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Chris Jesu Lee's avatar

Enjoyed reading this. What's also interesting is that since Zohran can't run for president, it creates even more of a feeling that he'll be 200% committed to being mayor. With so many people having treated the NYC mayorship as an audition for something bigger, that's a nice change.

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briffin glue's avatar

it limits his ambition in a way

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Elle's avatar

fuck yeahhhhh!!!!

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briffin glue's avatar

fuck yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

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eve's avatar

I have no intention of putting a politician on a pedestal but even I have to admit he’s given me a bit of hope…maybe all is not lost…dreaming of an actual real left wing politician in the UK sometime soon…

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briffin glue's avatar

i agree with not putting a politician on a pedestal, i think i'm just really thankful we're past leftist politicians being annihilated by tabloids like corbyn was in the UK

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Jessica W's avatar

Cheering from Seattle. Fuck yes. Hope is hard to come by these days (considering how the recent news headlines from DC almost appear to be straight out of a Philip k dick dystopian nightmare novel). Still your phenomenal writing about an overwhelmingly joyful victory gives me hope for better days ahead. Also just have to say that your new portrait of the lovely mayor to-be is wonderful. Cheers to the politics of empathy and cheers to Zohran!

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nadav's avatar

i can hear my city calling to me, bialys are calling my name

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Come home

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nadav's avatar

flushing queens is my promised land

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Michael Rance's avatar

hell yeah this got me fired up

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briffin glue's avatar

me too i'm running circles around my apartment

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emma's avatar

you should really get to newyork now that he's in office

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briffin glue's avatar

i know right

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eve's avatar

stop the doodle is so cute

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briffin glue's avatar

hehe thanks

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Kaitlyn Pacheco's avatar

hell yes! really appreciate your emphasis on how Zohran demonstrates a new playbook for running local progressive campaigns—hopeful that others across the country will run with it!

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briffin glue's avatar

it's probably the best use of social media i've seen in a campaign (or at least the best *positive* use of social media i've seen in a campaign lol)

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Kaitlyn Pacheco's avatar

definitely! the "rent freeze" tiktok was the perfect example lol

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Mari's avatar

🥖 🌹

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MG's avatar

you guys (Americans) seem to build such awful limits around change and renewal by forcing all of it to always be labelled "Democratic". the two party thing looks from the outside like it's truly killing you

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casey wetherbee's avatar

finally some good news that makes me feel excited about moving back to the US (and to NYC no less!)

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Inigo Laguda's avatar

such care in your work, bro. great piece

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jade hurley 💌's avatar

I actually listened to this article and it was delightfullllll <3

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