and Noah will start complaining incessantly about that force the minute it starts representing a group Twitter tells him to not like

for the sake of democracy, let’s certainly all continue hoping for the liberal-socialist alliance instead. and I would hope at least that it’s clear that in concrete policy terms red-brownism is a dead-end.

I totally get your caution, distaste for the quote, and I also detest the red-brown alliance. I think you’re right about him (and his team based on what I’ve seen) being high on his supply but I am reassured by leading DSA members maintaining a strict line against any genuine collaboration.

The meeting also demonstrates how empty Trump really is, at this stage in his mental decline and generally, he latches onto the most charismatic person in the room. He’ll go back to Fox News and Stephen Miller spewing racist bs about Mamdani and he’ll lash out and hopefully this meeting lessens that

I see it less as him trying to establish some alliance and instead trying to defang Trump and the GOP attacks on him (which it seems is what happened based on their reactions). I think he followed Hochul‘s lead with meeting with him and establishing a rapport that spares NYC somewhat.

They love to brand themselves as concerned citizens for cities when really they just want to lock up homeless and mentally ill people and keep the streets clean magically without admitting a role for the requisite government funding or living wages/right to bargain for sanitation workers

They love to brand themselves as concerned citizens for cities when really they just want to lock up homeless and mentally ill people and keep the streets clean magically without admitting a role for the requisite government funding or living wages/right to bargain for sanitation workers

The Manhattan Institute always has a spot reserved at the NYT for their most egregious takes.

And they admit that businesses are eating the tariffs but they can't bring themselves to mention the slump in manufacturing hiring which is more likely than not a result of tariffs on capital and intermediate goods. Vibes-based research does not substitute empirical research.

of tariffs which is unclear and not uniform the way they present it. They also reason that tariffs haven't caused inflation because companies avoided them altogether by 'front-loading' imports which obviously means that the tariffs weren't in the picture...

anyways this shit all sucks and is dumb and is--once stated clearly--OBVIOUSLY, INHERENTLY UNPRODUCTIVE because you are excluding a huge fraction of workers from being as productive as they could be

Also, it's really weird how Thomas Massie is talking like a resistlib now

the enthusiasm for primarying hakeem jeffries on bluesky feels motivated by a lot of aggressive nyc-centric online left folks and feelings about jeffries’ position on israel

all of that makes sense

but it definitely feels like it misses the way our system of government even works

This is false and this article conflates a bunch of different state policies and throws in Mamdani supposedly backing away from climate even though he stood behind Local Law 97, which is the biggest thing NYC has done on this front.