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jon ben-menachem
@jbenmenachem.com
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criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
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We decided that society has progressed past the need for turkey. Large W.
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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These people really are not fond of international law huh
Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik•16h Will community safety include Jews going to synagogue? Alex Vitale @avitale 19h I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC. X A NEW ERA for NEW YORK CITY 76 1772 582 thl 42K Alex Vitale @avitale • 16h Absolutely. My family is Jewish and all New Yorkers should be able to gather in freedom. 195 ıll 5.6K Peter Savodnik ® @petersavodnik •16h Wonderful! Will you support deploying the police to ensure Jews can enter a shul — even if, God forbid, they're discussing making aliyah inside?
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Not going to spend all day on this but there’s some gems in the QTs
Lee Fang @Intang •14h Huge step backwards for Mamdani. This guy wants to defund and abolish policing. You can find him wherever prep school lefties congregate, zero working class New Yorkers adhere to these ideas. Jerry Ratcliffe @Jerry_Ratcliffe X.com "The End of Policing" ignored much of the literature on policing, the work of various extensive committees, including the National Academies of Sciences, and came across as a naive sociologists fantasy. The transition team's policy proposals are going to be... interesting.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesF... • 12h Zohran appoints New York's most prominent police abolitionist to his transition team. I look forward to hearing his moderate defenders explain this one. Alex Vitale @avitale • 18h I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC. X A NEW ERA for NEW YORK CITY {7 29 117 ilıl 9.8K Richard Hanania < @RichardHanania Hey @mattyglesias this seems concerning
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Yeah if you google Zohran hate crimes 800 percent you will see many media mentions. Unclear again what the substantive proposal means

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During an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Mr. Mamdani rejected claims that his comments were antisemitic, emphasizing that his platform includes increasing funding for hate-crime prevention by 800 percent. “Antisemitism is not simply something that we should talk about,” he said. “It’s something that we have to tackle.”
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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anyway last post about X for now, I wouldn’t assume that the location info is necessarily accurate. lots of “MAGA account gets owned” content is a bit too prominent today lol
Muhammad Smiry @MuhammadSmiry X.com Twitter is showing wrong locations for Palestinians, my account showed indonesia because my brother is there and has access to my account. Motasem is being attacked by Israelis just because his twitter location says Poland! Motasem A Dalloul Ø @AbujomaaGaza• 13h For those who claim that I am posting from Poland..
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Small face charlie kirk was a very popular meme about ten years ago
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Between this and literal Nazis growing their followings, I just can’t understand why so many lefties are still voluntarily using the platform. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but…
Fuentes: “But Nick, the jews aren't smarter than we are, they're just more clever!” That's just cope, they're very smart. We need to be smarter
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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bye bye
muting lizza
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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RW radio guy Sid Rosenberg: "That was a tough press conference to watch... Stefanik was right... When this guy mentions genocide... I don't care what happens in 9 or 10 months. Today, optics matter, and Mamdani walks out like a champ."

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Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 Part 2
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Meanwhile, NYP absolutely floundering over here, spinning their wheels
Freaky Friday An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows President Donald Trump shaking hands with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office breaking Mamdani, Trump’s expected slugfest turns into a lovefest as president says socialist will make NYC ‘greater than ever before’ “I think he wants to make it greater than ever before,” Trump told reporters. “And if he can, we’ll be out there cheering. I’ll be cheering for him.” Trump jokes it’s OK for Mamdani to call him a ‘fascist’: ‘You can just say yes’
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Mamdani accuses US of funding genocide by Israel during warm meeting with Trump Mamdani accuses Israel of 'genocide' with US funding during White House meeting with Trump Trump, a former New York resident, has labeled Mamdani, 34, as a "radical left lunatic," a communist, and a "Jew hater."
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"haha I hope you guys are having fun in there :) hit up my line next time you get together!"
JD Vance @JDVance POTUS has a lot of good moments but this is an all-timer Quote George @BehizyTweets · 2h Trump is so funny 😭😭😭 The reporter asked Mamdani if he still stands by his comment saying Trump is a fascist, and before Mamdani could answer, Trump said, "That's okay, you can just say yes... It's easier than explaining it."
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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world-historical subhed
Wow, President Trump Fucking LOVES This Mamdani Guy Asdfjasdfjlsakdfsdhfsodfh;asdfasdf Hell Gate 4:45 PM EDT on November 21, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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sad wojak wearing a smiley face mask
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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yeah here it comes
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, reacted to the meeting with frustration. He said that Mamdani sounded a lot like Adams in agreeing to work with the president. Levy added: “Mayor Adams never stood by President Trump’s side in the Oval Office like this.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Insisting on lower utilities is such low hanging political fruit. Can we please break up these ISP monopolies like pleeeeease
Annie McDonough @Annie_McDonough "We have to get Con Edison to start lowering their rates," Trump says. Mamdani agrees. "Absolutely."
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Keep seeing this trend where, the second people leave NYT/WaPo, their takes immediately get better
Astead @AsteadWH Think before media leans too far into the DSA infighting angle we should acknowledge that we have this level of insight to the mayor elects political priorities bc of their bottom up structure and commitment to elected accountability. And this type of transparency and lower d democratic modeling may be just as much of Mamdani’s legacy as the substance. So much of natl Democrats breakdown in 2024 was abt a closed process of insiders. Even more than ideology. And one way to combat the current trust deficit is open that up
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Harsher sentences don't improve deterrence and they won't bring victims back to life.
Mr. Gonzalez on Wednesday said that Ms. Yarimi’s sentence showed “that reckless driving will be vigorously prosecuted.” But outside the courthouse, the Saada family’s civil lawyer, Herschel Kulefsky, complained that the family had not been allowed to speak in court. “ They are quite disappointed, or outraged would probably be a better word,” he said, calling the sentence “the bare minimum.” “I think this doesn’t send any message at all, other than a lenient message,” Mr. Kulefsky added.
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I mean yikes
The shift from the random sampling paradigm to the random sampling-plus-weighting paradigm is so pervasive that it is unremarkable to many pollsters, even as they acknowledge the many decisions that must be made when weighting data . Weighting is not costless, however, as it requires pollsters to assume that nonresponse is ignorable, meaning that the decision to respond is independent of the content of response once we have controlled for the weighting variables. This assumption implies that the people who choose to reply are representative samples given the covariates used in the weighting. A violation of this assumption means that nonresponse is non-ignorable, meaning that even after weighting, poll respondents differ from nonrespondents. The assumption that the response mechanism is ignorable is also referred to as a mechanism that produces data that is ‘missing at random.’ note that virtually every approach to dealing with missing data makes this strong assumption. This list includes mutltilevel regression with poststratification (so called MrP models) and nearest-neighbor imputation . Nonignorable nonresponse is concerning in many contexts. Virtually every postmortem of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections raised the possibility that weighting failed to properly adjust for the possibility that voters favoring Trump were less likely to respond, especially in the Midwest; see, e.g., , . Surveys of voting typically overestimate turnout, likely in part due to non-ignorable nonresponse . provide evidence that the type of people who get vaccinated are more likely to respond to some polls (especially ones based on nonrandom samples) even after controlling for demographics. In marketing, evidence suggests that people’s willingness to provide product feedback depends on their experience with the product . Low response rates have created another problem that has been harder to ignore: rising costs. It is now very expensive to field probability-based polls because pollsters need to wade through dozens of nonrespondents before they reach a single respondent, leading some to doubt the viability of the approach . An increasing number of pollsters therefore have moved to nonprobability samples that are created by finding people willing to answer polls via ads, outreach to mailing lists and other, often opaque and sometimes novel, methods . Pollsters use weighting-type adjustments to produce samples that are representative with regard to demographic benchmarks. While true random sampling produces estimates with clear measures of quality, the field has struggled to operationalize quality in the post–random sampling world. Some pollsters anachronistically use the language of random sampling to imply that their polls have the properties of a random sample, a process I call ‘pollwashing.’ One way to do this is to report margins of error even though the theoretical basis of a margin of error is undone by nonresponse (and especially massive nonresponse, to say nothing of a nonrandom sample) .
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Criminal Justice How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator for More Than 20 Years For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Hanukkah is crazy
Bill Bratton & @CommissBratton X.com Good news — Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah came early for New Yorkers with Jessie Tisch staying on as NYPD Commissioner. She is the public safety gift that keeps on giving.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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2010 is super easy lol
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November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
caribou - swim
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Appreciate your thoughts & engagement with my piece! I think you actually do voice agreement with my argument that NYC anti police organizing is not at its strongest (which is why Zohran could rule the left lane in the election without talking much about the NYPD)
Far better for New Yorkers and for Mamdani's mayoralty to impose Mamdani's will or j Police Plaza. If there is to be an NYPD now that the abolitionists are marginalized. Mamdani has to challenge it to protect New Yorkers from ICE. All of Tisch's experience makes it ridiculous to expect her to do that. I keep hearing how Mamdani has significant support from a rising.generation of Desi NYPD officers. He should pick the seniormost among them to run 1 Police Plaza, make the NYPD a problem for ICE, and keep public pressure on the NYPD if it resists protecting people from ICE. An NYPD that won't protect people from ICE is an NYPD that will discredit itself-and in the process raise profound questions about why it needs a $10 billion budget and a citywide surveillance network. In The Nation, Jonathan Ben-Menachem called me out for my rejection of Tisch. He agrees on the merits. But in his view, the issue is that the left has not built sufficient power to bolster Mamdani for a successful challenge to Le NYPD. I would only respond that pre-surrendering to the NYPD because the left convinces itself it has "no significant counterweight to the immense forces urging Mamdani to stick with Tisch" is perverse and circular reasoning. The left dethroned Andrew Cuomo with a candidate no one had heard of a year ago and powered him to an outright majority in a three-man race while the local oligarchy spent unprecedented amounts of money to call him an antisemitic jihadist. Pivoting to a posture of impotence frankly condemns New Yorkers to an unaccountable NYPD and to ICE. Why would they trust Mamdani, or the socialist movement, with more power?
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM