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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

honestly the bit right afterwhere he's like 'so why did you chose the DSA over the Democratic Party' and Mamdani is like ... "I didn't? I'm in both?' is even funnier

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 11h

Calling it now - the first GOP convention after his death will feature an AI-generated keynote

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coreyhill.bsky.social @coreyhill.bsky.social · 11h

yeah so you dont need to just fucking talk about healthcare
TALK ABOUT THE MASKED GOON SQUADS

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 11h

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

media.tenor.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 12h

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

wrd.cm

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 13h

Of course, Antifa International.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 14h

“[Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]”

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 15h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Oh babe, you’re so hot. I love your bulleted lists

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Add Stephen Miller to the list.

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 2d

"How much have you heard about a White House official (Tom Homan) accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation?"

A Little: 22%
A Lot: 14%

Nothing at all: 63%

YouGov / Oct 13, 2025

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate-backed Wall Street Democrats and embrace Zohran Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe? I got 12 texts from Janet Mills yesterday despite replying "STOP" to each one.

Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

He’s a solid progressive who consistently wins working class Worcester area voters, but he also seems like the kind of guy who would be happy being in the house for his entire career. I guess we’ll see.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Jim McGovern is good, but I don’t know if he’d want it.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Did he ever have a proper goatee? I remember him having a soul patch when I saw them on the double trio tour.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a woman’s watch? It’s so little on his giant ham wrist.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Moulton challenging Markey? Markey is too old to be running again, but Moulton is essentially a DINO. The only way this ends up being ok is if a progressive challenger also emerges.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 1d

My son was 1 when leaders pledged to keep warming below 1.5C.

By his 11th birthday even 2C is dead.

I’m lost for words at the scale of this betrayal.

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

www.bbc.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe on the national scene, but in small towns/regions people do not forget about this stuff.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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