anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!

My God, they've reinvented the Deadly Joke. And somehow possibly developed immunity to it. We're all doomed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...

This. Greenblatt and the travesty he's made of the ADL shouldn't be allowed to claim they're the one true arbiter of "Jewish concerns."

They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.

Yes. I just wanted to clarify, since people will read terms of art as if they were natural language, and be confused, and this is important.

I can already see the posts yelling, "They're denaturalizing Zohran, it's a civil case so he can't have a lawyer!" And then you have to explain 10,000 times.

Of course it's a barrier to access, but there's still a huge difference between "you're going to need to find a public interest org who want to litigate this" and "we don't care if Danielle Sassoon is willing to represent you pro bono, you're not allowed to have a lawyer."

Ah, thanks. I'm reading that to mean that unlike in criminal cases, you're not entitled to have a lawyer appointed for you if you can't afford one, but NOT to mean that you can't have a lawyer at all.

Is that great? No. But it's a far cry from not being allowed counsel, period.

Where are you getting that? Just on the face of it, these appear to be normal civil or criminal cases, where a defendant would normally be entitled to counsel.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

This is likely a waste of both our time, but I'm genuinely curious: Do you really think somebody who's weaker on policy is a better choice for president because they have a few less dollars? You're pushing Gavin Newsom, not some poor person.

So what? Sometimes you can use a good class traitor, and he's never suggested the party's gone too far supporting trans people.

The Great Khan of the Steppes is right there. We don't have to nominate fucking Newsom. We can go for Pritzker instead, and have someone who doesn't try to throw any of our people under buses.

And Bove, who Trump nominated to the Third Circuit, is arguably even worse. I think he was scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing today. Under any normal conditions the nomination would have been pulled. But these days, who knows? Shamefully, there still might be 51 party-linevotes for him.

And it comes on top of Bove's firing Danielle Sassoon, and attempt to fire Hagan Scotten (who resigned first) over their refusal to follow orders to disregard professional ethical standards in the Eric Adams case. It's a pattern: the Senate has evidence-based reason to assume he'll lie under oath.

This whole thread. Please. A grateful nation will thank you. DON'T RANK CUOMO.

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

Andrew Cuomo joins high-powered legal team to defend Netanyahu against ICC’s war crime claims Andrew Cuomo has joined the legal team defending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish State after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of war crimes in…

I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo.

He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims.

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I'm trying "Brad Lander is a Jewish Zionist, and he knows both Mamdani and Cuomo better than most of us do, and he's ranking Mamdani #2 and not ranking Cuomo. I think we can probably trust his judgment on this one."

It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.

Why I will never give another penny to the @nytimes.com , number approximately three hundred thousand.

I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Another moment where I wish a vid or podcast had been an article. I recently tried to watch Exodus, which I'd heard was hugely influential when it came out. It's a shockingly awful movie, for itself and not just its politics, and I bet this is really interesting - if you can do video/audio.

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic."

Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]

18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

In all seriousness: do we think he understands what Social Security even is?

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Bondi DOJ has a problem.

On left:

DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas

On right:

DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

This doesn’t even include one of his most egregious decisions:

Teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian point nuclear reactor, which was replaced with fossil fuels, driving up electricity bills

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every single paragraph more disqualifying than the last.

He'd better be. We need alternatives to goddamned Newsom and Emanuel and Shapiro and god-help-us Cuomo and Slotkin and the rest of them.