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Gabriel Snyder
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Editorial Director, Newsweek Nexus Previously: Publisher & EIC of The Fine Print, EIC of The New Republic, Editor of The Atlantic Wire, EIC of Gawker, Reporter at Variety, Reporter at The New York Observer, etc.
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The New York Times once had one of the loudest voices in NYC local politics, especially on Democratic primaries, but ... if the 2025 mayoral race has proven anything, it's that the paper of record is now the view from Montclair.
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Conventional Wisdom: Election day morning edition
Featuring The New York Times, Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Cuomo, the "oligarchy," and sports fans.
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“I wouldn’t like for anything terrible to happen to this nice city you have going, you know what I mean?”
American history is kind of simple: The Declaration of Independence said “all men are created equal” and Americans have been arguing about it ever since.
To put things in perspective, during this crisis, nearly 3 million Venezuelans have settled in Colombia, a country with a population of about 48 million. Proportionally for the US, that would be like absorbing 21 million new residents.
Somewhere around 8 million Venezuelans have fled the Maduro regime. That’s more than the estimated number of Syrians who fled Assad, remaking much of Europe’s politics. The vast majority went to Colombia and other neighboring countries. Around 10% or ~700,000 immigrated to the US.
The Venezuelan refugee crisis is one of the least understood and least told stories in the US, despite the cataclysm being one of the biggest drivers of our current politics.

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Venezuelan refugee crisis - Wikipedia
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These measurements are stupid and clickbait at best. I still can’t believe their value is still a hill that people choose to die on. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Coney Island Globe was going to be a giant tower of sightseeing and 50,000 permanent residents. It was never built (aside from a few pilings) and turned out to be a massive stock swindle.
Semi-related, in terms of bubble manias, lately I have been thinking back to Thomas J. Campanella’s wonderful book “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City” which delves deeply into the Coney Island Globe (depicted on the cover)

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Brooklyn
An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
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This piece by @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social is so good. For instance, it explains the rash of “AGI is coming, I hear” conversion stories that folks like Ezra Klein published: they got AGI-pilled www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming
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Why is a sac fly so hard?
That’s like saying I would prefer the the pasta over that espuma stuff
Why did I think anything else would happen?
Just saw *another* Cuomo ad showing a depopulated NYC … it’s like a vision for him
The strangest part of this ad is the “scary” part is just images of the subway. The same subway that me and my kids ride every day.

The target audience of this ad is literally people scared of the subway, which is not the 3.4 million people who ride it every day.

To me, it’s not dark at all.
Jesus Christ this Cuomo ad that ran during the Army/Air Force game
Yeah, you could totally use this video and put narration like “The MTA … moving New York every day” and it would still work. People would wonder why everything is empty. But there is no reason it couldn’t be a subway promo video!
I showed this Cuomo ad to my 12yo who for the last two years rides the subway to and from school by himself every day and he said that he would be pretty freaked if the subway was totally empty — “but that never happens.”
I sympathize for the video crews who had to work at 3am to get these shots.
It’s weird to see the subway empty. But my first reaction tbh was: how old is this footage? Because those orange and yellow benches have been mostly phased out by now.
It’s sorta weird to see the subway empty. Kinda like it was weird to see empty streetscape in Devil’s Advocate. But eerie isn’t scary.

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Empty New York The Devil's Advocate
YouTube video by Alexander Samuilov
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Like most of Cuomo’s NYC mayoral campaign, I think it’s aimed at people who do not live in NYC