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Welcome to this week's edition of Near and Rupar, our live weekly video show on Substack. I'm David Near, publisher of The Down Ballot. My co-host, as always, Aaron Rupar, publisher of Public Notice. Aaron, we have so much news to talk about this week, and we headlined this week's episode on
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with Zoran Mamdani's enormous win in New York City and, of course, Andrew Cuomo's massive loss. But we also just got a series of really horrible Supreme Court rulings this morning on a whole bunch of different fronts. So I don't know. Where do you want to start? Bad news?
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I think we should probably close with the good news, uh, just to send people into their weekends, uh, not, uh, you know, dreading, dreading life. I actually had a, a chat I needed to have with, uh, just kind of normal family stuff with my, my wife. And, um, she was trying to talk with,

Bad news from SCOTUS, good news from NYC

The Supreme Court's end-of-term rulings were atrocious, but Zohran Mamdani's win shows a new way for Democrats
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On the latest episode of Nir & Rupar, our live weekly video show, David Nir of The Downballot and Aaron Rupar of Public Notice dive into both the awful news from the Supreme Court and the very encouraging news out of New York City.

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David and Aaron discuss:

  • Why the court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is a disaster for democracy—and a recipe for chaos

  • How Zohran Mamdani exposed the old guard’s decay, and why it should serve as a warning to incumbent Democrats

  • Why Mamdani’s relentless focus on affordability is a strong message for Democratic candidates just about everywhere

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Bruce Rosen's avatar

Maybe disemboweling itself is more accurate :-(

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Wait.. Are the masked, alleged ICE masked KKK, stochastic terrorists? Seriously, does this include these unidentifiable persons?

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Sitcommish makes sense when the most solid news analysis has come from Comedy Central....

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Andrew already had a rep as a bully in high school....

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Bruce Rosen's avatar

You ask how Eric Adams got elected... We had two solid decades of Republicans, including an actual billionaire who as mayor was the biggest funder of Republican congressional candidates, called NYPD his army (it's not a gendarmerie) & so green - pushed nat gas as a bridge energy source.

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Bruce Rosen's avatar

Ranked choice is party based.

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Barb Rowe's avatar

Good convo, gentlemen!

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Karl Kolesnikoff's avatar

Here is a podcast that has a real impact on the affordability issue. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prof-g-markets/id1744631325?i=1000714781174

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I think we should probably close with the good news, uh, just to send people into their weekends, uh, not, uh, you know, dreading, dreading life. I actually had a, a chat I needed to have with, uh, just kind of normal family stuff with my, my wife. And, um, she was trying to talk with,