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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Just to note, there is a well documented connection between mass in-person protest and election outcomes. I'm looking forward to the academic papers analyzing No Kings in October and turnout today.

ShenLoop @shenloop.bsky.social · 6h

No one should ignore or discount the significant effect that all the organizers of the NO KINGS rallies have had on this election night. It is monumental the influence you have had on this night.

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 5h

I interact with a lot of young men in my work and this is not surprising. Everyone needs to get off the internet.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6h

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

i can't stop thinking about this video. how the campaign started w/ Mamdani as an unknown basically...just like out reporting on the political apathy in 2024. figuring out why people felt jaded. and then working to bring about the opposite. beyond remarkable www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tur...

Back on Fordham Road

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 6h

And they have responded via the democratic process which is so heartening

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 6h

This seems like a huge deal

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 6h

The gun control legislation bill that even Janet Mills said we shouldn't vote for is running the table tonight, in a famously gun-friendly state

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 6h

*worth it

(see, I'm tired)

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 6h

It's exhausting but always with it. And my fellow poll workers are a treat

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 6h

Final update: we had to use the screwdriver to lock up at the end of the night

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 6h

well well well

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s!

(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)

Tweet from NYC Board of Elections:

We officially hit TWO MILLION votes - first time since 1969!
Polls are open until 9pm.
If you are on line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 13h

We are now in the mid-afternoon doldrums period and doing our best to not doze off

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 14h

Pizza from the mayor and the state rep has arrived. They got it from the good pizza place, well done.

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 16h

Pollworker conversation has ranged from Islamic art to gnocchi to the shenanigans in the neighborhood last Saturday

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not in the Heights, this is behind the charter school

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 17h

Then the doors to the polling place broke and so I went home to get my screwdriver so I could fix it

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 17h

Pollworker Chronicles Thread:

All the pollworkers were locked out of our polling place. It's in an elderly housing complex and finally a gentleman in his pajamas yelled out the window for us to ring his apartment and he would buzz us in

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

We enter Election Day with Councilor Murphy falsely claiming an endorsement by EMS, a city dept that can't endorse candidates.

This BS passes muster in a city where electeds and candidates take for granted who endorses them based on nonstop pandering. It's disrespectful of EMS.

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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP update: Trump admin will pay 50% of food stamp benefits in November amid shutdown www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/s...

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 1d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Baker thought it was perfectly appropriate to take a seat at a recent Public Safety Forum.

At least one elected official onstage thought enabling and promoting his candidate was acceptable behavior.

👉🏼 This is yet another example of Old Boston entitlement. “We do what we want with impunity.”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 3d

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4d

People should use their SNAP benefits for whatever they think they need. Both because any effort you make to micromanage purchases is inefficient and cumbersome and because people who need help aren’t obligated to perform for or satisfy others in order to eat.

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know that Burns Library has a copy of Dracula translated into Irish? This 1933 volume was translated by Seán Ó Cuirrín and features cover art by Dublin born artist Austin Malloy. Want to look at it yourself? Visit us!

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