Aaron Ghitelman
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comms, press & doobie brother | always available for comment | nets fan, phish fan, fan of other things that bring me less joy | tweets + typos are my own
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Jamaal Bowman can bench significantly more than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can, so why aren’t all the independent thinkers drafting him to run for president?
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There are 18 true EGOT winners and 7 of them are products of the NYC public education system
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@offbeatorbit
@natemcdermott
Plus it’s only fucked up if you fail to recognize that Patty and Selma are actually two of the coolest people in Springfield
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A budget that fires CUNY professors but doesn’t lay off a single cop is dangerous
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Can someone explain the difference between me paying a toll to drive on the jersey turnpike and me paying a fee to drive in Manhattan during congestion pricing?
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You can criticize Israel without pretending the U.S. funds every aspect of their state.
They’re a rich country with higher tax rates than us, that’s why they have nice things like universal health care and free college, not because we contribute ~17% of their military budget.
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So, how often does everyone think about Robert Moses?
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To be honest this doesn't feel like March/April 2020 at all (at least not in NYC).
We have testing, vaccines, new treatments, better hospital practices, and so much data to make informed decisions with.
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The mayor, my boss, openly stating cops deserve greater comfort and quality of life than I do
He goes on to say city wants to be able to attract police officers who expect to be able to afford more in terms of housing especially if they have a family.
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PERSONAL NEWS: Today I started my dream job as the new Deputy Director of Communiciations for
@nys_cannabis
🍃 💨
Can’t wait to help this amazing team make our home state the center of the global cannabis industry while undoing the damage of the war on drugs as best we can
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Target closing the 127th east harlem location essentially on the FDR drive in favor of one on 125th Lenox Ave doesn’t say much about crime
It does show they know their NYC customers aren’t driving to make purchases but would rather shop at stores with good transit access
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For the first time since 1977, New York City has a mayor who went to a public high school in NYC
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New York isn’t banning wood fired pizza ovens, the few spots who use coal or wood ovens just have to add in an air filtration systems so they aren’t polluting the neighborhood
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Can’t believe anyone ever thought New York could die, this city is immortal and the greatest place in the world
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Very weird to see fellow Jews claim Jewish students protesting on campus for Palestinian sovereignty are “tokens” when over 40% of Jewish Americans 18-34 find Israel’s current actions in Gaza “unacceptable”
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The highest of praise from Bubby for the Javits Center vaccination site.
Now please can the federal government give NY more doses so we all can’t find a single thing to complain about?
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Kathy Hochul is overseeing the most thoughtful cannabis legalization policy in the nation while Lee Zeldin hinted that he wants to re-criminalize public usage, a disastrous policy that hurt hundreds of thousands of NYers
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It’s wild going on Twitter and seeing haters talk about NYC like it’s a crime infested hellscape then actually going out today and it’s as lively and crowded as ever
I really wonder what city the trolls are living in because it sure doesn’t seem to be the same one I’m in
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As someone who works in Manhattan, pays significantly more than I’d like in rent to have reliable access to public transit, I’m not particularly sympathetic to folks complaining about having to pay for the negative externalities their commuting decisions cause
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I will formally endorse any NYC mayoral candidate who recreates this photo with their spouse/partner/fwb. If multiple candidates take this photo challenge I will endorse them in the order of the quality of the recreation.
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I do not think an elected official, who won her election by massive margins, speaking on her conscious is “an affront to democracy” — in fact I’d argue the unelected unaccountable NYPD apparatchiks politicizing their positions to make threats are the affront to democracy
Like I said it was an accident….I’m back!!!!
I started to read this garbage and quickly realized this is coming from a person who hates our city and certainly does not represent the great people of NYC. But I did manage to play the word replacement game, and it goes like this:
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Counterpoint: I've lived here since 1991 and anyone who stuck around during the months of March, April and May 2020 can say literally whatever they want about NYC for the rest of their lives
Unless you lived in NY before 2000 I’m pretty sure you can’t say NY is back.
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nyc mayoral primary should be like the presidential
staggered over the course of several weeks, each neighborhood/assembly district hosts a diff election with their own fun and quirky rules
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First day at my new job — Press Secretary for
@bradhoylman
Excited to fight for return of 24/7 subway service, repeal of walking while trans, cannabis legalization + lots more
If you’re a journalist, this is my on the record request for you to only write nice things about Brad!
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Landlord is trying to up the rent in my old bushwick apartment by 38%.
It’s a $1000 month over month increase for an apartment with flooding and mice/rat issues.
WE NEED TO PASS GOOD CAUSE EVICTION AND PROTECT TENANTS!!!
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@broazay
Why Ludacris' track "Area Codes" is a problematic reflection of modern dating trends. In this essay I will...
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@hgoldman77
Thank you, I see your point, but I’d argue that the fee is an upkeep fee for the entire transit ecosystem you are using, not dissimilar from how turnpike tolls are utilized
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A Bronxite and graduate of New York public schools won a Nobel* Prize today in economics. First woman to win the prize on her own.
Nyc is the best city in the world, and The Bronx is the borough where the best of the best come from
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@natemcdermott
Could this shirt in the George Bush episode be a reference to those bootlegs?
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After 2 years, today is my final day at
@nys_cannabis
It’s been an honor to do this work — in the only state I’ve ever called home —implementing antitrust regulations & restorative justice around a plant I love
Hasn’t always been perfect, but has always been pretty damn cool
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My buddy got assigned as a poll worker for Midwood. He lives in bushwick. He has to arrive at the polling place at 5am. The subway does not start start running until 5am.
How exactly is he supposed to get there on time?
We need 24 hour subway service reinstated immediately!
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Legal licensed cannabis sales start TOMORROW in New York and I’m so giddy
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Here is my full ranking of the caps for the 20 nations competing in this year’s
#WorldBaseballClassic
#1
— China
That dragon is straight 🔥and earns China the top spot. Matches very well with the flag patch, no notes, this is incredible.
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Dolly Parton has fully reached the folk hero status of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan
In 150 years peoole will be like “oh no Dolly wasn’t real she was invented to highlight the American spirit, no way the same person wrote 9 to 5 and ended a pandemic”
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Most embarrassing admission by
@ChristieSmythe
in that piece is she somehow covered courts for years witnout realizing our criminal justice system is broken, biased and awful
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So they called in the NYPD to avoid disruptions to graduation and are disrupting graduation anyway, great job all around by this admin
BREAKING: Columbia cancels main graduation ceremony, will focus on smaller Class Day celebrations instead
@NBCNews
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During the peak of Bloomberg’s stop & frisk in 2009 I was smoking a joint right outside Stuyvesant high school & a cop kindly asked me to put it out.
Stop & frisk was never about crime, it was about racism. Being white & going to the right school exempted me from the humiliation
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@ryangrim
@daveweigel
Loving that the drummer from Phish has done more for ranked choice voting than all US senate dems combined
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FYI they are rebuilding it once they raise the park to protect nearby apartment buildings from severe flooding
sad to see something that brought so much joy go but this will be back and people who live here will have a whole lot more peace of mind during our next super storm
RIP the East River Park Amphitheater, original site of Shakespeare in the Park; scene of the climactic hip-hop concert in WILD STYLE; & site of countless graduation ceremonies & music/dance/theater performances, restored after 9/11 but razed by the city...
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Absolutely incredible take.
His ‘expertise’ is that he was briefly a visiting scholar at NYU, yet somehow he never saw StuyTown? Or the UWS? Or Riverdale? Or Bed-Stuy? Or Washington Heights? Or the Bocce Courts at Kissena Park?
I can keep naming neighborhoods if you want…
You never see old people in the streets of NYC. In Copenhagen you do. It's a real city, not just some romcom dream for 20-somethings.
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You love to see it!!!
The strikes are over ✅
they’re filming a movie in the church Ave subway station this morning 🎥
and they’re using a phony train line (The K!!!) so I’ll have something to complain about whenever it comes out 😍
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Just got my therapist to commit to voting for Biden on the
@NYWFP
line. Very productive session.
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So we can pay for all that overtime for a police riot on a public college campus but we can’t pay for libraries to be open on Sundays?
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Another day, another dispensary opening!!!
🍃💨🍃💨🍃
CONBUD - Lower East Side
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Whoever recruited Pope Francis to join DSA this week def deserves the hat
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Who could have predicted Mike Bloomberg’s efforts to push everything from housing to parks to social services away from city spending into the hands of private private philanthropy would be a mistake?
Hmm it’s almost like they should be paying more taxes
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There is no universe Carolyn Maloney would be able to eloquently explain bundist (or Satmar) anti Zionism on the floor of the house
Very glad Jerry kept that seat, representation does indeed matter, especially at a time like this
Rep. Nadler: "The resolution states that all anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That's intellectually disingenuous or factually wrong…The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was + is expressly not antisemitic."
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Of the 5 people who earned EGOTs through at least one honorary award, 3 are products of the NYC public education system
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I’m still in shock. Yesterday
@JacobPriley
was hit by a SUV and is in critical condition
He is one of the kindest people I’ve ever been lucky enough to work for
If you can afford to help, please join me in donating. If you can’t, please share this post
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This is the same presser where he threatened 22,000 fellow city employees’ jobs, yet the police, who are adding headcount for some reason, all need affordable homes for their families
The
@NYCMayor
says 22,000 city employee possible layoffs are the "painful reality," now that the federal stimulus "appears to be dead."
He says the all city agencies will be expected to "find savings"
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Great day for NYC history nerds, happy 125 years to the 5 boros, glad those dorks in brooklyn realized they’d be NOTHING if they didn’t team up with The Bronx
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Roommate just spent TEN (10) HOURS in line to get a rapid covid test
Every HS Econ text book claiming capitalism is the most efficient way to allocate resources are just straight up lying to us
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Rum and coke and 18 innings of baseball and maybe 1500 other sickos in attendance
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@RossBarkan
Eh, obviously corporations and the military will never get behind ideas that challenge their power, but that doesn't mean ideas like LGBTQ rights, racial equality or voting rights are inherently hollow because aspects of them can align with wealthy + powerful interests
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Attention Parents:
This Halloween 🎃make sure to check your children's bags for foie gras.
NYC's ban on force-fed foie gras doesn't go into effect until 2022, but it's important your children don't develop a taste for something that will be inaccessible very soon.
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The
@TeensTakeCharge
mayoral forum is absolutely incredible.
They’re really making the mayoral candidates answer SHSAT questions, truly a perfect depiction of the stress every single 8th grader in NYC experiences for the chance to go to a well funded school.
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Watching SVU from start to finish for the first time and finally got to the scene they filmed on my block in 2005 and I’m irrationally hyped
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Roberta’s in bushwick is not a top 50 NYC pizza place but is a top 10 NYC wedding venue
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Also while you’re here please COMPLETE THE CENSUS & remind New Yorkers to do so! I am deeply passionate about what I get to do for NYC even if my boss doesn’t think I’m here for a higher calling like the people who beat us up are
Mayor says this is "apples and oranges" but doesn't explain why. He also says it's a "complex reality" because being a police officer is a "high calling."
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About to eat 31 slices of pizza to celebrate my 31st birthday
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Bill and Chirlaine clearly still love and respect each other, pretty cool they are being public and honest about this, way better than whatever charade Bill and Hillary have done for the last few decades
Bill de Blasio, the former New York City mayor, and Chirlane McCray are separating. They are not planning to divorce, they said, but will date other people and continue to share the Park Slope townhouse.
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What is the point of Dems winning if we do so by abandoning abortion rights, gay rights and trans rights?
This isn’t a game where I want my team to get more points, this is about improving my life and so many others and Ms. McCaskill doesn’t get it.
Claire McCaskill: "Whether you are talking guns or...abortion...or gay marriage and rights for 'transexuals' and other people who we as a party 'look after' and make sure they are treated fairly. As we circled the issues we left voters behind and Republicans dove in."
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I’m sick with covid, my partner is sick with covid, so angry that our federal government failed to shut this down last year and so many are sick like us and still suffering 18 months into the pandemic
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why are we still shaming people for socializing outside?
beaches and parks are the places we should be if we want to see friends
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Governor Hochul has now pushed out a report blaming OCM for what she considers a failure of NY’s cannabis industry
So she has blamed:
—Cuomo
—Legislature + MRTA
—And now Chris Alexander
AS IF SHE ISNT THE GOVERNOR WHO MAKES THE FINAL DECISIONS!!!
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4:30 pm: the time of day when I sit down to have brunch with my friends who are all patronage hires at Govt agencies
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18 months later and today is my final day with
@bradhoylman
Proud to report we did get 24/7 subway service back, legalize recreational cannabis, repeal the walking while trans ban and a whole lot more!!!
First day at my new job — Press Secretary for
@bradhoylman
Excited to fight for return of 24/7 subway service, repeal of walking while trans, cannabis legalization + lots more
If you’re a journalist, this is my on the record request for you to only write nice things about Brad!
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@IBJIYONGI
There were 50,000 Jews in the US in 1850, there were ~350,000 slave owners in the US then. If half those Jews were slave owners, (def a stretch since not all were in the south) that’s still a tiny impact on the institution compared to Anglo Christians
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Reminder that you can just quit your job, you don’t need to give two weeks notice, and sometimes your employer (the people of NY) in fact don’t even want you in the office twiddling your thumbs and playing on your phone for 14 days anyway
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If I’m elected mayor of NYC I promise to eat a bacon egg and cheese from every bodega in the city
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Went to World Spa in brooklyn today, here’s my review:
The Banya rooms were incredible, 200+ F, hottest dry saunas I’ve ever been in besides radial heat room at E. 10th st baths
Moroccan & Turkish hammams were disappointing, not hot enough, not enough steam circulation
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Charles Barron is an American legend and New York’s City Council will be a worse place without his powerful voice echoing through the chambers of city hall
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There’s some far off alt universe where Dems hold onto NY senate in 2010 & draw a park slope/staten Island NY-11
Grimm is defeated soundly in 2012 by the up & coming Public Advocate who holds that seat for the next decade
Congressman de Blasio is deeply beloved in this universe
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I really hate how the assumption in govt is that it's routine for tech to crash when anyone uses it
If ESPN dot com can handle the first nfl sunday without crashes why do we settle for crummy websites?
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Can’t wait for house parties in way too hot and way too small nyc apartments to return
I’m gonna make so much vapid small talk with acquaintances then bring up the 2021 mayoral and they’ll politely leave the convo once I’m vaccinated
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What’s the NYC equivalent of soybean prices?
Subway fare? Cost of a slice of pizza? Median rent for a 2br apt?
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@luisferre
@NYGovCuomo
Did they mention any data about transmission from people at outdoor bars or is this just a moral panic about how having fun safely outside is bad?
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@samdarcangelo
Thanks to the dormant commerce clause those native to, or residing in, any other part of the United States have the same opportunities to be on Broadway as those of us who smartly chose to be raised in NYC
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The single largest dem city council primary victory last night (incumbents included) was by
@JenGutierrezNYC
, a candidate who told
@StreetsblogNYC
“I don’t give a ‘f’ about car culture” this campaign.
You absolutely love to see it!!!
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Another day, another dispensary opening
🍃💨🍃💨🍃💨
Grow Together — Brooklyn’s FIRST licensed adult use cannabis dispensary, 2370 Coney Island Avenue
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My mom STILL doesn’t have power in the Bronx after last week’s storm and we’re heading into another brutal heat wave
Sole consolation: this has radicalized her to the point where she’s now Facebook posting about collective ownership of utilities to all her friends
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Rename James Madison High School after Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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BREAKING NEWS: weed is awesome and you’ll be able to buy very good weed in NY very soon
We've done it NY! Dec. 29, the FIRST 21+ legal cannabis sales will begin with a
@HousingWorks
non-profit assisting justice-involved individuals.
Thank you
@GovKathyHochul
for your commitment to the Seeding Opportunity Initiative & all you've done to bring this industry to life.
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Incredible self-own from the NYPD today. Shutting down traffic on the Brooklyn bridge themselves to prevent protestors from doing it.
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@revrrlewis
Cmon Grant was sober for like 97% of the war. But no one remembers the nights when you go to sleep at 8pm and tell your wife you love her.
You pass out drunk on a boat once and vomit from a hangover for days no one forgets it
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Everyone get your nyc snow pics done in the next 26 minutes before it all turns into hideous gray slush
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Fran Drescher has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time
To give you a context of how historic a WGA/SAG strike would be, the last time this happened together not only was Eisenhower still president, but the actors union was lead by noted organizer and socialist, Ronald Reagan.
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@ZachReports
DSA won one race, lost another race, and a third is up in the air.
The latter two are districts solidly blue and didn't have competitive republican primaries.
Genuinely have no clue what he's talking about here or why he's taking a victory lap when 0 dsa incumbents lost
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NYC earthquake or should I get out of my apartment and it’s about to collapse?
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@ashleyn1cole
In times like these, you can never have enough text threads with girlfriends...
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Imagining a scenario where NY is the crucial swing state and every armchair pundit has to learn that Otsego county and Oswego county are two different places nowhere near each other
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Recently Facebook improved their algorithm and now all the posts I see are nostalgia photos of athletes from my childhood and it’s like “remember mugsy bogues?”
And I do remember him, it makes me smile
Easily the best social media algorithm out there
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@IBJIYONGI
If he was going off about the ways white Jews benefitted from white privilege post WW2 in American cities, often from the spending/labor of Black neighbors who weren’t granted the same access to capital, he’d be discussing important points! He is not doing that!
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Holy shit can’t believe I’m just finding out Dave Matthews played Artie Bucco
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The end of august, when all new yorkers’ therapists go on vacation before school starts, the most chaotic days in our city
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