@mattyglesias @daveweigel I’m sure he achieved a lot for his own personal net worth at least. . .
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The media still doesn’t get it but the master dealmaker just showed us a textbook “escalate to de-escalate” tactic where first you do something that makes everyone worse off, then you threaten something insane and monstrous, and finally you call it off having achieved nothing.
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@R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan The way the zoonosis hypothesis can be substantiated is by finding the intermediate host. I haven’t seen the slightest bit of evidence on that.
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@Ayjchan There are no "misunderstandings."
Persons claiming the lab leak hypotheses has been "debunked" are ignorant, are lying, or are both ignorant and lying.
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This week, influential accounts claimed a US lab created Covid while other influential accounts said the lab leak hypothesis has long been debunked.
It would save me & others a lot of work if these two factions would resolve their misunderstandings with each other.
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@AraquelBloss @RabbiPoupko Fuck off with your anti-semitism
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@RabbiPoupko The better question is why are Zionists who use synagogues to sell stolen land so afraid of protestors?
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Does anyone know why pro Palestinian groups are so afraid of New York's synagogue buffer zone law????
Why are they spending so many resources to make sure synagogues don't have a 25 ft buffer zone of no protests???
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@nick_field90 He did govern as a leftist. He opened the borders and let 5 million migrants in. Went completely left on trans and woke etc
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The intensity behind the centrist movement to paint Biden's failure as being too progressive is a sign they know how devastating Biden's term was to their philosophy. He's so toxic he has to somehow be dumped on the other wing of the party
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ettingermentum@ettingermentum
One fact that I’ll never tire of pointing out is that Joe Biden was the first Democratic president to leave office with a net negative approval rating in 44 years.
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@ferald_gord New York City metro area includes large parts of New Jersey and Connecticut
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nyc metro area gdp is nearly 2x as big as florida's btw.
Dominic Pino@DominicJPino
Mayor Mamdani's budget for New York City, population 8.5 million, is $127 billion. Governor DeSantis's budget for the state of Florida, population 23 million, is $117 billion.
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@nick_field90 They all need therapy. Mamdani is just the Trump of the left - people need to get a real life and stop pretending that politicians are their saviours.
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"A 17-year-old said watching everything the mayor has posted on Instagram makes him feel as if he knew Mamdani personally; a 65-year-old who is currently homeless said there was a sense of relief in seeing the mayor’s face flash across television screens" nytimes.com/2026/02/18/nyr…
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@mattxiv Anyone who uses the term “Zionist” in a derogatory manner is an anti-Semite.
It’s the equivalent of calling gays “sodomites”
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@JulianR42955255 @SipOfKoKo Yeah - or they can move to Connecticut with all the other rich people and avoid the tax.
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@a__random__dude @SipOfKoKo Regardless they're rich they can take it
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No other city could do this but it’s just loser behavior to leave a city as cool as NYC because of some lil’ taxes.
Globe Eye News@GlobeEyeNews
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposes raising taxes on wealthy residents.
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@BreeNewsome Give me a break. Discrimination against black people pales in comparison to what Jewish people have faced.
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Jewish people have never faced the same level of discrimination as Black people, especially not in the United States
The ruling class is currently using Jewish identity to pretend that white Jewish people don’t benefit from white racial privilege & systemic antiBlack racism
#StopCopCity@ChuckModi1
Robert Kraft’s “anti-Semitism” commercial is stupid & to compare the Jewish & Black experience in 2026 minimizes seismic difference in Black discrimination. As a Jew, I’ve never feared for my physical safety around police EXCEPT when pulled over w/Black ppl in the same car.
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@a__random__dude @AntounNabhan @sarthakgh Doesn't even crack the top 50 for violent crime, it's all drugs & property crime. The vagrancy problem is real but it's not a dangerous place.
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“Hard core progressivism has destroyed what old school Oregon liberals built – farmers markets, parks, walkable communities, transit, and all the good kind of Portlandia-era liberal lifestyle stuff. This brand of progressivism is just so against the rule of law….”
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
This article gives a good portrait of the failure of progressive urban governance. It's not just failure to build housing. It's not just wasting money on NGOs. It's BEING PERMISSIVE TOWARD CRIME. realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…
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@SipOfKoKo Ha ha ha. No way the anti-Semitic left is ever flipping the lever for a Jew anymore.
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He’d be unifying on the Israel/Palestine issue, Jewish, but voted to hold Israel accountable by conditioning aid. Please God, give us what we need and not just what we deserve. 🙏
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Plus he’s young and hot and that matters
Michael@Socdem_Michael
Ossoff would be about 1,000,000x better as the Dem nominee than Newsom or Harris. Too bad normie Dem primary voters don’t know ball.
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@AntounNabhan @sarthakgh Second highest crime rate in the nation?
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@sarthakgh Have you visited Portland recently? They have all these things: Parks, farmers' markets, etc. All very full of people, all safe and walkable, and honestly bucolic AF.
Rumors of Portland's demise are comically exaggerated.
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@electionsjoe She’s horrible though. Another anti-Semite. I hate Trump, but looks like I will have to pull the lever for the republican. He seems normal.
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@zeteo_news @mattduss @Joyannreid @Acosta @mehdirhasan So they can’t be elected unless they lie. Ok.
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“I do not believe that… a Democratic candidate can be elected unless they acknowledge that there is a genocide that happened in Gaza.”
@Joyannreid, @Acosta & @mehdirhasan on why a Dem. presidential candidate must acknowledge the genocide in Gaza & call for the abolition of ICE.
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@mattduss @RashidaTlaib What other democratic members of congress refused to endorse Kamala? Bad take. ICE is 100% on Hamas supporters in America.
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Attacking Congress’s only Palestinian member like this is bad enough in itself, but what makes it especially gross is that @RashidaTlaib did great GOTV work for down ballot Dems in 2024.
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@ZaidJilani You really think that just because we oppose communism and Islmoleftists that we are trump supporters? Maybe they are all evil.
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The thing is, you can’t be a Trump fan and complain about someone’s tweets or rhetoric. That’s a fat gym instructor. Ain’t nobody watching you jazzercise bud. x.com/TingDum59508/s…
SumTingDum@TingDum59508
@ZaidJilani Yeah, we just have to settle for white girl robert mugabe
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The real fear of Zohran Mamdanis critics is not that he fails but that he succeeds. Americans might ask, wait the government can be competent? Why isn’t our city competent?
kasey@kaseyklimes
green=plowed within the last 60 minutes that’s impressive
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JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirms undocumented children will be included in the city’s universal daycare program.
NYC is choosing “kids first,” even when the politics get ugly.
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It's probably wrong to admit this, but the reality is that freestyle skiers have extremely limited marketplace value in the US, and Gu is probably smart to capitalize on her narrow earning window by representing China. She's extremely popular over there and has become very rich.
ABC7 News@abc7newsbayarea
San Francisco native and Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu has been named the grand marshal for the city's Lunar New Year parade. Gu was born in San Francisco and won a total of three medals during the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the youngest freestyle skiing champion. abc7news.com/18445608/
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@pitdesi Has anyone ever been surprised by a resort fee? They are annoying but I was always made aware of them before purchasing.
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It seems like people are against transparency in pricing just because they don’t like Mamdani.
I don’t like many of his policies but think transparency in pricing is very good
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you book a hotel for $200, you should pay $200. Today, we shut down hotel junk fees and surprise credit card holds. The price you see is the price you pay.
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