Rep. Dan Goldman won't endorse Mamdani until he takes "concrete steps" to address Jewish New Yorkers' fears about hate crimes, but also said he was not looking for any one specific commitment from Mamdani, but speaking generally
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It's the same way they treated Claudine Gay and the same way they covered post-debate Biden. I call it "full court press" or "drumbeat" coverage where you try to post a new negative story about someone (even if you have to invent it or just run unflattering "analysis" or op-eds) over and over again
I have never seen anything like the NYTimes reaction to Momdani.
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Do we always have to be so obtuse?
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Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.
BIG crowd of people shouting at police.
"Fuck you!"
"What is wrong with you!"
"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
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"Adams, who has 7% support in the latest Siena poll, “is kicking it into high gear,” Paterson said."
After backing Cuomo, former Gov. David Paterson endorses Mayor Adams
Paterson said Cuomo was “not as present” as he should have been during the primary and that Adams was now his choice.
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I have just seen my third news item with people saying "well sure crime is way down but if you tell people who are scared of crime that fact, you'll alienate them" and this can only be some sort of society wide, generational failing.
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Despite being American citizens, three children — a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 kidney cancer, his 7-year-old sister and a 2-year-old girl — were detained with their families by immigration authorities in Louisiana and quickly sent to Honduras, according to a lawsuit.
ICE sent 3 U.S. citizen children, including boy with cancer, to Honduras with their deported moms
An immigration group filed a lawsuit on behalf of two families, saying they were not given access to legal counsel before two mothers and their children were sent to Central America.
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What's with conservatives and calling for ethnic cleansing...?
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Made in a lab to make other billionaires seem more palatable.
![NYT: Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally
The armed agents assembled outside the Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was speaking. The mayor called it "a provocative act."
2 MIN READ
[captioned video of the incident, with caption circled for emphasis]
“It was not immediately clear whether the agents were patrolling the neighborhood or were part of a targeted operation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreibeurk7khism66t4ecf5ulv3yqal4f5gc2ngiaim2ikq247ogjqiy@jpeg)
