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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 5d

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · 7d

As someone who attended public school K-8 and now has kids in them, his comments confused ME. I understand the DOE system, but I can’t imagine what people unfamiliar with CEC meetings or without kids thought of it.

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · 7d

Local NYC reporters should moderate all debates. National included.

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · 7d

This answer from Sliwa was significantly better than Cuomo’s and I am wildly surprised and at the same time not, because Sliwa was actually in NYC during its hardest years (which are definitively NOT now).

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 7d

Sliwa calls for not prosecuting sex workers but for prosecuting “the madames and johns” and the absentee landlords who own buildings that sex workers operate out of – so basically the Nordic model.

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · 7d

“Harassment and intimidation are illegal” - Andrew Cuomo

Seems sus coming from you… ya know… considering your own track record of harassing and intimidating women and others….

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 7d

We're 30 minutes into this debate and no one has asked a single question about education, transit, policing, housing, etc etc

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 7d

As a Jewish New Yorker, can I humbly ask the moderators of this debate to ask the candidates about their city policies, not their foreign policies?

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · 8d

My 2.5 year old would beg to differ.

Smucker sues Trader Joe's, saying its new PB&J sandwiches are too similar to Uncrustables

J.M. Smucker is suing Trader Joe’s, saying its new frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are too similar to Smucker’s Uncrustables in their design and packaging.

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · 25d

Agreed. He was polling abysmally and his name is still on the ballot. So it changes next to nothing. It just means his donors abandoned him and his campaign is broke.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 25d

My take: I think this isn’t a sign that he’s going to get a cushy job somewhere, I think his campaign’s flat out broke

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25d

Eric Adams is dropping out of the mayor's race, according to the New York Post. nypost.com/2025/09/28/u...

Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race amid increasing pressure: ‘I know I cannot continue my campaign’

Adams — who repeatedly vowed to stay in the race despite being in a distant fourth place in the polls — dropping out now gives Cuomo a boost against his socialist rival.

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · Sep 19

So, the New York Times totally told Bloomberg that, after the comment section got out of control, they couldn’t publish another column like Ezra’s from last week, and he decided to self-publish it instead. Right?

In Dark Times, Americans Need Leadership That Unites

Our response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination must be better.

www.bloomberg.com

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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · Sep 19

I gotta give them props, the opening to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was pretty good. 👇

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · Sep 12

In short, Alex Bores has been doing the leg work on both sides of the district, Micah Lasher less so.

Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · Sep 12

This week, I was out w/Manhattan District Leaders. The East Side DLs had either never met or only briefly interacted with Lasher, while the West Side DLs knew Bores well and liked him, even if they planned to support Lasher later. This aligns with my experience with voters on both sides of the park.

Michael Lange @michaellangenyc.bsky.social · Sep 12

NEW: An open Congressional seat at the heart of Manhattan.

Media elites, a Kennedy heir, billionaires, & many ambitious pols are in the mix to succeed Jerry Nadler.

Yet, the story of the race won't be Trump, Israel, or Socialism — but West vs. East.

www.michaellange.nyc/p/who-will-s...

Who will succeed Jerry Nadler?

The race for New York's Twelfth Congressional District begins...

www.michaellange.nyc

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · Sep 12

Not a Democrat
Not Trans
Not Gay
They are eating themselves

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 11

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

Ezra-

Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things.

What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populations—trans people, Black women, and more—who Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence.

When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours.

Marisa

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 11

Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · Sep 11

The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Sep 11

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Sep 11

In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents.

He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · Sep 9

In a shocking turn of events, all 3 escalators are up and running at the 72nd St Q Station for the first time maybe ever.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Rebecca Weintraub @rswinnyc.bsky.social · Aug 28

As a lifelong Yankee fan: Fuck Mark Teixeira.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Aug 28

Mark Teixeira, former Yankees star, is running for Congress in Texas.

Coming out swinging as full on fash. Cool cool cool.

teixeiraforcongress.com

“As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m ready to fight for the principles that make Texas strong and America exceptional. It takes teamwork to win, and I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty."

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