Ugh gross

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
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Gross. Glad we spanked Philly lol

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Guy who looks like Lutnick sitting courtside with Josh Harris, 76ers owner

Is this Howard Lutnick sitting courtside at the Celtics game today next to the 76s owner?

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Patel has reportedly forced FBI agents to take polygraph tests where they’re asked if they have ever said anything bad about him or Trump. He also apparently gets wasted all the time and once agents had to use a battering ram to get inside his room to wake him up. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Ugh that sucks so badly

Totally. Two things: First, we need more organizations so there are more people paid to do this. Second, we must recognize that to get what we want we have to do unpaid democratic organizing all year round, not just come election time. Not the same tempo but the work must continue imo.

X is a tool that is specifically designed to rot your brain and turn you into a Nazi. Looks like it’s working on ol’ Cenk just fine.

But imo money is ultimately not a problem in this country. There is lots of money. I think we face a shortage of good candidates and effective organizers who are committed to doing what NYC leftists did.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be the same orgs, though. We can use C4 groups to do the electoral work and C3 groups can do the political education and organizing to support good policy. Obvs larger orgs can do both. This is already happening I’m just suggesting we do more C4 work. And yes we need $

The left needs organizations that can fight in the public square and do political education to ensure elected officials have the democratic legitimacy they need to enact the policy we want. Electing someone and then saying “Good luck doing all that and if you don’t we will shit on you” won’t work.

I would ask the question slightly differently, namely: How do left organizations sustain popular support for programs after elections even when there’s a genuine political backlash? Police, business, media have real power to erode popular support for things good mayors/electeds want to do.

Lots of lefties have spent lots of time critiquing power and that’s important. But what if we collectively moved in the direction of building and growing organizations whose goals are to actually seize the power for the people? This is the way forward imo.

Seeing similar things in Seattle. Local governments are the gateway to power in this country and seizing control of them is much easier than trying to fix Congress. I would like to see much more of this and also participate in it to a greater extent than I already do.

One of the things I love most about Zohran’s rise to power is that it shows so clearly how we could have a better democracy—one that actually serves us instead of just the rich—if the left decides collectively to take electoralism and government seriously. It’s ours for the taking if we want it.

Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. The traders made huge gains. Unusual.

The odds that one or more of my sources have been making an insane amount of money on insider trading... probably quite high

How about democrats do what voters want

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Sad day for lesbians everywhere

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It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

This is the company that wants to put facial recognition in its Ray Bans and Oakleys.

Businesses, schools, elected officials, media institutions.

An apartment building lit by the setting sun. On one side is written (in German) “built for the community of Vienna 1924-1925 from the funds of the housing tax.”

I love how Vienna marks all of its social housing buildings.

A photo of blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “ECONOMIC POLICY - On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich - The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city's nonresident rich.”

A photo of a child reaching for blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “Mayor Mamdani Unveils 7 New NYC Early Ed Centers”

A photo of of blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “New York City to open municipal grocery store in 2027 - The store will be one of five city-owned food stores Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised to debut before his term ends.”

Blossoming pink flower buds near a trash container and a headline that reads “Mamdani To Fully Fund Trash Containerization - The new mayor is restarting the Trash Revolution”

Change is in the air, New York. Here are a few things blooming.

There comes such a time in every child’s life, unfortunately.

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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"She described having the sex marker M in her passport as a 'big problem,' adding: 'I don't blame President Trump. I love him.' Jenner said she appealed to him for help but received no response." sowing, reaping dot jpg

Nominally independent media institutions celebrating press freedom by serving canapés to president fake news is some bleak, black comedy but the venue is chef’s kiss