people as there are who are absolutely addicted to losing, there are some people — some I’m not usually in agreement with — who seem to be sick of it
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
one thing I will say, optimistically, is that as many people as there are who are absolutely addicted to losing, there are some people — some I’m not usually in agreement with — who seem to be sick of it
Why don’t people just join a library?
These are pretty naked -- and therefore instructive -- examples of the sorts of defenses that people offer to try and get off the hook
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Why don’t people just join a library?
Can I sneer that the utility isn’t particularly high?
scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Can I sneer that the utility isn’t particularly high?
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
They should really be expelled from polite society but I’m increasingly realizing that this is what polite society is and maybe also what accelerationism is?
Fuck Olivia Nuzzi. Fuck Ryan Lizza. Fuck the elite media ecosystem that enables those psychopaths.
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
They should really be expelled from polite society but I’m increasingly realizing that this is what polite society is and maybe also what accelerationism is?
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“USians” is “sportsball” but for geopolitics
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“USians” is “sportsball” but for geopolitics