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Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
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I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.

Institutions/people who are so centrist/anti-left that they prefer Cuomo to Mandani are communicating a lot about their values.

"The dismissal of immigration cases for the CECOT detainees is yet another example of the Trump administration working to erase any trace of them in the United States, even though hundreds had ongoing legal cases here when they were disappeared." www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

NYT Ed Board said last year that they aren’t doing local endorsements anymore, but they couldn’t help themselves from writing a gross roundabout endorsement of Cuomo.

When the nyt endorsed cuomo for a 3rd term they were basically like "sure he sucks ass but new york must be saved from the horror of Cynthia Nixon also we are optimistic that he has finally learned to be a good governor"

He’s gonna send the troops into our cities to create violence as a pretense for shooting us to control the violence.

never going to stop being pissed at the amount of time spent litigating “are the people who won’t stop talking about racism the real racists?” during the ten years leading up to an American president attempting to enact a program of domestic ethnic cleansing

The problem with the TACO line is that it's the old "The food is terrible. And such small portions!" joke but rendered as a partisan political strategy.

Targets included Democrats, abortion providers and NO KINGS rallies. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

Note the use of “REMIGRATION” in all caps This is a synonym of ethnic cleansing, in which disfavored ethnic groups (including naturalized and native born) are stripped of their rights and removed from the country against their will

andrew cuomo believes the way to get elected mayor in new york city is to terrorize jewish voters with his big scary muslim opponent (who is not at all scary). it's disgusting and offensive to muslims and jews and should cost him the race.

side note: there were 3 AK-47s in his car that he had bought legally

His latest diatribe confirms for me that his pathetic military parade was a massive fail. If it had been successful, he would have at least tried to have it lead on Monday cable news. Instead he is declaring war on blue cities. The military parade was a failure.

Let me make this crystal clear. I don't give a flying fuck about how they feel about Trump. Reporters routinely LIE in ways that benefit Trump. We need to get them to stop lying. Millions of people went to the marches, saying "thousands" or "hundreds of thousands" is a piece of shit lie.

"Brahmin Capitalism" is a great book that analyzes the role of MA in the creation of American capitalism and the tensions and struggles that resulted. Really enjoyed doing this episode! incorruptible-mass.buzzsprout.com/606004/episo...

Just learned that the Brandy "Cinderella" and "From Justin to Kelly" have the same director. Never would I have guessed that one of the GREATEST movies I have ever seen and one of the WORST movies I have ever seen would have had the same director.

Facts matter.

It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

So Trump is making ICE a pure weapon of partisan war: a free ride for MAGA corporate farms and donors while using it to create a police state in Democratic cities.

This is legitimately NUTS and absolutely is ISLAMOPHOBIC TO THE 1000th degree. It is UNACCEPTABLE and DISGUSTING.

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

This is an attack on local democracy.

Voted today in the NYC primary! It was awesome! Find your polling location and vote early, friends: vote.nyc My ballot: Mayor: 1. Mamdani 2. Lander 3. Adrienne Adams 4. Blake 5. Myrie Comptroller: 1. Brannan 2. Levine Public Advocate: Williams City Council 39: Hanif Judges: The two Janices.

John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter. www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...

I hope Sens. Klobuchar and Smith consider a motion to censure their colleague

America's police are basically a civil-paramilitary crisis that has been in full swing for decades, hundreds of thousands of armed agents of the state who aren't really accountable to the democratic elected officials

The delusions of a state in the narcotic of war. Dangerous for those who take it in, and their victims.

"Answer: three angry old men whose behaviour raises serious doubts about their judgment, common sense, motives and even their sanity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You look at protest activity vs military parade, you look at polling, you look at focus groups, you look at special elections—the US is libbing out hard, not loving Trump II You look at Twitter and it’s a bunch of viral posts that sound like radio rwanda Musk’s $44bn well spent

This rundown of the factors leading to political violence "from all stripes" is one of the worst paragraphs I have ever read.

Saudi Arabia has executed journalist Turki Al-Jasser after seven years behind bars. He was arrested for his posts on Twitter exposing the corruption within the Saudi regime. apnews.com/article/saud...

Checked in with Tim Walz spokesperson and as of three min ago, President Trump had not called him, according to the governor’s office

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

I understand why Democrats are being restrained about this but the right's effort to lie about what happened here is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and requires vociferous pushback. The shooter appears to have been an anti-abortion zealot and a Trump voter. Don't let them avoid this.

i would like some political reporter - any political reporter - to get one of the following reps on the record about mike lee and bernie moreno's comments: - brad finstad - tom emmer - michelle fischbach - pete stauber both finstad and emmer served with her. ask them what they think of these lies.

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

The last time nyc had a mayor who tried to mildly reign in police violence they doxxed his daughter so

Just four hours ago, even after we’ve learned the shooter was as an anti-abortionist Trump supporter, a sitting U.S. Senator is spreading fake conspiracy theories blaming the murder of a Democratic lawmaker on Democrats. Not only that, he’s pinned the post! Abominably evil stuff from Mike Lee.

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

Brennan is just wrong here. Lazy journalism based on assumptions, old data, and misinformation. Shows you how much damage certain high-profile pundits can do to the information environment. It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott...