Now comes the hard part. Or what Bill Bratton called, “the agony of governing" New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
For Mamdani, Winning Is One Thing. Governing Will Be Quite Another.
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Zohran Mamdani started his Primary Day with a brief speech at 5:40 a.m. at the Astoria Park in Queens. “It’s only fitting that I begin the final day of this primary the way that so many New Yorkers do: up early and hungry for a better future for this city,” he said.
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Adams Team Works Behind Scenes to Try to Sway Rabbis Against Cuomo
An aide to Mayor Eric Adams is pushing Orthodox Jewish leaders to withhold endorsements in the New York City mayoral primary.
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Booker, his voice booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpasses Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record
The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.
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Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · last yr.Cory Booker's marathon floor speech decrying Trump's policies is approaching record length for a Senate address. "This is not a partisan moment," he said. "It is a moral moment. Where do you stand?" @mikeives.bsky.social Matthew Mpoke Bigg @timbalk.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
"Extraordinary and dangerous powers": the history of the law invoked by Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...
The Alien Enemies Act, Used by Trump to Deport Venezuelans, Has Long Been Contentious
Before the current Trump administration, the law had been invoked just three times.
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