Through my lawsuit against the gov, we're getting internal documents about my arrest. Here's one: a State Department-commissioned 'social media review', conducted after the arrest. Their big finding? I talk about 'share' a lot and have an above average number of followers. This is what they spent your taxpayer money on.
@SmokesGroyp@remarks@j_fishback I’ve had a few ppl here in FL who read something Fishback said online, but they all change their mind when told about the allegations. The “we” on Election Day needs to be a lot of people & just “don’t care” doesn’t persuade casual voters who see grooming as disqualifying
@hvltz@remarks@j_fishback Not be an outcomes over ideals guy but Trump’s endorsement alone will decide this primary IMO. Most states like Florida with a dominant Republican Party have tended to fall in line with Trump’s candidate choices within the party. I predict Fishback going 3rd party, beyond that 🤷
@hvltz@remarks@j_fishback Personally I don’t believe he would deliver on his promises. Voters will decide. This section was the initial report I saw on his behavior:
@hvltz@remarks@j_fishback And it’s fact that Fishback is a groomer. Just because a candidate uses online lingo and makes big promises doesn’t mean results. He’ll pull a Spencer Pratt, get an online following without a chance to win then use that following for a cushy, easy paying lobbying position
Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.
And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.
We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.
The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.
It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.
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The November Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now forecast by CFSv2 to be 4.01°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, breaking through the 4°C barrier for the first time.
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Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll:
"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today's ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions."
Karl: You’ve got Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic member of Congress, who says, “Many of us believe, as do I, if you’re a socialist, you are not a Democrat.”
And in fact, they put out a manifesto today. Have you seen this thing?
Mamdani: Sounds pretty socialist to me.
Karl: It’s not a communist manifesto. It’s a moderate manifesto saying we are capitalists, not socialists. We believe in a growing, fair, and competitive economy, entrepreneurship, ownership. I mean, this is a direct response. They’ve made it clear what they think about what you did here on Tuesday.
Mamdani: Well, I mean, you know, that’s great, but what’s a party if not its voters?
And I’m proud to sit in front of you as the mayor of our city, having received more than a million votes a little less than a year ago.
And when we’re talking about these incredible congressional candidates, they won their races, and they won their races with a vision of what politics should be—one that actually speaks to working people.
And for a lot of people who ask themselves, “What does democratic socialism mean?” you can tell them the answer at a theoretical level: it’s the choice to extend democracy from the ballot box to the rest of their lives.
But in terms of what it means, over these last seven months, we’ve seen a city with democratic socialist principles at the heart of our administration. And what we’ve delivered has been record lows when it comes to murders and shootings.
Karl: So is it pragmatic democratic socialism?
Mamdani: I think democratic socialism, at heart, is pragmatic because, if we cannot deliver for working people, then what is this for? I'm not interested in writing a manifesto or frankly, in reading one. I'm interested in delivering. And that's exactly what we've been showing.