Reihan Salam

@ManhattanInst

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

My wife made this video to celebrate our engagement a few months ago and it's my favorite thing: https://t.co/YfZ0BFoT7F

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

If the cadres are smart, this could be what happens next. Albany will approve a vacancy reset to allow landlords to bring rent-stabilized units back on the market (which would be a very good thing!). This will temporarily ease the housing emergency while leaving the long-term problem untouched. Declare victory, wait for a federal Dem trifecta and blue-state bailout.

[Ben Krauss @BenKrauss5]

Mamdani obviously riding crazy fundamentals in NYC during his first year (lower crime, no migrant crisis, a knicks chip, city ambassador for the world cup).

But something for progressives to reflect on... what if the fundamentals weren't as strong? What if he came into office and immediately had to deal with '22 style migrant crisis? Point being, there's a big tension between the left's goals on immigration at the federal level (border decriminalization and very low threshold for asylum seeking) and the conditions that will allow for a left mayor to govern with durable political support.

Brandon Johnson failed for a million reasons, but the biggest reason I heard from city alderman when I wrote up a story on it was because Biden's immigration policy caused a lot of chaos in the city. Voters blamed Johnson. And the Mayor had to redirect city money away from some of his other progressive priorities and towards migrant settlement.

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

I appreciate why @katz_morris et al. want to focus on AIPAC.

If you’re interested in where @claireforny stands on issues relevant to her district, check out her conversation with the New York Editorial Board, a diverse, experienced group of journalists. https://t.co/JIw1eXokpA

[Morris Katz @katz_morris]

It’s either deeply dishonest or shocking naive for people in progressive politics to disagree with this & pretend that a new PAC just emerging now is anything other than an AIPAC shell.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

See you tonight 🇺🇸🫡

@CNN at 10PM ET

[Sanjana Friedman @metaversehell]

Yikes.

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

Wait, Darializa Chevalier cofounded CUAD? The group that considers itself part of the same resistance as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis?

https://t.co/rqIj4AsJDw

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

One thing that occurred to me after reading a very good @freedlander piece ("Building the Mamdani Machine"):

One gets the impression that Chevalier, Valdez, and Lander are a response to AOC. Though AOC has played a crucial role in building a socialist faction, she has proven too independent and charismatic to function purely as a disciplined cadre who happens to have been deployed to elected office. My sense is that Mamdani wants something quite different.

There is no evidence to suggest that Chevalier, Valdez, or Lander would ever defy a Mamdani-led DSA. In the case of Chevalier and Valdez, they don't have an independent base or long professional (let alone political) experience, which would make it exceedingly difficult to strike out. Lander does have long experience, but he's worn many different political guises (including a brief stint seeking to win over the center-right!) and he seems to understand how dependent he is on the Mamdani base, which will make him pliable.

This is an interesting model. The goal, it seems, is to steadily build a bloc that will exert significant power over the national Democratic party by marching in lockstep.

I may well be wrong about all of this. We'll find out soon.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

the ultimate worthwhile canadian initiative

[Chris Pope @CPopeHC]

Everyone knows what conservatives don't like about the welfare state.
It's time for a right-of-center vision of what it *should* be doing:
https://t.co/Ee7VwhDGkn

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

And here is Carolyn on what federal, state, and district authorities should be doing instead

https://t.co/S1AmLXgPO6

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

Universal mental-health screening in K-12 produces up to 90% false positives. A 19-year RCT on school-based mental-health services found zero gains in test scores or attendance. Just more kids funneled into treatment, with no way to tell whether they needed it.

Kids in real emotional distress need real clinical support. But universal programs do the opposite. They spread resources thin, divert attention from the few in genuine crisis, medicalize ordinary distress, and convince healthy kids they're sick.

So why did the House Appropriations Committee just vote to lock ~70% of the federal "Safe Schools" fund—built for physical security, violence prevention, and emergency preparedness—into mental-health grants with this track record?

Congress should shut this down. Schools will never be equipped or accountable for clinical work. Stop treating them like mental-health clinics.

@ManhattanInst fellow @CarolynGorman_ in @CityJournal https://t.co/kjFt9TpT4u

[Alex Trembath @atrembath]

“U.S.-based nonprofits spend an estimated $7.8 to $9.2 billion annually addressing climate change.”

https://t.co/ixKp5vGMNl

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

Is Chinese socialism the key to the future? Note:

Independent labor unions are banned

Welfarism is condemned for giving rise to laziness and economic stagnation

China's Gini coefficient is (according to independent analysts, not Beijing) higher than that of the U.S.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 Hasan Piker Is the DSA’s Cheerleader-in-Chief: “I Don’t Think I Can Physically Support the DSA More”

This supercut is a perfect look at how Hasan Piker goes to bat for the DSA.

Hasan phone banks for DSA-backed congressional candidates, recruits volunteers, amplifies their campaigns to his massive audience, and tells one viewer, “I don’t think I can physically support the DSA more than I already have.”

After a few days in the Big Apple, Piker says he is still in New York because “there is a lot happening in this city for socialism,” while praising the DSA for what they’ve built and for “chipping away at the Democratic Party machine.”

Now he is taking the act to Denver today, where he is appearing with Melat Kiros, the democratic socialist running in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District.

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

Interestingly, Bill Bradley, mastermind of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, was a Knick …

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Knicks MVP Jalen Brunson: “I love Texas. I miss the Texas taxes.”

All of a sudden I have hope for his generation.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

NYPD headcount is down 11% since 2019 and quality-of-life ratings have collapsed. Stretched-thin agencies are struggling to deal with disorder. Tech can help, says Adam Lehodey. New AI-powered 3D street imaging delivers real-time data on graffiti, encampments, and disorder, letting officers and crews target problems rationally instead of chasing complaints. https://t.co/HjWl2I9NEC

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

Rising real net worth for people over their lifetime is par for the course. The typical Baby Boomer is indeed doing better than prior generations at the same age.
But, so too is the typical Millennial and Gen-Xer.

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

Definition of “working class” is infinitely elastic. Have the right opinions, wear distressed denim, sell oysters to your mother’s farm-to-table restaurant. Applies to right and left.

[Brendan Cunningham @cunningham61]

A “working-class” New Yorker with a Columbia PhD and no real tangible resume other than vague “organizing.” A seat in Congress? Yeah no.

[Nicole @nicolegelinas]

Again, really dispiriting that we've just had a mass-casualty attack in a prime location, including at least one critical injury, and the mayor and governor have just cheerily moved right along ... to all sports all the time. Not a word about how better to approach the mess at Penn Station or Grand Central on a day-to-day basis to prevent these now non-surprising attacks.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

47 murders on the subway in the past 5.5 years is a huge increase. In 20 years from 2000 to 2019 there were 44 murders. And 8 in the 6 years from 2013 to 2018.

*We use murders not to ignore other crimes, but because murders are a reliable stat for comparative purposes over time.

[Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 @JacobALinker]

@reihan hitting the nail on the head on the similarity of aspects of American Muslim politics and American Jewish politics of old.