"so much alpha in books from 1870s to 1930" yeah, I'm sure he means
Portrait of a Lady
The Way We Live Now
The Age of Innocence
Mrs Dalloway
Ulysses
-- you can feel the testosterone surge from here, amirite?

"Oh, I totally agree with you, by the way. But the way to create real change is to turn down the temperature, listen to the other side, and start a petition drive that has something to do with zoning."

There are lies, damned lies and statistics, and the centrist political class is reverting to all 3 at once here. It's startling, but perhaps not surprising, that Steve Bannon's comments, as quoted by Edsall, are far more intellectually honest and politically astute than Paul Begala's. 7/7

While Mamdani, as Lyin' Paul surely knows, became the first mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes since John Lindsay in 1969. Oh and about Mamdani's "astonishing 18 points behind Kamala Harris," my dude? Harris got just over 500K votes in NYC last year, exactly *half* of Mamdani's total. 6/

As I wrote over the weekend, Andrew Cuomo's hate-fueled losing campaign was, in one sense, highly successful: Cuomo got more votes than any *winning* NYC candidate since Rudy Giuliani in 1989 -- and still lost by more than 180,000 votes 5/
www.salon.com/2025/11/08/z...

He does not, for example, compare Mamdani's vote total with previous mayoral candidates, or with Kamala Harris' supposedly dominant NYC victory in 2024. That's because the actual numbers expose his argument as complete bullshit 4/

Yes, Mamdani barely cleared 50% in this election, while de Blasio and Eric Adams were above 65% in the last 3 mayoral elections. Ooh, damning, right? Well, you will notice that Begala doesn't bring up *actual votes,* or the highly polarized and highly motivated nature of this year's election 3/

Begala makes the seemingly withering argument that Mamdani "limped across the finish line, an astonishing 18 points behind Kamala Harris" and had "the weakest win of a successful New York Democrat in 35 years." That's technically accurate while being absolute bullshit 2/

To be fair I'm gonna start addressing myself as "Andrew, you beautiful, conflicted vegetable man?

nothing against this individual (who I will never willingly watch) but that team is not the A's and if the ownership had any decency (I know, lol) they'd change the name. never thought I'd root for the Yankees to beat anyone; life is full of surprises! #OaklandForever