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niraliberalism

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near illiberalism. I used to be a lawyer. I still am one, but I also used to be one. better things are in fact possible. The most effective liberals have been those forced to compromise with leftists, not those left to compromise with conservatives.

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 29d

It’s worth noting that the most organized and effective resistance to Trump, so far, has come from the lawyers.

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 2h

NYC has never been so politically divided as it is today, with the first mayor to crack 1 million votes in 60 years

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 2h

Zohran won more votes than any mayor since John Lindsay beat Abe Beane and William F Buckley in 1965.

No easy feat when you look at the trend in total votes cast since then.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 2h

There is still a massive gender gap that I find very concerning.

I may have to tap the chart.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 2h

I have to trash an entire print run because of the Ciattarelli beats Sherrill headline

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 2h

Zohran won a higher percentage of the vote than Bloomberg in 2001, about the same as Bloomberg in 2009 and Giuliani in 1993, and did it in a three-way race.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 2h

Zohran won a higher percentage of the vote than Koch did when he beat Mario Cuomo.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

Schumer is plainly just a massive bigot. he will not support a Muslim for elected office

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15h

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 5h

and my husband, who as you know, often flew on the same private jet that Ehud Barak sometimes took

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

Was that VA or NC?

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

Zohran took my apes, all my apes gone

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Crypto really cryptoing today huh

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

The people did pretty good at this. Especially considering how much of the Great Recession stuff was on the Bush/Obama cusp.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h

The good people at YouGov posed a test to Americans that only the sharpest and most politically attuned pundits could pass: Who was president when various events happened? www.pbump.net/o/someone-fi...

Someone finally asked Americans if they knew who was president when

One of the central questions of American politics at the moment is a complicated one: Who was actually president when bad things happened? Who, for example, was president when the country instituted r...

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

it works at the district level but doesn’t aggregate, it doesn’t work as a national-level strategy. You can make room for Dems in these types of races, but it’s not a viable way to run a national political party.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

new Mira Nair documentary on the experiences of south asians in America

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

in response I might say

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

Primary debate question #1. There’s just no answer that isn’t obvious chickenshit.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 17h

So Schumer never did endorse, huh. Nor Gillibrand. Just irredeemable pieces of shit, the entire NY senate delegation

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

It should be fine for policy initiatives to fail. Fail to win support but, even more, fail to accomplish their objective. When we identify problems, we should try a bunch of stuff until we fix them.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h

"The strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves" goddamn

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

Hashmi supporters would be dancing in the streets if the town elders hadn’t banned it

Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social · 10h

Lynchburg, VA--home of Liberty "University"--is currently 59% blue for Lt. Governor candidate *checks notes* Ghazala Hashmi.

@jasonkirk.fyi

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

Not gonna do the analysis. Dont have the data, no stata license, unwilling to be proven wrong.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

My statistical analysis would control for other Cuomo-supporter variables like age and income, and find Jewish surname to be a surprisingly low predictor across the city

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

why should empirical evidence get in the way of a marketable narrative?

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

All casualty estimates require scoping causality and choosing a counterfactual. This, not just record-keeping, is part of the variance.
It’s a sufficiently defensible estimate of the outside limit.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

Tonight’s results notwithstanding, it’s interesting how much better at politics a party is when it knows it’s trying to accomplish unpopular things versus knowing most people agree with them

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 6h

If you followed them for a week you’d want to donate. Or you can just trust me.

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