lots and lots of granular detail here supporting @michaelcaley.bsky.social’s thesis that capital doesn’t have the shooters it used too and faces massive coordination issues flexing its power nymag.com/intelligence...

Inside the Succession struggle to take over the Partnership of NYC, a group of CEO’s getting ready to battle the rising forces of the Left nymag.com/intelligence...

A lot of good details in here: "The Son King of Hollywood: With help from his billionaire father, Larry, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in history." www.vulture.com/article/larr...

Mamdani begins nymag.com/intelligence...

On this week’s cover for @nymag.com: The Making of Mayor Mamdani nymag.com/intelligence...

“Freezing the rent” is a cornerstone of Zohran Mamdani’s agenda. Eric Adams could make it impossible. nymag.com/intelligence...

Eric Adams filmed the video after midnight, which is an insane nugget from @freedlander.bsky.social -- nymag.com/intelligence...

“The Mamdani campaign has been in regular contact with both Governor Kathy Hochul’s office and the office of Attorney General Letitia James, who have pledged their support should Mamdani be detained by immigration or border officials after he lands.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Probably smart for him to be thinking about this possibility, but truly a tragic sign of our times that he has to: nymag.com/intelligence...

Zohran Mamdani is returning to US tomorrow. His team, and NY officials, are preparing for what may await him when he lands nymag.com/intelligence...

Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo and the elite by upending how the city’s politics was supposed to work. Read our latest cover story about his win by @freedlander.bsky.social buff.ly/wekmKBb

The Rumble in the Jungle-like Heat. A final look as a chaotic mayoral race races to a finish nymag.com/intelligence...

Solid deep-dive on the Mamdani campaign in New York - although if I can make a professional observation, the thing that strikes me most about the Mamdani campaign isn't that it "broke the rules" but on the contrary, it is/was a solid execution of a very conventional 21st C campaign model.

Took a peek under the hood of Mamdani-mentum and a look at the guy behind some of its viral campaign ads nymag.com/intelligence...

Andrew Cuomo's closing message: The LA riots are coming to New York. And who do you want to face off against Trump--me, or Kid Mamdani? Latest for @nymag.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

Who is going to win the AOC primary? nymag.com/intelligence...

Dems come for their own nymag.com/intelligence...

Thank You "...across the country, a record number of well-financed progressives are gearing up to take on Democratic incumbents who have been in office for decades." nymag.com/intelligence...

The NYC mayoral race has become a contest about who can best protect New York from Donald Trump. But can anyone? nymag.com/intelligence...

Why does Andrew Cuomo even want to be mayor of New York City? Read our report on the "new" Cuomo and his new pitch for office: nymag.com/intelligence...

Adams Agonistes nymag.com/intelligence...

Really interesting and clear-eyed look at what Musk and Co. are actually up to www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

With a lifeline from Trump, a sleepy mayoral race was upended overnight. nymag.com/intelligence...

This story is on A22

This is pretty much how every Trump Cabinet confirmation hearing went www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE...

Trump reinstates an executive order “Protecting America’s Monuments from Vandalism” which has a notable omission

If you’re a star they let you do it

A rally speech as inaugural address: My take on Trump Day One nymag.com/intelligence...

From last week: nymag.com/intelligence...

This is a very British headline:

Three and a half years ago: www.politico.com/states/new-y...

Worth remembering that the stated reason why career professional Christopher Wray should be fired and replaced with Kash Patel is that the FBI has grown too political

Trump has to keep on replacing his FBI director because the people in the job keep finding evidence of his crimes www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...

Their friendship dates back decades, to Mr. Trump’s own participation in W.W.E. events, including a show in 2007 when Mr. Trump jumped on Mr. McMahon and began punching him. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/u...

This piece imagines that prosecutors knew for certain the political outcomes of prosecuting a former president for clear wrongdoing and should have then made charging decisions based on that assumption www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

By the end of the second term Trump is just straight up going to go with Matlock for AG, Doogie Howser at HHS, Ralph Kramden at Transportation, Randolph and Mortimer Duke at Treasury, etc

Should we all be a little more concerned that New York City has smelled like Satan’s own barbecue pit the last couple of days?

As dark as this moment is for Democrats, the nominations of Kennedy, Gabbard and to a lesser degree Gaetz and Hegseth can be read as a complete defeat for movement conservatism

And the anti-system forever has the advantage, because the system is necessarily making marginal progress if not outright mistakes, complicated, conflicted, top-heavy, confusing. The anti-system just gets to say “That is bad” and be done with it!

Has anyone gone to Nestor for the reaction?

My wife, reading my blog: "Don't you understand how apostrophes work?" Me, injured: "This sort of out-of-touch elitist thinking is exactly why Harris lost."

One thing I do think Dems will improve on, compared to their 2017 resistance: Not expecting some deus ex machina to take Trump down. This is why I keep tediously talking about how cable news is so unhelpful to them. Every moment you're discussing whether "the walls are closing in" is wasted.

Worth noting that if Trump wins they will be a lot of stories about how his staff managed to restrain his most unruly impulses, and that he will then become president of the United States and this staff will not

Two weeks before Election Day 2020, Biden was beating Trump by 11 points. He was up 9 in WI, 5 in PA, 5 in NV, and up in FL and NC, while Trump was bungling the biggest emergency of his presidency. Figuring out what went wrong is the key for Dems in ‘24 nymag.com/intelligence...

This gets at something which didnt sit right—how did a rather obvious story about a rich guy getting out of alimony payments become a story about brainworms? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why do so many hostile foreign powers want to see Trump elected? www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/b...

Here is New York nymag.com/intelligence...