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.
I really hate to be mean but somebody needs to tell the girls. The blush blindness is really getting out of hand. There’s actually no reason for half your face to be PINK babes, bfrrrrr 😭
Moments like this make me feel for my girl in a deeper way. I don’t know if she actually feels this, but I can’t help wondering if she ever wants to show up to certain events freely without it turning into a spectacle the second she walks in.
#BREAKING: Struggling MAGA senior voter: I actually have panic attacks. I’ve heard a couple this past week, and I get very emotional over it. I don’t want to work anymore, but I can’t afford to retire…It’s not an overnight thing, but it’s been two years now. You said you’d bring down the grocery prices. Literally I must be the most angry person when I grocery shop because I buy the same things every week, and I see it jump EVERY WEEK, it’s not every couple month, it’s literally every week.” 😢
The allegations coming out in the New York Times and Miami New Timeqs are shocking and need to be investigated by the House and Senate. This is President Trump's Watergate moment.
Actor David Oyelowo pushes back on the narrative that Black British actors are taking all the African American movie roles and says that mindset is born out of insecurity as he shares his reaction to the viral Druski skit.
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BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has said his administration is working to make sure only “the right people” come into the country for the World Cup.
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Speaking on The View on Monday, Laverne Cox has revealed why she ended her relationship with her ‘MAGA Republican’ police officer boyfriend after more than three years together
“The political affiliation became obvious but I already had feelings for him and I wanted to see him as a human being beyond that. And then his politics and his unexamined life became clear after the three and a half years and I was like, ‘I love him, but I love myself more,’ and staying in this relationship, I’ll betray myself.”