The problem here is Zohran Mamdani won in no small part because he is kind and normal. Hasan Piker is mean and weird, so in this metaphor he’s an herbicide for kind and normal democratic socialists.
Greatest elected democrat in America.
He did not, and that was bad.
He has since done very good things, like quashing distracting leftwing primary challenges to governor Hochul and leader Jeffries, and governing responsibly by recognizing fiscal limits while expanding worthwhile programs like bike lanes and trash containerization.
This is a very good statement from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social.
He manages to work in affordability, which, fine, but the part of this that is going to drive energy is the fighting part.
This isn’t just saying “we fight for you.” This is actual fighting, actions not just words.
Okay that’s fine? Don’t reply to randos then? Only one mad here is you man.
Yes the criticism should be good and fair and not bad and dramatic. Most of us think he is doing a good job.
He could do that and I hope he does, since a limited exception to pattern bargaining is a much better alternative to city council implementing a wage increase they don’t have the authority to give
In Mamdani’s (and OLR’s) defense there is a pretty strong argument it is preempted by the Taylor law, and more broadly, it’s bad for individual titles to go to city council for a de facto salary boost if they feel collective bargaining has failed them (it has here, fwiw).
The only rational way to evaluate congressional map fairness is to consider it in the national context, since that’s how power is exercised. Republicans in Virginia will still largely have their views represented in the house because of Republican gerrymandering elsewhere.
I support proportional representation on a national level, and if the only way to get something resembling proportional representation in the short term is to gerrymander republicans out of some states, then it’s good and right to do it.
Two complete whiffs by Matt Glassman in a row.
Mamdani has been a pretty good Democrat partisan and doesn’t get nearly enough credit for it On Here, but I too am very pleased with Hochul and Mamdani working together after decades of destabilizing city-state conflict. He’s a team player!
She should host a podcast with Ilan Wurman. It would be the worst thing in the world
Isgur’s legal “analysis” is so transparently carrying water for the conservative majority, just complete fluff, that I don’t know how one doesn’t just feel insulted after reading her work or listening to her. “Did you know Trump has lost some cases? Wow! What even is a shadow docket? Buckets!”
When I interned at a DA’s office I heard a story of a defense attorney who, while his client was getting wrecked on the stand (DUI offense I think), turned around in his seat to face the prosecutors behind him and in a very thick but cheery Coney Island Russian accent said “oh!! I’m fucked!!”
It feels like you were looking for replies from a very particular type of mentally ill leftist
c’mon man. it is okay to criticize our party from time to time and he did so in a very mild manner; it is not a very different answer from what we’ve seen every other dem who’s been asked it this year. He refrained from naming anyone in particular, even when explicitly invited to dunk on Schumer
Mamdani smacked down primary challengers to the incumbent, moderate Dem governor and to the House Minority leader. These are not the actions of a wrecker.
As a Biden dem I think this is an unfair & needlessly angry attack on a mayor who has basically been a loyal partisan for what was, in context, a tactful dodge to a question designed to create intra democratic drama. “We know what we’re against. What are we for?” is an extremely banal critique
Horrible. Should never have opened this app today. I am upset
spoken like someone who doesn't have a six-step skincare routine
A very bad decision to make me endure the psychic damage of agreeing with Rehnquist and White
Every day, my anti-Chadha coalition gets just a little bit stronger …
The cultural sickness I get sad about isn't convenience it's... completism I suppose, the constant urge to revisit, the idea that gaps in a story exist to be filled in, or that albums are better with 2 CDs of outtakes, or that you know a thing most truthfully when you have all its production context
On a more serious note, the outcry from "prominent" legal academics about the disbarment of Eastman stems from the fact that they all engage in similar practices. Maybe not to the same degree, but definitely of the same type.
What basic historical knowledge are you accusing him of lacking
As a transplant, you should have the humility to defer to native NYers, even on complex policy matters. NY is just that unique. I moved here twelve years ago, got married here, but I always include a disclaimer on every memo I write at my municipal job *NOT NY LEGAL ADVICE: WRITTEN BY A TRANSPLANT*
Need a law passed by the next Congress that holds the agency administrator and department secretary personally liable if agencies are found to have blocked funding with malice (as the fact record here clearly indicates).
$50g a week. And liens can be placed against their primary residence.
She says in the article that "The Council is determined to fix the outdoor dining program and restore it year-round as part of our mission to create a more vibrant New York," so I guess she did end up on the right side of this eventually. I guess to fix a program you have to break it first. sigh
“Where have they gone?” The City Council killed them. Everyone familiar with the situation knows this. Another choice to run a headline that hides an easily-discovered fact & borders on disinformation