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Rusty Seabutter
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jamellebouie.net
sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11h
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.

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Tunku Varadarajan: Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance? Curtis Sliwa: Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn't the mayor. It didn't work. He's a great organizer. I'll give you an example: Melinda Katz, the current District Attorney for Queens County, New York. She's the mother of my two youngest sons. She was running for DA in 2019. She had the institutional support. Moderate Jewish mother. Loyal Democrat. Queens borough president. Perfect résumé. She's running against Tiffany Caban, who wasn't even in elective office at that time. Very radical. You know, "do away with jails, don't arrest anyone." Tiffany Caban won on election night. But she lost the race on the absentee ballots, but only by about 20 votes. You know who the street organizer was for Tiffany Caban? Zohran Mamdani. So, when they talk about him as a trust fund baby, I say no, no, no, no, no. You don't like it when people call him a "nepo baby." He's earned his stripes. He had 100,000 volunteers going door-to-door, and I experienced that in some of the neighborhoods where you would never have seen anybody liberal or progressive go. Howard Beach! In conservative Howard Beach, they're going block to block. They were everywhere. 100,000. I call them Zohranistas. This was the secret to his election, not TikTok. It was good, old-fashioned retail politics. Frankly, Cuomo and not Mamdani was the nepo baby in this race. Born on third base. Felt entitled. Knew the political process, but mailed it in. He didn't have the stomach to actually go out and do retail politics. And shame on him. Do you think Mamdani will make a better mayor than Andrew Cuomo might have done? How would you describe Mamdani's politics? He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism. What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor! I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left. There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do. A last question. All through our interview you pronounced Mamdani as "Mandami," transposing the "m" and the "n" in his name. Are you aware of the mispronunciation? Many people, Cuomo included, mangle his name. In the debate, Zohran brought that to my attention, my mispronunciation. I didn't do it on purpose. There's no disrespect. I have a hard time with it. It took people about 10 years to pronounce my last name correctly: "Sleewah.'" They pronounced it Silva, Saliva, Slywah. In the streets, we would have given Zohran a nickname, like I did for all the Guardian Angels. "Z Man" would have been perfect for him. That would have been his handle. Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.
January 2, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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thomasthecat.bsky.social
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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qasimrashid.com
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”

In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
I stg if a single one of you non-New Yorkers try and tell us New Yorkers that we’re not allowed to criticize or yell at Mamdani I’m gonna lose my entire shit at you.

Part of the reason we WANT people like him in office is we can tell him when he fucks up.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d
I hate to break it to you but today is kind of the last day you get to love Mamdani unconditionally.

Tomorrow you gotta start holding him accountable.
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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tiffanycaban.bsky.social
Petty and pathetic. We will overturn these vetoes. Good riddance.
Eric Adams vetoed 19 bills on his last day in office.
December 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
wrong. living in New York City is about frantically swiping your metrocard as your train arrives, repeatedly getting an error, and in the span of a half second evaluating whether you still have the athleticism to jump a turnstile. if you don’t like that then move to fucking Boston.
danlehner.bsky.social paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2d
the amount of sad you should feel about the retirement of the NYC Metrocard should be like “mildly wistful pre-nostalgia” — more than that, IMO, is kinda silly
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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marklevinenyc.bsky.social
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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insortediaboli.bsky.social
Maybe try sucking less
December 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
rustyseabutter.bsky.social
I have a creeper for a neighbor who i think is stalking me
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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kitfoxgames.com
Everything is on sale for the Kitfox Steam Winter sale!

❄Store page: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...
Ostranauts is 20% off Dwarf Fortress is 20% off Caves of Qud is 20% off Six ages 2 is 30% off
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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profmsinha.bsky.social
Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.
December 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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vornietom.bsky.social
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
komaniecki.bsky.social Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 18d
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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dimension20.bsky.social
Coming soon -- Dimension 20: Gladlands! ☀️😃

Join Brennan Lee Mulligan and the Dusty Do-gooders (Ally Beardsley, Kimia Behpoornia, Vic Michaelis, Oscar Montoya, Zac Oyama, Jacob Wysocki) for a feel-good apocalypse adventure!

Dimension 20: Gladlands premieres Jan. 7th, 2026!
December 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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bwd.bsky.social
I have watched the Knicks get whooped by the Hornets at MSG on MLK day and the highlight of the game was the crowd booing Eric Adams
December 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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theangelremiel.bsky.social
They're so fucking bad at this.

They're SO fucking bad at this!
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Nov 30
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Nov 27
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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samthielman.com
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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rodger.bsky.social
We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app
rapsheet.bsky.social Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · Nov 25
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Using genAI alienates you from everyone else. It doesn't democratize art, it atomizes it.

No genAI user is gonna get an outpouring of sincere support from others because even they themselves don't give a fuck about what they're making.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM