From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I'll take it.
Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?
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From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I'll take it.
Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?
According to CBS and ABC, yes. ~~My fucking dipshit redneck county voted no, always fucking backwards.~~
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-prop-50-results-2025/ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/proposition-50-live-election-results-california-voters-weigh/story?id=126345346
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NYC has lots of foreign residents and visitors, maybe the most of any USA city, so isn't a foreign-born mayor there more than merely 'internal news'? It's not like the mayoral election of Nowhere, North Dakota.
It is still an event that is mostly relevant to people living in NYC with little bearing on other US states, despite the media reporting on it as if it was a big deal everywhere. We are just starved for good news.
Most of the other news stories here affect entire countries or regions. I'll grant you, it is more impactful than Japan sending soldiers to deal with bear attacks, but less than any other world news posts on my page 1. It would probably become world news if he pushes through some of his policies for being unprecedented in the US, though.
Did you guys hear about the one time he broke up with his girlfriend in high-school?! Gave her the whole it's not you, it's me line. How could anyone vote for that!
Welp time to go grab a beer so I can toast to this! That is a kickass win.
What I think is truly wild: 800,000+ voters still voted against someone whose policies would have helped make their lives better.
congratulations and many more days to come for which to deal with the ruling class

Maybe the best-run election campaign I have ever followed. When I first heard about him, I was sure that he would make some blunders here and there, or somebody would dig up some legitimate dirt that could stick.
But instead his messaging was on point, at all times. The only dirt people found were like one statement about the police and one about the intifada, none of which mattered much. He held his own in the debates. His ads were interesting and incredibly well made. The music choices were great. Hell, even just the Bollywood style ZOHRAN campaign logo was worth a 100k votes!
I really can't think of a single thing about the campaign that could've been done better.
Finally some good fucking news
there was enough to get cumuo to 41% however. in other news virginia just elected a first female governor too.
After so many bad news the fact that Mamdani won NYC is such a relief.
Well-earned by Mamdani, but also I hope it's the last anyone has to see of Cuomo.