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Errata, ephemera, et cetera.

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@JeriTsaiNets He is 100% starting: Top asset you come away with after 164 games of intentionally losing; if he’s not good enough to start on a 28-win team, I don’t see how even Sean Marks can talks his way into keeping his job.

Brown, Jr + Dëmin are the backcourt…YMMV on who’s the PG.

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@NewYorkSkol I mean, the competition is pretty dire…

The current best Brooklyn pick has to be…Jarrett Allen?

(Can someone please break the news to Ben Saraf that he’s no longer allowed to ever be the point guard when Brown’s on the floor?)

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@admcrlsn NYC DSA should shiv Jeffries by not making it about ideology: As patriotic socialists who put nation above sectional interests, we think it’s absurd for the congressional Democratic Party to be led entirely by Brooklynites.

Give us a heartland Speaker! Mark Pocan? Summer Lee?

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@AliceFromQueens @babarganesh Lander seems pretty chivalrous to me, so that’s one thing in common.

He probably should’ve just ran for the seat last time instead of slumming as comptroller.

[Michael Lange @MichaelLangeNYC]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani shares a float alongside Knicks guard Jose Alvarado in the Puerto Rican Day parade along Knickerbocker Avenue.

Alvarado, a Bushwick native, was a star at Christ the King High School.

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@JCPolancoNYC It’s called generational turnover. Enjoy!

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@mikaelvWV @MichaelLangeNYC Amazingly, the one exception is… @BillKristol?

He seems to be the only person who made the tribal transit from Trotskyite to neoconservative to Never Trumper that isn’t insisting on carving out an Israel/Palestine exception.

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@mikaelvWV @MichaelLangeNYC Yeah, as with Biden moving left on everything besides Israel, I’ve been consistently amazed at the tenacity of Boomer Zionism as the one commitment folks like Schumer will not negotiate on for the sake of power.

Golda Meir must have been a hell of a drug!

[Rahin🍉 @raahiiinn]

Without Zohran Mamdani Arsenal could not have won this title

[tyler @TylerrBangham]

Never in my life would I have thought I would be excited to see Rudy Gobert hoops

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@Wilson__Valdez I think you have it reversed. Biden resented them as the Obama “cool kids” who sidelined him in 2016.

And they were right he was too old in 2024—but too late.

More substantively, Biden = bipartisan foreign policy “Blob” Rhodes clashed with on Iran, Cuba. (Mossad spied on him!)

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@JoshKraushaar Why does @jonathans_tobin think this is a good argument?

The reason Democrats are receptive to these “Soviet” claims now but not 40 years ago isn’t the birth of Hasan Piker. It’s b/c they see what Israel has done to Gaza and the West Bank.

Try mounting a substantive defense.

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@JoshKraushaar If they want to marginalize the Piker wing, maybe Democrats should apply to Israel the same test Republicans apply to Ukraine—does this level of support actually serve American interests? Is a county of 10m people worth burning our NATO and Asia treaty allies over?

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar The mayor’s race confirmed it’s centrist Dems hooked on wokeness.

Cuomo’s campaign was pure identity politics: Zionist Lives Matter. The anti-antisemitism crusade vs Mamdani sounded just like Ibram X. Kendi’s antiracism. Happily, plenty of NY Jews rejected their “1938 Project.”

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar He was a back-bench assemblyman. What political involvement are you thinking of? His most notable achievement was joining a hunger strike that won debt relief for NY cabbies who sunk millions on taxi medallions, just before Uber wiped out their value.

Sounds neo-FDR to me.

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar Mamdani was born in 1991. He was 4 when Yitzak Rabin was assassinated.

Yes, I believe there’s a universe where Rabin lived, the unholy Likud–Hamas alliance didn’t kill Oslo, and an imperfect peace à la Northern Ireland took hold.

And no 2010s college kid would care abt 🇮🇱🇵🇸.

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar As a NYer, Mamdani’s first 100 days have been all economics.

Irony of your take on recent history: Dem’s Peak Woke Era was NOT sparked by leftists. Its origin was Hillary Clinton’s campaign reacting to Bernie’s class warfare by tarring his followers as sexists and racists.

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar Clinton 100% did NOT see himself as the heir to FDR. He saw himself as the Democrat to consolidate the Reagan Revolution and sand off its rough edges, like Blair to Thatcher.

Hence NEO-liberal and THIRD way.

If you consider Mamdani/AOC’s ethnicity an “agenda,” then fine.

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar Sleepy Joe Biden was so pro-Israel b/c he remembered the country of Golda Meir.

But contra the left’s “European colonists” slur, Israeli society has become Middle Eastern: tribal, sectarian, zealous.

56% of young Israelis believe the Messiah’s coming! https://t.co/2YhgGStSd5

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@ReinceNiebuhr @JoshKraushaar Piker is only prominent b/c he’s a proxy for the pro-Israel side’s last stand.

But shift from Clinton to AOC/Mamdani is arguably just a return to New Deal politics. And all 3 believe in secular pluralist liberal democracy.

Shift from Rabin to Bibi/Ben-Gvir is far more extreme.