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8 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
None of these people can win a general election in New York anyway. The only likely GOP candidate who seems plausible statewide is Molinaro. There is opportunity if Dems are beset by infighting (plausible) but not for a Republican as abrasive as Zeldin or Stefanik.
Over 40% of New York’s population is in NYC. Any Republican will lose the city by a wide margin but you have to manage the *extent* to which you get buried here.
Zeldin and Stefanik both voted to reject the electoral college results. That’s not a vote you cast if you’re trying to win statewide in New York.
I rather liked Molinaro (he had a better MTA plan than either Cuomo or Nixon) and if there’s a primary I hope it’s not a contest to see who can get farther up Donald Trump’s ass, because it’s not healthy to have a California-type situation where the GOP becomes irrelevant.

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This from @mattyglesias is astute on the hazards of believing progressive "community" activist groups actually speak for many people. Though there is one specific oddity about the NYC mayor race... slowboring.com/p/yang-gang
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Yes, this drives me absolutely crazy. "The civil engineers think we should do more projects that employ civil engineers" is treated as a meaningful piece of information for reasons that escape me.
Imagine if the civil engineers lobby group put out a report card saying infrastructure somewhere gets an A+ and no further civil engineering is needed.
It's like asking a life insurance salesman whether you have enough life insurance.
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Even if this is true, the key thing is that tomatoes should be eaten at room temperature, and if you refrigerate them you’re likely to eat them too cold. How long does it really take you to consume your tomatoes?
Tomatoes are like cheese or chocolate or wine: If they’re too cold, you won’t get the flavors properly.
Also: If you put tomato on a sandwich or whatever, you need to put salt on the tomato!
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I don’t understand why this would need to wait for fall. It’s not even April yet. Shouldn’t we be vaccinating 12-15 year olds before this school year is over?
The elapsed time between the similar Pfizer announcement of adult data and the adult EUA was only about a month.
Some extremely misguided responses to this suggesting we lack either manufacturing or distribution capacity to start vaccinating kids in May (wrong wrong wrong)
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