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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

enjoy tonight because tomorrow we get the very well financed, years-long campaign about how you're an idiot for thinking better things are possible

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h

a really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

$That in turn indicates the astounding incompetence of Cuomo’s billionaire backers. For one thing, again, Cuomo was a terrible candidate—the fact that he managed to lose to a nobody state assemblyman from a 32-point head start is proof enough of that. For another, the campaign was shockingly tin-eared. He and his allies attempted to make the entire contest about Israel, constantly grilling Mamdani about why he doesn’t respect Israel enough, why he wouldn’t visit there, and all but calling him a terrorist. On the merits, this was an absurd argument. There is no reason why the mayor of New York City should be particularly concerned with Israel or any other foreign country. And while 20 or even 10 years ago such a cynical, racist smear campaign might have worked, two years of genocide has obliterated Israel’s reputation among Democrats—a recent CNN poll found that the fraction who sympathize more with Palestinians or Israelis has shifted to the former by more than 70 percentage points since October 7th. Cuomo’s ultra-Zionism doesn’t seem to be that popular among New Yorkers—indeed, one recent poll had Mamdani only slightly behind among New York Jews. It’s as if John McCain ran in 2008 loudly complaining that Barack Obama was going to make health care more affordable.$

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matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 2h

People in the UK - and London - should pay attention to this. And, more specifically, how this isn’t going to happen. And then realise that rich people will always threaten to leave if a progressive, leftist, person is in power, but never will.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

New York Post headline:

Nearly a million New
Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor
- possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 5h

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 2h

"We" = those who supported Mamdani. Because the leading Democrats tried to mke sure he lost. Sweeping them aside is a precondition and an inevitable consequence of fighting fascism.

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 2h

And why the Democrats have been so desperate to shut down candidates espousing popular ideas.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 2h

Dick Cheney must have thought “A Muslim mayor of New York City? Over my dead body!” And he was right.

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 2h

American Zionism is part of an attempt to build a fourth reich.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2h

Jewish NYers came out in droves for Mamdani: staff, volunteers, voters. Greenblatt defends Nazis.

Jonathan Greenblatt tweet:
Jonathan Greenblatt
@JGreenblattADL
In light of Mayor-elect Mamdani's long, disturbing record on issues of deep concern to the Jewish community, we will approach the next four years with resolve.

We expect the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world to stand unequivocally against antisemitism in all its varied forms and support all of its Jewish residents just as he would all other constituents.

In the months ahead, we will hold the Mamdani Administration to this basic standard, and
@ADL
will be relentless and unyielding in our work to ensure the safety and security of all Jewish New Yorkers. We will neither compromise nor relent in our pursuit of our core purpose, to protect the Jewish people.
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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 10h

You voted for this?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

best encapsulation why everyone hates democrats despite trump being the spawn of satan

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 10h

Starmer is desperate not to upset the neonazi Musk.

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 10h

Nazis are such terrible losers.

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 10h

Twitter is a neonazi owned website.

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Barry Parmegiana @jimmylasagne.bsky.social · 10h

Please do this, Starmer clearly has an abundant amount of charisma and charm which for some mysterious, odd and strange reason has remained utterly undetected until now.

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LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot urge Starmer strongly enough to do this. It can only go well for him

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10h

A former adviser to Keir Starmer and Tony Blair has urged the Prime Minister to reinvent himself as a 'social media star', warning that his cautious communication style is leaving voters cold

Keir Starmer told to ‘be a social media star’ in bid to win back voters

www.thenational.scot

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

If the proposition is “if not for Tik Tok, people would be much more chilled about Israel openly culling a huge chunk of its subject populace of non-people, who have no rights”, then I have to say I am not certain that’s correct. Particularly when the cops are smashing people for opposing this.

Setting aside her subjective views on Israel, what is she saying here that is incorrect?
Young people do heavily get their views from social media, TikTok is a large component of that, and the TikTok algorithm appears to be controlled, at least indirectly, by the government of China.
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social • 7h
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
Patrick Wintour • @patrickwintour
X.com
Hillary Clinton on the generational shift on Israel inside the Democrats.
"We have done a miserable job teaching young people history.
"And, you know, those of us who have lived through it, I went to Israel for the first time in 1980, so a long time ago, and l've been

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 12h

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h

What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.

Hillary Clinton on the generational shift on Israel inside the Democrats.
"We have done a miserable job teaching young people history.
"And, you know, those of us who have lived through it, I went to Israel for the first time in 1980, so a long time ago, and I've been back many times. And obviously, you know, with my husband, deeply involved in all kinds of activities to support Israel and to try to be as helpful as possible. But it was astonishing to me because I had so many conversations, and frankly, they often started as confrontations with students, not just at Columbia, but elsewhere.
"Where were they getting their information?
They were getting it from social media. They were getting it most particularly from TikTok, which is governed by an algorithm until at least up till now, still largely manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 12h

nobody on the left cares because the bbc has spent 20 years lying about every left wing politician and activist in the country

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21h

I know it's got a little world of its own, but the Telegraph (and other right-wing papers) standing up for Trump against the BBC is a striking illustration of how far off the deep (state?) end they've gone.