Oh great they’re covering him like ESPN covers Jalen Hurts.
Politico@politico.com · 10h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Politico@politico.com · 10h ago
New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.
This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.
Alex Bores, a largely unknown New York state legislator, catapulted into the spotlight for his platform advocating tough regulation of AI. Bores lost his primary — but only after AI interest groups spent tens of millions of dollars on the race.
How a New York race became the first front in the AI industry’s midterm war
Competing AI interests poured millions into the Democratic primary, a taste of more spending to come this fall and elections beyond.
washingtonpost.com
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.
my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 6mo agoPs: a common refrain that you'll hear is that "you're saying the Dems can't be at fault, it's the voters, as if the voters owe something to politicians and not the other way around!" Yes, actually, that's how the social contract of democracy works. Voters yet the government they work for. Or don't.
rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6mo ago
If the government executing us in the streets isn’t your red line, then you’ve already decided to endorse it. There’s no gray area left. No ambiguity.
Pouring more money into DHS while it operates with impunity and a blatant disregard for human life is unconscionable. You don’t fix abuse by funding it. You stop it by cutting off its funding and dismantling the institution that’s terrorizing communities. tinyurl.com/mr3em3k8
House approves spending bills despite many Democrats' objections to ICE funds
The House has approved the final set of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, despite objections from Democrats to the funding levels set for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
npr.org
Aaron Rodgers hasn't been this visibly frustrated since he read that the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is being run by Dracula
Great little thread about Die Hard. The single greatest stage performance I've ever seen live was Alan Rickman in "Les Liasions Dangereuse" on B'way. and it turns out Joel Silver saw it too, which is how Rickman was cast.
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 7mo agoDie Hard is a diamond of a film. I couldn't write something that tight in a million years. It also would not occur to me to shoot air ducts and cubicle farms with anamorphic lenses like some kind of crazed lens-flare wizard, but that's why I'm not Jan de Bont
Fátima Bosch Fernández of Mexico was crowned Miss Universe 2025, a dramatic victory after she stood up to public bullying from one of the pageant hosts in Bangkok.
Mexico's bullied pageant contestant gets payback by capturing Miss Universe crown
Fátima Bosch Fernández of Mexico has been crowned Miss Universe 2025
washingtonpost.com
From a high school game in Utah. This may be the best interception I’ve ever seen.
help someone else get a win i promise it’s not gonna take away from your wins
the baker mayfield rams arc where he scrapped out a win 2 days after he got in the building is the most consequential meaningless game in NFL history. everything changed that night. he bet his whole career on a ben skowronek 50/50 ball and WON
The Japanese government recently announced plans to make content production a pillar of the country’s economic growth in the 2030s and beyond. Shōnen manga is a cornerstone of that vision, and Weekly Shōnen Jump is the most popular magazine publishing it.
How Weekly Shōnen Jump Became the World’s Most Popular Manga Factory
The magazine, home to such series as “Naruto” and “One Piece,” has created a formula for coaxing hit franchises out of young talents. The twenty-four-year-old behind “Kagurabachi” may be next.
newyorker.com
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
Me listening to all football pods today and ignoring the larger world around me
Fuck this dude, seriously. Get this loser out of here.
Politico@politico.com · 12mo agoAndrew Cuomo tries out a new persona: Underdog candidate. The former governor’s longshot NYC mayoral bid is attacking Zohran Mamdani with an aggressive new strategy.
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.