hunterw.bsky.social
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Kind of telling that high-IQ Brahmin Nate ended his question with a period...
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I do not admire your choice of teams but I appreciate the excitement - especially since it's hard for me to feel like anything good is happening for anyone but the Dodgers for at least the next few seasons.
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And the story goes his best friend was Latino, but then told him he had to break ties because that was hurting him.
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Yeah I know that's the CW but the money efforts were half hearted at best. She's never been great at that but it's not like she fully put her back into it.
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I know people doubt this but I tend to think Tish has really prioritized and focused on the AG job in this weird era. I don't think she avoided going for gov due to politics
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What is for sure real
and clear is Adams is a better mayor for her to deal with - especially beholden - than Jumaane would be
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I am not actively reporting this so this isnt the freshest and best insight but I know Hochul was musing about Tish for mayor a while back when it still also seemed far fetched. She's got her eye on Tish a lot.
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Yeah I think she's just preoccupied with her own re-elect and paranoia about both rivals and Adams' allies. I do think, if Cuomo thought he had a bad race in NYC, he might look elsewhere but the Tish thing is far fetched
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I dont think of it as much of an announcement at all
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She's just been non commital
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This is in other replies. I do not think she would do this. I also know, in spite of it being far fetched, it's been on the govs mind.
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I 100% agree with you on this. I doubt Tish is running for anything else.
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That's why I figure she's concerned with how this moment would impact that stuff. 🤷♂️
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What I do know is that Hochul is very consumed with her own race, Cuomo, and Tish. And, at least in the past, she has been preoccupied with more far fetched things like Tish for mayor or Cuomo for gov.
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That sounds very plausibly Cuomonian!
I am not reporting on this at all so this is just back of the envelope calculating. I tend to think others would drop out if Jumaane gets the job. That polling might ultimately be more complex than Cuomo realizes.
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I think she pulled out of the governors race for different reasons- including that her current job is a very important one
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I assume Cuomo will run for mayor! Have for a while. However ... an incumbent Jumaane would likely make others drop and turn into more of a head to head. I wonder what that polling would look like and how Cuomo would view it.
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I agree with you on both fronts. She'd like them both gone entirely. I 1000% dont see Tish running for mayor but I do think it's something the gov thinks about while expending *a lot* of mental energy on Tish.
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@aprilglick.bsky.social has highlighted the idea the key date in this regard is 2/24 hut I suspect Hochul is even more inclined not to elevate Jumaane - whenever the next election would be
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I *snorted*
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I think her main focus is on her own race - and that means Tish and - however unlikely - the prospect of a full-on Cuomo Albany comeback campaign. She'd prefer him and - however unlikely - Tish running for mayor. Jumaane puts pressure on all that in the wrong directions for her
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This calculus plus her worrying about angering the official portion of Adams' base is defining the landscape here.
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Campaign or not, Jumaane also is way less likely to be as pliant and friendly to Hochul as Adams was.
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Jumaane is not running as of now - and I doubt he would unless he basically falls into the office via Eric Adams ouster. If that did happen, he has a lot of name rec and would have incumbency. It might make others stay away and eye Hochul's seat.
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I love CSPAN! A super vital resource. Their website is incredible.
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We need press at the WH to even be asking the question of how they can do better. Otherwise we'll all be peanut gallerying state media.
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Watch events raw. Diversify news consumption. Stop making everything about cable and two papers if you find them lacking.
Lastly pressing media outlets to ask about things that matter to you is good! However, the questioning can only happen if there's a venue to ask.
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I am once again asking you all to please focus more on looking for and boosting media that you find valuable rather than endlessly discussing (and consuming) stuff you find inadequate. Get plugged in!
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I also go back here to something I often touch on. Perhaps the people angry at, say, a big newspaper's presentation, aren't as "plugged in" as they think. There are *lots* of outlets asking questions and doing coverage that doesn't get picked up by cable or the big papers.
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One is more valuable than the other but if you see my posts you see I literally mention questioning the press secretary. It is valuable, yes.
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At the end of the day, I will never stop thinking questioning the powerful matters. It's kind of the whole journalism thing. When we lose our ability to question and challenge our leaders, we're in a whole new level of trouble.
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When Trump had fomented a COVID outbreak at the WH, his own rallies, and arguably the whole country, he left Walter Reed to me asking if he was a "superspreader." He ignored me but it was a question I felt I had to ask, his inability to grapple with it was telling, and it played all over.
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Sometimes I think even unanswered questions are important. At the height
of child separation I went inside ICE HQ and had this question for Mike Pence. It was a question I felt had to be asked. www.instagram.com/p/Bk5llWqnaD...
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If you are so cooked by social media, cable grandstanding, and Aaron Sorkin that you don't understand the value of simply questioning the president when it's not a monologue I don't
know what to tell you.
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In the first term, I asked press secretaries about whether his behavior was "authoritarian." I also asked if they considered themselves anti-fascist when they attacked the term. I remember wishing other reporters would press on signs of authoritarianism but also hoping it would be useful for history