Neal Kwatra
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Founder, Metropolitan Public Strategies @MPS_NYC . Advisor and Strategist. Before: Chief of Staff, New York Attorney General.
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"Nearly half the money the Texas billionaire has given to Beehive State politicos went to Sen. Mike Lee."
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One of the best parts of the avalanche of early money for Kamala is we won’t have to suffer through months of bullshit “donor concern” stories because their voice, leverage and relevancy in this process have now been severely reduced.
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More from GOP leadership showing contempt for their own voters. 5 of the top 7 states with the most food stamp recipients per capita are Red- Louisiana, West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Alabama.
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This gets dumber and dumber. Lets open up a chaotic and uncertain process that unceremoniously passes over the Vice President seems like the worst of all the possible scenarios.
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@EricLevitz
Dems outperformance at peak of inflationpalooza last Fall + the likelihood the economy will be in a much better place next summer as people start to pay attention, makes me more bullish on Biden. Also, abortion, freedom frame and no drama Biden feels enough to match/exceed '20.
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Love Strahan, but this is not the right gig for him. These questions underscore a football player just learning politics. Why didn’t she pass these things, because the GOP controls the House dude. Why didn’t the Giants win every year you were an All-Pro, because your team sucked
.
@michaelstrahan
asks Walz why Harris hasn’t implemented her proposed policies the past 3 years.
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There’s no Biden without Obama, but after two years of the best legislative accomplishments of any Dem POTUS since LBJ and the best midterm like ever, we need to stop with the stupid shit abt Biden not being the nominee. When he wins re-election he’ll go down as one of the best
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At some point someone is gonna write the definitive takedown of the Bharara era. Now that most of his high profile, press first prosecutions have fallen apart, his legacy should be remembered as one of personal ambition and power above all, with a politically motivated compass
Just out:
Looks like SCOTUS is tossing the corruption conviction of Joe Percoco, who was once Andrew Cuomo's aide.
Also tossed conviction of Louis Ciminelli, one of the developers in the "Buffalo Billion" fraud case.
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"The pause on congestion pricing and other financial risks...threaten the
@MTA
’s ability to provide reliable, affordable transit service,” says
@RachaelFauss
of Reinvent Albany.
#CongestionPricing
is essential to stabilize the
@MTA
and keep our buses, trains, and subways running"
MTA is far more broke than previously expected, state comptroller says
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First time in 40 years- maybe plots to kidnap your Governor don’t play so well with normies
FLIP ALERT: Democrats have gained the Michigan State Senate and the Michigan State House
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Tired of these excuses from Zimmerman. He raised and spent over $3m on this race, including a ton on TV.
@WillBredderman
wrote abt Santos issues months before Election Day. A competent campaign would have put real $ behind an ad off Bredderman and shoved it down everyone’s throat
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Walz is really, really good on TV. That comfortable in your own skin vibe you just can’t teach.
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Rick Perlstein's great book about Goldwater's insurgent '64 campaign and the making of the modern conservative movement shows the reader the ways the right learned and copied tactics and organizing from the Left. The pendulum has swung and we need to learn anew, this is good.
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“George Santos is a cultural product of our time—one of political and media mediocrity, where everybody is to blame, which not only fostered an environment where a fraud like him could win a seat in the US House of Representatives, but facilitated it.”
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@aaronnarraph
generic white progressive running against a field of non-white candidates can’t make it over the finish line despite six figures in SUPER PAC $ from mommy and daddy is the other take you might want to confront since you guys keep losing these races with the same candidate
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Laurel Canyon in the late 60s/early 70's was a vibe. You had Joni, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Carole King, Frank Zappa and countless more. Laurel Canyon was the original "hype house" with all that talent in one place inspiring one another
That 70s Shelf: Laurel Canyon, Leon Russell, and peak L.A. —a reading list for the era of
#DaisyJonesAndTheSix
🌼
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This is one of the only publications to consistently cover the Comptroller and his office’s immense power. Here they find that despite NY “ending coal” its public pension fund is still a massive investor in one of the country’s dirtiest coal plants.
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The accountability quotient for prosecutors and law enforcement is functionally non-existent in this country. They can make as many mistakes as they want and we all just kinda shrug and move on.
The police responsible for the Uvalde shooting response: where are they now?
Answer: employed, at the same agencies they were one year ago
Investigation by
@arelisrhdz
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Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s a three state election folks, national polls and polls in almost any other supposed swing state are moot. Both campaigns know this and will wage war accordingly.
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Financial product advertising is never say die, regardless of market volatility. One of the largest crypto exchanges has imploded, creating contagion worries throughout the ecosystem, yet every CNBC break is trying to sell me on putting my money into yet another crypto exchange
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“The justices unanimously said jury instructions in Joseph Percoco’s case were flawed given that he was working for Cuomo’s reelection campaign — and not the government — during a key eight-month period in 2014.” Flawed jury instructions is de facto fraud by prosecutors.
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End of year field trips being cancelled at schools, gym indoors, woke up with a sore throat from walking the streets of NYC yesterday. Clean air matters when we suddenly don’t have access to it.
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In the last 90 days, five electrical substations – in N. Carolina, S. Carolina, WA and OR– have been attacked, leaving tens of thousands of people without power. The increasingly violent right wing movement in our country is targeting power substations to cause societal breakdown
“… a neo-Nazi ideology called accelerationism — which aims to cause society’s collapse through violent acts, such as what federal investigators say was their plan to shoot up five Baltimore-area power substations and cause widespread outages.”
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Anschutz and Crow aren’t just some rando billionaires quietly living out their lives in Palm Beach and Dubai, they are two of the most aggressive and sophisticated GOP donors in service of their business and political goals.
In 2017 the NYT reported on Neil Gorsuch and his ties to billionaire Philip F. Anschutz
The story covered the Walden Group and their ownership of the property that was later sold to Greenberg Traurig CEO Duffy
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The Summer of Vance is upon us and it’s nothing like the Summer of George
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“For wind-farm construction, NYS requires the construction workers earn the union rate and benefits. Together,
@OrstedUS
and
@Equinor
estimate they will create about 2,000 construction jobs and more than 550 permanent jobs among the 5 wind farms.”
“Orsted, the world’s largest offshore wind developer, is partnering with Eversource, a New England-based utility company, on two projects east of Montauk Point: South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind [to lead the
#OffshoreWind
industry in New York].
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“..some around Lauder have another, less charitable theory for what is driving his push to elect Zeldin…Lauder and his wealthy neighbors in the Hamptons have been fighting to stop the state from allowing a wind-powered transmission cable to run near their properties.”
NEW: Meet the billionaire cosmetics heir tilting the playing field for Republicans in New York, and whose millions may fundamentally change how statewide races are run here for decades to come.
w/
@danarubinstein
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@JGoldny
bigger story is the comprehensive dismantling of much of Preet’s legacy on public corruption and securities fraud. Would love a deep dive on every reporters fave prosecutor who ultimately got way more headlines than actual impactful convictions that stuck
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"There is no evidence that the whale deaths are related to offshore wind development, according to officials... blaming the deaths on wind is an alarmist jump.." via
@Newsday
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"The much-celebrated crusader against Wall Street & Albany looks overzealous & irresponsible. A suggestion: Be wary of prosecutors, particularly those, such as Bharara, who litigate by news conference & too eagerly seek the limelight"
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“March is almost a billion dollars. It’s almost a year later that it should have started,” said
@DannyInTransit
at
@RidersAlliance
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“The city’s homeownership rate of just over 31%, which is about the same as the figure from 2011, is roughly half the nationwide number and less than nearly every other major American city.”
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Easily the most authentic empath we’ve likely ever had in the White House. Clinton was performatively good at this, but Biden’s searing life experiences make him the real deal. Can’t imagine another modern pol making a speech like this and it feeling as genuine as this did.
Biden: I promise you a day will come when you pass that ice cream store, you pass that park, you pass that thing that brings back the memory of your son or daughter and it's going to bring a smile to your lips when you think of them before it brings a tear to your eye.
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The FEC was feckless and impotent BEFORE Citizens United, they've completely abandoned the playing field since. Not sure why anyone in politics would expect anything else at this stage.
Does the FEC exist still? What exactly is the point of campaign finance laws at this stage?
Trump's campaign is privately coordinating with his top Super PAC donor. The donor is speaking at rallies & talks to Trump privately.
Are you on permanent vacation
@SeanJCooksey
@FEC
?
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Next time you hear about commercial fishermen complaining about offshore wind projects impacts on their industry, remember their campaign is being bankrolled lock, stock and barrel by the oil and gas industry.
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Genuinely curious to know if the very effective Harris surrogate,
@mcuban
, has discussed these contributions with his new partners (the Adelson Family). I assume business is business, but gotta imagine it drives
@mcuban
crazy given their joint partnership with the
@dallasmavs
.
The legal max a person can donate to a candidate is $3300.
But, when billionaires like Miriam Adelson exploit our broken campaign finance laws to donate $100 million to a candidate, we’re no longer a democracy and it’s no longer an election — it’s an oligarchy and an auction.
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The Kamala jousting with Brett Baier is the Kamala we need down the stretch. Smart and tough, with an appropriate amount of righteous anger. Far and away her strongest interview of the campaign.
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“Orsted alone has a slate of six offshore wind projects it plans to build off the US East Coast by 2029. The company is building three of those with Eversource and the total cost of those wind farms is about $10 billion — and they’re not the only ones”
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First time party in power of WH has carried Indys since 1982, that’s the whole story. It’s not about any other self-serving narrative that has been trotted out thus far- independents went with the party in power and that’s why we got the result we did, full stop.
Why did "red wave" fail to develop? In 2022, Ds narrowly carried independents in the national House exit poll-the !st time the party holding WH has done so since at least 1982. Ds won indies by larger margins in AZ/PA/NH/GA Senate races & MI/PA/WI/AZ Gov contests.
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Biden first term staff better than Obama’s
When you consider Republicans picked up 6 Senate seats and 63 House seats in 2010, this was an incredible night for Joe Biden.
Democrats may even pick up a Senate seat!
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It’s one thing to use lines like “exposing the DEI scam” as an applause line at CPAC, it’s quite another when you’re trying to stitch back a coalition, that includes the suburbs, that your party hasn’t figured out since 2016.
NEW: Gov. DeSantis is attacking faculty at state universities as he eyes the presidency. But caught in the crosshairs of his higher ed reforms are events like bringing middle-school girls to campuses to encourage their interest in STEM w/
@Blaskey_S
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Can’t think of another race in modern Presidential history, where the debates were likely the two most determinative events of the whole race.
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Water quality is a ticking time bomb on Long Island. Most people don’t realize there is NO sewage system island-wide, just a series of septic systems, cesspools and patchwork sewage.
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Everyone who sat out the COVID vaccine wars, I now present you the declining GOP support for vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in our schools. The GOP is increasingly an anti-vaxx party way beyond anything to do with COVID.
NEW "The decline in support for vaccine requirements for children has been driven by changing views among Republicans: 57% now support requiring children to be vaccinated to attend public schools, down from 79% in 2019." No real change among Democrats.
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“Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader who regularly gets upward of 70% of the vote statewide lost both Long Island counties by a combined 15 points, the first time he’d lost either since his first campaign in 1998.”
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Give this man the Medal of Honor: “These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it,” he said as he described the night. “I’m happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever the hell they want.”
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“More than $313 million has already gone from the state to local governments. But while New York City is home to over 40% of the state’s population, just $6 million of the Environmental Bond Act money so far has gone to the five boroughs — under 2%.”
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This is one of the few pieces I’ve read that has rightly pointed out how common depression is after a stroke. “Post-stroke depression, doctors said, affects one in three people and can be very serious, but is also highly treatable.”
On Fetterman’s life at Walter Reed and how his office is running while they await his return —
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Her climate proposals are not getting nearly enough attention or coverage for how bold and progressive they are. Almost all the proposals would make New York a national leader on each of the issues detailed below.
Cap-and-invent program to cap GHG emissions.
$200M in utility bill relief.
Zero-emission new construction.
Phase out of fossil fuel heating equipment.
$500M for clean water.
Hard, necessary things to create a cleaner, healthier NY. Let’s do it.
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McKinsey laying off people whose job is to make recommendations to lay people off is very meta
EXCLUSIVE: McKinsey plans to eliminate about 2,000 jobs, one of the consulting giant’s biggest rounds of cuts ever
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One of the few pieces I have seen that distinguish between South and East Asian voters. Worth noting, biggest Asian ethnic voting blocs are Chinese, Indian and Filipino bunched at the top, with Koreans, Vietnamese and Cambodians with much smaller vote shares proportionally.
A critical look at Asian American voters' move to the right. South Asians vote most Democratic; Vietnamese, Koreans, Cambodians, Filipinos the least. Pandemic had big effects. Sadly, religion is reduced to class (religious voters = working-class).
@nytimes
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61% is a bonkers number for any Governor of a big state given negative partisanship of this era
Mark Kelly wouldn't be a bad VP pick, but, from an electoral perspective, Josh Shapiro is clearly the best. He greatly outperformed the baseline in PA in 2022 & now has a 61% favorable rating.
IMPT: the chance PA determines the presidential winner is higher than any other state
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What they can’t accomplish through gerrymanders, the GOP supermajority in TN is effectively trying to expel three Dem State House members for a gun protest in the Capitol after the horrific mass shooting in Nashville. This is the next step in the anti-democracy project of the GOP
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There was nothing like a Reggie Jackson home run, they were transcendent
Reggie Jackson would launch a bomb off you and then kick your sorry ass after he crossed home plate.
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It’s the single most important story in the country right now. Has implications for every aspect of life in America for decades to come. Will Fox be scared straight or keep spewing made up shit for their audience feels like a pretty existential question for this country.
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At their peak of power in the 90s, these guys were tri-state area sports gods. Basically invented sports talk radio and it’s modern day disciples on cable and podcasts. They were incredibly maddening at times, but just pure magic together
Mike Francesa was on Mad Dog Russo's SXM show today to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Mike and the Mad Dog's first radio broadcast. 🐐🐐
Here is the full segment. It wasn't terrible.
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Pretty full circle moment that Barney Frank was on Signature Bank’s board as it was taken over by the Feds.
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These Knicks are unlike any team in modern Knicks history. As fun as those Knicks teams of the 90s were, they would have definitely lost a Game 5 like tonight. This Knicks team is just built different, they just take care of business.
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“Safety net hospitals provide care to large numbers of Medicaid and uninsured patients and are situated in diverse and underserved neighborhoods.”
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.
@unitehere
has built one of the most nimble and effective political field operations that can play in key swing states every cycle. They were huge in the GA Senate runoff last time and played key roles in AZ, NV and PA. Expect to see them in GA again for the runoff
The most memorable quote anyone said to me this year could also prove the most prescient:”We are in the battle every place," Gwen Mills, the
@unitehere
secretary-treasurer, said of NV AZ & PA. "All of [these races] are w/in the margin of effort.” Margin of effort-killer concept
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“The Rodneys are part of an exodus of Black residents from New York City. From 2010 to 2020, a decade during which the city’s population showed a surprising increase led by a surge in Asian and Hispanic residents, the number of Black residents decreased”
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The way the McGonigal story has vanished into the news cycle abyss given its implications, says everything about where we are right now. Nothing sticks and creating outrage or scrutiny on an issue requires 10x the force multiplier than it did in the pre-2016 era.
The person who led the relevant section, Charles McGonigal, has just been charged with taking money from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Follow this thread to see just how this connects to the victory of Trump, the Russian war in Ukraine, and U.S. national security. 1/20
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“
@SunriseWindNY
, a new offshore wind project proposal could fundamentally improve the South Bronx and would potentially bring enough clean energy to power 1 million homes.”
-
@RepRitchie
.
@RitchieTorres
: Let the Bronx breathe clean air: Capping the Cross Bronx Expressway and expanding offshore wind will help the borough’s health
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“Blaming Jewish voters would seem a strange way to win them over.
@mlitwack
, for one, described Trump’s comments [at the Israeli-American Council National Summit] as ‘disturbing.’”
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These are two veritable stars in the Democratic fold who, if they want, will likely be Governors and Senators one day. Maybe even POTUS...while all the elite focus is always focused on Buttigieg as future star, don't sleep on these two and where they are headed.
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As California moves toward 1 of every 5 cars sold being EVs, New York is at a paltry 5% in 2022. You can thank the auto dealers lobby who keep blocking direct sale of EVs to consumers in NY.
Good morning with good news: EVs & fuel cell vehicles were 18.84% of sales in California during 2022, compared to 12.41% in 2021. ZEV sales were 345,818, up from 250,279 in 2021. A total of 1,399,913 Zero Emission Vehicles were operating in CA in 2022.
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One of the few Dems who has seamlessly transitioned to our new, more pugilistic political landscape is
@TimRyan
. His closing ad—>: “Ohio needs an ass-kicker, not an ass-kisser,” from a barroom stool after a series of attacks on GOP opponent J.D. VANCE play on a TV above.
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there are excellent reporters trying to manage an enormous beat, but the reality is editors need to be resourcing climate and the clean energy transition for what it is, a once in a generation shift that has cascading impacts on all of society and culture.
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Cuban is the single best Dem-leaning public communicator on the economy and it’s not even close.
Mark Cuban on CNBC: "Donald Trump is trying to come in with the hammer and say, 'I'm gonna hit you with a 200% tariff, John Deere.' Kamala Harris is saying, 'I'm going to give you incentives to manufacture more.' Which do you think is gonna work better with companies?"
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The decision was 8-1, which means several Dem appointees on the Supreme Court happily joined one of the most outrageous anti-union rulings from the Court in recent memory.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with corporations over working people.
But let’s be clear: This decision will in no way deter workers from going on strike.
The energy, enthusiasm & effectiveness of working people cannot, and will not, slow down in the wake of this ruling.
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@SallyGold
it’s easily the single most important in kind contribution to his campaign, there is no Lauder money at this scale without the Post playing the role they have been
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The climate coverage in New York is sorely lacking. That’s not a criticism of any reporter, but an indictment of the editorial leadership that has decided climate can still be covered the same way they covered workers and the labor movement for decades (namely as a niche issue)
I don’t understand how cap and invest, ending fossil fuel boiler replacements and ending gas in new construction etc isn’t getting more media coverage on Hochul’s budget. Monster items! Read
@nysfocus
and when it’s unpaywalled we can see
@m_jfrench
Politico NY energy coverage.
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