I mean yeah we should always be cautious about overestimating how much the electeds will do for the socialist movement. However, a big part of AOC’s faltering was that she was one rep in a sea of bloodthirsty establishment dems and she didn’t have the spine for it. Mamdani would be the executive, which would give him way more leverage at the City government level, even if it’s lower on the hierarchy than AOC.
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Talking head on NY1 said that they were expecting going into the night that Mamdani would have the early lead from early voting but as same day votes came in his lead over Cuomo would shrink. Except it’s held steady. He said we’re in “would require a statistical anomaly” territory for Cuomo to come back.
I have spoken to several law enforcement leaders and they have grave concerns that the NYPD would suffer a mass exodus!
Lives in Long Island but talks like he’s speaking for the City? He must post in the NYC subreddits.
They did the same shit with the Patriot Act
The begged question here is, what are the consequences of lying? As others have pointed out, Israel has been lying since day one in the larger conflict; if lying about mass SA and Hamas being in every hospital they bomb hasn’t had any negative fallout, why would they care now? Conversely, the West will spin Iran as being a terrorist state regardless of what it does so it’s not like honesty will earn them any credit.
And on the matter of begged questions, this is really an Iran-Israel-America ceasefire situation. I think, for once, Trump was being honest when he tweeted “Now is the time for peace.” The Trump administration has no love for Iran, but I also think there’s some discontent at feeling like it’s Netanyahu taking the lead on things here instead of Trump. So they really thought a few missile strikes would cow Iran into backing down. Which means the U.S. is putting pressure on Israel to make it look like there’s been a ceasefire deal even if there really isn’t one.
What genre?
The dirty little secret about most bureaucracies is that there’s the analysts who get the work done, there’s a small handful of upper-mid managers who have the institutional knowledge and rapport with enough of the agency/department in order to put that work into useful action, and then there’s the guys at the top that are there for political reasons and just pass off what the analysts and upper-mid managers do as their own work.
I award Hegseth 25 
MIGA? Please.
That lamp post? Believe it or not, Hamas.
Today, we are walkin’ here