Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreiacsqfvjl5xm5aeagy7secwjfq65q64cjntpcyqrcncubj5rf3kxa
The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @Steve Vladeck) [www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf](
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen...
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Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969 https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreigyzpzxdtisntoqilbaxx5dwstj65boechq7asu7wqgpew5hcl3de
Per NYPost's scoop, some of the ways Mamdani's wife has "quietly steered" his campaign are weighing in on his logo design, being "a major source of support for him in private" and once posting on Instagram, "Couldn't possibly be prouder." RE:
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A. Marmot 🌱 (@aminus.bsky.social)
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:] "umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreie6mmngofzf6ev7si72f3rdtg726p56xoky7zznagduffchiklqtu
NEW: James Comey asks the court to dismiss the indictment against him because he responded to Ted Cruz’s "fundamentally ambiguous questions with literally true answers." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreihbvtjrpmwwul3ncwfi2twb4z7qf6fcu3xmljehqzubzsndt3jeam
STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx [LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives re...]( )
NEW: Letitia James asks the court to dismiss the indictment against her because Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed US attorney and has "no authority to litigate this case on behalf of the United States." [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf&cid=bafkreie2tyopufhqz4sd4hf4fghjayoyliifqhttipcry2yjkblw52wlxy
From a former Eric Adams deputy press secretary (2022–23): RE:
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Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)
Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroyin...
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Oh no, in accepting Eric Adams's endorsement, Andrew Cuomo reiterates that Mamdani's giving the finger to a Christopher Columbus statue is "un DISGRAZIATO" (I've been assured that this is not actually the Italian noun meaning "disgrace")