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  1. Great idea. Mastercard DID NOT WANT to be brought up negatively in the context of their sponsorship of Riot's esports

    Weaponize that against them

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  2. I remember an old quote that says something to the effect of 'it never pays to be right too soon'

    People don't like their personal discomfort, or anything that goes outside the narratives they believe.

    And believe me, I didn't want to think ISRAEL could do genocide.

    They have, they are.

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  3. So it turns out that Cuomo's slam at Mamdani's lodgings wasn't just a know-nothing misrepresentation of homelessness, rent control, and rent stabilization, it was also a stealth boosting of the landlord lobby's coming messaging on why rent stabilization should be gutted.

    A top executive at the landlord lobby echoes Andrew Cuomo's call to means-test rent-stabilized housing.

    It's a look into the kind of messaging the real estate lobby could use to try to undermine Zohran Mamdani's popular call to freeze the rent.

    Tweet from Jay Martin: Many lawmakers themselves live in rent stabilized housing that they then pass laws restricting rents and raise expenses on.  

We have done outreach and focus groups over the last 6 months with thousands of renters and while rent stabilization and rent control remain extremely popular, when informed of the 150,000 wealthy New Yorkers and some politicians benefiting from rent stabilization opinions went sour quickly.  Black, and Asian New Yorker renters oppose  70%^, Latinos over 60%. 

White Manhattan and Brooklyn renters/homeowners were the only group that didn’t care if wealthy people or elected officials took rent reduced housing that they didn’t need. 

Make of that what you will.
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  4. Hey Gen X get a booster. Grt your tDAP now too. Whooping cough is awful. And throw in chicken pox/shingles. It's going to be a rough winter in healthcare

    Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

    MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

    Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We ARE at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

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