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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This is probably THE most American aspect of my life. How mundane it is to see a gun lol. Live trailcam from #OurWawar show a dude on my property carrying a big gun. I yawn & think, oh, just a neighbor taking the shortcut to go hunting. Our Tony even smiles at the camera! 😁

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

NYC is probably the quietest on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This always reminds me of the most Indian uncle thing I ever experienced. At a party, someone said we just returned from Mexico. Uncle: What was your favorite? Me: Teotihuacan Uncle (who's never left India): Actually it's pronounced Tenochtitlan. -- 😂😂 What to even say?

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Last day in Oaxaca, hotel clerk said you folks like nature. Have you seen the world's widest tree? Me: World's widest? Wider than widest Sequoia and redwoods? Yes! I was so amazed I had never heard of this tree! It is so cool! Vibe is also very low key local attraction type.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

For the 19th Thanksgiving weekend in a row, my "traditional" Black Friday Kacchhi Dabeli. 😋😋 Oh it really hits the spot. I think this is literally the only day of the year I buy pomegranate. It started as a way to use up leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving dinner. Now our tradition.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Folks who grew up with Internet can't imagine debates we had to figure out lyrics. "Lug Frankincense and rid it my way?" "Laugh Ranking Cesar did it my way?" Found a cassette jacket with lyrics, "Like Frankie said I did it my way" Who is Frankie, we had to figure out. Valli? Oh Sinatra! Etc.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This was a masterclass by Zohran in how to charm someone without praising them. When I heard him say Hillside Avenue, I smiled. And I saw Trump beam! That pin is Trump's childhood home. That grey stretch is Hillside Avenue. Trump felt flattered by just him dropping that name!

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Prof I'm a new student!" Me: From Australia? "Yes! Brisbane!" Me: I've been to Cairns! "I'm from Cairns! Most ppl don't know it so I say Brisbane! Are you Indian?" Me: Yes "My fave cricketer is Shower Murr!" Me: Shower Murr? "Row Hit" Me: Oh Row Hit Shower Murr!

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I live in NYC. I do not think today's presser means Trump won't suddenly send troops into NYC tomorrow. But it is objective fact that this is his city. Where his children & grandchildren will eventually live. I'm all for using whatever means necessary to stop or postpone ICE swarming my streets.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I'm too young to have seen Miller Lindwall Larwood Truman Statham Snow. Cummins Starc Bumrah are definitely better than Brett Lee. And on par with Dennis Lilee.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Our Jiignesh with 2 i's has some sage advice for President Trump about Mamdani. 😂😂😂

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

There's a fox news video of the Trump Mamdani presser where the camera pans occasionally to Bessent looking very peeved and Susie Wiles also wondering what the hell is going on. 😂😂 Bessent just sitting there alone in a chair in the distance was so weird! Why was he even there?

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

#trivia An oil baron in Pennsylvania asked chemist Bob Cheesebrough if he could prevent buildup of a sticky pale jelly slowing the drilling. Bob heard from workers how great the jelly was as an ointment. So he patented & sold it instead. What brand name did he give that product?

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Living in NYC means people you know expect you to know of some secret affordable hotel at about $150 a night that you can point them to. No such place exists. So I have a draft email that I just slightly edit and send out. Whenever I get these requests every other week.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I'm already quite impressed and intimated by students who submit their essay assignments a week before they're due. And then there are students who will also send you a draft 10 days before for feedback & suggestions. Which is already perfect. They impress & intimidate most!

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

As a primary voter, I'm willing to hear out Jack Schlossberg but this is such a blah generic AI-ish announcement! Doesn't address a single current #NY12 issue. We have the best hospitals, but Beth Israel closed leaving a huge vacuum. Cool you rode a school bus but nothing about 34th st busway? /1

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

NYT: are any of them trans or not

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

he's basically delusional, Trump's whole life is him saying a lie and insisting its true and no one having the balls to tell him he's lying so Trump honestly believes he can reshape reality by just saying things.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The most bizarre thing about this all is that Trump was president when Epstein died in jail and Trump as president was the one who kicked this hornet's nest on Twitter. And kept kicking it through the Biden years. So I thought there really was nothing on him in the files. He's so stupid!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 12/11/2025

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025

When there’s documented evidence of both you committing sexual assault and creeping on young girls, it’s hard to have your administration claim you didn’t also commit sexual assault against young girls

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#trivia Cleaning up after visiting family left, I came across this shopping bag from an iconic NYC store we took them to. Which store? Clue - the bag represents the BIG attraction in the store. Figuratively and literally.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If @jackschlossberg.bsky.social is serious about #NY12, he shouldn't run a social media only campaign like Suraj Patel did in our district, but go out in person and press the flesh too like Zohran. Or how Nadler used to do. Ours is a high expectations district. Social Media isn't enough.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My district #NY12 tends to have interesting primaries in recent cycles. Now we have Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy grandson. And also, most likely, Andrew Cuomo, Kennedy son-in-law. I don't expect either of them to get far in the primaries. This is one district that won't be swayed by "pedigree".

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

"How is your basmati rice SO GOOD in terms of texture & grain separation? What's your secret?" I'm often asked when I host dinners. I don't believe in kitchen secrets. I show em. Aged rice. Youngest basmati I use, bought in 2021. Most sparingly used, my precious, 2013.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I hear Cuomo wants to run to be my next Congressman. It's my fault really. Just because I voted for him in 2 governor elections, he assumes that I will always want him. Even after I've said NO twice, he's like "but you were into me in '14 & '18, honey". Maybe it is my fault for leading him on. 😭

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

When pin oaks and Northern red oaks shed, you notice!

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shankargopalak.bsky.social @shankargopalak.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Recently the chief minister of Uttarakhand declared that the "paper leak scandal in the state has been promoted by urban naxals seeking to encourage a jihadi mentality." Now, those are words, and put together they make a sentence! But that sentence... MAKES NO SENSE

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The GOP civil war over Nick Fuentes is like watching an episode of Hell's kitchen. A bunch of bad people who are not good at much else just yelling and fighting.

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Rupal K @rupalk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I first heard of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social briefly and in passing when he won the assembly seat but I really started to pay attention when he said he's going to run for NYC Mayor and his main policy position was free buses @gauravsabnis.bsky.social gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-l...

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My Long Personal Essay on Zohran Mamdani

I sit outside my Manhattan building on this pleasant November Saturday day watching employees of my hedge fund landlord Blackstone gather a...

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My Long Personal Essay on Zohran Mamdani. Part 1 of 2. gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2025/11/my-l...

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Vantage point: My Long Personal Essay on Zohran Mamdani

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

What the fuck is a Jihadi Communist exactly? Leonid Brezhnev would like to meet a few thousand of them. There exist people who believe in both "there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet" and "religion is the opiate of the masses"? 🤔

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I'm writing a long personal essay on Zohran Mamdani. Very long. Very rambling. These are a few snippets. Will post the link when finished.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My favorite moment of this campaign.

Zohran and Lander campaigning together, standing in front of each other's signs

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I would very much like @aoc.bsky.social & @bradlander.bsky.social to be my two senators after the terms of Schumer & Gillibrand end.

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Mary Alice@owlslife4real.bsky.social @owlslife4real.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Those are legitimate investments in people over profits!

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Twist @supercoiled.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The thing that many people don't get about free buses is that free buses are FASTER and keep traffic flowing at a good clip to the advantage of everyone. I'm pretty sure that all regular bus riders get this.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The new Communist government will seize control of the steel making industry, force you to pay more for everything you need, use masked secret police to kidnap and brutalize "undesirables" and protestors, and drape buildings with giant banners of their Communist Party leader's face... Hey wait a sec

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"Do you have NYPost from Nov 5?" Guy ahead of me at my bodega asked. Clerk said no, sold out that day. Guy left. Clerk said this is 10th such customer today, wonder why. Showed him eBay listings & he understood why. So the copy I bought that morning is my best $2 investment ever!😂

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

To the "NYC is doomed now" folks, My neighbor Mary worked in WTC. She walked down dozens of floors & lived. "Hon, they say every 5-8 years, the city is finished. 9/11 was supposed to finish us. Then 08 crash. Then Sandy. Then de Blasio. Then Trump. Then COVID. Now Zohran. Yawn"

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Roshan Revankar @roshanrevankar.com · 05/11/2025

I was in India last week and happened to catch NDTV, the host started a segment with "noted Hindu hater and communist Zohran" ... so bizarre

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If you think free buses that cost 0.6% of the city budget, rent freeze on city subsidized homes after a corrupt Adams hike, free childcare for employed people, and 5 city run grocery stores in grocery deserts is communism, you're in for a real surprise when you encounter actual communism.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

People least bothered by Zohran's victory - New Yorkers who voted for Cuomo or Sliwa People moderately bothered by Zohran's victory - MAGA People most bothered by Zohran's victory - random privileged UC or UC-adjacent uncles in India, especially from tech or finance

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Woke up early to be 1st in our booth to vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at 6 AM. But 2 Boomers were ahead of us. Entering the site. However I'm happy to report that we finished filling out the ballot fast. And were the first 2 votes recorded in Stuy Town. 😁

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When Trump won again, they said "Cope!" My way of coping was, minutes before Trump was re-inaugurated, sending money to a long shot candidate I thought could, should, and would be my next Mayor. Tonight, that long shot @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the favorite to be my Mayor. Make it so!

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Weirdest thing this NYC mayor race has been seeing Hindutva accounts join in on misspelling or mangling Mamdani's surname in solidarity with Cuomo, Trump, Musk. Worshippers of Adani, Ambani think making a Gujarati -ani surname sound dangerous is a smart move! 🤷🏽

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I can't believe that a mere 24 years after 9/11, NYC is about elect a Muslim man mayor 🥰. It's a testament to the solid character of the city and its people. And the biggest repudiation in history of anyone who uses being victims of terrorism as a justification for prejudice.

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Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The way this dead tree is at 45° due to extremely strong dead native wildgrape vines holding it up is so cool! #OurWawar It's fun owning wild land that you leave wild. Fun fact. Nordic name Vinland for America is believed to come from how they saw it's trees covered in vines.

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