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My new novel, GLASS CENTURY, will be published in 2025. Contributing writer, @NYTMag . @CrainsNY columnist. Words in many places.
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Andrew Cuomo's approval rating has surged beyond 80 percent. New York is the global epicenter for COVID-19 and there's little the government did well to contain the virus in its early stages. 20,000+ people have died. It is truly one of the most remarkable PR coups of all-time.
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Sort of remarkable George W. Bush created a massive and problematic federal agency out of thin air and Democrats just agreed it would exist forever
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COVID-19 cases have now declined 33% nationally from 14 days ago. There's little coverage of this, which doesn't surprise me. Good news doesn't drive the media.
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The former head of the CDC told the New York Times up to 80 percent of the deaths in New York could have been averted if Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio reacted sooner to COVID-19. Over 8,000 are now dead. Liberals cling to the fantasy it's all Trump's fault.
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Thinking about how we wouldn't need an Andrew Cuomo reckoning if prestige media and elite pundits just reported on him accurately in the first place
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The New York Times didn't think Bernie Sanders, who raised nearly $100 million in 2019 and now polls second nationally, was even a *top four* candidate worth considering for their endorsement.
What a newspaper
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Here's the deal. NYC is not in desperate need of jobs. Unemployment is low. If you are reasonably healthy, you can get a job.
NYC needs affordable housing and a functioning transit system. This is what Amazon's defenders do not get.
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It's wild Andrew Cuomo wrote a book about conquering COVID-19 and the virus is raging unchecked through large swaths of New York State
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One of the odder historical facts I can think of is that Reggie Jackson and Benjamin Netanyahu went to high school together
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K Hive literally "trolling" me for losing a State Senate election with 42 percent of the vote when their candidate lost a presidential election by not even reaching the ballot
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Wealth overwhelmingly rules our political class. An unfair political system too often blocks working class candidates from seeking office.
We need a system where more former bartenders like
@AOC
can have a real opportunity to run.
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Is everyone still crushing on Andrew Cuomo?
As far as I can tell, $400 million in Medicaid cuts are still happening during the worst pandemic in 100 years.
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Pelosi seems to hold visible disdain for Kathy Hochul. She blamed the 2022 House losses on the "gubernatorial race" and, when asked, said she had not discussed the 2024 races with Hochul. She says she's only spoken to the "future speaker of the House," Hakeem Jeffries.
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My takeaway from
@Ocasio2018
's stunning, wonderful win?
Stand for something. Fight for the working class and poor. Have beliefs. Be yourself.
It's a new day.
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Just watched a segment on the "state of the race" by PBS. They literally cycled through every candidate except Bernie Sanders.
Remarkable
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There's enormous daylight now between how AOC talks about Gaza and how Illhan Omar talks about Gaza
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Andrew Cuomo has rolled out coronavirus vaccines slower than West Virginia, Vermont, and Florida. A new, very contagious variant of the virus threatens New York.
He failed in March and he's failing again.
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Liberals wondering how people could vote for Trump despite horribly mishandling a pandemic seem to always forget Cuomo is widely popular in New York despite horribly mishandling a pandemic
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It's a dark lesson for future executives. You can be as incompetent as you want to be, as long as your performance pleases media outlets and you win the hearts of cable TV pundits and personalities. It also helps to have yourself compared to Donald Trump and Bill de Blasio.
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"Cynthia Nixon is a celebrity. She has no qualifications. Why didn't she run for local office first?"
Andrew Cuomo, son of a very famous governor, got a federal cabinet appointment in his 30s and ran for governor the first time he ever attempted to hold elected office.
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Two years later, the
@AOC
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Increasingly clear Cuomo was hiding the true nursing home death toll to inflate his reputation for the memoir he had the gall to publish during the pandemic
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Times Square, in the heart of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district
Conservative group backs AOC primary challenger with Times Square billboard, $100K media spend
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Big news:
@DemSocialists
announces they now have more than 85,000 members and 153 elected officials nationwide.
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"I don't know about you, but I don't want Mark Zuckberg making decisions over my life,"
@AOC
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One lesson for the Left with Dianne Morales is that it's become way too easy to master the talking points and the lingo. That alone shouldn't be the bar you have to clear.
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You can't live with the New York Post, you can't live without the New York Post.
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One of the weirder aspects of the current Eric Adams/Kathy Hochul dynamic is their continued attempt to make NYC seem less safe than it actually is. It's the opposite of what most executives try to do - promote tourism, reassure visitors, point to historical context of crime.
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"Legal" immigration in the 1900s meant showing up at Ellis Island, giving your name, getting a perfunctory health check, and heading to a city where you were able to work right away.
Councilwoman, to use your own words, don’t get it twisted!
The immigrants who came to America legally a century ago — like my family through Ellis Island — are not the same as those flooding through the U.S. southern border illegally today.
A short
#thread
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Delta is now at a +1% rate increase in America. The slowdown is here. But good news doesn't go viral like bad news.
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In New Hampshire,
@AndrewYang
made a very important critique of Facebook which other candidates must stress.
Facebook is no longer a platform. It's a publisher. It can't hide behind its old logic any longer
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The Obama birthday party story isn't about Covid - live your life! - it's about a former public servant cashing out to such a ludicrous degree that he owns a $12 million waterfront mansion and parties with George Clooney
Caring about Obama’s birthday party, in either direction, seems... like a waste of energy??
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Jesse Jackson's endorsement of Bernie Sanders is significant because Jackson is still a major name among older black voters and represents an earlier version of the Bernie campaign, a leftist insurgency attempting to move oft-ignored issues into the mainstream
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This Andrew Cuomo scandal is different than all the others because it has permeated mainstream national culture. It's the subject of an SNL skit, Ron Kim went on the View, CNN and MSNBC are giving it regular air-time. That's why it's so bad for him.
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The rhetoric against the pro-Palestinian protesters is starting to echo what was heard in the wake of 9/11, when American Muslims were accused of harboring terrorist sympathies and all critiques of the U.S. were regarded as insurrectionist.
Worth listening to
@ChrisCuomo
speak about the campus riots:
Kids are being radicalized in a way that poses a true national security threat...there is a noisy vicious minority espousing radical Islamist allegiance and calling for intifada. They are driving the dynamic…and
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What is the benchmark in NYC for ending the Covid vaccine mandate for bars, restaurants, gyms, and other venues? Is there a metric we eventually achieve? The lack of curiosity from the media class is telling.
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Why does
@AOC
succeed? Because she understands politics better than most of the people who practice it.
"Politics should be pop because it should be consumable and accessible to everyday people."
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Remarkably condescending dig at
@AndrewYang
in the NYT presidential endorsement editorial.
"We hope he decides to get involved in New York politics."
The guy built a more successful national campaign than most senators and governors in the race
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Andrew Cuomo plans to slash New York's budget by $10 BILLION. This is going to cripple counties across the state. Cuomo has pursued no revenue raisers to attempt to close even some of the shortfall. Austerity is here.
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At some point some Democrat in the race is going to realize Mike Bloomberg aggressively lobbied to bring the Republican National Convention to NYC in 2004, proudly endorsed Bush's *re-election*, and mass arrested all the protesters
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It is amazing and absurd that in New York City, in the year 2022, the tenant is expected to pay the fee of the broker. The tenant did not ask to use the broker or work with the broker. The relationship was forced.
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Imagine wildly praising Andrew Cuomo's response to COVID-19 at a time when the State of New York has more confirmed cases than other country in the WORLD.
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The case for Bernie Sanders, ultimately, is that there is a 0 percent chance there won't be a swath of highly motivated people under the age of 35 who would run through fire to make him president. Also, he could probably take the Midwest from Trump
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It's weird how little Twitter action there is around the fact that the rise in Delta cases is clearly slowing down now. It's almost as if it's harder to go viral by tweeting good news.
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Future generations should learn in their history classes the worst pandemic in a century ravaged New York and Governor Andrew Cuomo delayed the de facto shelter-in-place order because he didn't like that the Mayor of New York suggested it first
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Intense excitement for Lee Zeldin in Midwood. Orthodox Jewish voters are mobbing him, chanting his name, calling him a hero.
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More thoughts coming as I continue to write. The short of it: it's a remarkable night for progressives, leftists, and democratic socialists in New York.
@AOC
was no fluke. Politics in NYC is in a realignment. The old guard continues to fall.
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Found out today Joe Biden praised Andrew Cuomo for accomplishments such as "access to voting."
New York has worse voting laws than most former Confederate states.
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My own unpopular thought on the latest NYC vaccine mandate is that the CDC still tells people with allergic reactions to not get a second dose of the vaccine. The science tells you literally not to do it, but NYC will, in essence, force you to do it to go indoors.
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As New York reopens, beware the Andrew Cuomo victory narrative. He will say he saved New York from the worst of COVID-19. Nearly 30,000 people died. He failed tragically and miserably to avert catastrophe.
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It's gonna be wild when all the liberals who worship Andrew Cuomo figure out the Board of Elections being incompetent and horrendous has nothing to do with Donald Trump and everything to do with Andrew Cuomo
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The MTA is spreading a propaganda narrative that its horrible financial woes and mismanagement can be blamed on turnstile jumping. I urge journalists and elected officials to challenge this narrative relentlessly.
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CNN and MSNBC execs are bowed in silent prayer, daily, beseeching Donald Trump to run in 2024
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It's official.
@AndrewYang
has now outlasted Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, and Beto O'Rourke. Three U.S. senators, for those counting at home.
The secret? Have a coherent message. Run on it. People may just like you!
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I spoke with India Walton, the democratic socialist who might become mayor of Buffalo. She told me "I'm not that woke" and said the Left must do a much better job relating to working-class people.
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The millenial generation is probably the first in NYC that, overall, really cannot afford to buy anything in the five boroughs. Every prior generation had something of a shot. Housing prices have far outstripped inflation.
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Trump failed to respond. But in January and February, it was clear coronavirus would hit NY. Cuomo and de Blasio could have instituted full lockdowns by early March when first cases appeared. Meanwhile, Washington State and California moved more quickly and saved many lives.
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The Senate should repeal the Faircloth Amendment, following the lead of
@AOC
and others. For
@nytopinion
, I explained why this matters so much.
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Still trying to comprehend that Andrew Cuomo is getting praise for responding to COVID-19 when New York City has almost 50,000 cases and climbing and clearly wasn't remotely prepared to handle a crisis that was months in the making. We live in strange times.
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The
@WorkingFamilies
is in a fascinating place. The frontrunner for the nomination is Bernie Sanders, who shares every one of their values. Yet they are enthusiastically supporting a candidate whose stated goal now is a contested convention to deny him the nomination
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It's wild Andrew Cuomo goes to other states and tells them how New York tamed COVID-19 when 32,000 people died. The death toll not only outstrips every state in America, still, by a long-shot, but would be a catastrophe for any nation on Earth
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Bernie Sanders will be a front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president.
My Twitter feed hates this, but Democratic voters don't.
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This is your daily reminder the Board of Elections is a patronage-ridden agency controlled by the state, not NYC, and Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature have done virtually nothing to reform it
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Today Andrew Yang said of Eric Adams that the "last thing New York City needs is a mayor who uses race-baiting any time he is criticized."
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@Dianne4NYC
@AlanaSivin
Charter schools are quite literally neoliberalism and the privatization of education, an argument that public services have failed and only education beyond a unionized workforce can succeed, with underperforming students driven out of the system. Tolerate whatever you want.
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What people still miss about Andrew Cuomo is that he is not a governor who did things well who was then, later on, besieged by scandals. He was comparing COVID-19 to the flu and downplaying the threat through March 2020. This should never be forgotten.
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"Delete your account" "this you?" "read the room" there's something special about Twitter discourse that feels frozen in time, a bunch of aging millenials and gen X'ers chasing the lingo of their faded youth as they remain terminally online
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I was just literally told I am "not on the list" for the Eric Adams election night party and only certain media are allowed. Absolutely bizarre.
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NEW: The New York political world is
buzzing as
@AndrewYang
thinks seriously about running for mayor of New York City.
"Anyone who underestimates his potential impact doesn't understand the moment we are in"
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Notable
@AndrewYang
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One thing that's kind of funny is how Bernie Sanders' 2021 experience has been a solid refutation of his bad faith critics who said he "never got anything done" in Congress. He chaired the committee that oversaw the biggest stimulus ever.
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I know there's nothing fashionable about this but it's absolutely bizarre Twitter has locked the New York Post's Twitter account for over a week. I've criticized them as much as anyone but this is absurd overreach and the silence from the media is remarkable.
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The next leftist who runs for president needs to win over the media, major newspapers and cable TV, early on. There isn't really a secret science to this. You give them tons of access and act nice to them and make them think you're a friend
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It's October 26th and Twitter is still locking the New York Post's account. Almost all the coverage of this unprecedented move has come from the right. Why is it so hard for liberal journalists to acknowledge this is a really bad and dangerous precedent?
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The curfew seems literally designed to mass arrest people and do nothing else. It will go down as one of the great and more ridiculous policy failures of
@NYCMayor
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It's official. Andrew Cuomo is resigning as governor of New York. He says his resignation is effective in 14 days.
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You become right-coded once you break from any consensus, which is very stupid. Taibbi criticizes the left often, but he's fundamentally a liberal on virtually every social and economic question of note. His free speeh absolutism would've made him a leftist into the 2000s.
This is baldly inaccurate.
@mtaibbi
is not a conservative journalist, as anyone familiar with his work knows.
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Today
@Dianne4NYC
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"Not only is it time to end the intimidation, verbal abuse, and bullying many in Albany have faced at the hands of Governor Andrew Cuomo, it’s time to end his retribution against New York City too."
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To recap:
- Andrew Cuomo gets $4 million to write a book about stopping the pandemic during the pandemic
- He forces government staff to work on this book, an utter vanity project
- 50,000+ people die of COVID-19 in his own state
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Bernie Sanders is this guy who is probably the second most likely candidate to win the Democratic nomination. Not a mention from a
@PBS
segment on 2020. Panel of reporters have yet to say his name. This is kind of surreal
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The problem with public health experts is they've been all over the place since 2020. Masks are bad, masks are good, going to the beach is murder, go protest, social distance with vaccines, get vaccines so you dont have to social distance, dont need masks now, need masks now
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So much material for Andrew Cuomo to be impeached over. Where to begin?
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The overcorrection from the Robert Moses era was creating so many layers of bureaucracy and "community engagement" that little gets built and central planning for major infrastructure projects becomes effectively impossible
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Trump not campaigning in July, August, September, October, and November on giving $2,000 to almost everyone was truly a godsend for an inept Democratic Party
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You've gotta give it to the hacky New York City Democrats going to court to stop ranked-choice voting. It won a referendum with 74(!) percent of the vote in 2019. May we all, one day, possess such gall.
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Eric Adams continues to denounce remote work. "You can't stay home all day in your pajamas." He says humans are social creatures.
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If landlords in NYC during the hottest real estate market ever couldn't build a few months of cash reserves to cancel their tenants' rent when a pandemic hit, then they shouldn't be landlords. They won't take a temporary hit to help those much poorer than they are. That's it.
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Not enough focus on the incompetence and waste of the Cuomo years. A dysfunctional MTA, infrastructure projects that blew their budgets, meddling in the affairs of experts who knew better. Liberals think Cuomo was a great governor brought down by a scandal. He wasn't great.
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The problem with all Israel-Palestinian debate is the warfare is deeply asymmetrical. One nation gets absurdly sophisticated US weaponry. The other, not even a nation, exists in deep poverty. This reality can't be ignored.
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Remember when Bill de Blasio refused to close public schools and Andrew Cuomo did no statewide order and prestigious media basically argued to keep them open?
More Department of Education employees have died than members of the NYPD.
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More candidates should talk explicitly about making it illegal to advertise prescription drugs. Almost every major nation on Earth bans the practice.
@AndrewYang
, to his credit, has made this point
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Who can forget the stirring Democratic primary of 2024
Jen Psaki explains the downsides to Biden quitting the campaign, "It would mean also a couple of thousand party insiders would be empowered to make a choice on the nominee, not the millions of Democratic primary voters who already cast their ballots."
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"Covid won't control us," Eric Adams says today, promising no new lockdowns or shutdowns in NYC.
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"We need to create dignified jobs in New York City,"
@AOC
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Andrew Cuomo's disinterest in trying to save New York City is remarkable when New York City is the sole economic engine of consequence for the state he governs
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Critics of the Amazon deal were right all along. A trillion dollar company did not need a generous tax subsidy to build here.
Tech giant Google will continue its expansion in New York City -- without any of the tax breaks other companies are using, an official with the company told THE CITY.
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There's an alternate universe where Trump wins re-election in 2020, starts trying to push nationwide vaccine mandates because he "built" the vaccine, and Mehdi Hasan calls it fascism.
Keep mask mandates - especially in schools. Keep vaccine mandates - where possible. Bring in a damn vaccine mandate for domestic air travel via EO. Send out more free high-quality masks & rapid tests on a monthly basis. Tie ‘opening up’ to booster uptake. Expand the Supreme Court
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Andrew Cuomo just cut Medicaid funding during a pandemic
THE LATEST: New York State Lawmakers Reach Tentative Budget Agreement
+ Spending reduced; no tax hike
+ School aid held flat
+ Billions in Medicaid reductions
+
@NYGovCuomo
has power to do mid-year cuts
+ Bail law pared back
+ Pot not legalized
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