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Quick memo to the Press and Sunday NYT: using the front page to call 1.03 million urban voters “Struggling #Yuppies” DOES NOT do anything to rebut the claim that your preferred candidates were trapped in a #psychodrama from 1983. #NYC @NewYorker@flipboard.com

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Quick memo to the Press and Sunday NYT: using the front page to call 1.03 million urban voters “Struggling #Yuppies” DOES NOT do anything to rebut the claim that your preferred candidates were trapped in a #psychodrama from 1983. #NYC @newyorker.com

The Mamdani Era Begins His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

#NYC #election : The progressives’ opponents were “trapped in a psychodrama where 1983 never ended.” www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...

How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

#NYC How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected #Mayor
> “… politics in the last nine years has been a lot of people being mean to each other on Twitter… We wanted people to get out in the world together in real spaces.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for #Students www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Opinion | Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
> it is a profound mistake to treat the 2024 presidential election as a referendum on the ideological direction of the United States or as evidence of a realignment or whatever else you happen to have as your hobbyhorse.

What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America

Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

Writers are nothing if not well versed in the art of telling their writing software why its punctuation and grammar suggestions are incorrect.

President for Life Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them “shocked” — and devastated Two incredibly valuable animals are now “functionally extinct” in Florida. That should alarm all of us.

www.vox.com/climate/4658... I hope the #voters of #FL hold their governor and legislature responsible for this.

CBS News anchor John Dickerson becomes latest figure to exit network - The Guardian

Heat, fires and smoke for south-east Queensland after storms Parts of the state's south-east are shrouded in smoke haze as dozens of fires burn across the region, which has suffered extreme heat.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

It’s no surprise that Trump would lie about Reagan adamantly opposing tariffs.

He lies about everything.

It is however surprising that the @RonaldReagan foundation would help him do it.

What a disgrace.

The tragic change a single year has made in America | Margaret Sullivan As we approach the anniversary of the 2024 election, we awake to new horrors each day. But we must not give up hope

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Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide Independent pledges to be ‘president for all’ after taking 63% of vote in upset for political establishment

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

“In the premier authoritarian regimes of the 21st century — China and the gulf states — rapid construction of massive infrastructure establishes legitimacy and consoles the populace for its thorough disenfranchisement from power.”

Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking

text.npr.org/nx-s1-5577963 #Cinema

Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.

> In 1980, [Trump] ka-blammed the old Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue in #Manhattan so that he could raise up Trump Tower. He promised to preserve the treasured limestone friezes… but then went and jackhammered them into oblivion.…
- www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Bonwit Teller - Wikipedia

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'Climate trigger' formally ruled out of environment laws A "climate trigger that could be used to block coal and gas projects has been formally excluded from the government's overhaul of Australia's environment laws, minister Murray Watt confirms.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #Climate

How Trump is Using AI to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Dystopian cyberpunk hellscape

White House Moves Toward Settlement With First Public University

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’ Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

‘Major flooding’ and high winds are possible this weekend in the Philly region "This is the real deal," a meteorologist says. The storm will be a “hybrid” cyclone infused with tropical moisture — not a classic cool-season nor’easter.

‘Major flooding’ and high winds are possible this weekend in the Philly region www.inquirer.com/weather/coas...

‘Major flooding’ and high winds are possible this weekend in the Philly region "This is the real deal," a meteorologist says. The storm will be a “hybrid” cyclone infused with tropical moisture — not a classic cool-season nor’easter.

‘Major flooding’ and high winds are possible this weekend in the Philly region www.inquirer.com/weather/coas...

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.