New from @mattsheffield@mastodon.social: Barack Obama reading books to preschoolers with Zohran Mamdani is a much bigger deal than you might think. By doing a joint event with the New York mayor, Obama has tacitly declared that Democratic elites must accept him as a valued coalition member: https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/04/barack-obama-reading-books-to-preschoolers-with-zohran-mamdani-is-a-very-big-deal/