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J. Tins
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NYC public defender. Trying to do my part to make this world less awful. MC | HUSL
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RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward.

Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.
The bars are flowing in the speech
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Mamdani speaks.

"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I say his name, as we turn the page that abandons the many in favor of the few."
Zohran coming out to “New York” by Ja Rule at al lol
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funny thing this is the westchester knicks logo color scheme
The White House just posted this they are not mad they swear they are so not mad
Pelicans got their first win of the season tonight too 😭
Pelicans win 116-112. Rookie Derik Queen turned the game around
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🥳🎉🙌🏽🌊

Mary Sheffield, the Detroit City Council president, was elected mayor on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. She will become the first woman to lead the city when she is sworn into office.
First millennial mayor of nyc. First Muslim mayor, first south Asian mayor. What a time we’re living in. Let’s get to work!
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I'd vote against Cuomo a third time if I could
One more fuck Cuomo! Keep that bitch out of our city!
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani (D) elected mayor of New York City - DDHQ projection
We’re gonna win
lol. lmao.
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On the Upper West Side, we spoke to one octogenarian Mamdani voter who was partly swayed because the candidate is "cute":

hellgatenyc.com/election-day...
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WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …

"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."

She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
To say the very least
Lol, an alleged democratic leader can’t even say he voted for the democratic nominee in his city
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."
Dick Cheney gone and Zohran about to win. Signs that things are going well
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died, his family said in a statement. He was 84 abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...
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This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
D’Angelo Russell still takes the most ridiculous shots, so audacious
It me
A multi-day freakout about Mamdani's chances apparently happened because Millennials were waiting to vote until they could get the special Halloween-themed "I voted" stickers
A detailed analysis of who voted early, and where, from @haidee.bsky.social. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/02/e...
I want so much better for New Orleans basketball 😔
You can't put spilled milk back in the bottle. Replacing it with orange juice in your cereal makes everything worse.

For @spotrac.com, I wrote about the New Orleans Pelicans, how things went this wrong and how they need to start over to survive.

Read more:

www.spotrac.com/news/_/id/30...
Picking Up the Pieces of the Pelicans | Spotrac News
The Pelicans replaced a generational talent with another generational talent and got it all wrong. Where do they go from here?
www.spotrac.com
Teen vogue was really on a better path than most other “legitimate” news organizations. Sad to see this
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.