Timmy Facciola

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NEW: I wrote about Zohran Mamdani, St. Patrick's Day, nativism, the Irish, Catholicism, the IRA, and a united Ireland:

Timothy McCool Facciola with a fun deep dive on Mamdani's St. Patrick's Day

Better analysis than a certain Irish Times columnist

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Zohran Mamdani on whether he supports a united Ireland: "I gotta be honest, I haven't thought enough on that question."

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Mayoral advisor @Ali_Najmi knows what 26+6 equals

Zohran Mamdani with more to say on a united Ireland:

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@MisterMucc Sorry not trying to be obtuse, but I’m struggling to imagine what an alternative, non-premise-granting answer would have sounded like and how it would have shut down that line of inquiry. What do you think would have been a better answer?

@TimmyFacciola_ The premise that it is a legitimate basis for criticism. That the posts of an author Mamdani‘s wife did work for have any bearing on him or his mayoralty

I’m sorry but the idea the mayor egged on or enabled *Jon Levine* by responding to his reporting last week is beyond stupid. There’s no world in which he doesn’t run a Rama n-word story if he has the receipts, regardless of whether mayor has responded to his past reporting.

@MisterMucc Which premise did he accept?

@TimmyFacciola_ First of all, I have no doubt that Levine would have continued, regardless of a response from Mamdani. If you‘re asked something by the press corps, by all means answer it, but the answer does not have to accept the premise. And fundamentally, the people decide on its legitimacy.

This is so detached from reality. One of press corp’s most professional reporters, ABC’s NJ Burkett asked about Levine’s story last week. Mayor gave a straightforward response and that was the end of that. I can assure you that Levine was going to continue publishing regardless of whether NJ asked about last week’s story. I also don’t think you want to live in a world in which politicians get to decide which lines of inquiry are legitimate—I know I don’t. And the fastest way to get reporters to ask questions you don’t want to answer is to signal you don’t want to answer them.

@TimmyFacciola_ If you respond sincerely to insincere criticism, you acknowledge that the premise of their criticism had any basis in the first place, you give them credibility, and you give up the power to dismiss or simply ignore criticism of that nature in the future.

Fun one out in the JSJ this morning…

@MisterMucc What does that even mean?

@TimmyFacciola_ No, but legitimizing it gives it reach.

Tisch also pushes back on criticism of Mayor Zohran Mamdani taking out of the budget the former mayor's proposed addition of 5,000 cops to the NYPD headcount. "The narrative that we cut 5,000 cops is frankly absurd because they never existed," Tisch says.

.@NYPDPC again throws cold water on idea that nypd officers were leaving bc of poor work environment. She says there was a surge in hiring 20 years ago, which led to an expected surge in retirements “if you care about hiring, you can hire”

What category is the “England Get Out of Ireland” banner in the parade every year