Just go on Fox and say the 14 words already, jfc this is taking forever

This, I think was Mamdani's first introduction to folks who do not follow NY state politics in depth. This is the kind of messaging that reassures people about the solidity of your ideological commitments and the presence of your backbone, which buys you leeway to do things like today.

so many fucking times, man

They’re reopening because there were a lot more than 8 Dem squishes who wanted to cave. They just all got together to make the 8 yes votes senators who couldn’t be held accountable at the ballot box in 2026.

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also, is the DOJ filing criminal indictments on the recommendation of twitter randos???????

I was literally just having a conversation with my mom about this exact bullshit

“What kind of conservative are you?”

Yeah. As a direct response to 'Omelas' it's poorly constructed, which I think is a shame because it had some good ingredients. Here's a bit from her in an interview where she talks about what she was trying to do, which makes it make a bit more sense

a shitty screenshot of a map, to illustrate the point. The deep red centered just west of down town goes up to 100,000 people per square kilometer. Much of LA by land area is just not dense at all, or only dense by US standards.