Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City is part of a decades-long clash between competing visions of America's greatest metropolis. The battle for New York | John Ketcham engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-b...

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Lots of people were overtly racist in the 1970s and 80s is such a weird line. Ok, but not everyone saw it as permission to be racist themselves. Lots of people saw it as something that needed to be changed. It’s the latter that I admire.

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Well I'm here and @iainmartin1.bsky.social is here and so is @steverichards.bsky.social - to be honest we are a teeny tiny operation and we do it all ourselves and we all have other jobs! Step by step, as Angela Merkel used to say. But thanks for your interest - we're on all the podcast platforms.

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Action replay of this earlier contretemps? No! But just Montie and me this week as @iainmartin1.bsky.social and @steverichards.bsky.social are gallivanting - NAO new ep about political friendships from different 'teams' open.spotify.com/episode/5FUd...

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Don’t think it’s a proper solution, it’s taking me 80 hour work weeks and a fair wind and no proper holidays and years of institutional knowledge to make something semi-sustainable based on reporting. Zero complaints from me I love it. But yeah. (Longer: futureproofnews.substack.com/p/the-journa...)

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