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One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place. Andrew Cuomo does not.

Happy first day of early voting to all who celebrate

Endorsement time. First, my own City Council district #CD35. The incumbent Crystal Hudson is facing insurgent challengers backed by some of the neighborhood's more vocal NIMBY groups (such as MTOPP). Hudson has been a strong supporter of City of Yes, open streets and better transportation options.

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

Just a note to say I briefly worked on a campaign where @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was running field operations and saw him motivate a bunch of unpaid volunteers in an uphill battle race years ago and the idea that he’s under experienced in managing people is very funny to me.

Cuomo has zero excuse for mispronouncing Mamdani's name. That's a bullshit right wing racist tactic we've seen from the worst Republicans in the country. Don't rank Cuomo. Don't put him ANYWHERE on your ballot.

Explosive moment during tonight's NYC mayoral debate: Cuomo: "He’s never dealt with the city council, he’s never dealt with the Congress..." Mamdani: "I’ve never had to resign in disgrace...I have never hounded the thirteen women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment."

We're making progress. It used to be that people would say New York City is not Amsterdam. Now they're saying 34th Street isn't 14th Street.

@jhweissmann.bsky.social should post this here and also, co-sign. (Also swap out Lander for Adams, or Lander for Stringer, or what-have-you). Total abandonment of a civic responsibility to the place it calls home.

De Blasio having the time of his life rn

New Danish study concludes that traffic noise is killing people: "A 14.9 decibel increase in road traffic noise [outside the home] was associated ... with an 8.1% increased risk of all-cause mortality." Traffic noise was much deadlier than air pollution. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40403531/

YES @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "The answer to the housing crisis is not more vacancies... To me, it is building more housing, such that we keep people in their home, have a rapid expansion of housing production that is BOTH private-sector AND public-sector-driven." youtu.be/rqVQlALRqaE?...

The real abundance candidate

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

I’m hooting and hollering: “Zohran is proud not to have the experience of defunding the MTA, cutting Medicaid, empowering Republicans and resigning in disgrace after being credibly accused of serial sexual harassment,” Mamdani campaign spokesperson Andrew Epstein said about Cuomo’s comments.

RFK is going to be responsible for a lot of death and suffering

Cuomo PAC darkens skin of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in new mailer to NYC voters.

Boycott Uber. Take public transit, bike or walk. If you must use rideshare hail a cab or call a Lyft. Do not give Uber your money.

I keep bringing up Andrew Cuomo’s decision to shut down Indian point as a reason not to vote for him. I think it’s especially persuasive because 1) it punctures the aura of competence he is trying to manufacture 2) primary swing voters support nuclear energy 3) he did it at RFK Jr.’s behest

You absolutely love to see it. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is pro-housing.

NYC DOT is rolling out a new design for conventional bike lanes that will improve safety + visibility for everyone at crossings, where half of all traffic deaths occur. The agency will begin adding these along select new & existing lanes w/high crash rates. More: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

no one has defined the anti-abundance politics of blue state governance more than Andrew Cuomo and it is absurd he keeps skating on this

Great primer for which candidates to vote for (the ones in red). bsky.app/profile/elku...

When you look at Trump's cratering immigration numbers, remember what Zohran Mamdani was already doing three months ago — while the rest of the Democratic party was still twiddling their thumbs on detaining student protestors and giving ICE more power:

NYC friends: as long as you leave Cuomo off your ballot completely, the math is as simple as this (so simple even an English professor ex-New Yorker can understand it).

Pretty big news out of San Jose re: Bart Extension. Don't know where this leaves us, presumably this kind of news doesnt leak unless the board will approve taking the offramp and repackaging the project, but there are shades of MBTA's Green Line Extension in here: www.kqed.org/news/1204332...

Reposting because Dave wrote it this time... I AM VERY EXCITED!!!

Some specific examples here: 1) he shut down a nuclear plant because RFK Jr. told him to, which has been replaced by fossil fuels 2) he forced out Andy Byford at the MTA because he was jealous that Byford was getting positive press 3) he wanted to build an overpriced backwards airtrain to LGA

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

The data is abundantly clear. If you want to beat Cuomo you have to rank Zohran even if you have qualms with him.

I’ve seen a lot of “the left is blowing this race by uniting behind a socialist like Zohran” takes but not enough “the establishment/center is blowing this race by uniting behind a sexual harasser/corrupt weirdo like Cuomo” takes

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

If you’re wondering how a mayor Cuomo would respond to the situation that’s unfolding in LA, this is what he had to say as governor in 2020

Best big city mayor right now and it's not even close

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

This is why as a New Yorker, we MUST elect a mayor who will fight for us and protest the most vulnerable. Rank: Zohran Mamdani Brad Lander Zellnor Myrie Adrienne Adams and Michael Blake In whatever order you choose to get a good progessive mayor in this town!! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

What is the city but the people?