Lucas González

Communications professional + former journalist

[Dustin McGrew @dmcgrew]

Pittsburgh looks like it could be located in the Arctic Circle in this photo from last night. The melting and cracking ice made for a ton of interesting shapes and textures. I always look forward to this happening any time we get ice on the rivers. Sure it's interesting when they completely freeze over but when they start looking like this it really makes for some fun photos! #pittsburgh

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

The right genuinely, sincerely views pop culture as the source of political power, as the battlefield in which power is won. They could hold every political office in the world and they’d still see themselves as an insurgency as long as Spanish is being spoken at the Super Bowl.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Notice Mamdani charmed Trump on live TV without backing down on any stances. He didn't water himself down, he didn't even take back calling Trump a fascist. Moderates would say butter him up, or try to appear more right-wing. Voters can see through that—and evidently so does he!

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Saying the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children directly beside the President of the United States is not something I thought I'd ever see

[Jasmine El-Gamal @jasmineelgamal]

Ever since I first studied the Holocaust, I’ve wondered how human beings can do such horrific things to one another.

I learned it was because the powerful fail, time and again, to protect the vulnerable. And that ordinary people have to step up when that happens.

I also learned that dehumanising an entire people can be deadly. And that we should always speak up when we see it happening, no matter who is being dehumanised.

Never Again is for every human life because every human life deserves protection.

That’s the lesson. Not that we need fewer TikTok posts depicting realities that are too uncomfortable for some people to accept.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

I do not think we are ready to grapple with the societal issues that are going to stem from a generation that is both illiterate and innumerate and also entirely reliant on some fucking AI chatbot to tell it how to live.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This whole thing from start to finish is utterly incredible.

The endless complaints that people see a lot of videos of "carnage" are never accompanied with the obvious solution: end the carnage.

Instead we must end the videos and even pull back on Holocaust education because it teaches kids to support victims of violence at the hands of aggressors. Absolute insanity on full display.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.

A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.

He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is genuinely stunning civic engagement for the U.S.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

People act surprised that @ZohranKMamdani is on track for such a historic victory, when in reality he just used democracy the way it’s supposed to be used. Instead of just spending money on ads, he stuck to his values, rallied his base, and expanded the electorate.

No city is quite like New York, but the lesson applies everywhere for winning young voters: talk with voters and ask what you can do for them. Tell them exactly how you’ll make life more affordable through your policies not just that you’ll “make things affordable.”

Lastly, meet them where they are on TikTok, on social media, in their communities with a message that moves them to act by repeating the message of the campaign, and invite them to volunteer.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The best thing about this campaign has been how it’s taken everyone (both inside and outside NY) across New York City and its various communities. This isn’t influencer nyc, not old money nyc, not tourist nyc; it’s not even upper middle class transplant nyc - it’s the nyc lived and breathed everyday. The campaign has done a masterful job in manufacturing a narrative of the city and its communities with Mamdani rooted firmly in it.

[Jason Dean @_Jason_Dean_]

The most impressive thing about Mamdani is that this clip is only 20 seconds

Kamala Harris would’ve taken about 5 minutes to answer these questions and still wouldn’t have given a good answer

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

Whatever happens tomorrow, never forget that this doggedly positive and hopeful campaign—in every way a fight for basic dignity and joyful celebration of democratic pluralism—was relentlessly denounced by political and media elites as something sinister, dangerous, and violent.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

The 5 states with the highest reliance on SNAP .

🔴 Louisiana 18%
🔴 Oklahoma 17%
🔴 Alabama 15%
🔴 West Virginia 15%
🔴 Mississippi 14%

[Mary Claire Molloy @mcmolloy7]

SCOOP: ICE has been quietly using the Indianapolis airport to fly out detainees since early July.

@mirrorindy witnessed dozens of people in handcuffs boarding an Oct. 24 flight to Alexandria, Louisiana – a major deportation hub.

https://t.co/Ov6yq0aDhG

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

"Congress built a system to guarantee their own survival & legislated one that imperils everyone else. They are flown out by helicopter while their constituents die waiting for treatment. Every republic leaves a record of what it chose to save first. Ours saved the politicians."

[Cate Charron @catecharron]

I spoke with a handful of Indiana University alumni last week who pulled donations following the university's handling of its student paper. One donor cancelled $1.5M in bequests, and a former football player paused $300K in contributions.
https://t.co/iADTPlVkjO

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump’s new Defense plan quietly outlines a “National Guard response force” trained in crowd control and civil unrest, to be deployed across all 50 states by April 2026.

Let that sink in.

They’re not preparing to leave office; they’re preparing to lock the country down.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

NEW: Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake national emergency to hijack elections.

One top operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and “mandate" election rules for states.

@NYTimes' investigation exposes the operatives and the takeover already underway. ⬇️