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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
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This could really put New York on the map

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

Lol. I mean, I guess it's true that the Dem Party is out of touch with the people. Because the establishment tried everything it could to have a different result tonight. But that ain't what Ed meant. It's hilarious to see millions vote and the GOP claim the grassroots effort is "out of touch"

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 hours ago • 117 comments

I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

submitted 3 hours ago • 30 comments

Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

submitted 3 hours ago • 122 comments

This is what’s so weird! Crime and disorder and garbage are real issues. But we’ve come a long way since 2021 and yet Cuomo and Adams (WHO IS THE INCUMBENT FOR GOD’S SAKE) still talk about it like it’s just post Covid.

submitted 3 hours ago • 30 comments

But Bluesky is a bubble...

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Cry more, fash freaks

submitted 3 hours ago • 135 comments

I'm hardly any sort of leftist but I am 100% here for Dem primary voters wrecking the Dem establishment in our current moment. Good job, New York.

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

This is extra wild given all the polling showed the opposite and also that the only people supporting Mamdani were rich white people.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

This is wild. If Dems want to figure out a way to win back the minority vote that has started to go elsewhere, this is the way.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

WATCH: Marine vet Alejandro Barranco joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social after the violent beating and detainment of his immigrant father by masked agents. "My heart's broken. I love my country. I love my dad. I love my family, I love the community. It's hard. I do feel betrayed at times."

submitted 5 hours ago • 36 comments

lmao, this is escalating

submitted 4 hours ago • 75 comments

Can we all give #BradLander a big hand for throwing himself on the tracks in front of the Cuomo train, because it's starting to look like it worked.

submitted 4 hours ago • 32 comments

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

submitted 4 hours ago • 78 comments

Democrats are in a primarying mood, and these 128 House members should be *real* concerned right now.

submitted 4 hours ago • 27 comments

mamdani must immediately engage in preemptive strikes against chuck schumer in order to secure lasting peace and stability in the region

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

submitted 4 hours ago • 127 comments

Andrew Cuomo's biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

submitted 4 hours ago • 57 comments

Every single union that endorsed Cuomo should be extremely embarrassed The good news is now they have a chance to make things right by endorsing Zohran in the general

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

all major news sources concur that the results of the NYC primary prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bluesky has the juice

submitted 4 hours ago • 38 comments

if mamdani wins, the main lesson i am going to take from it is that charismatic and likable candidates can win elections. it’s not exactly groundbreaking, but it’s literally always been true.

submitted 4 hours ago • 45 comments

Let's gooooooo. They are not unbeatable. They're only unchallenged.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

for those of you who weren’t in New York it’s really hard to understate just how awful Cuomo’s campaign was. He didn’t go to candidate forums. He was nowhere to be seen in the city. He said he had no regrets and refused to apologize for his countless scandals. He had it coming. Good riddance bozo

submitted 4 hours ago • 85 comments

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

submitted 4 hours ago • 66 comments

gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget

submitted 4 hours ago • 55 comments

Lander deserves a ton of respect for his willingness to subordinate his desires to blow up a genuinely evil man's campaign.

submitted 4 hours ago • 43 comments

JUST IN: "Tonight was not our night," Cuomo says before adding that he has called Mamdani to congratulate him.

submitted 4 hours ago • 125 comments

Fascinating...

submitted 3 hours ago • 32 comments

If you are in line to not rank Andrew Cuomo, stay in line.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

We're in business. 4.9M nodes, 348M follows, imported into neo4j in 11.5min Listing my follows takes 775ms. Listing all my followers takes 1236ms.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 11 hours ago • 58 comments

The guy who pushed the notion that people are being controlled by microchips pushed by Bill Gates, now wants people to wear tracking devices.

submitted 11 hours ago • 70 comments

“We don’t acknowledge the existence of this so-called ‘assessment,’ also it was top secret, leaked by some loser, and we disagree with its conclusions”

submitted 11 hours ago • 68 comments

Hey everyone, just a reminder: A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature

submitted 10 hours ago • 65 comments

“Mish tired himself out and decided after nearly an hour that he wanted to go back to bed” WHOMST AMONGST US CASE CLOSE

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

If a Democrat HHS director suggested this, we'd have a Fox News-driven (NYT-supported) news cycle about the evils of gov't surveillance. But... that's unlikely with RFK doing it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments