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[ti-amie]

[ponchi101]

But when did Cuban post this?

[patrick]

No surprise at the latest developments where Mr Delay uses another person to get attention while his "Beautiful Bill" was being constructed.

[dryrunguy]

So, this war between the Ketamine King and Mr. TACO escalated quickly...

[ti-amie]

US Politics
From the New York Times:

The guidance was sent on Thursday in an email by a senior ICE official, Tatum King, to regional leaders of the ICE department that generally carries out criminal investigations, including work site operations, known as Homeland Security Investigations.

“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” he wrote in the message.

Is this a pause in immigration enforcement, or a lasting change? Or some kind of middle ground?

Roselily808
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17h ago
I suspect that these industries are on the verge of some kind of collapse due to undocumented workers leaving them en masse.

Somewhere up on a government level are people who are smart enough to realize that a collapse = bad.

INTELLIGENT_FOLLY
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15h ago
Actually from everything I've been seeing, a lot of these cases are not dealing with undocumented immigrants at all. A lot of these people are, for example asylum applicants, which have been granted temporary residency and work permits until their applications are accepted or rejected.

That's why ICE is finding them at work so easily, their place of work is registered with the government. ICE is trying to fulfill their new quotas with people that can easily be tracked down.

kon---
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14h ago
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More about big agro using the withholding of money as leverage and in general corporate executives making phone calls to stop gutting their workforce.

No one in the Trump administration has enough sense to have any idea the broader impacts of their hate.

[ti-amie]

Expletive in.


Full video via NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/embedded/ ... =url-share

Now imagine Presidents Biden or Obama doing this.

[dryrunguy]

Amie probably knows this already, but Zohran Mamdani easily defeated Andrew Cuomo and a host of other folks in the NY City Mayor Democratic Primary. The NY Times reported Cuomo is leaving open the option to run in the general election.

[Owendonovan]

No grace in losing any longer, is there?

Cuomo, Chastened, Will Reassess Plans to Run as an Independent
The shape of the mayor’s race in November and the future of Andrew M. Cuomo are now in flux after Zohran Mamdani’s performance on Tuesday.
For months, Andrew M. Cuomo insisted he would be on this fall’s general election ballot for mayor of New York City, no matter what — even saying so as recently as Tuesday morning.

But after conceding the Democratic primary for mayor on Tuesday night to Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, Mr. Cuomo’s path forward is no longer as clear.

Mr. Cuomo told The New York Times in a phone call shortly after his concession speech that he was still considering whether to run in the general election on an independent line.

“I said he won the primary election,” Mr. Cuomo said, referring to Mr. Mamdani. “I said I wanted to look at the numbers and the ranked-choice voting to decide about what to do in the future, because I’m also on an independent line. And that’s the decision, that’s what I was saying. I want to analyze and talk to some colleagues.”
In March, after months of equivocation, Mr. Cuomo, 67, announced he would run in the Democratic primary for mayor. From the start, he cast himself as the lone adult with the requisite competence and experience to manage a city that was spiraling out of control. He pointed to his 10-plus years as governor, when he helped legalize same-sex marriage and build the new Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station.

But Mr. Cuomo ran what was widely considered a joyless and lackluster campaign, largely limiting his appearances to Black churches, synagogues and union halls, and rarely engaging in the kind of retail politics and ground game necessary to win a heavily contested election.

Business leaders and institutional Democrats heavily supported him in the primary, but it was less clear if they would coalesce behind him in a general election or switch their loyalties to the current mayor, Eric Adams. What seemed clearer was their antipathy toward Mr. Mamdani.

“The economic stability of the city is very much at risk as employers and taxpayers digest the possibility of a mayor who says he wants to further increase taxes and move us toward policies of socialism,” said Kathryn Wylde, the leader of the Partnership for New York City, a business group. “This election is a true test of the resilience of our city.”





https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyre ... ember.html

[mmmm8]

Amie probably knows this already, but Zohran Mamdani easily defeated Andrew Cuomo and a host of other folks in the NY City Mayor Democratic Primary. The NY Times reported Cuomo is leaving open the option to run in the general election.

It's an upset as Cuomo was leading significantly in the polls.

The key takeaways for me in this primary:
- Populism wins, no qualifications or practical policy proposals needed
- Once again, a capable black woman just can't win any significant political election
- Fewer than a million people voted, counting early voting, from an estimated 8.5M of legal known residents.
- Cuomo certainly didn't lose because of the secual harrassment allegations. Two (!) of the major candidates had a history of sexual harrassment allegations.


Cuomo and Eric Adams both running in the general eleciton will be amusing.

[ti-amie]

The Anatomy of Mamdani’s Political Earthquake
By Michael Lange
Mr. Lange is a writer and political strategist who covers New York City politics.

June 25, 2025

...Mr. Cuomo was using the Democratic primary as a vehicle to attempt a comeback and resuscitate his political career.

Until Tuesday night. As the polls closed across the five boroughs, it quickly became clear that Mr. Mamdani would trounce Mr. Cuomo, winning the most votes in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. According to a preliminary Times analysis of the first-rank vote, with 93 percent of the votes in, Mr. Mamdani led in majority-white precincts by five points, in majority-Hispanic precincts by six points, and in majority-Asian precincts by 15 points.

In assessing the Cuomo and Mamdani clash, it is difficult to capture the infinite nuance of New York City’s electorate. Nonetheless, to better understand the city’s rich variety of neighborhoods, with all their ethnic groups, wealth profiles, cultural backgrounds and demographics, I have sorted every Assembly district in the five boroughs into seven factions.

While Mr. Cuomo’s core coalition bookended the ends of the economic spectrum (the wealthy and the poor), Mr. Mamdani’s coalition was the in-between (working-, middle- and upper-middle-class renters spanning white, Hispanic and Asian neighborhoods). Rooted in ideology, age and a relentless cost-of-living message, Mr. Mamdani’s unique campaign outperformed expectations across the five-borough mosaic.

Here, I will take the reader through the coalition of voters that delivered Mr. Mamdani this stunning political upset — neighborhood by neighborhood.

(...)


At a raucous rally in Manhattan last week, amid a sea of yellow bandannas, “Freeze the Rent” signs and “A City We Can Afford” banners, Mr. Mamdani took the stage to a groundswell of applause. He spoke of a new day dawning on the horizon: a changing of the political guard, a different Democratic Party and a reckoning for the complacent political establishment.

He had relentlessly campaigned on the cost-of-living crisis, proposing measures such as freezing the rent for every rent-stabilized tenant, making buses “fast and free,” creating a network of municipally owned grocery stores and funding universal child care by expanding taxes on the wealthy. In the opening days of Mr. Trump’s second term, Mr. Mamdani offered a voice to a generation who did not see themselves in their leaders. His social media videos — across TikTok, X and Instagram — routinely went viral, inspiring thousands of young people, who turned out in record numbers during the early voting period.

By June, Mr. Mamdani could walk the streets of Inwood and Washington Heights — majority-Hispanic neighborhoods in Upper Manhattan that swung hard toward Mr. Trump last November — and be stopped by Spanish-speaking passers-by, eager to take a picture with “the next mayor.” He has proved to be the rare politician capable of expanding the electorate, particularly impressive in a historically low-turnout, off-year primary.

To many New York voters, Mr. Cuomo embodies the flaws of the Democratic Party establishment. Although he attempted to rebrand himself as a “pragmatic progressive” during this campaign, he remained an avatar for the old guard that dominated New York politics for decades: labor unions, real estate developers and the financial elite. Much of the local Democratic establishment sided with him. His aligned super PAC, Fix the City, raised more than $25 million, a third of which came from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the largest sum of outside money ever in a New York City mayoral race. If the 67-year-old Cuomo, who hasn’t ruled out an independent candidacy in the fall, is elected, he will become the oldest mayor in the city’s modern history.

Yes, Mr. Cuomo performed well with middle-class Black voters, but that was at least in part because the Black electorate in New York is older than the Hispanic and Asian electorates. With almost every other group, Mr. Mamdani’s performance across the city was a profound improvement on that of Bernie Sanders and other progressive and socialist candidates. Mr. Mamdani performed relatively well in several affluent neighborhoods where Mr. Sanders struggled, like Park Slope and Morningside Heights. He won a plurality of the Hispanic vote, in addition to sweeping many Gentrifying Battlegrounds in Central Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan, and only trailed Mr. Cuomo by 9 points in Staten Island, performing best along the racially mixed North Shore and in union-dense, home-owning precincts. Furthermore, Mr. Mamdani made pronounced inroads with Asian voters, particularly in Queens, performing well in immigrant-heavy enclaves that shifted toward Mr. Trump in November.

Many pundits and operatives doubted Mr. Mamdani’s core strategy of pursuing younger voters, who historically have voted at lower rates. But on Tuesday, they flocked to the polls, won over not just by his videos, but also by his vast canvassing operation (all told, the Mamdani campaign claims to have knocked on over 1.5 million doors). To the youngest generations of New Yorkers, Mr. Mamdani became ubiquitous. His volunteers hosted picnics and social gatherings, where many of his followers found people with compatible politics to date, unmediated by algorithms. For years, this cohort represented a sleeping giant in local politics, with enormous untapped potential. On Tuesday, they were the engine that appeared to have toppled a political dynasty.

Mr. Mamdani used the dollars piling up against him as a call to action: “They’ve got all the money in the world,” he told his supporters, “and we’ve got you.”

Since November, the Democratic Party has been searching for an answer to Mr. Trump. Democrats in other corners of the country may be inclined to overlook Mr. Mamdani’s spectacular campaign, believing his economic populism and urban appeal are a poor fit for swing districts in suburban and rural communities. But as Mr. Mamdani told his supporters at a taproom in Long Island City on election night, quoting Nelson Mandela, “It always seems impossible until it is done.” The city’s youngest generations gave Mr. Mamdani his shocking success Tuesday night. To crown him mayor, they’ll have to do it all again in a general election featuring the current mayor, Eric Adams; the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa; and, perhaps, Mr. Cuomo, looking for a second chance at a comeback. But Mr. Mamdani’s coalition — the unlikely voters and the energized young people of New York City — is not only here to stay, but growing by the day.


The neighborhood and ethnic breakdown can be found at this gift link.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... =url-share

[ti-amie]

Amie probably knows this already, but Zohran Mamdani easily defeated Andrew Cuomo and a host of other folks in the NY City Mayor Democratic Primary. The NY Times reported Cuomo is leaving open the option to run in the general election.

It's an upset as Cuomo was leading significantly in the polls.

The key takeaways for me in this primary:
- Populism wins, no qualifications or practical policy proposals needed
- Once again, a capable black woman just can't win any significant political election
- Fewer than a million people voted, counting early voting, from an estimated 8.5M of legal known residents.
- Cuomo certainly didn't lose because of the secual harrassment allegations. Two (!) of the major candidates had a history of sexual harrassment allegations.


Cuomo and Eric Adams both running in the general eleciton will be amusing.

MMMM8 is totally correct. With temperatures in the high 90's F (around 38 degrees Celsius) many older voters and seniors did as advised and stayed home. My choice was Adrienne Adams (no relation to Tiny friendly Eric) who, as MMMM8 said, had being a black woman working against her.

It's shocking that a win with less than 1m votes cast in a city with 8.5m potential voters is being celebrated as a major victory for progressives. Many of Mr. Mamdani's slogans are, for me, pie in the sky and don't reflect the political reality of NYC.

Unless there is a blizzard in November (who knows with climate change) the people who didn't vote in the primary could deliver a very different result.

Mamdani has a lot of work to do.

[ashkor87]

In case you dont know, Mamdani's mother is the great Indian film-maker Mira Nair.. one of the greatest living film-makers.

[ashkor87]

In case you dont know, Mamdani's mother is the great Indian film-maker Mira Nair.. one of the greatest living film-makers.

[ti-amie]

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[dryrunguy]

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"Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former Republican leader, gave a short speech saying “failure is not an option” on the bill, before reportedly adding, “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Well, Joni Ernst knows a lot of those angry people will be dead, so...