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sometimes it is important to step back and capture the zeitgeist
so i wrote about how Congress is behaving more and more like the Real Housewives
Michael Gold
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Michael Gold
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covering Congress for @nytimes. ex-New Yorker but trying to talk about it less. i'm the rhoda. 🏳️🌈.
- “I vow to the LGBTQ community that this would never happen in the NYPD in 2019” — the police commissioner, apologizing for Stonewall last year
- Mamdani says he will vote yes on the housing proposals and no on the question moving local elections. He arrived at his polling place with his wife.
- as opposed to the NYC we have now, which smells like potpourri and is full of emotionally stable geniuses
- earthquake or vibe shift?
- UPDATE: George Santos's appeal was denied. The names of the people who guaranteed his $500,000 bail bond will be unsealed on Thursday at noon, per judge's order.
- The measles outbreak is so bad that a New York county stopped unvaccinated kids from going to school. Parents sued to get their kids back in class. A judge denied the request.
- we’re all mocking Dolly Parton’s commercial but where do you think the money for your Moderna vaccine comes from
- the House hearing on DC crime went off-topic as Nancy Mace asked the mayor about LGBTQ issues. that led us here: NANCY MACE: Mayor Bowser, what is a woman? BOWSER: I'm a woman. Are you a woman? MACE: 100 percent. BOWSER: I'm a woman. You're looking at one.
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