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Allison Gill

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November 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM

Allison Gill

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · May 28

Dear media,

You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated.

Thank you

July 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM

Allison Gill

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · Nov 17

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

June 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM

Allison Gill

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · Jun 9

ICE was created post 9/11 to combat terrorist threats. If they aren't combatting the number one terror threat to America - Domestic Violent Extremism and white supremacists - then they don't need to exist as an agency.

September 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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September 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM

The Lincoln Project

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Nov 15

If it would've absolved Matt Gaetz, the House Ethics Committee report into him would have been released already. Just saying.

November 20, 2024 at 9:26 PM

Mina Kimes

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January 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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November 16, 2024 at 11:40 PM

Allison Gill

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · Jun 9

He did call it that. But none of that matters. He’s a shit candidate. Horrible to women. We just have to hope more terrible shit doesn’t come out about him after the primary. Collins needs to lose. Dems need that seat.

July 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM

Popehat

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Feb 12

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

February 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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September 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM

Daniel Ahmad

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June 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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April 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting"
the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee
intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles
come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates,
which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would
require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety
improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very
streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM

Allison Gill

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · Apr 8

A friendly reminder that Article II Section 4 does NOT say that if you impeach and remove a POTUS, that the VP and the cabinet are also automatically impeached. This section simply lists all the positions subject to impeachment.

June 22, 2026 at 5:11 PM