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Ross Barkan
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Ross Barkan
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My new novel is COLOSSUS. Read GLASS CENTURY, too. @NYMag columnist, contributor to @TheNation and elsewhere. Editor-in-Chief of @the_met_review
- Jon, I was with you. You told me you didn't submit any RSVP. You probably should've?I was not allowed into Mamdani's event (for obvious reasons) āĀ but Al-Jazeera was standing behind me and I overheard them crowing that "we had no trouble getting in ā they like us"
- Andrew Cuomo's approval rating has surged beyond 80 percent. New York is the global epicenter for COVID-19 and there's little the government did well to contain the virus in its early stages. 20,000+ people have died. It is truly one of the most remarkable PR coups of all-time.
- Sort of remarkable George W. Bush created a massive and problematic federal agency out of thin air and Democrats just agreed it would exist forever
- Wesleyan, Princeton, and now Harvard refusing to capitulate to Trump really makes Columbia look quite bad. A disturbing lack of credibility from one of the world's great universities.
- COVID-19 cases have now declined 33% nationally from 14 days ago. There's little coverage of this, which doesn't surprise me. Good news doesn't drive the media.
- The idea you can absolutely check out civically if a Democrat becomes president is one of the more ludicrous out there
- The former head of the CDC told the New York Times up to 80 percent of the deaths in New York could have been averted if Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio reacted sooner to COVID-19. Over 8,000 are now dead. Liberals cling to the fantasy it's all Trump's fault.
- Thinking about how we wouldn't need an Andrew Cuomo reckoning if prestige media and elite pundits just reported on him accurately in the first place
- Zohran also wore a suit and tie everywhereThe things that Zohran Mamdani didn't do to pander to young people are (1) curse for no reason (2) talk about hiphop groups from the 1990s (3) push crypto.
- The New York Times didn't think Bernie Sanders, who raised nearly $100 million in 2019 and now polls second nationally, was even a *top four* candidate worth considering for their endorsement. What a newspaper
- This in a way is a secret weapon for Zohran, and why a lot of conservatives are sputtering about right now. You can yell out "Muslim!" or "Socialist!" or "African!" and his response, with a smile, is "yup."It's funny how Mamdani actually is what the hallucinogenic Right always accused Obama of being: actually Muslim, actually born in Africa, actually a socialist
- Here's the deal. NYC is not in desperate need of jobs. Unemployment is low. If you are reasonably healthy, you can get a job. NYC needs affordable housing and a functioning transit system. This is what Amazon's defenders do not get.
- Replying to @LevineJonathanOne HQ had a much bigger press list! You literally stood with me and talked about how you hadn't rsvped and you'd just wing it. If you had submitted by the deadline, you would've been in. Fox was there, FP was there, I was interviewed by the NY Post there...
