I’m meeting tomorrow with a Mr. Mephistopheles. “Mephisto” they call him. He’s telling me he can make me a deal like you wouldn’t believe. Is it worth is folks? The soul? They’re saying I’ll be saved anyway.
Charli xcx on partying with Madonna on Quotidien:
" She has a lot of stories and advices but I think the main thing about her is that she’s just so cool….
I was standing on stage and it felt like I was partying with a friend but then then Id turn around and like…it’s Madonna…
I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
Holy crap, STAT News is reporting that Eli Lilly & the FDA let 1 person access a powerful new weight loss drug through FDA’s “compassionate use” program, which is reserved for people w/ serious and immediately life-threatening conditions.
That one person is believed to be Trump.
does our US president really talk like this in international settings? like a child--"My people are so mean." unabashed sexual attraction: "handsome guy."
(the gradual emergence of an unfiltered homoerotic attraction in T***p is going largely unnoticed though it is becoming more pronounced daily.)