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Guess that the producers really wanted to minimize the risk of anyone saying anything remotely off script with the minimal award speech time

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

This is the key takeaway: Haley Stevens got everything she could have asked for. AIPAC spent the most it ever has. The party pulled out all the stops. Millions were even spent to spread the false idea that the most popular president in modern US history endorsed her. And it still wasn’t enough.

Low margin != low profit. Grocery stores can earn competitive returns on capital despite "thin" margins. The policy objective isn't to insulate incumbents from competition anyway. They can respond by improving operations or by changing their product mix.

my lawsuit featured in the chronicle of higher education www.chronicle.com/article/a-pr...

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

Change in Abstract

I still get Fetterman vibes from Platner.

Powell has been running these bad-faith attacks since Mamdani won the primary. It's embarrassing to run yet another piece that can't justify its own existence

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

these last minute article edits are a great example of how The New York Times is not neutral

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Budgets are moral documents. What Democrats do now--how they actually demand public money be spent--is the only thing people should be listening to. Do not pay attention to lofty public statements from people who pay for this to continue.

The Atlantic definitely did a lot of rallying

Governor Hochul vetoed the healthcare privacy bill (S929). This means that information about people's private medical procedures can still be sold to the highest bidder. If people support "Medical Aid in Dying" then they should support people having a dignified life, too.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Cherry-picked, specially collected, or hand-crafted data can always be made to look good. The NYT does report data ofc, just not data that allows readers to evaluate performance against a stated goal.

Centrist to moderator: "A 'fray-end'? Is that how you say it?"

This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.

NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.

THREAD. One of the most damning flaws in the worldviews of essentially every pundit on MSNBC, columnist in the New York Times, peddler of "Abundance," and consultant for Democrats is that they downplay or ignore the repressive power of the punishment bureaucracy and associated industries.

This is only page 3 and I'm so invested in learning more from this author. Luddite as an insult certainly gets thrown around a lot these days, and I'm happy to have their concise clarification on what side of history that movement was on at the very start of the book.

some of us saw this entire arc coming immediately btw. just sayin

THREAD. One important chapter in my Copaganda book describes how a small group of pro-police professors corrupted the field of criminology. Somehow, I've been invited to speak at the 2025 American Society of Criminology annual conference this week. Should be interesting...

its especially humiliating for the Cave Caucus that he's not even trying to pretend that he might do this.

I wonder if one reason that they didn't cave earlier was that doing so would've pushed more people to vote against establishments Dems. 1) it would've made the progressive margins larger and 2) it'd be harder to claim that the establishment is popular, even with establishment electoral wins

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

The weirdest thing about these articles is that they all understand that voters want likable politicians with a compelling vision who deliver meaningful benefits. That's not really the case for centrism though! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

the take home is that mamdani and his team did not ask permission. they aimed for power, they organized, and they won power it does not matter how the democratic party reacts to this win. all that matters is that we raise up the people with vision, courage, and energy, and organize them into office

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

I'm assuming that the margin of error on that poll is greater than 9%. Plenty of people will move to NYC if he becomes mayor.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape. Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

I think that the article is flawed overall and for the same reason. The title, presentation, and data discussion seems designed to discourage, when the data (imo) should be seen as clearly encouraging for Zohran's team. There are also some interesting choices for quotes that they used.

SCOOP: Brad Lander is telling allies he's planning to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...