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Robert Rubsam

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Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Quick back-of-napkin math: Turnout in NYC mayor general elections is ~1.1M. Let’s bump that up to 1.2M Zohran won ~450K primary votes. Let’s say those are literally the only votes he gets. That’s 38% Sliwa’s floor is ~20% Adams’ floor is ~15% So a maximum of ~27% for Cuomo

Annie Karni (@anniekarni) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The responses to Mamdani’s electoral triumph were the latest examples of how far-right Republicans in Congress have become overt in their use of racist language and tropes, in both casual comments and official statements. nytimes.com/live/2025/06/2…

Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lawmakers were assassinated and wounded by a right-wing, religious extremist pretending to be a police officer and yet this story has completely faded from the national media.

alex sammon (@alex_sammon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let’s add to this: Adams won by 7,200 votes and Nancy Pelosi promptly invited him as a featured guest to brief congressional Democrats on messaging strategy. Zohran won by 116,000 votes and Hakeem Jeffries is basically insisting he’s never heard of him.

Letterboxd (@letterboxd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Watch the trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest film, Cloud ☁️ The film will be released in select theaters on July 18.

Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In Manhattan, Mamdani: • Won the only Asian-plurality AD (includes Chinatown) by 21 points • Won every Latino-plurality/majority AD, including a 10-point win in the Washington Heights/Inwood AD (72% Latino) • Won the only Black-plurality AD (Central Harlem) by 18 points

Max Fisher (@max_fisher) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I forget who it was who said that slashing USAID, dooming tens of millions to preventable deaths as a culture war exercise, was a practice run for doing the same thing at home, but they were spot on