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political enterprise editor @usatoday Brooklyn townie. Come for the coverage of democracy, stay for the tweets about pizza

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What Zohran Mamdani's favorite rappers shows about his politics usatoday.com/story/news/poli…

Nas, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G. Politics and the rap choices of NYC Mayor Mamdani

Mamdani chooses uber-capitalists Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z among his five favorite rappers. Is it a pivot to center?

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Jonathan Martin
@jmart2h
#closingmessage PORT HURON, Michigan, Oct 25 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and ‌saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, had not awarded him a Peace Prize.
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Ukraine's war with Russia? 🤨
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
@PollTracker2024Oct 22
AP: Kansas Senator Roger Marshall says the Ukraine war, not the Iran war, has caused high diesel prices Roger Marshall said Wednesday that Ukraine’s war with Russia — and not the U.S. war with Iran — was to blame for high diesel prices that have imperiled his party’s control of Congress in the midterm elections. The answer, delivered during a debate with Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton. apnews.com/article/senate-ka…

Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall says the Ukraine war, not the Iran war, has caused high diesel prices

Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall says Ukraine’s war with Russia — and not the U.S. war with Iran — has caused high diesel prices.

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On his main feed Bo French has been mostly careful to do tweets about the Texas oil and gas industry. Presumably a lot of folks have been asking him to keep it tight. But in the replies, he’s back to doing interracial cuck fear again
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Nicole
@nicolegelinasOct 21
Adjacent and implicit to the "training" argument is people doing serious cycling training/exercise don't want to stop or yield for pedestrians, as it interrupts their training.
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We met up with cycling advocate and lawyer Steve Vaccaro in Central Park to hear about why he's helping with a legal battle to block NYC's proposed 15 mph speed limit along the Central Park Drives.
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Blinder & Watson (2016) found that there is superior economic performance under Democratic Party presidents thanks to fewer wars and energy shocks, which they seem to characterize as dumb luck or something but IMO reflects a genuine pattern. slowboring.com/p/republican-…

Republican war-mongering is their worst economic policy

A repeated pattern of failure

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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538Oct 21
Trump approval starting to look like a dead ringer for Bush's second term.
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not really clear why the public should obligated to provide a velodrome
Streetsblog New York City
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We met up with cycling advocate and lawyer Steve Vaccaro in Central Park to hear about why he's helping with a legal battle to block NYC's proposed 15 mph speed limit along the Central Park Drives.
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Someone needs to start an airline that won't wake you up to foist their crappy food on you.
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CNN: New York US House polling (Among Jewish voters) 🟦2018: D+40 🟦2022: D+49 🟦2026: D+13 (36 pt swing to the GOP)
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Matt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Scott Ritter's views fell 43% Rick Sanchez's views fell 39% Max Blumenthal's views fell 37% Ben Swann's views fell a 18%
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Matt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Tucker Carlson's views dropped 71% Douglas Macgregor's views dropped 62% TCN views dropped 34%
Matt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Scott Ritter's views fell 43% Rick Sanchez's views fell 39% Max Blumenthal's views fell 37% Ben Swann's views fell a 18%
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Neil Stone
@DrNeilStoneOct 12
Mentions of the word "Fauci" on X have fallen off a cliff since the data centres in Russia were hit Makes you wonder...
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tyson brody@tysonbrodyOct 8
BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!
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Holly Pretsky@hollypretOct 8
Two federal agents are going door to door near the crime scene “trying to get evidence.” Darializa Avila Chevalier and state Sen. Gustavo Rivera are following them to tell people they don’t have to answer or speak with the agents.
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Spectrum News NY1
@NY1Oct 9
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the ICE agents who authorities say shot a man in Marble Hill Thursday afternoon were wearing construction vests and masks, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at least one of them was carrying a long gun.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.
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Aaron Blake
@AaronBlakeOct 7
Mike Rogers on Trump's tariffs in Nov. 2025 vs. his new ad
Mike Rogers
@MikeRogersForMIOct 7
Prices are too high and Canada is not our enemy. We need to end the tariff war — now. In the Senate, I’ll bring both parties together to lower costs and put Michigan families first.
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Alert: Longtime Republican consultant Rick Wilson (but now an independent) says the Republicans are pulling campaign funding out of Ohio, giving up on the state. • The Ohio Comment: Wilson explicitly stated, "I'm told they're going to leave Ohio." • The Reason: He noted that national leadership is "not happy about Ohio" and viewing the state as an expensive media market and a "heavy lift," they are playing a "game of triage" to reallocate those campaign dollars to cheaper, more winnable races like Alaska.
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Seems an overread of Hochul's unique weaknesses as a Western NY pol running a state where votes reside primarily in the NYC metro, and of the unusual polarization in the suburbs and slices of the outer boroughs against Mamdani. Look at Trump's numbers in the same poll cited here
Chaz Nuttycombe
@ChazNuttycombeOct 7
Pretty evident that NY state is becoming increasingly competitive, mainly due to party polarization on Israel in a state with a rapidly growing pro-Israel population. Unless lib flight into NYC under Mamdani helps offset, we could be looking at a competitive NY by 2032.
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Real wage growth was negative for the fifth month in a row in August.
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Anna Bower
@AnnaBowerOct 6
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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