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[Kevin Amézaga @kevinamezaga]

Can we just… not do this every four years? Primaries should all be the same date. Let everyone vote for their candidate at the same time, not get a candidate who won based off polls and small states.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is the dumb trick the Dem Party has been using on their followers for years now.

When something they pretend to oppose "must pass" (like the NDAA), they ensure there are just enough Dem votes for it to pass, even if it's just by one vote.

Then they tell all other Dems: feel free to vote NO so our followers think we really oppose it, and we almost sunk it!

If these 6 hadn't voted YES, Jeffries would have easily had 6 other House Dems to vote YES.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Mamdani has advanced to Deng Xiaoping Thought while Piker is still stuck defending Mao.

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

Biggest theft of our lives. That was our money and they handed the refund to corporations instead of back to you

[Andrew DeFrank @andrewdefrank]

On the surface, all the same obstacles to upzoning and densifying DC are unchanged from a decade ago:

NBC 4 credulously interviewing an old NIMBY, anti-density flyers across Dupont cynically using lefty language, an IG comment about over development.

But it’s all a mirage.

[Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton]

being a cyclist kinda sucks politically because your options are always

Candidate A: loves bike infrastructure, but refuses to jail bike thieves

Candidate B: wants to send bike thieves to the gulag, but hates cyclists

anyway my bike was stolen last week, RIP

[Brian Callaci @brian_callaci]

No juice. Without Peter Thiel $$$ this guy is a BigLaw associate in the Phoenix office doing water rights litigation for Intel

[Josh Jacobson @joshjacobsondc]

Waymo is apparently pushing back on being required to program their vehicles to not block bike lanes. We shouldn’t allow them in the city if they can’t commit to following the law

[Josh Freed @jsfreed]

We live in an era of stupid, self-defeating public policy in DC. Bravo @councilofdc @MayorBowser and @DDOTDC for making our neighborhoods less vibrant, making it harder on small businesses, and generating less tax dollars so we can ... have more parking. Really great job.

[Ashley Schapitl @AshleySchapitl]

The degree to which our government makes it harder for small businesses at every turn—and then people wonder why many independent restaurants are closing.

[chief poncho @poncho_chief]

@shannonrwatts No one wants to admit it -- and sure, it's a bad look politically -- but the substance of his comment is just absolutely correct

[Alex @alexanderao]

In my experience, Snapchat usage is one of the biggest divides between coastal city America and the rest of America

Snap is still EVERYWHERE in small towns (to the point where people open it just for the archives) whereas college-ed urbanites seem to have ditched it entirely

[chief poncho @poncho_chief]

@eat_dc Gentrifying DC is good, actually.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

It increasingly appears that after the New York Times refused to publish Racicot's allegations, the PR firm she hired instructed her to send her therapist the email containing the line about "sa/rape", which is what Politico ultimately used to justify going to print. 😬

[drew @ImNotOwned]

lmao this is a good illustration of why I am only a case by case union supporter. I always support the right to unionize. I also support the ability to tell them to eat shit.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

NEW: Politico knew at the time of publication precisely what Jenny Racicot texted to Graham Platner but deliberately omitted it from their article. Racicot, according to the lead Politico reporter on the story, told Platner she “needed her glute massaged.” He told her he was coming right over; she responded by telling him not to do so, but he came over quickly.

Whether this detail is important to you or not, it is a shocking breach of journalistic ethics by Politico and CNN not to include it in their coverage. Story at Drop Site to follow.

[𝓢𝓪𝓶 @samofsamshire]

Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that gentrification is fabulous.

[chief poncho @poncho_chief]

@Cincinnatus56 Yes.

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

Two very ancient phenotypes will be at play this Saturday

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Remember: If you want good public transit, you need extremely low crime and good public order on trains and buses.