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Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
lol
So many movie-world interviews seem mostly promotional; this one, with Chris Rock, is different—one of the most interesting, insightful, and revealing I've
read in a while; not sure how I missed this when it came out, glad to have caught up with it now:
variety.com/2026/film/featur…
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
he looks like his parents forgot to pick him up at school
Democrats just pulled off a political earthquake on Tuesday, but the blue tsunami creates a problem the party isn't ready to talk about: what happens to John Fetterman?
The Pennsylvania senator has become the most vocal moderate in the caucus, replacing Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema as the Democrat most willing to break ranks on immigration enforcement, support for Israel, and government shutdowns. That worked fine when Democrats were in the minority. Now that Chuck Schumer controls the Senate with a comfortable margin, Fetterman's maverick streak isn't charming anymore. It's a liability.
Here's the twist: Fetterman is currently more popular with Pennsylvania Republicans than with Democrats in his own state, making his 2028 reelection as a Democrat look increasingly remote.
Full story here foxnews.com/opinion/david-ma…
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
They are cooking up the worst UI you’ve ever seen
Skydance Plans Launch of Combined Paramount+, HBO Max Streamer in Early 2027 variety.com/2026/more/news/s…
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
woke colonel lockjaw is just an amazing side character to have
Rep-Elect Richard Ojeda (D-NC) WON'T SAY if he supports Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for Speaker, telling @scrippsnews "ending Citizens' United is my hard line."
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
Of the seven Democrats who flipped senate seats, one supports the bill.
It’s not going to pass.
What is the point of platforming a bill that will divide the new caucus rather than writing health care legislation that will pass?
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
I’m a little befuddled by all this focus on personalities, surely the left’s compelling ideas will sell just as well whether it’s Ro Khanna or anyone else.
Scoop: Zohran Mamdani has been meeting privately with union leaders, urgently talking up the need for a labor-aligned or leftist candidate to run for president, people familiar with the talks tell me.
He's arguing that progressives can't afford to squander their midterm momentum.
Behind closed doors, Mamdani has also said he's uncertain whether AOC will launch a White House run, the sources said.
axios.com/2026/11/08/scoop-m…
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
the least politically effective person u know is gonna be rly mad about this
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
I’m grateful to Matt Yglesias for his tireless, Sisyphean work in repeatedly emphasizing obviously true points to people who have a strong vested interest in never, ever admitting that what he’s saying is accurate.
Tristan Acker-Vasquez retweeted
Sorry your brand of obnoxious cynicism lost, this must be a rough time for you.
He’s just young and hot but okay everyone 😭
Mamdani getting elected and spending a year on extremely popular projects helped Dems everywhere imo.
He was supposed to be on the new Mount Rushmore of scary liberals. Saw him on lots of attack mailers. Didn't scare people at all.
When I sat down w Mamdani during the 2025 primary he said his model was Bernie in Burlington - the "ooh, scary socialist" mayor who capitalizes on all the attention he gets and makes civic improvements so it stops being scary. And so far that's clearly worked. semafor.com/article/06/12/20…
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Weird, this tweet is full of smart analysis and then it gets to the part where “progressives want a fight” and it just ends instead of being honest about how there is no smart or reasonable path to a fight here
Have posted a lot this week, will post more next week, but here's how I'm thinking about the Dem factional fight over credit.
The Bernie wing has the most chips when "the establishment" loses. That's 2015, after Dems lost the Senate and Obama's presidency petered out. That's 2025, after the establishment lost to Trump *again.* Yes, Bernie was a Biden ride-or-die guy, and Biden implemented a lot of domestic policies Bernie wanted. But Bernie wasn't holding the wheel in 2024, and after Harris lost he quickly, smartly organized "Fight Oligarchy" to move the party in his direction.
This week, the Bernie wing won. So did the establishment. They all won! Jeffries and Schumer are no longer the schmucks who keep getting dunked on by Trump with pathetic press conferences outside buildings getting hollowed out by DOGE. They led the party into the biggest midterm swing since the disco era.
The left's take here is that the winning messages came from them - economic populism with no hemming and hawing a-la 2024. And its worry is that Schumer/Jeffries could run things like Keir Starmer, taking the mandate and futzing around, giving the populist right another opening.
So, eyeball to eyeball, Schumer and Jeffries have the votes to lead the new majorities. But the left wants a fight here because it's seen how Dems can fumble those majorities.
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