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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Here's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills
The little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com
A white hand with Signal-blue painted nails holds a cellphone with a near-dead battery, with the Signal icon the only app on screen. Crop art by Molly Gehrke
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“We have a leader that we believe in. Who has a spine. Who is going to make the right choices – or we’re going to make sure he makes the right choices because he has a movement behind him." Great story about how @juliopenabk.com is going to transform the party chair role in Brooklyn
cityandstateny.com
Meet the new kingmaker who could lead the Brooklyn Democratic Party
What would reform look like, if Julio Peña III takes over for Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn?
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
AND IT SUCK'S - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTON WORKIN ON THERE COMPUTER AND HAVEN THOUGHT'S,,, "THEY ALWAYS SAID VIDEO GAMES WOULD RUIN THE WORLD, BUT WHAT FINALLY DID IT WAS, MASSIVE SPECULATIVE INVESTMENTS IN SOFTWARE THAT CREATED LANGUAGE DEVOID OF MEANING, SOLD TO BUSINESS AS A WAY TO ELIMINATE LABOR, TO TECH BRO’S AS A WAY TO CREATE CODE WITHOUT SKILL, AND TO LONELY PEOPLE AS A COMPANION, ANIMAL CROSSING WOULD NEVER DO THIS, I KNOW THE BASTARD ROALD PENUIN IS NOT MY REAL FREIND " - MAKING COMPUTER'S TALK TO US IN THE VOICE OF A HUMAN WAS HUMANITYS DEEPEST MISTAKE, A TRICK ON THE MIND WORSE THAN THE DOPAMINE RUSH OF GAMBLING, MORE SOOTHING THEN A BEER, ALL FOR DA PURPOSE OF ENRICHING DA PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE DA MOST MONEY!!! AFTER THEY TOOK OUR MONEY, OUR HOUSING, OUR HEALTHCARE, AND OUR EDUCATION, THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR HUMANITY! STOMP EVERY COMPUTER IN THE STREET!!!! DESTROY ALL DATA SERVER'S!!!!! IF WE CANNOT LIBERATE THE TOOLS OF THE OPRESSOR WE MUST DESTROY THEM!!!!!!!!! WHEN THEY PUT FACES ON THE ROBOT'S THAT KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR AT MIDNIGHT TO REMOVE YOU FROM YOUR HOME WILL YOU DRAW THEM CLOSER FOR A KISS OR WILL YOU STAND UP FOR YOUR SOUL?????? DECIDE NOW WHETHER YOU LIVE UP TO DA PROMISE OF YOUR LIFE AS AN ENSOULED DIVINE CONSCIOUS BEING, OR IF YOU LIVE AS A TRAITER TO HUMANITY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I've wondered many times if it's that people who feel driven by a desire for equity & social justice are more likely to trust what 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 true even in the face of hard data to the contrary. One of the biggest fights I get from folks is "tech addiction must be real because it FEELS real".
A comic from the strip Non Sequitur that is representative of the "simple but wrong vs complex but right" cognitive bias, also known as the argument-from-incredulity fallacy or Mencken's Law. It depicts a single road leading to a two-way divergence with directional signs: the left fork that is short, straight, and goes off the side of a cliff is marked "Simple but Wrong", and the right fork that is long, winding, and steep is marked "Complex but Right" above a bookshelf filled with books.  The road is crowded with people, most turning left at "Simple but wrong", and a very few turning right at "Complex but Right", each reading a book as they walk along the mostly empty, winding way.
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/07/2026
As celebs like Kylie Jenner promote Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Lorde made it known at her concert: "Fuck the glasses." 404 Media has reported on how its been used by ICE officers, by people filming secretly at massage parlors and how some have hacked the recording light. www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 06/07/2026
Layoffs are a failure of leadership.
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Most of the job losses are in Microsoft’s Xbox and commercial sales organizations.
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🎃 🧙🏻‍♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 01/07/2026
Every year, @huertanix.bsky.social and I do a "Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting" talk at @cactuscon.com. We first roasted 2019 articles and keep getting invited back. We work on this talk all year long, discussing candidates in a shared doc, and we'd love your help.
Welcome back to our annual grill! 
source: umami live (it has zuck grilling)
I'm sitting here smoking these meats and the Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce that is going on the ribs, um
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Democrats' Project 2029 is to force through the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 tech policy agenda
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
RIP Om Malik 💔
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Om Malik 1966-2026
(Note: This is a special edition of The Torment Nexus, dedicated to my friend Om Malik, who passed away due to congestive heart failure at the age of 59.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 25/06/2026
This is a @404media.co appreciation post. What an incredible newsroom. They consistently report stories that are genuinely meaningful and wouldn't have received adequate coverage elsewhere - and they do it so incredibly well. I'm an enormous fan.
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David Huerta @huertanix.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congrats @bradlander.bsky.social 🫡
"Jeb!" meme but with electoral map of NY-10 with it and all surrounding districts, and New Jersey highlighted in yellow. Brad Lander's head is on Jeb Bush's body. Election results show Brad with 100% and everyone else with 0%
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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Rory Peck Trust @rorypecktrust.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Extremely useful risk mitigation advice from @freedom.press 👇
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
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David Huerta @huertanix.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
go birbs
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 28/01/2026
"Paywalls don’t just limit the reach of news; they create a void often filled by lies and deceit," writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social. "Whatever business model journalism settles on is sure to depend on public trust. Paywalls undermine that trust."
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Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most
Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 28/01/2026
“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business, writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social. Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @wired.com and @404media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.
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Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most
Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 28/01/2026
Thanks to @laurenleharper.bsky.social for highlighting FOIA Wiki as one of her "favorite resources" in a recent @freedom.press newsletter! freedom.press/the-classifi... FOIA.wiki is a free public resource with all the information you need to submit FOIA requests, appeal a denial, and more.
Text from an article reading: 'FOIA Wiki. This website, a collaborative effort that was spearheaded by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, is one of my favorite resources. Most entries contain a section on how to challenge exemptions or determinations, as well as case law citations.'
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 27/01/2026
Good. More sanctions please. We're tired of judges getting getting credit for saying or writing the right things in response to ICE abuses — including of journalists and their sources — but not doing anything about it.
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Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions
The chief judge, a George W. Bush appointee, said the administration had repeatedly violated or slow-walked court orders in Minnesota.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/01/2026
Join us for a screening of the Oscar-shortlisted film Cover-Up by award-winning director and FPF board member Laura Poitras, followed by a conversation with Poitras, legendary journalist Sy Hersh, and FPF board member @azmatzahra.bsky.social. 📆 Monday, Feb. 2, 6 pm 📍 @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
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Cover-Up: Screening and Discussion
He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. Dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 24/01/2026
BREAKING The Eighth Circuit REJECTED Pam Bondi's mandamus request to issue more arrests warrants in the St. Paul church protest. At the district court level, the chief judge found "no evidence" Don Lemon and his producer "engaged in criminal behavior."
"The government lumps all eight protestors together and says things that are true of
some but not all of them. Two of the five protestors were not protestors at all; instead,
they were a journalist and his producer. There is no evidence that those two engaged in
any criminal behavior or conspired to do so."
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/01/2026
If you have a 3D printer and need an outlet, this is something you can do right now. We are shipping whistles as fast as we can and we can't keep up with how many they need!
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Abigail LP @abigail-lp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Riddle me this: if Elephant Birds really went extinct in the late 1600s, why does this one look exactly like Stephen Miller? #stephenmiller is simply a big bird in a man suit. He must be hunted for sport until extinction.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 09/01/2026
Man Cereal: Stuff your mouth with balls.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As promised, audio of Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese answering my questions is in today's episode of It Could Happen Here. You can also listen to him admit he has no idea what happens when your financial data gets stolen here.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 06/01/2026
Journalists are being targeted, press access to the White House is restricted, and the president is going after news outlets he doesn't like. We're standing up for press freedom. Join the national town hall tonight — a conversation at a moment of crisis. freedom.press/townhall2026
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/12/2025
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Enjoy writing clever headlines and assigning one-of-a-kind stories? Have an eye for detail and a knack for turning rough copy into sparkling prose? We're looking for another editor to join our small but elite team covering New York City news and culture.
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Hell Gate Is Hiring Again!
We're looking for an editor to join the worker-owned media revolution.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/12/2025
In tumultuous times, we believe in being prepared, not scared. We’ve distilled the advice our trainers have shared with thousands of journalists over the years into the actionable, concrete steps in our 2026 journalist’s digital security checklist:
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The 2026 journalist’s digital security checklist
Our digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 03/12/2025
We wrote for @jacobinmag.bsky.social about our recent panel with three U.S. journalists who were aboard the Gaza aid flotillas. They described facing assaults and threats from Israeli soldiers — and said the U.S. government did little to help.
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US Journalists on Aid Flotillas Allege Israeli Soldier Abuse
A recent panel of three US journalists aboard the Gaza aid flotillas say they faced assault and threats from Israeli soldiers — and that the US government did little to help them.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/11/2025
journalists really should stop baring their entire asses like this "I have no idea how this technology actually works but my editor is mostly interested in engagement clicks so we proceeded anyway"
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Ahmed Zidan @zidan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
ICE now casually and lawlessly arrests scholars, journalists and commentators without any justification. Professor Detained En Route To Middle East Studies Conference: Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody.
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Iranian Studies Professor Taken Into Immigration Custody While Traveling To Academic Conference
Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody.
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Nightmare Mommy, Kink Sommelier (semper infidelis) @cuntleyjune.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
my advice for growing older is to never stop listening to new music
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/11/2025
FPF senior digital security trainer @huertanix.bsky.social spoke with @huffpost.com’s @monicatorrr.bsky.social about the privacy implications of uploading your personal identification onto your phone.
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Apple Has A New Digital ID And Passport Feature On iPhones — But Security Experts Have Thoughts
Security experts weigh the pros and cons of uploading your personal identification onto your phone.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.
Zohran, the Sickos Guy, and Tim Onion.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
@sulliview.bsky.social on why #ZohranMamdani will [very likely] be next mayor of New York:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Full story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
chicagotribune.com
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. 
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. 
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. 
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. 
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
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David Huerta @huertanix.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The unquestioned AI hype at #MediaFest2025 from is honestly so boring. Where is the skepticism in the face of a long lineage of other attempts at automation not panning out? No one here took an automated cab to this. Ask why problems with 90% complete solutions haven’t made the last 10%?
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 02/11/2025
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Confused/conflicted about the ballot proposals? You're not alone! Check out our voter guide for explainers and why our members voted to endorse YES on 2-6 (we didn't take a position on 1). tinyurl.com/NKDVoterGuide25
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November 2025 NKD Voter Guide
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Sarah Milstein @sarahmilstein.com · 25/10/2025
NYC friends: There. Is. So. Much. Confusion. Over. The. Ballot. Proposals. Progressive orgs in disarray! But I waded thru a raft of voting guides and am confident in voting Yes on 2-6. The two best guides: @newkingsdems.bsky.social (digestible, below) and @rpa.org (wonky but good, bit.ly/3KMI9wt)
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RPA Guide to the Charter Revision Proposals
Regional Plan Association works toward a better future for the tri-state region
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 27/10/2025
NYC-DSA is on the verge of endorsing City Council Member Alexa Avilés to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10. But city Comptroller Brad Lander is now telling people he wants to run for that seat, so there may be intense pressure on Avilés to drop out to avoid splitting the progressive vote.
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