This is fundamentally why the Democratic establishment can't really capitalise on the Mamdani phenomenon: their entire existence relies on rejecting his actual policies, which is the core of what made him successful.

The bottom line from that Third Way memo is that the people with the most power in the Democratic Party are historically unpopular and have utterly failed to prevent everything awful that's happening right now and they'd much rather you blame the people with the least power

He's looking like A-Rod these days

I love how Mike Pence just can't shake the George W. Bush cadence and mannerisms.

One problem with this narrative is that Biden had dropped out and Harris was the candidate when Democrats denied a Palestinian American speaker the chance to speak—and endorse Harris—at the DNC

I think she'll eke this out, but Mikie Sherrill never made any sense for NJ Gov.

This is genuinely disgraceful. Sickening, actually.

You can’t pick a government funding fight over healthcare premiums, get nothing for that fight, provide the votes to reopen, and then still have the high ground on healthcare premiums!

Nonsense. Trump’s position hasn’t changed, and absolutely no one is interested in moral victories.

GUY: My car’s still not working. MECHANIC: No one wants your car to work more than I do. GUY: Well why didn’t you fix it then? MECHANIC: Tell me what YOU’VE ever done to fix cars! This is all so ridiculous.

Message fittingly delivered in an empty room

The solution to precarity in the academic job market is not to weaken tenure protections, nor to pretend that tenured professors are lazy, privileged, good-for-nothings; it is to expand the number of tenured positions. This should be obvious.

This is what we need to see. Any Democratic incumbent who can’t speak out forcefully against the war should be primaried, defeated, and driven from public life.

Honestly, as much as I feel rage about this barbarous, immoral and illegal war that the US and Israel are waging against Iran, I am also mourning the loss and ruination of a deeply flawed, but also wondrously complex and capable United States, the only country I've really known.