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NEW Split Ticket piece in the Washington Post: Lost in the hubbub about what Zohran's win in New York City means is this: all across the nation, in survey after survey, we're seeing young and Latino voters turn against the GOP. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

I just tried to diagram that post. Fifteen minutes of life I'll never get back.

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I’ve told native nyers so many times that they underestimate just how much density/public transit forces ppl to interact + even find camaraderie w/ ppl who don’t look like you in a way that a car centric city like LA simply doesn’t. Maybe the interactions are shallow but still

The Democratic Party has nothing in common with the “political parties” that exist in democracies all over the world. Rather, it is one of the two institutions that make up the US political system. Its main function is fundraising. Winning elections is nice but not the priority.

It, on average, takes 25 years to fix a bad bill. This bill destroys higher education and will for generations. Our public health and healthcare infrastructure are GONE. Generations will feel the burden of this. The entire country has changed.

Consent of the governed or nah?

Y'all want a sexy, superb novel by a straight white working-class guy with talent to burn? Here ya go: washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/…

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

Zohran Mamdani did not get the NYTimes' endorsement for NYC mayor, but he got the endorsement of the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. US class conflicts deepen. nycclc.org/news/new-york-…

Happy Fourth! To paraphrase Brad Lander: fight, don't fold.

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Terrific conversation between Jamelle Bouie and Zaakir Tameez. And buy/read ZT's stellar biography of Charles Sumner! nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opi…

NEW: Pope Leo’s top doctrinal chief confirms the Catholic Church will uphold Pope Francis’s 2023 policy allowing priests to bless persons in same-sex relationships. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/lette…

It's a good'un. Preorder now. I'll have more to say in the fall.

You could extend this out to 1803 (Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison), but yeah.

E and I are watching The Warriors: CAN YOU DIG IT?!?