Ian Moskowitz

Some of us remember a time, way back in 2025, when the geniuses criticizing the Mayor for this "puzzling" decision also said Cuomo was a lock to be Mayor. Sometimes exhibiting courage (like @LindseyBoylan did standing up to Cuomo) is "puzzling" to people who have none.

George Clinton speaks on Kendrick Lamar via the New York Times: "I’ll put it like this: He, along with Motown, Sly Stone, the Beatles — that kind of institution is going to last. There are a lot of slick writers out here nowadays with lyrics and things, but he writes with soul. He’s a young kid, but when I met him, he sounded my age. He’s like a psychiatrist on record — he talks about [expletive] that most people are afraid to talk about. He’s at that point where he can move the conversation. Nobody will talk about these topics, and he talks about them so matter-of-factly that you don’t even think, You can’t say that. Making it commercial is another thing. It’s one thing to be hard-core gangster rapping so you can say things. But when you’re talking about life in general and make it sound so hard, so cool — then watch the kids say, No, he ain’t all that, then turn around the next year and change their minds? Kids today, they want their new artist; they don’t want their older brother or sister’s artist or their mother and father’s. Kids don’t like you after a few years. When you can go past that and have the next generation after that still talking about you, you’re doing something. That whole “To Pimp a Butterfly” album, it was like one song to me. It was like Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” And he’s starting all over each time he puts an album out — he’s like a brand-new kid."

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to keynote 2026 New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention wmur.com/article/beshea…

Exciting news! New polling out today has us in 2nd in the Maine gubernatorial primary. Even more exciting: once folks learn more about the candidates, we're tied for first. We're not from the left. We're not from the right. We're from the bottom. And we're rising like crazy.

Thank you to @jaredkushner and @realDonaldTrump for leading on a plan for peace in the middle east

"Democrats are good at explaining our 'what.' Let’s get good at explaining our 'why.' " washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

lol if he is blasting this oped out you can be pretty sure that means no outlets would take it. what a fall.

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP theonion.com/dennis-hastert…

NEW: I asked @AOC about Chi Ossé filing paperwork to run against Hakeem Jeffries. “I certainly don't think a primary challenge to the leader is a good idea right now,” she told @axios axios.com/2025/11/18/aoc…

NEW: For the first time, the story of the 17 year old girl who testified that she had sex with Matt Gaetz for money. She was living in and out of a homeless shelter. She was working at McDonald's. She had just finished her junior year in high school. And she wanted extra money to try to save up to pay for braces to fix her teeth. nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/…

I've heard it all - I talk funny, I didn't go to a fancy school and I don't come from the "right" part of the state or a well-connected family. None of that matters because I know who I am. More importantly, I know who I’m fighting for. #MEpolitics

This is so disappointing and pathetic. You defended @elonmusk's nazi salute! @ADL used to be the preeminent organization defending Jews from anti-semitism but your cowardice has turned it into a political joke.

Tonight, Mainers spoke loudly & clearly - we won’t back down & we won’t be silenced. Our right to vote is everything. We won’t let special interests try to rig our elections by making it harder for workers, seniors & folks with disabilities to exercise their rights. #MEpolitics

I'll say it: "Andrew Cuomo, in my opinion, ran a campaign that was insulting to New Yorkers, that was insulting to the city, that wasn’t based in the good parts about the city, but was based in fear of both the candidate and the place -- of his religion and identity. I think that Islamophobia backfired. This is not a place where he could cobble together enough Republican votes to win." vox.com/today-explaine…

BING BONG

Need to snap a losing streak? Bring in @THEKIDMERO & @ZohranKMamdani

I know a thing or two about food insecurity. This is just cruel, especially when folks are already worried about how they’re going to stay warm this winter. I hope the state will step up in the absence of federal leadership. #mepolitics

SNAP recipients will lose their benefits on Saturday. If you also believe that poor kids and their families shouldn't go hungry in the richest country in the world, please donate to @GiveDirectly

Where has all the leadership gone?  If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?  The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation.  Maybe the Constitution should have said, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one’s political or financial self-interest.” By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.