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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 9h

This is disheartening because — and this is still something I find crazy but awesome — Teen Vogue has been putting out INCREDIBLE political journalism the last several years. Like, better than publications whose claim to fame is covering politics.

Cheers to everyone who made that happen. Thank you.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13h

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.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 6h

Zaporizhzhia was on generators for reactor and spent fuel cooling for a bit www.nucnet.org/news/power-s...

Power Supply Restored To Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant After Month-Long Outage

Six-unit facility once again receiving external electricity to cool reactors and spent fuel

www.nucnet.org

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 6h

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 7h

Police opted not to call SIU despite running somebody over twice. A public organization with barely any oversight. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wat...

Sayer also said police are actively reviewing the incident but did not notify the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) because the woman's injuries weren't serious enough to meet the threshold to alert the provincial watchdog. If she had suffered injuries that would have interfered with her health or comfort and were not "transient or trifling in nature,
" then the SIU
would have been obliged to investigate.

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 6h

Ha ha, that’s funn…

(Remembers that it’s not even three years since John Tory resigned, he keeps hinting at running again, and before that we had a crack mayor)

Yeah, never mind, forget I said anything

Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 6h

You missed the bsky reaction the first time around, I guess? bsky.app/profile/mile...

Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Jun 17

respectfully, I had not seen a picture of Zohran's wife before today and I am hitting myself in the head with a hammer at this time

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Abbott's joke about putting a tariff on people makes sense if you read it in the context of hoping to be able to own people again.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

They’ve all gone mad.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 10h

.@politico interviewed Toronto Mayor @MayorOliviaChow about @ZohranKMamdani - she advised NYC’s likely next mayor to focus on affordable housing - and her relationship with @MarkJCarney - better, certainly, than Mamani’s with Trump www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Why Zohran Mamdani May Want to Look to Toronto

Canada’s most prominent mayor is a fan — and she has some advice for the potential next mayor of New York.

www.politico.com

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Jim Calabro @calabro.io · 14h

This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾

A chart of the main bsky backend load balancer request throughput compared to 7 days earlier (the previous Saturday). There's a massive spike during the world series game.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 1d

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...

www.ncronline.org

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 9h

I dare one of these reporters to ask “you seem to not be aware, when asked about them, of many things the president says and does. Do you not pay attention to the leader of your party - is he not relevant to your interests?”

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17h

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

New York Post headline:

Nearly a million New
Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor
- possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12h

Can we all agree that when a president pardons a guy who was convicted for financing terrorists, and then says he didn't know the guy but "I was told" to pardon him, the follow question MUST be "Who told you to pardon him?" But CBS never asked: who is making decisions in the White House? 1/

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
11:45 AM • 11/3/25 • 1.2M Views

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 14h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People

“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 11h

mediawell.ssrc.org/news-items/t...

The Internet of Garbage | The Verge – MediaWell

mediawell.ssrc.org

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 11h

Some of the very best and most important political journalism of late has come from Lex and the team at Teen Vogue. Follow them all wherever they go.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13h

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.

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Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social · 11h

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

they got me to like baseball like never before, when a few weeks ago i couldn't even tell you how baseball worked.

the good vibes & positivity from this team is infectious. it feels welcoming and warm, unlike the usual machoism in the sports world.

i'm going to be looking forward to next spring! 💙

Joanna @humandchuck.bsky.social · 2d

Well, shit. I wrote something about this team we've been watching #bluejays www.humandchuck.com/baseball/202...

Before Game 7 — HUM & CHUCK

But doubt aside, the Toronto Blue Jays have earned it in all the ways a team can.

www.humandchuck.com

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 16h

Great piece

(FYI Davis S name is typoed in a couple of places)

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Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 19h

An 8pm first pitch shouldn’t have been non negotiable on a weekend either though.

Mark Dowling @markdowling.bsky.social · 19h

Would be interesting to know how many are really New Yorkers atm and not just LI/NJ/CT whiners

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 19h

An enterprising journalist would collect all the names of the people who have made promises to reporters that they will move out of the city if Mamdani wins, and start contacting them in February to see if they followed through

New York Post @nypost.com · 20h

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.

nypost.com

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