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I feel like everyone memory-holed the fact that Michael Bloomberg—who spent over $8 million supporting Cuomo—ALSO campaigned on a free bus proposal in 2009.

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The message of this op-ed (by Enos and Levitsky) is so important. Should Harvard surrender to the illegal, authoritarian demands of this administration it will be throwing its own people, the rest of academia, and academic freedom itself under the bus.

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I don't think I've seen enough attention paid to the fact that turnout in the NY Dem mayoral primary was more than 50% above 2021, and more than twice the 2017 turnout.

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Most of the news of things getting canceled makes me angry and this is one that's also making me really, really sad

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Fabulous thread from @masonbwilliams.bsky.social on the odd yet expanding and robust coalition that made La Guardia mayor (plus his longstanding connections with labor and Socialism, and the forgotten ways foreign policy shaped --and almost cut short-- his mayoralty).

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the hardest part of transitioning from an Army brat upbringing to a civilian adulthood was losing government-run healthcare, retail stores, & grocery stores That so many military folks rail against socialism while cherishing their most-socialist-in-the-US benefits is a core irony of US life

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that’s the ballgame, folks! the Harris campaign tried to appeal to Republicans and peeled off 3% of Trump voters while losing 15% of Biden voters and converting 2% fewer nonvoters than Trump did. Democrat voters just did not show up!

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i'm not saying a lot of the people freaking out about city run grocery stores support things like giving a billion in taxpayer bucks to build a stadium to benefit some rich guy, but they don't consider it disqualifying when every mayor and governor do it

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"A failure to uplift the humanities, not just as critical underpinning for STEM research and technologies, but as essential to every feature of the research enterprise, has been part and parcel of this catastrophe." Wise words today from my friend @kawulf.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/2znzw5bd

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100% what Roth says here www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud

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This is a clear message & needs to be refined & simplified further & repeated (w/easy to understand receipts & examples) ad nauseam. It’s the truth & it’s a winning message for those of us who aren’t guaranteed the healthcare, housing, & fair pay that we earn.

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Love too reinvent antisemitism from first principles.

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Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

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All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering 北京 as "Peking" and all, are forgiven for setting up this joke.

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The veto of HB5002 a 🧵1/ a lot If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.

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In summary www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1O...

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"If a socialist can wrest power from the servants of oligarchy in the financial capital of the world — well, my friends around this country, around this world, what can you do to take the power back from them where you live?"

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Semi-relatedly, this 2013 interview by my colleague Bhakti Shringarpure with Mahmood Mamdani is wonderful and well worth your time www.warscapes.com/conversation...

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Opened up Instagram this morning and was immediately shown three Mamdani clips: delightful to see, disturbing to be so seen by the algorithm, richly deserved given how closely I was following from one state over.

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Shout out to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.

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A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

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Looking forward to the absolutely massive struggle session forthcoming all this week at the Times.

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Zohran, querido, El pueblo está contigo.

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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York

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I'm going to start using "digital asbestos" as a term of art.

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many things are American Years of Lead Paint, but nothing is more American Years of Lead Paint than the person who said they planted a bomb in Zohran Mamdani's car despite the fact that Mamdani does not own a car

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A 74-point difference in voting preference between directly abutting generations. The abutt in this scenario is Gen X, btw.

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The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

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Hey you’ll never believe this, but the thing that everyone who knew anything about this said over the last dozen years would happen if you bombed the Iranian nuclear facilities happened

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“We are the most housing-constrained state in the nation. It's not only hurting families and individuals in all kinds of ways, but it is also really hurting our economy. It is absolutely a crisis, and we have to do something about it as we move forward.” www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-06...

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wow 14 million people losing Obamacare coverage. seems like a lot.

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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

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if Cuomo loses today and goes ahead with a 3rd party run in the general "No means no" as the counter message is right there

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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...

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Amen.

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Absolute pathetic governor we have in Connecticut. His veto rested on "Towns are trying really hard, I need to give them more time" I'm sorry, the data just doesn't support anything the Governor is saying. We cannot permit our way out of a 400k home shortage without changing anything

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Connecticut's HB 5002 would have banned minimum parking requirements for some projects, allowed some commercial-to-residential conversions without public hearings, prioritized infrastructure funding to areas zones for high density near transit, and required towns to plan for future housing growth.

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It's sort of astonishing that someone can spend decades running businesses, even incompetently, and still have this child's concept of how economics works.

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Also, the French heat wave of 2003 killed 15,000 people in two weeks. It ranks as the worst meteorological catastrophe in modern French history. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Climate change cost the U.S. economy nearly $1 trillion last year, around six times more than economic models thought plausible. Maybe it’s time to update those models. From @ryanlcooper.com

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"institutions of higher learning are about to be pummeled by the looming reconciliation bill which weaponizes working-class families’ debt financing college dreams. not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out of higher ed altogether." newrepublic.com/article/1970...

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