AaronOOF

AaronOOF

@aaronoof.bsky.social

Film/TV/theater obsessed writer, cultural omnivore, politics junkie, former festival producer. San Franciscan by birth: Giants/Niners/Dubs for life! An NYC dad in Brooklyn w/ too many interests, too little time. Context=Everything=Context. outoffocus.org

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Dear @advocate.nyc.gov: How can you talk about diluting the number of voters when out of 5-million-plus registered voters, roughly 20% at best tend to elect our mayor every four years. Voters don’t show and don’t pay attention. It’s up to candidates to break through.

Ok so the lesson is that we can’t pay attention to any elected city officials including City Councilmembers #JoannAriola and #FrankMorano. They all are too concerned with allowing party machines to stay in power. Morano’s argument against top 2 is simply false, especially as he …

… uses California as an example. Gov Schwarzenegger would like a word with you. (For better or worse.) Again, City Councilmember #FrankMorano just wants Republicans to have a guaranteed spot in a general rather than forcing them to win citywide with ideas. Party machines all the way.

I just heard @bradlander.bsky.social testify to the nyc charter commission against open primaries, and as someone who ranked him first, ranked Mamdani, & did not rank Cuomo, I’ve never heard him give such an incorrect analysis. He completely misses the point & I’m quite disappointed.

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Do you think that a general election in 2021 of Adams vs would have automatically led to an Adams administration. You are being incredibly myopic, short-sighted, and losing all context about politics in NYC, which is not exactly the same as the “American context.” @bradlander.bsky.social

I just heard @bradlander.bsky.social testify to the nyc charter commission against open primaries, and as someone who ranked him first, ranked Mamdani, & did not rank Cuomo, I’ve never heard him give such an incorrect analysis. He completely misses the point & I’m quite disappointed.

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And you ask what’s the point of having political parties? They can broadcast a message louder, but essentially you’re saying that the most money should have the most ballot access? Because otherwise, why should an NYC Republican candidate have the same general election access by getting 10% …

the number of votes of what the democratic candidate requires. When the Democratic Party is such a huge majority such as in this city, having closed primaries like this is counterproductive, and frankly, it led to Adams as mayor.

I just heard @bradlander.bsky.social testify to the nyc charter commission against open primaries, and as someone who ranked him first, ranked Mamdani, & did not rank Cuomo, I’ve never heard him give such an incorrect analysis. He completely misses the point & I’m quite disappointed.

You are wrong Mr Comptroller. The parties in NYC that lead to non-Democratic candidates having a chance in the general … screw the parties in an environment where the 70ish% of registered voters belong to one party. Why not have the two top votegetters? Like they do in CA?

I dont know how I hadnt heard about this until now, but … Whoever imagined Bill & Ted Meet Beckett deserves a MacArthur Fellowship and possibly having a new category of Nobel prize created.

Of course White House doesn’t comment on massive protests. How can they when everything is going so well? Market crashes are great! Besides, the IiC was doing the 2025 version of playing violin: “Mr. Trump, who was playing golf in Florida on Saturday,…” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

nytimes.comAnti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the CountryDemonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.

What about 4) All of the above

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters Friday evening. So… (1) Trump is lying & he signed it? (2) Trump is senile & doesn’t remember signing it? (3) Trump had Marco Rubio use the autopen to sign it? www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...

It shouldn’t be a struggle: This is what happens when somebody who doesn’t know anything thinks that he knows more than everybody, can’t be wrong, and never has faced consequences. “Investors are struggling to understand the administration’s messaging on tariffs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

nytimes.comStocks Pare Losses After Trump’s Moves and Comments Rattled InvestorsInvestors were shaken by President Trump’s latest tariff threat, dragging the S&P 500 down further after its worst day of the year.

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John August@johnaugust.bsky.social

We launched Highland Pro this morning! Three years of work. I’m incredibly proud of the app and the team that made it. quoteunquoteapps.com/highland-pro/

Break free from Final Draft. Highland Pro is the most affordable and user friendly screenwriting software. This latest iteration is the best yet too! #TeamHighland

“Who are you going to believe? Me right now? Or me two nights ago when I spoke to Congress watched by more people than have ever watched a single program ever. More than watched the Moon Landing, at that was a Lot, I tell you.”

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

Gee I wonder why it was necessary for the President to tell his [checks notes] Senate-confirmed cabinet heads that they, not Elon Musk, are in charge of the federal departments that they were selected to run

I can’t quite recall a bigger gulf between a penultimate ep standing as one of the most riveting hours of TV of the past year and the resulting finale being pure fill-in-exposition & future set-up mid than PARADISE eps 7 & 8. Compelling season with a near total miss on the landing for me. #Bummer

I feel really bad (mostly) for whoever got fired from their job at #Hulu tonight after not ensuring that the #Oscars live stream would not have a hard cutoff, instead allowing the stream of an event that notoriously runs long to cut out just before the Best Actress award! Still ABC says "Try Hulu"!

I’m sure WaPo will publish every single submitted column about the freedom to cancel subscriptions and see where the free market takes this sadly declining legacy institution. #SadDayForNewspapers

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

Let's organize a flood of op-eds arguing for personal reproductive liberty, so we can demonstrate the charade Bezos is engaged in ASAP.

I remember thinking, “Thank goodness, Bezos is saving an important institution like the Washington Post,” and then appreciating his (what seemed like a) hands-off-editorial attitude until a couple years ago. But now, another step towards darkness. #DemocracyDying

Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

Also … duh: “‘DZ (David Zaslav) loves what we’re doing, loves the movie, and has really rallied the entire company behind Superman for this summer,’ Safran explained.” I’m sure DZ more than even Gunn & Safran is depending on SUPERMAN being the biggest entertainment event of the year.

Brilliant of Fox to push Super Bowl streaming to Tubi, exposing it to potential viewers & using a classic lead-out strategy by launching its first original series THE Z-SUITE, starring a known/liked actor, Lauren Graham. If only the show was good, not the worst of all possible Gen X v. Z situations.

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