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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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

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

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 3h

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

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

Was that VA or NC?

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

Zohran took my apes, all my apes gone

George Pearkes @peark.es · 14h

Crypto really cryptoing today huh

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 16h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

in response I might say

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 14h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

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

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

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

Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social · 8h

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

@jasonkirk.fyi

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

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

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7h

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

getting back to his Sandinista roots

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 16h

Great!

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 16h

We won our lawsuit against the federal government for trying to force states to comply with its immigration policies or give up billions of dollars in funding for transportation.

This is a major victory to protect our communities and vital infrastructure.

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

eh, maybe off-year elections aren’t so bad

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

whomst amongst us

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The mayor is now addressing the sex toy business allegation, and says it’s a consulting business.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 3h

Men don’t want to be the Chad, they want to be likable. In that way, they’re just like you and me.

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%.

niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 4h

Bending the curve.