The looming question for every Minneapolis petty liberal - not how do you prevent your local police from bankrupting your city from waste, fraud and abuse, no, the important question how outraged should you be that Hasan Piker might be in Minnesota? Cuz priorities
I’m headed to Fort Lauderdale Florida to record PBD podcast tomorrow with @patrickbetdavid looking forward to meeting the gang Tom, Vinny, Adam and the rest of the Valuetainment team
French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
Gross domestic product. I dig a hole, GDP goes up. I fill it in, GDP goes up.
I get into my car, drive into a wall, GDP goes up because we have to rebuild the wall and repair the car.
GDP is just a monetary valuation.
It does say something relevant about American democracy that New York voters twice went to the polls last year to overwhelmingly vote for a *socialist* who vocally opposes US support for Israel, and he won overwhelmingly, and yet...
The NYPD somehow remained in the hands of an heiress to a billionaire real estate fortune that has long dominated NYC politics and who have been fanatically devoted to Israel. Just one of those "quirks" of American democracy:
Darializa Avila Chevalier calls for NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to step down
"Last night, the NYPD and Commissioner Tisch violated the spirit, if not the letter, of our sanctuary city policies and fueled the Trump Administration’s attempt to demonize our communities.
The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group must be disbanded as quickly as possible, and Commissioner Tisch must step down."
SIROTA: “Did Gaza cost Kamala the White House?”
GOV. WALZ: "We did the most terrible thing you can do in politics — We tried to walk the middle… the idea that criticizing 🇮🇱 is antisemitic is untrue… Palestinian protestors had a point…”
Tim Walz says the Harris campaign chased the wrong voters — Dick Cheney Republicans: (Lever)
“It’s pretty hard to deny that one of our base was fractured — the American Jewish community and the Muslim community, over Gaza and the intolerable assault. In retrospect, we should have spent time there — not courting a nebulous group of Wyoming Republicans who weren’t going to vote for us.”
He is arguing the Cheney swing was a dead end — and the split over Gaza was the real problem.
The rest of the postmortem is just as blunt. Harris never broke from Biden — the DNC autopsy said the White House never positioned her to run her own race. Walz’s early “they’re weird” line got benched for a big tent with Cheney, Bernie, and Taylor Swift. And the party’s own report skipped Gaza and Biden’s age — the two fights that actually split the ticket.Did they lose the base trying to rent Liz Cheney’s?
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zohran had a good statement today. he tried to participate in the most appropriate oct 7th vigil. these protests would occur nonetheless but would be less valid if he had offered material concessions to the antizionist groups he made promises to while running like disbanding the srg, and stopping illegal land sales in synagogues.
he will be very popular and a good mayor regardless, but the reason there's public friction is because the antizionist movement has no inside pressure capacity or institutional power to force him into concessions like the zionist groups do.
New York City has been ranked the No. 1 city in the world by Oxford Economics’ 2026 Global Cities Index.
The annual ranking evaluated 1,000 cities across five categories: economics, human capital, quality of life, environment and governance.
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