@AlexandraJacobs It really was amazing, wasn't it? I'm not sure I took a breath while reading it.
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Shaifali Puri
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Shaifali Puri
@ShaifaliP
Public servant, nonprofit leader, board member, New Yorker. In life cahoots with @aasif and our kiddo. Tweets are on behalf of me and RT are not endorsements.
New York, NY Katılım Mayıs 2008
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An amazing piece of the old school that would be well worth paying for, but why not get the freebie?
Jesse Barron@_jessebarron
Three more days to read this online at @GrantaMag before it slinks back into its paywall cave—
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@AsadFromNYC @WillBredderman Correction: Menin did denounce the rhetoric. But she knew who he was when she went on.
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@AsadFromNYC @WillBredderman And Jessica Tisch was happy to have lunch with him & Julie Menin was happy to go on his radio show. It reveals how comfortable they are with certain kinds of vile bigotry. Not a peep from either in response.
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I avoid predictions, but the only way I see Trump relaxing his embrace of Zohran Mamdani is if the mayor's political star considerably dims or a bigger star eclipses him—or if he says something that actually hurts the president's feelings.
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This vile bigot dines with @NYPDPC Jessica Tisch and his show was where @JulieMenin decided to discuss the City budget. The virulent Islamophobia tolerated by some of our top government officials is appalling and it reveals how acceptable particular kinds of bigotry are to them.
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@Ali_Najmi @the_vello He's sporting the entire Desi Uncle playbook: the suit, the facial hair, the oiled hair. He's ready to bhangra at the party!
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.@the_vello sporting the choice double breasted suit for this important moment.
Josie Stratman@JosieStratman
Mamdani spokesperson Joe Calvello says the mayor pitched Trump on a plan to 12k housing units to NYC. Calvello did not provide any details. “The president was very enthusiastic about this idea,” he said, adding it would be the “biggest fed investment” for housing in decades
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We know who this parent is - Allyson Friedman, a professor at Hunter College. Have you reached out to seek consequences for her since she deals with students in her professional life?
Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels@DOEChancellor
Last week, in my former district, a brave student spoke up at a community meeting to share their perspective and experience. While this student was speaking, a parent in the community interrupted them by making abhorrent and hateful comments.
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@RKing618 @rohanpaul_ai This terrific Sam Kriss article explains so much of the inanity: harpers.org/archive/2026/0…
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This guy should use his mind more. The most expensive cost on any TV or movie is above the line: actors and other talent. The cost of production days is massively lower. And actors aren’t paid hourly. So does he really believe a production will save the time on an actor improving their craft with successive takes, in order to save on shooting hours. That is insanity.
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"Every writer in Hollywood is already using AI to help them write dialogue"
Instead of shooting 10–20 takes for dailies, they shoot ~3 takes and have AI generate the other ~17, with results that look indistinguishable.
Ben Horowitz, co-founder a16z
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@glukianoff @brianstelter Alas, here. Now. In spite of the First Amendment. Btw, loved hearing from you in that wild UATX piece....
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No. Not here. Not ever.
This is why we have the first amendment.
The cops can’t just check in on you to tell you not to post something that you have every right as an American to post.
FIRE@TheFIREorg
This video is making the rounds — and it’s one every American should see. Law enforcement showing up on Americans’ doorsteps for lawful political speech — speech that doesn’t even remotely rise to the level of incitement — is absolutely intolerable in a free society.
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This is a fantastic development.
Annie McDonough@Annie_McDonough
NEW: Mayor Zohran Mamdani will sign an EO today to create a new Office of Mass Engagement to be led by Tascha Van Auken, the mastermind of campaign's field strategy Idea is to bring campaign's movement building expertise to city gov & give a voice to those typically left out it
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This is fantastic.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
EXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices. We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. The scary part? It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @ConsumerReports and @Groundwork found it could cost families $1200/year.
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I know firsthand the cost of a fractured progressive field. And I will not let it happen again.
The choice for us has always been clear: consolidate and win, or fracture and lose. I choose winning for all of us. I love you and I am grateful and I will continue to fight for you.
Emily Ngo@emilyngo
NEW: @yuhline, who came in second to Goldman in 2022, won’t be running in NY-10. Steps aside so “we on the left can consolidate behind a unified progressive candidacy.” Comes after we reported @bradlander will launch soon.
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@shadihamid Definitely the most famous in America, not sure if in the world (yet)
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It's kind of amusing how Mamdani became the most famous Muslim in the world basically overnight.
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Zohran proved New Yorkers are ready to turn the page on machine politics.
#NY13 voters made that clear & it's why we're proud to endorse @DarializaforNY for Congress.
The Congress we deserve invests in babies not bombs, immigrants over ICE & renters not real estate developers.
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@MattZeitlin And rich people are desperate to be seen as smart so like to collect intellectuals. These two realities form the entire basis for the success of the TED conferences.
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rich people, politicians, and celebrities often discover that intellectuals are very cheap dates and willing to debase themselves for relatively small amounts of money, power, or glamour, the three things hard to obtain in intellectual life
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In the annals of ecological vandalism, India's Great Nicobar project must count as one of the worst.
theindiaforum.in/environment/gr…
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@benschott Hahaha. Feels like ChatGPT was somehow involved in this rebrand.
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Hurrah! The rebranding of "modesty" is here …
Sahil Bloom@SahilBloom
Major cheat code for life: Quiet progress. No announcement. No hype. No applause. Learn to work without validation. Build when nobody’s watching. Write when nobody’s reading. Train when nobody’s cheering. It doesn’t take talent, just courage. Quiet progress creates loud results.
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He also leaned into Jewish tradition, saying that “when David was fighting Goliath, if McKinsey had shown up with a feasibility study, it would’ve never happened [at all]” and that “hope is the plausibility of the possible over the necessity of the probable” (I took notes lol).
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Before last night’s campaign party, I sat with Marshall Ganz, the social movement scholar who devised Obama’s 2008 campaign strategy. I asked him: Is this an Obama 2008 moment?
He said, “It’s different, instead of maximizing support [like ZM], Obama kept minimizing opposition.”
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@Shwinnabego Complete and utter perfection. It will go down in the history books.
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My agency (forge.coop) did the design for Zohran’s campaign.
While I wish I played a part, it was all the masterful work of my partners, Aneesh and Phil.
Having worked with these 2 for close to a decade, it’s no surprise they created what many consider (the most?) iconic political branding.
I’ve seen Aneesh go deep into the archives of typography and color theory, and Phil spend hours custom-building animations to bring a UI to life.
HYPED to see their work getting the credit it deserves.
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