This article cites two X posts and makes vague assertions that “The claim caused a stir online, with some X users condemning Mamdani.” How much of a stir, how many users, and how many of them were criticizing Mamdani for the topic at hand is unclear.

I doubt many people were taken in (though I’m not surprised to see a west virginia lawmaker involved, state legislators are truly the dregs of our society), and I think Newsweek mostly made this up.

This is not a savvy or mature take, it’s a pedantic take. And I am no stranger to pedantry.

Nobody looks at this headline and thinks the Trump admin is directly putting pollutants in the air.

Maybe I should just be less cynical, but this headline doesn’t make me think “this is satire.” It makes me think “yep, par for the course for republicans.” This is basically what they’ve been promising to do for decades. It’s one step away from a headline like “Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy.”

I was only half joking. They campaigned with Liz Cheney after all

How long until democrats are campaigning with him