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Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Protest has network effects. In my calculations, the (now) well-known data of Chenoweth and Stephan shows a large effect: the 100th person to join a protest has 100 times the impact of the 1st person. (i.e. effectiveness ~N-squared) So get out there! samwang.substack.com/p/network-effe…

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It seems that the Senate Finance Committee has reduced the endowment tax rate hikes from those in the House bill

.Jake Tapper 🦅, I wonder if you could please describe a crime or policy/governance failure arising from your point about Biden's age and infirmity. I am not that interested in his age, but I am interested in how the nation is governed.

The Lander thing is going to be on every news broadcast. "NY1" is on in a lot of offices, and the old people, the ones who still watch the five o'clock news ... it's not good for Cuomo.

What is happening in Iran was triggered during Trump I.

A photo finish to New York City's mayoral race? Who's making strategic use of ranked-choice voting, who isn't - and who might be the kingmaker. And...can the system be made better? All this at Fixing Bugs In Democracy. My latest: samwang.substack.com/p/a-photo-fini…

Designed for mass shootings, but same idea applies here. Too early to know anything.

“My commitment is about delivering a city that is not only affordable to each and every New Yorker, but is one that each and every New Yorker feels proud of living in.”

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine ... expresses deep skepticism of Trump Administration's attack on Iran ... Kaine has been leading Senate proponent of enforcing the War Powers Act that requires congressional approval for commitment of armed forces ....

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cc Mikie Sherrill: don't let immigrant demagoguery from Jack Ciattarelli and his merry gang of MAGA fascists scare you off defending NJ's beleaguered immigrant population. Rep. Mikie Sherrill

95% of voters weighed in between Cuomo and Mamdani with #RankedChoiceVoting. 152k voters who ranked another candidate first had greater voice with RCV.

Not as agonizing as losing your house because you can no longer afford your sick child's treatment.

Josh Barro I don’t care for the guy, and I view the term the way you do…. But if you don’t think that someone with his perspective (and from his background) could legitimately think it was appropriate to consider himself as African-American? Then you need to step outside of your own box.

So he should have gotten into college the way you did? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Barro

In fact, I am responding to the "substance" of what is basically a ginned-up fake attack. There is no sense in taking the bait on such foolishness. Over and over, people fall for the shiny object. In this case, the shiny object is a story planted by a suspect source.