"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, that candidate existed and she just lost" ~John Oliver on dems moving right

This election was lost on insufficient economic message and policies. People aren’t anti-lgbt— they’re anti-oligarchy. Economic conservatives are trying to pin this on social issues to direct attention away from their obvious failures.

The NYT panel ranked Zohran Kwame Mamdani #1 for quality of life & housing - they just don’t care about working people who can’t afford to live in this city or enjoy life in this city. The editorial today speaks to, in addition to the boards inability to articulate coherent thoughts,

I call on Democratic leaders to condemn this. Chuck Schumer Hakeem Jeffries

Any reasonable person would believe this. Who among us doesn't occasionally accidentally say "client list" when what we mean to say is "files"?

Four high-ranking ex-NYPD chiefs are suing Mayor Adams, claiming they were forced to retire from the department after complaining his “unqualified” friends were being placed in prestigious posts, sometimes after allegedly bribing their way into the jobs. nydailynews.com/2025/07/08/ex-…

Andrew Cuomo zohranfornyc.com/donate

I guess we leftists are now ready to support Cuomo because Zohran, who says on national tv that he doesn't like capitalism, and strongly opposes our tax dollars going to bombing children, now "discourages" (but doesn't condemn) a phrase that he's always been saying he never used.

Funny how every time a progressive like Zohran might win, the establishment cries it’ll “hurt Democrats.” What they really mean is it hurts their influence, donor checks & cushy gigs. The party’s fine… it’s their racket that’s in trouble.

We can keep it up. These people have not helped us once. They do not care about fascism. They care about money, attention, and internet psychodrama. We believed these people had power over us for far too long. They don't. They're losers.

the Bocker Perfumers apprentice 26th Time Massimo Historical accumulation. Agriculture, surplus, geography, trade, stored knowledge, institutions, and often conquest/extraction. Technological disparity is about compounded material history, not a hierarchy of human brains.

Hang on… so the current CA governor favorite by far is a guy who was on hasanabi not too long ago? Didn’t seem to hurt him!

She’s referring to fighting in more wars.

Here’s why ‘Horse Shoe theory’ is invoked: Centrists HATE when the left has agreements with the right on substance. They want to be the owners and gatekeepers of bipartisanship on donor-friendly economic policy, social policy and hollow cultural gestures.

Dwee Bwae Zaid Jilani As someone who ideologically disagrees with him on a few things, he actually handles himself pretty well in communicating his policies and can be quite diplomatic