Stephen Lurie
luriethereal.bsky.social
Stephen Lurie
@luriethereal.bsky.social
thinking about some stuff here and there

writer / strategist

stephenlurie.com
Well it’s almost been a week since Zohran won and we’ve had one Upper East Side rabbi say that “It’s beginning to feel like the 1930s” … but I still welcome all other clergy to start apologizing to your congregants!
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
don’t say the shut down didn’t achieve anything, okay???

it allowed coup co-conspirators to each fleece the American people of half a million dollars!
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
just one idea that comes to mind for what Democrats could have done when flights were being cancelled — instead of cave — would be to remind everyone how this administration started gutting air safety from their very first month in office
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
chat is it a good sign for the party when the paper notorious for hedging uses the word “universally” in front of the word “furious”
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the court:

Benjamin Franklin could have, at most, delivered a few hundred mail-in ballots. For this reason, all mail-in ballots are now unconstitutional.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
incredible to keep this up as your pinned post after you sacrificed Americans’ health care for…[checks notes…still checking…hmmm, not finding anything here] … absolutely nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
show this to an alien and ask them which one of these senators is the leader of the opposition party
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If Chuck Schumer secretly sanctioning acompromise with fascists makes you really mad, Justice Democrats has a few words for you!

go.justicedemocrats.com/signup/jd-em...
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Zohran’s campaign manager Maya Handa on the energy behind this campaign:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1kf...
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
a very merry hope week & weekend for all who really needed this win🫡

empty-brain.ghost.io/is-this-what...
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ziwe: “Marry, f, kill: communism, socialism, capitalism”

Eric Adams: “I would marry capitalism. Israel.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
yah people are publishing picture books for future generations about a mayor-elect’s campaign stunt but I’m sure that’s not the literal future of the party
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another lens for this gathering: recognizing that people are not hypothetical median voters.

People in this room were committed to very concrete things and asked to express that commitment with conviction.

@alexshephard.bsky.social describes campaign contrast:

newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
the Zohran victory party was a vision of a Left maturing into power
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Altogether, as @waleedshahid.bsky.social writes here, it felt like people moving together again.

www.waleed-shahid.com/p/zohran-nyc...
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
An interesting piece of data for the block-by-block nerds.

On left is the Queensbridge Houses in Zohran’s core territory of Astoria/LIC. It goes slightly for Cuomo in a sea of blue.

On right is the Albany Houses in Crown Heights, which went slightly for Cuomo in primary. Now part of the blue sea.
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It wasn’t just that major news cameras were there, but that we also have the likes of @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & @democracynow.org & other allied traditional and new media loudly amplifying this movement. It’s about the layers!
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Any attendee that night encountered three kinds of people — and the presence of all of them made it historic.

(The Marshall Ganz to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social to @mauricewfp.bsky.social anecdote here was truly wild).
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
and the frothing panic is all complete and utter nonsense!!!!!!

empty-brain.ghost.io/will-jewish-...
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
it’s all just extraordinary nonsense!!!

empty-brain.ghost.io/will-jewish-...
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
turns out email good actually
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
this map and note kinda sums it up: Zohran had to rematch Cuomo in the same electorate and limit damage in a Republican electorate. The big yellow arrows here are places that elect republicans!!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is New Yorkers who are waiting to catch a glimpse of the new mayor
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM