niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social

Lawyer, former @blunderbussmag Managing Editor. I live, like a cliché in Brooklyn. I live like a cliché, in Brooklyn. I live like a cliché in Brooklyn.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

@chrisstIawrence @APCruises Asbury Park just now

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

It’s pretty crazy how the cities-only rent unaffordability problem (NY/SF) exploded to the rest of the country during COVID. We do have a national housing shortage, but this can’t be explained by the fundamentals.

[Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura @arnesa_kustura]

My friends in Des Moines have been complaining a lot about price increases so just for fun, I went to see what my first apartment (2008) costs now. I had a 2 bed, 2 bathroom for 400 dollars per month.

It is now 2,205.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

Other than this post, I am now exclusively Xeeting on Blues ky, the Everything App

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Yep. And let's be clear: Yglesias was a much-listened to voice in Biden WH & Shor was allowed to oversee a $700 million super-PAC campaiging . These jokers got the presidency they wanted and the campaign they wanted. They are trying to scapegoat low-power groups for their own political failure. Nobody should take this ass covering seriously.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

this is a three-way Occam’s Razor paradox

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

@adamjohnsonCHI even if it was true, then that would mean everyone in the party is either incredibly weak willed or criminally stupid!

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

@MatthewSitman +32/305926 for the Dem

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

@MatthewSitman This one keeps trickling in. -58 votes, definite recount, probably two weeks before it’s called.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

You know what? I’m way too lazy to cross post. Gonna take a week to give blue other app sky another chance.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

Devastated to hear that Bela Karolyi died, at 82, disgraced. Sad he’s not around to scream at himself for not sticking the landing.

[aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph]

this part is critical: with a few exceptions, NYC's democratic machines are dead. immigrants, transplants & young people with no interest in the old guard's politics have replaced the old base

county parties/clubs are too busy fighting the left to organize for general elections

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

Wish he would chatterounce

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

@hassankhan You’ll cover a bunch of different cultures, landscapes, climates, a few amazing cuisines, massive intact Punic and Roman ruins with no tourists, Giza, cheap, warm but not hot, good beaches, mix of relaxing and adventuring, fake monarchy / dictatorship / Europe / messy democracy

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

Hard to think of a Democrat who sucks more than this guy

[Zach Blackburn @zachblackburn23]

Rep. Josh Gottheimer just officially announced his campaign to be New Jersey’s next governor

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

My bad, Murkowski served 21 years in the Senate before running for governor and appointing his daughter to the Senate. Also, in his 2006 re-election bid for Governor, his margin of defeat against Sarah Palin was the largest of an incumbent in a GOP primary in American history.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

Alaskan Politics: Begich III is leading in their Congressional race. His father beat Frank Murkowski in 70 and was re-elected posthumously in 72 after disappearing in a plane crash, beating Don Young, who took the seat and succeeded him and served for 40 years. Murkowski went…

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

… on to serve 18 years in the US senate, then was elected Governor in 2002 and appointed his daughter Lisa to his Senate seat, which she still holds 22 years later, before losing in 2006 to Sarah Palin.

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

A 58 vote margin out of 300k votes cast.

If you win any election by less than 0.5%, your term should be cut in half.

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

The drip, drip, drip of votes from California, in addition to being unjust to the state's voters, and adding to the skepticism of our election integrity, also is just bad for Democrats because GOP margins on election night and the days after is inflated!

[niraliberalism / @niral.bsky.social @niralshah]

I don’t watch boxing much, but I’m glad to be doing it on X, the Everything App, presented by “https://t.co/JYzoV3tqZY - Netflix is having issues”