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The issue remains that Obamacare WAS the Republican plan. The whole Obama idea was that if you crossed the aisle and used their plan, they'd be on your side. It turns out that the entire Obama Doctrine was flat wrong. But since they can't use their own plan, there just isn't another one
Look, just rebrand Medicare for All as TrumpCare and call it a day
House GOP erupts over health care as leaders hunt for a plan
Speaker Mike Johnson presented a list of concepts that did not include extending expiring Obamacare subsidies.
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The issue remains that Obamacare WAS the Republican plan. The whole Obama idea was that if you crossed the aisle and used their plan, they'd be on your side. It turns out that the entire Obama Doctrine was flat wrong. But since they can't use their own plan, there just isn't another one
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Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
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Nicole Kidman is simply looking for Keith Suburban or maybe even a Keith Rural, as can happen as people age.
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Nicole Kidman is simply looking for Keith Suburban or maybe even a Keith Rural, as can happen as people age.
chat is that good?
Toxic barrels off LA coast too dangerous to clean up, scientists say.
While investigating whether the barrels contained DDT, a pesticide that makes seafood unsafe to eat, scientists found they’re leaking something else entirely.
While investigating whether the barrels contained DDT, a pesticide that makes seafood unsafe to eat, scientists found they’re leaking something else entirely.
Toxic barrels off LA coast too dangerous to clean up, scientists say
While investigating whether the barrels contained DDT, a pesticide that makes seafood unsafe to eat, scientists found they're leaking something else entirely.
lapublicpress.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
chat is that good?
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On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
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to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
This episode made me feel insane for several reasons but most notably am I the only person who remembers the beef tallow/McDonalds fries episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast from like 2017???
This episode is 13% debunking and 87% dramatic readings of banger tweets from the worst people in the world
Seed Oils
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 08/26/2025 · 1h 19m
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August 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This episode made me feel insane for several reasons but most notably am I the only person who remembers the beef tallow/McDonalds fries episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast from like 2017???
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I can't believe he basically got people to Pokemon Go To The Polls.
The crowd at Stop One of the Mamdani scavenger hunt!
August 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I can't believe he basically got people to Pokemon Go To The Polls.
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we all can and should demand more and better than a class of politicians who helped steer the united states into its current horrifying state. the trump phenomenon did not emerge from a vacuum. kamala and mayor pete were part of the failed admin that delivered us from trump back to trump!
August 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
we all can and should demand more and better than a class of politicians who helped steer the united states into its current horrifying state. the trump phenomenon did not emerge from a vacuum. kamala and mayor pete were part of the failed admin that delivered us from trump back to trump!
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I’m so glad I’m writing a book so I can answer these and more questions
I waste a lot of time browsing Zillow and don't understand the American preference for larger generic home (3k - 10k sq feet) instead of smaller home with beautiful architecture (1.5 - 3k sq feet)
July 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’m so glad I’m writing a book so I can answer these and more questions
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It’s almost like the particularly brutal nature of capitalism here has forced people to choose between poverty and brutality.
I wonder if there’s another way to set things up, one where you don’t have to brutalize people to have a place to live?
I wonder if there’s another way to set things up, one where you don’t have to brutalize people to have a place to live?
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
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July 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s almost like the particularly brutal nature of capitalism here has forced people to choose between poverty and brutality.
I wonder if there’s another way to set things up, one where you don’t have to brutalize people to have a place to live?
I wonder if there’s another way to set things up, one where you don’t have to brutalize people to have a place to live?
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I was given an ultimatum.
July 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I was given an ultimatum.
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There’s straight up no one as genuinely well liked as this guy in American politics despite, or really, because of, his “radical” approach — and everyone else in American politics is demanding you see him as Dangerous, and maybe you can see how the first part explains the second
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
There’s straight up no one as genuinely well liked as this guy in American politics despite, or really, because of, his “radical” approach — and everyone else in American politics is demanding you see him as Dangerous, and maybe you can see how the first part explains the second
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The pro-Mamdani anti-Mamdani split is another one of those that’s not really left vs center but rather more like on the level of having principles or not
the New York Times leadership literally thinks they're the most important thing in the world. they hated Biden because he preferred talking to a security guard than to them. they hate Mamdani because he's not performing the obligatory genuflections + he beat their preferred groper.
July 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The pro-Mamdani anti-Mamdani split is another one of those that’s not really left vs center but rather more like on the level of having principles or not
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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Lander and Mamdani can be the inaugural Senators from the new state of Four Boroughs
Voters who supported Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso in their most recent general elections = 440,734
NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305
Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is
NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305
Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is
July 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Lander and Mamdani can be the inaugural Senators from the new state of Four Boroughs
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This is very much worth saying! New York City has a lot of Palestinians!
June 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is very much worth saying! New York City has a lot of Palestinians!
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Thinking how significant it is to his understanding of politics that Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin.
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thinking how significant it is to his understanding of politics that Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin.
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YOU [parasocially engaged]: Wow! Zohran Mamdani shares my passion for All Elite Wrestling!
ME [politically engaged]: Wow! Zohran Mamdani shares my fixation on that time Hakeem Jeffries gave a pro-Israel rally George Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech with "Israel" swapped in for "segregation"!
ME [politically engaged]: Wow! Zohran Mamdani shares my fixation on that time Hakeem Jeffries gave a pro-Israel rally George Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech with "Israel" swapped in for "segregation"!
June 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
YOU [parasocially engaged]: Wow! Zohran Mamdani shares my passion for All Elite Wrestling!
ME [politically engaged]: Wow! Zohran Mamdani shares my fixation on that time Hakeem Jeffries gave a pro-Israel rally George Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech with "Israel" swapped in for "segregation"!
ME [politically engaged]: Wow! Zohran Mamdani shares my fixation on that time Hakeem Jeffries gave a pro-Israel rally George Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech with "Israel" swapped in for "segregation"!
@bradlander.bsky.social primary challenge when?
Kirsten Gillibrand on WNYC won’t endorse Mamdani. Said she doesn’t endorse NYC mayoral races (she endorsed Adams in 2021), and is waiting to see who runs on what line. What a fucking disgrace.
June 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@bradlander.bsky.social primary challenge when?