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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 15m

Girls be like "we needed this" and it's just a widespread electoral rebuke of a rapist dictator regime

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 24m

LINA KHAN!!!!!!!!!!

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 49m

Mayor-elect Mamdani announces co-chairs of his transition team:

Maria Torres-Springer, Lina Khan, Grace Bonilla and Melanie Hartzog

All women.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing how upfront and unfiltered he is about his ongoing authoritarian project. The goal is to make sure the opposition can never win, and he flat-out says it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

If these elections had gone the other way — if the Democratic Party had underperformed or even lost one of these contests — then every commentator under the sun would say, rightfully, that Democrats were in disarray; that even the president’s deep unpopularity couldn’t keep them afloat with voters.

But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12h

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 12h

Newsom's anti-Trump prop 50 speech feels kinda... stale, in comparison to Mamdani's invigorating barnstorm of hope

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 12h

bsky.app/profile/anil...

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

(your walkoff music) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...

Dhoom Machale Song | DHOOM, Esha Deol, John Abraham, Abhishek, Uday, Sunidhi Chauhan, Pritam, Sameer

YouTube video by YRF

www.youtube.com

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 13h

Ok yes brilliant POWERHOUSE of a speech by Mamdani but his play off music is also fucking fire...

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 13h

MAM fucking DANI

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h

MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 13h

TURN THE VOLUME UP

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 13h

Zohran's speech is giving me alllll the feeeeeeeeelssssss

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 13h

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13h

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.

Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: We know that Donald Trump has not only been convicted of committing crimes, but that the supreme court has given him a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and the danger of this moment. But we cannot respond to that with cowardice.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 14h

I love it when we make history like this ✊🏽💙🇺🇸

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 15h

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 15h

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20h

This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.

whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 22h

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 21h

It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.

Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

HAVE YOU VOTED YET? 🇺🇸

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