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AOC is quite on point with this.

This really tells you the story of past, present, and future.

I’m a Buddhist, which means I’m on Team “if you gotta drop bombs, the leader of your country probably doesn’t know what the fuck he's doing."

Just so everybody understands, it is very likely that Cuomo will be leading tonight after the round 1 results, whether he eventually loses or not. Here’s a good guiding metric:

This should be obvious but intergenerational trauma hijacks the truth. If you want to be safe, work for the safety of those who are more in danger than you.

We gotta listen to young people. They’re the ones who will live with the consequences the longest. If you want to build a sustainable org, you have to inspire the ones who will be with the org the longest. From a business perspective, the fact that the Dem party does the opposite of this is suicide.

I don’t need to tell you what the news media would do if a non-republican president did this, but we don’t really have a news media so…

This is even more lovely and heartwarming than the Cuomo campaign is cynical and ugly.

It would be so nice to see an election that conservative billionaires tried desperately to buy but couldn’t because they were out-organized by young progressives. It really would be a game changer.

Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people. I believe people will win.

They sure sure are. It’s a party in the midst of self-destructing.

Vote for Zohran Mamdani. ✊🇺🇸

Vote today until 9pm NYC! And stay hydrated and in the shade! www.vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

Honestly can’t fathom explaining to a high school civics class the idea of a policy having a 5% approval and still somehow being allowed to happen, yet here we are.

NYC is the safest large city in America. It’s almost like he’s trying to get Fox News viewers in Florida to vote for him. May this utterly cynical and ridiculously expensive brand of politics go down in flames tomorrow.

The sewage water in the Gowanus Canal has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Supreme Court is giving “we’re not getting out of this without nonviolent revolution and a totally restructured federal government." It’s a very 2025 vibe.

Mamdani really deserves to win tomorrow. Truly.

This is 100% true. Have literally never seen a local campaign this well organized. Whoever runs campaigns with this type of messaging and this type of ground game wins the future.

Every new idea is “unrealistic” until it happens in real life. That’s the literal definition of what it means to have a new idea.

I hope these dudes face accountability for ruining lives when this is all over.

NYC’s next mayor will either be a young, dynamic progressive whose campaign basically did every single thing armchair pundits said Democrats need to do to recapture the electorate, or…Peter Thiel’s chosen candidate! 2025 really knows how to work in extremes, huh?

This makes sense. If Cuomo is not very close to 50% by the end of round 1 with a very wide lead, he is in trouble. Please contact any low frequency voter in NYC you know and tell them to vote TUESDAY. It matters tremendously. Everyone is watching this race. No more billionaires in charge.

Meditate today, even for just five minutes. When the world is hot, find coolness in the brief spaces in between thoughts.

Final early vote totals in nyc dem primary for 2025 are more than double what they were in 2021. (about 384,000 in 2025 versus about 191,000 in 2021) A good sign. (Just slightly over 900k voted total in the primary in 2021, out of 3.3 million registered dems, which is how we got Eric Adams).

Samsara has a sense of humor.

I don’t follow corporate media headlines anymore but what happened—correct me if I’m wrong—was a felon president committed an illegal act of war which failed to meet its basic military objectives. Did *any* American mainstream headlines depict it as such? Please share if so. Breath not held.

You can only conclude that Dem leadership doesn’t want young talent to empower. They’re too scared of it. May those of us in our middle years NEVER follow their example as we age. May we always empower those who come after.

Forget about intelligence.

Breaking: Bill Clinton joined a steady chorus of old-guard Democrats today in begging everyone to start a new political party as soon as it's feasible.

The cartoonists always get it better than the journalists.

War is without a doubt the least imaginative solution to any problem that men have ever conceived.

Most people I know in NYC haven’t voted yet. Not a single one is voting for Cuomo. Everyone I know has been door-knocked by the Mamdani campaign. Not one by Cuomo. Mamdani has serious people power. Cuomo has conservative billionaire $$$$$. Which wins? Vote today or Tuesday. I have hope.