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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

just in: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is on track to win easily.

With roughly a quarter of the vote reporting, he leads Pat Dugan 81% to 19%.

Krasner already beat Dugan in the Dem primary... and Dugan kept running as the GOP nominee. (My write-up: boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...)

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 1d

City of Sickos

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · 1d

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

California voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50 in a race called by the Associated Press before a single ballot was counted—a reflection of decisive support in a victory that significantly boosts Democratic chances of retaking the House of Representatives next year.

Dems win major victory against Trumpism as Prop. 50 passes in California

The Golden State ballot measure cancels out Republicans' Texas gerrymander.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 1d

OMG @bradlander.bsky.social, another NYer I continue to greatly appreciate.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 1d

Same same same

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

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

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I totally intend to eventually be normal & productive about it, but I lived a long time in NYC in what felt like the never-ending Giuliani-Bloomberg shituation. And hey, I liked BDB a lot that first year, but the basic underlying themes of the Mamdani campaign are what I’ve been waiting for.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 1d

YES! And ya know let me say, I’m so happy for Mamdani’s win for all the correct and respectable reasons but also will now be engaging in 120 minutes of pure gloating.

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

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)

he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone

Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.

www.teenvogue.com

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 1d

Sei nicht komisch.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 2d

Everything on your list also had, directly or indirectly, big constituencies in the legislature and intellectual & organizing leadership from people who were not Cuomo. He used this to leverage his IDC scheme and general inclination to shill for $$ interests.

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 2d

Even this list of wins is heavily cherrypicked and lacks context. Cuomo *needed* to maintain a narrative of support and delivering around Dem priorities and he was decent at seeing the (obvious) ways the winds were blowing, like the sustained national waves of CJ reform, gay rights, environmenalism.

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 8d

It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law.

This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️

#PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

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Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“TASSEL”): Findings from an intrastate legal mapping study

Stigma is a fundamental cause of disease that reflects and intensifies health inequalities. Laws are powerful mediators for stigma; to correct them, i…

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Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social · 8d

While you're at it could you please for the love of god stop rubber stamping approval of Trump judicial nominees? Absolutely baffling that you and a handful of other Dem senators keep doing this.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 8d

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Ms Rachel via Instagram:

I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool.
Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are.
It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day.
They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 9d

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

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Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11d

When Jacobin and the Pod Save bros are aligned on defending nazi tattoos, we’ve got a problem and it’s not going to be solved by you coming into my mentions and telling me I’m not seeing what I’m definitely seeing—

which is white people left, right, and center coming together to defend Nazi tattoos

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 13d

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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