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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22h
it’s worth noting that Zohran has made major policy reforms to legalize development of more market rate housing. On the other hand, New York republicans are super NIMBY and want the government to regulate new housing out of existence with excessive red tape
What's one issue in politics that you've changed your mind about?
The role of the private market in housing construction.
How so?
I clearly recognize now that there is a very important role to be played, and one that city government must facilitate through the increasing of density around mass transit hubs, the ending of the requirement to build parking lots, as well as the need to up-zone neighborhoods that have historically not contributed to affordable housing production - namely, wealthier neighborhoods.
I think all these things, in tandem with a muscular role for the public sector. But that is a changing opinion over time that I've been in office.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
all the pieces like "why a wealth tax doesnt work" miss the point. sometimes you just want to throw your drink in someone's face.
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nyc5265.bsky.social @nyc5265.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reagan and Thatcher rose to prominence once no could remember the Gilded Age. Glass-Steagal was repealed when no one could remember the Depression and look where we are now that no one can remember World War II...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So you make him and the gop kill it. Pass good stuff that people want and make it explicit that the only thing standing between us and paradise is the gop
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hey how sure are you guys about the facts here? is this your “lifelong democrat” who reluctantly voted for trump for the first time in 2024?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely proud of all the Iraqi female (and a number of male) social media influencers and activists who are speaking up against the highly regressive and misogynistic amended Personal Status Law in Iraq. They know that by speaking up they are putting so much at risk, but they are doing it anyways.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
“my ex-husband fucking sucks but hold your nose and vote for him, I guess” Rs really busting out the big guns for the Texas seat, huh
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
friendly annual October reminder for journalists: if you're pulling quotes for an article from social media please do remember to double check the speaker's name
Quote from The Hill article in 2019: "“There is no reason Democrats should be making any deals with Mitch McConnell to make it easier to confirm more radical conservatives to the courts. Especially not after Kavanaugh,” tweeted Leah Ghostberg, the co-executive director of the advocacy group Indivisible.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Democrats retake the Senate, then they need to follow the McConnell Rule: Block any GOP replacement until a Dem President wins in 2029
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?
Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the last shipment of arms (including bombs) to Israel Biden authorized was on January 5th 2025 and I still have people insisting the left didn't give him enough credit
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care… More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the permitting reform deal is extremely good and Dems should support it because 1. It will lower carbon emissions 2. It will not help Trump politically, and most of the benefits won’t be felt until 2029 3. we won’t get a better deal while Trump is President 4. We can always improve it in 2029
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible
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Moraa Unredacted @omoraa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t make legends out of them by calling them the Cornell 7. Call them what they are: the Cornell rapists.
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Down in a K Hole @flameacolyte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whenever Republicans cry about “sharia law” this is what they’re really talking about
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I noticed last year that sweetgreen pivoted to MAHA when it started advertising seed oil-free french fries. Going MAHA is what a failing restaurant chain does now to get free advertising.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right-wing influencer Clavicular has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl. He is associated with Nick Fuentes, Tate brothers, Sneako and Myron Gaines while building an audience around "looksmaxxing", misogyny and racist rhetoric. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/right-wing-u...
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Right-wing US influencer Clavicular charged with rape and drugging teenager
Right-wing streamer Clavicular has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl. He has associated with Nick Fuentes, the Tate brothers, Sneako and Myron Gaines, and appeared on Michael Knowles’ Daily ...
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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.
The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads:  "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cool to see the leadership of basically the entire social media ecosystem close ranks around a literal mass-murdering Nazi
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Need him in the Senate immediately
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trumpism, and being on the ballot with him in 2016 I had a front-row seat to what was coming. Trump had so little support at the GOP convention in March there was no one to speak on his campaign's behalf -- but then ppl lined up like yapping seals for a chance to be moral degenerates alongside him
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marine Le Pen’s sudden fiscal restraint over aid to Ukraine is absurdly dishonest. Her own future budget would add tens of billions in deficit spending. She does not care about public debt. She simply wants an excuse to cut aid to Ukraine. A pathetic pro-Russian traitor
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Down in a K Hole @flameacolyte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Down in a K Hole @flameacolyte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Newsom should never be elected to anything again
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026
this is the story of the midterms I am not sure I have ever seen a more demoralized republican electorate, and the more irregular trump voters we can get to disconnect from the political system entirely the better
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
nothing but solidarity for our Ukrainian allies pursuing a double victory: Victory against Russia at home Victory against Republicans in America
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Few things say "billionaires are so cloistered they are incapable of behaving like normal humans" quite like "I couldn't pump my own gas because I don't know my own ZIP code"
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seen a lot of dumb shit over the last decade but a streamer being turned into an international boogeyman is one of the most ridiculous developments by far
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/09/2026
Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
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Down in a K Hole @flameacolyte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is one rep from Florida. Republicans are not ghosting him as a whole.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Sen. Jon Husted says he wants the Iran war to end, "but that's not something we necessarily get to choose on our own"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m gonna say it: the NY Mag story on Troy Jackson is some stupid shit and perfect example of what frustrates me most about political media. Jackson is on a path to win and has had zero notable scandals some staffers are whining about how the candidate isn’t paying attention to them; who cares?
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Those who supported Trump don’t get to complain about gas prices
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
As Trump tries to ban CNN from the White House, it would be a massive mistake to cave on the Paramount merger. The last thing we need is another Trump-controlled media conglomerate abusing its power to stomp out competition. This is a dangerous merger. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Paramount and California AG Bonta Reportedly in ‘Advanced Talks’ to Settle Antitrust Suit
Paramount Skydance is in "advanced talks" with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the 12-state antitrust suit that's holding up its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the WSJ reported.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
among other things, this is disqualifying for his inevitable potus run. if you won’t stand up to the billionaires and you can’t tell when they’re lying (which is always), you’re no better than what we have now.
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