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The most interesting part of Bad Blood is the last third, when Carreyrou abandons his "objective stenographer" perspective and inserts himself directly into the story as one of the main protagonists.
In a way, he's just as subjective and compromised as Fielder and AS.
Komatireddy clearly wants to return to pre-2019, when prosecutors had virtually unlimited ability to detain accused people pretrial on Rikers for months or even years.
She sees the entire prosecutorial reform movement (bail and discovery reform, more diversion) as a mistake.
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'The New York Editorial Board' interview with @Sarithaforny on her campaign for New York Attorney General nyeditorialboard.substack.co…
It will be interesting to see whether voters agree with her!
At the time, there were some pretty compelling and popular reasons motivating the 2019 reforms.
newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…
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This is obviously wrong.
With no NYPD crowd-clearing, ICE would not have looked out at the crowd and thought “ah well, guess we’re trapped here.” They would have cleared the crowd themselves.
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But the protester, at least, chooses to protest. The Black teenager does not choose to be Black.
My latest on how NYC-DSA deprioritized the criminal legal reform movement, and why none of their other justifications hold up.
ghostrunnerblog.com/p/zohran…
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A must read
My latest on how NYC-DSA deprioritized the criminal legal reform movement, and why none of their other justifications hold up.
ghostrunnerblog.com/p/zohran…
Excellent point from @MichaelLangeNYC, there are real downsides to applying “pressure” when you have a losing hand.
michaellange.nyc/p/why-mamda…
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i forgot about this, between zohran, lander, and myrie, most of the WFP slate eventually came around to keeping Tisch substack.com/home/post/p-220…
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This is the best piece you will read on the Mamdani-Tisch relationship. From @ghostrunnerblog
substack.com/home/post/p-220…
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Eli and I have different politics, but this is a needed and damning indictment of how the Left dropped the ball on policing in NYC.
My latest on how NYC-DSA deprioritized the criminal legal reform movement, and why none of their other justifications hold up.
ghostrunnerblog.com/p/zohran…
My latest on how NYC-DSA deprioritized the criminal legal reform movement, and why none of their other justifications hold up.
ghostrunnerblog.com/p/zohran…
Really incredible line of questioning from @TimmyFacciola_ , which captures Lawler's problem in a nutshell.
New York has a competitive congressional race. One of the candidates spoke to us at the New York Editorial Board — see the transcript of our conversation, just posted. It’s not too Cait for the other to say yes to our invitation! nyeditorialboard.substack.co…
Eli Miller retweeted
I argued it was a mistake to keep Tisch in July 2025. But the issue isn't just her. It is an approach to policing. Just shuffling leadership without rejecting broken windows, gang suppression or aggressive protest policing won't achieve anything.
thenation.com/article/politi…
I would say there are some pretty obvious reasons why DSA did this.
They were trying to win an election, backlash to BLM made a lot of reform superficially unpopular, and the coalition they built (Commie Corridor plus first generation immigrants) was not a fit for this issue.
The quoted statement is definitely “reasonable” and “coherent,” but I’m not sure the demand to disband the SRG counts as “pressuring Zohran,” since he already signaled that reforms are “coming soon” earlier this week.
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As @TweetBenMax pointed out, this is likely part of a legal process to reform the way the department handles protests, which started long before Mamdani took office.
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Tisch is fascinating, though. I think @ghostrunnerblog first hit on the dynamic where she is somewhat like Robert Moses, this all-powerful career bureaucrat who multiple mayors either like or seem afraid of. Unlike Moses, though, she's just gotten much less done. Less earned.