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What Zohran Mamdani's favorite rappers shows about his politics usatoday.com/story/news/poli…

Nas, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G. Politics and the rap choices of NYC Mayor Mamdani

Mamdani chooses uber-capitalists Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z among his five favorite rappers. Is it a pivot to center?

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CNN: New York US House polling (Among Jewish voters) 🟦2018: D+40 🟦2022: D+49 🟦2026: D+13 (36 pt swing to the GOP)
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Matt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Scott Ritter's views fell 43% Rick Sanchez's views fell 39% Max Blumenthal's views fell 37% Ben Swann's views fell a 18%
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Matt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Tucker Carlson's views dropped 71% Douglas Macgregor's views dropped 62% TCN views dropped 34%
Matt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Scott Ritter's views fell 43% Rick Sanchez's views fell 39% Max Blumenthal's views fell 37% Ben Swann's views fell a 18%
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Neil Stone
@DrNeilStoneOct 12
Mentions of the word "Fauci" on X have fallen off a cliff since the data centres in Russia were hit Makes you wonder...
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tyson brody@tysonbrodyOct 8
BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!
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Holly Pretsky@hollypretOct 8
Two federal agents are going door to door near the crime scene “trying to get evidence.” Darializa Avila Chevalier and state Sen. Gustavo Rivera are following them to tell people they don’t have to answer or speak with the agents.
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Spectrum News NY1
@NY1Oct 9
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the ICE agents who authorities say shot a man in Marble Hill Thursday afternoon were wearing construction vests and masks, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at least one of them was carrying a long gun.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.
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Aaron Blake
@AaronBlakeOct 7
Mike Rogers on Trump's tariffs in Nov. 2025 vs. his new ad
Mike Rogers
@MikeRogersForMIOct 7
Prices are too high and Canada is not our enemy. We need to end the tariff war — now. In the Senate, I’ll bring both parties together to lower costs and put Michigan families first.
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Alert: Longtime Republican consultant Rick Wilson (but now an independent) says the Republicans are pulling campaign funding out of Ohio, giving up on the state. • The Ohio Comment: Wilson explicitly stated, "I'm told they're going to leave Ohio." • The Reason: He noted that national leadership is "not happy about Ohio" and viewing the state as an expensive media market and a "heavy lift," they are playing a "game of triage" to reallocate those campaign dollars to cheaper, more winnable races like Alaska.
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Seems an overread of Hochul's unique weaknesses as a Western NY pol running a state where votes reside primarily in the NYC metro, and of the unusual polarization in the suburbs and slices of the outer boroughs against Mamdani. Look at Trump's numbers in the same poll cited here
Chaz Nuttycombe
@ChazNuttycombeOct 7
Pretty evident that NY state is becoming increasingly competitive, mainly due to party polarization on Israel in a state with a rapidly growing pro-Israel population. Unless lib flight into NYC under Mamdani helps offset, we could be looking at a competitive NY by 2032.
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Real wage growth was negative for the fifth month in a row in August.
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Anna Bower
@AnnaBowerOct 6
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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Not long ago these same groups were busy telling everyone that climate was the single most important issue of this era
Joshua Siegel@SiegelScribeOct 5
Permitting scooplets in @PunchbowlNews Midday: progressive enviro groups sent a letter to Schumer/Jeffries urging Dems to oppose the bipartisan Senate bill: “the damage that will occur due to weakening of environmental laws outweigh emissions reductions" punchbowl.news/permitting-re…
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see also: filling potholes.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlinOct 5
there's certainly stuff mamdani does that is distinct but a lot of what he does is totally normal for nyc mayors — like attending lots of religious and national holiday celebrations — and people think it's distinct because they weren't paying attention to his predecessors
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there's certainly stuff mamdani does that is distinct but a lot of what he does is totally normal for nyc mayors — like attending lots of religious and national holiday celebrations — and people think it's distinct because they weren't paying attention to his predecessors
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New York Attorney General Tish James' GOP opponent has sought to draw Jewish voters to her longshot campaign. Yet last week she posed for photos with a Black Hebrew Israelite group the Simon Wiesenthal Center has deemed "one of the most extreme" sects of the antisemitic movement
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Jeff Coltin
@JCColtinOct 4
Another audacious attempt by Bichotte Hermelyn to keep power away from the reform faction - arguing that the ruling in the reformers’ favor means that now the *regulars* can call a meeting tonight at 10 pm. Reformers have since filed a cease and desist against Bichotte.
HOWARD GRAUBARD
@HowardGraubardOct 4
Guess she thinks that now that's she's no longer chair the court order doesn't apply to her. Can you say "contempt"?
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1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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He says yes repeatedly if you watch the video. He says, “yeah” “I support the Democratic Party,” “I support the Democratic candidate” and “I said yes.”
America
@americaOct 4
Former Obama and Biden official Rahm Emanuel refuses to say if he will endorse Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
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