I have a doorbell camera that I can speak through using my phone. Best. Invention. Ever.
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Using Google search terms, it was the #1 searched topic on election day.
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It is so weird to worry about democratic socialists raising taxes when we have like literal stalin type totalitarianism burning through tax money like casino tzars in the GOP.
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So that means that however many people searched for it knew the answer when they voted, for the most part.
But none of that has anything to do with GOTV.
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A third union, the New York State Nurses Association, also endorsed Mamdani. It represents 30,000 members in the city.
“We are confident that whenever we’re in a fight, Zohran will be on our side standing up for hospitality workers,” Rich Maroko, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council’s president, told The New York Times. “That’s why we are genuinely excited to endorse Zohran and ready to help him win in November.”
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Cue the pearl-clutching from the “AOC was a disaster, never again allow a primary challenger” wing of the less problematic party. Don’t get me wrong, i will indeed “Vote Blue, No Matter Who,” because the worst dems, maybe aside from Fetterman now, is still better than the best fascist. But moving the party back to the left needs to be high priority, and highest once we evict the actual Nazis from office. That said, survival comes first. Not a NYer, but i am cetainly supporting Mamdani, if for no other reason than his ability to inspire hope in young progressives who have been getting shafted from all sides.
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Exactly! The demographic that largely sat out 2024. Young progressives won’t vote Republican, but they damn sure will just stay home if they are not given a reason to get out.
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Most of that 18-24 year old cohort couldn’t vote in 2021. And they’re by far the highest turnout.
Hopeful
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This isn’t 100% true, but it’s not 100% wrong, either.
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Something for 2026, NC Republican senator Thom Tillis is retiring after his current term ends.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/29/thom-tillis-retire-senate-north-carolina
I don’t know anything about Tillis, except that he’s a Republican and therefore presumably a terrible person. On Bluesky, there are people suggesting that the Democrats could be able to win the seat, which sounds good.
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Amazing… I love everything about that.
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Tillis recently expressed doubts about the Big Bloviating Bill, which triggered Trump to threaten to primary him. Like most Republicans, Tillis is a coward, so he responded by saying he wasn’t running for reelection anyway.
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And so it begins . . .
This probably violated Miami’s city charter, by the way.
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What… the fuck is their justification for this?
Is Miami a Democratic city, or Republican?
Here is the Miami Herald article about it linked in the CBS article…
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article309065285.html
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I’m not sure, but their stated justification is that they think they’ll have better voter turnout in even year elections. The truth is that the mayor and commissioner are term limited and this gives them an extra year in power. Also, the city charter says they can’t make this change without putting it to a direct vote of the people, and the Florida AG had warned them not to do this. Regardless of the party of these assholes, this sets a super dangerous precedent. This needs to get slapped down really hard and really fast.
ETA: Yeah, I tried to link the Herald article to begin with, but it’s another site where the previews don’t work with Discourse, apparently.
ETA2: The mayor is a Republican. Shocking.
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