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People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
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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."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
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there’s no other way to put this other than full military invasion into america
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
there’s no other way to put this other than full military invasion into america
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs.
In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs.
In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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I'm not going to feel bad that a person who wanted to make the world a crueller, more selfish, more patriarchal, less safe, more bigoted place is no longer alive
September 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I'm not going to feel bad that a person who wanted to make the world a crueller, more selfish, more patriarchal, less safe, more bigoted place is no longer alive
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I'm not going to mourn a man who has reaped from the violent world he sowed
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I'm not going to mourn a man who has reaped from the violent world he sowed
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He said gay people should be stoned.
Violence is always unacceptable, and threats of violence have no place in public discourse. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
He said gay people should be stoned.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall
July 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think it’s worth being explicit about what’s going on with the Zohran admissions stuff - this is a bad faith attack designed to try to drive the older Black voters that made up Cuomo’s base in the primary and who vote party line in the general to support Eric Adams to keep Mamdani out of City Hall
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the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
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CA too. Play hardball Gavin. Hang them out to dry. They literally asked for this. My entire life it’s been a double standard where rural red areas get to shit on in both rhetoric and policy urban areas and then ask for and get bailouts from them. I’m fucking sick of it dude. Time to return fire.
July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
CA too. Play hardball Gavin. Hang them out to dry. They literally asked for this. My entire life it’s been a double standard where rural red areas get to shit on in both rhetoric and policy urban areas and then ask for and get bailouts from them. I’m fucking sick of it dude. Time to return fire.
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Convincing people to live in compliant despair, to associate divinity or holiness with hatred for the self, to teach people to fear their shadow and their inner life. *These* are the seeds that the Church has sown for centuries, and we all now live among that fruit.
June 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Convincing people to live in compliant despair, to associate divinity or holiness with hatred for the self, to teach people to fear their shadow and their inner life. *These* are the seeds that the Church has sown for centuries, and we all now live among that fruit.
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taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
June 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
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i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment
we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like
we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like
June 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment
we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like
we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like
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I want every ICE agent identified & shunned for the rest of their lives by civil society. I want people to cross the street when they approach. I want restaurants to refuse them service. I want their families to think twice about being seen with them. I want them to die alone & sad.
June 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I want every ICE agent identified & shunned for the rest of their lives by civil society. I want people to cross the street when they approach. I want restaurants to refuse them service. I want their families to think twice about being seen with them. I want them to die alone & sad.
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The bare minimum is endorsing the guy your own party's voters just selected to head the ticket and not the corrupt criminal who left the party or the sex pest who resigned in disgrace. If you can't handle that, you should get voted out of office.
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Today, Gov. Hochul explicitly declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor despite his victory in the Democratic primary. She also mistakenly mispronounced his name both times she said it as "Mandami" (like Cuomo, but likely without the malice) www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Hochul declines to endorse Mamdani, mispronounces his name
The governor is the de facto head of the state Democratic Party, but she’s not so sure about the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The bare minimum is endorsing the guy your own party's voters just selected to head the ticket and not the corrupt criminal who left the party or the sex pest who resigned in disgrace. If you can't handle that, you should get voted out of office.
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the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies
the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
June 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies
the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
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Politics does not reflect majorities. It constructs them. All Republicans understand this, most Democrats don’t.
Today's newsletter is about Sarah McBride's belief that politicians should react, not lead, when it comes to s haping public opinion. www.readtpa.com/p/politician...
Politicians Are Supposed to Lead, Not Just Follow Polls
Rep. Sarah McBride's advice to Democrats on trans rights would have killed the Civil Rights Act.
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June 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Politics does not reflect majorities. It constructs them. All Republicans understand this, most Democrats don’t.
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Shoutout to my transgender brothers and sisters. No one should ever be asked to show the amount of courage you show, and yet you are forced to display it every single day. I hope very soon it will not be asked of you in the very process of living.
June 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Shoutout to my transgender brothers and sisters. No one should ever be asked to show the amount of courage you show, and yet you are forced to display it every single day. I hope very soon it will not be asked of you in the very process of living.
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Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening, and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different.
For our latest cover story, Suzy Hansen examines how the war in Gaza has upended decades of humanitarian law: nymag.com/intelligence...
For our latest cover story, Suzy Hansen examines how the war in Gaza has upended decades of humanitarian law: nymag.com/intelligence...
June 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening, and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different.
For our latest cover story, Suzy Hansen examines how the war in Gaza has upended decades of humanitarian law: nymag.com/intelligence...
For our latest cover story, Suzy Hansen examines how the war in Gaza has upended decades of humanitarian law: nymag.com/intelligence...
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president