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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3h

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Mar 12

New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 4h

*taps sign*

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting"
the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee
intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles
come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates,
which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would
require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety
improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very
streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

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Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor

Va. Gov.
County
Margin

Shift from 2024 pres.
T Votes
Loudoun

Spanberger +29
* 12 pts.
164,366
Prince William

Spanberger +34
× 16 pts.
161,419
Portsmouth

Spanberger +47
* 8.1 pts.
29,956
Washington

Earle-Sears +49
* 4.5 pts.
20,927
Louisa

Earle-Sears +20
* 6.5 pts.
18,719
Orange

Earle-Sears +15
* 9.3 pts.
17,127
Powhatan

Earle-Sears +40
* 4.4 pts.
16,957
Pulaski

Earle-Sears +38
* 7.1 pts.
12,466
Dinwiddie

Earle-Sears +17
~ 6.3 pts.
11,974
Harrisonburg

Spanberger +41
× 15 pts.
11,753
Manassas

Spanberger +30
* 16 pts.
11,514
Carroll

Earle-Sears +57
~ 6.1 pts.
11,277
Wise

Earle-Sears +59
~ 4.6 pts.
10,962
Fairfax City

Spanberger +45
* 11 pts.
10,232
Fredericksburg

Spanberger +43
* 11 pts.
10,191
Salem

Earle-Sears +12
6.9 pts.
9,374
King William

Earle-Sears +34
* 7.1 pts.
8,999
Russell

Earle-Sears +63
* 4.9 pts.
8,860

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 6h

Guelph’s new central library under construction on Baker Street, taking over a surface parking lot.

Today, it was announced that the new library will house the archives of beloved children’s author Robert Munsch.

www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...

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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 13h

one of the outlets that was on top of the East Wing demolition story is Town & Country, which I find very endearing; a colleague pointed out that the history and mythology of the East Wing is probably a load-bearing interest for their readership

A Town & Country headline says "White House Demolishes Parts of the East Wing as Construction Begins on Trump's New Ballroom." The dek reads, "Trump previously said his new White House ballroom 'won't interfere with the current building.' Photos from the start of construction indicate otherwise."

A Town & Country headline: Trump White House Plans to Demolish the Entire East Wing by This Weekend. The dek says "The cost of Trump's new ballroom rose from an estimated $200 million to $300 million."

A Town & Country headline says "Trump Destroys the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at the White House." The dek reads, "Last week the president razed the East Wing to make way for his new ballroom"

A Town & Country headline reads, "Jackie Kennedy's Grandson Speaks Out About Trump's Demolition of the East Wing of the White House." The dek says, "'My grandmother saw America in full color – Trump sees in black and white. Where she planted flowers, he poured concrete,' Jack Schlossberg wrote on Instagram today."

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

So, even if Kamala Harris ran the centrist campaign of their dreams featuring police officers, Liz Cheney, no Palestinians, and a pledge to build the most lethal military in the world she did it Black-ly and woman-ly so actually it was a “far left” campaign.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 10h

meanwhile

Elon Musk tweet: VOTE CUOMO!

Trump Tracker reply: This is the third sexual assaulter you have endorsed. Which is not a lot, but weird it has happened three times.

Elon Musk reply: Do you have a better suggestion?

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a stupid question as asked though - Cuomo is not a nominee of his party. It should have been “did you vote for the nominee of *your party*, or not”

He is a party official and if he can’t vote for the party’s nominees he should withdraw from leadership

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 9h

Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."

Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 14h

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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Chelsea Janes @chelseajanes.bsky.social · 17h

Now that the dust has settled on that crazy World Series, it still strikes me how unlikely it was that Max Scherzer got one (last?) October run. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Max Scherzer gave the Blue Jays all he had. They helped keep him going.

The future Hall of Famer wasn’t sure he could continue pitching at his lowest points this spring. He ended up starting Game 7 of the World Series.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

This Washington Post article about MAGA people trying and failing to date in Washington is...really something

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

When Morgan Housley, 29, moved to Washington for her job in April, she had some non-negotiables for the conservative man she was looking to date: He had to “love the Lord,” genuinely enjoy going to church, and be able to “provide and protect, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all of those things.” A fit, athletic man she could go on runs with.
So far, Mr. Right has not materialized.
Instead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are …
“Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.
If she had it her way, she would be married and expecting her first kid. She says a lot of her colleagues at the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group whose website says “in order to save America — we have to save the family,” are settling down and having children. But it’s rough out there. When we reached Housley by phone, and she told a co-worker that she was discussing dating in D.C., a voice at the other end of the line could be heard saying, “Oh nooooo!” So, that’s where we are.
“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

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Ronzo @ronronzo.bsky.social · 19h

Arranging funeral services for your granddad just as dick Cheney dies.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

Pope: God loves everyone

Tradcaths: *screaming, crying, throwing up*

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

the hopes of a Based Pope are dead (to the trads)

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 1d

This is disheartening because — and this is still something I find crazy but awesome — Teen Vogue has been putting out INCREDIBLE political journalism the last several years. Like, better than publications whose claim to fame is covering politics.

Cheers to everyone who made that happen. Thank you.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 1d

Zaporizhzhia was on generators for reactor and spent fuel cooling for a bit www.nucnet.org/news/power-s...

Power Supply Restored To Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant After Month-Long Outage

Six-unit facility once again receiving external electricity to cool reactors and spent fuel

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

Police opted not to call SIU despite running somebody over twice. A public organization with barely any oversight. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wat...

Sayer also said police are actively reviewing the incident but did not notify the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) because the woman's injuries weren't serious enough to meet the threshold to alert the provincial watchdog. If she had suffered injuries that would have interfered with her health or comfort and were not "transient or trifling in nature,
" then the SIU
would have been obliged to investigate.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha, that’s funn…

(Remembers that it’s not even three years since John Tory resigned, he keeps hinting at running again, and before that we had a crack mayor)

Yeah, never mind, forget I said anything

Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 1d

You missed the bsky reaction the first time around, I guess? bsky.app/profile/mile...

Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Jun 17

respectfully, I had not seen a picture of Zohran's wife before today and I am hitting myself in the head with a hammer at this time

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Abbott's joke about putting a tariff on people makes sense if you read it in the context of hoping to be able to own people again.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve all gone mad.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 1d

.@politico interviewed Toronto Mayor @MayorOliviaChow about @ZohranKMamdani - she advised NYC’s likely next mayor to focus on affordable housing - and her relationship with @MarkJCarney - better, certainly, than Mamani’s with Trump www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Why Zohran Mamdani May Want to Look to Toronto

Canada’s most prominent mayor is a fan — and she has some advice for the potential next mayor of New York.

www.politico.com

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Jim Calabro @calabro.io · 1d

This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾

A chart of the main bsky backend load balancer request throughput compared to 7 days earlier (the previous Saturday). There's a massive spike during the world series game.

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