The authors of this memo are war criminals who may eventually need to avoid travel to ICC member states.

This was last night. Only one candidate for AD36 showed up – Diana Moreno – and I’m told she gave a great speech. Ran Abdelhamid filed to run forAD36 yesterday but didn’t attend the forum. So Moreno will definitely get the DSA endorsement.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

Is this a fucking joke? Mamdani and Schlossberg could not be more different. www.fastcompany.com/91440363/is-...

Counterpoint: I would like to see this

My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!) According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.

"Reporters should be terrified. But it’s bigger than that. Every single person in this country will be affected by these policies, whether direct or peripheral. So for his sake and the sake of all of us: Free Ya’akub Vijandre now."

What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.

Wow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Hochul seems determined to alienate Mamdani's base. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

DSA is hosting a candidate forum tomorrow to consider endorsements in Assembly Districts 34 (represented by Jessica González-Rojas, who’s leaving the seat to run for state Senate), 36 (represented by Zohran) and 75 (represented by Tony Simone, who might leave to run for Senate).

Scoop: FOREVER WARS obtained a habeas corpus petition filed by a journalist in ICE detention. The evidence against him? His Instagram likes. @attackerman.bsky.social reports:

These are two excellent journalists! I’ve known Keenan since college, and I worked closely with Austin at City & State, right up until Streetsblog stole him from us ;)

Did you see how the Streetsblog NYC newsroom is expanding again?!

I’ll be on @wbai.org tonight at 5 pm to talk about the mayoral election results and next year’s midterm elections. Listen here and call in with questions! www.wbai.org/listen-live/

NEWS👀👀: After many years in the wilds of freelancing, I start TODAY as a full-time staff reporter for @theintercept.com My beat: -The FBI! -Trump's purges and reshuffling of federal law enforcement and courts! -The invasion of American cities by ICE/CBP/National Guard! -ETC!

This is what's happening in Chicago right now, with @katmabu.bsky.social.

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

Democratic senators think you are so fucking stupid.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

I’ve got the rest of the day free to explore Old San Juan. Any recommendations?

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump illegally blowing up boats in the Caribbean to intimidate Maduro and the people of Venezuela is closer to terrorism than anything low-level drug smugglers might be doing.

Oh phew.

Here's a disgusting new twist to the Kavanaugh stop: Are you aware of Zorhan Mamdani? WHAT THE HELL? Read this @chicago.suntimes.com times.com story about how ICE stopped an Illinois state highway worker doing road construction. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

If I had to pick one NYC journalist who understands best how NYC-DSA works, it would be @petersterne.com. Peter is probably the only journalist whose coverage of NYC-DSA I've read that have been consistently accurate.

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

you don't say

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

the oct 24 interview is fun. close rikers, no queens cop city: "take every step to decarcerate... public safety is created by dignified work, economic stability and well-resourced neighborhoods"

For the record, Mamdani isn't partying down here. Plenty of other people are, but Mamdani is too busy and far too famous. He's mobbed any time he shows up to a public event, so he's mostly just doing private meetings and occasional press conferences.

Mayor Eric Adams has just about 50 days left in office, but he's not ready to put down his veto pen. He just vetoed four City Council bills. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

I am very proud of @cityandstateny.bsky.social's coverage of Zohran's remarkable campaign. I broke the news he was exploring a run (3 months before he announced). And when he was polling at just 2%, our publisher wrote a prescient column suggesting he could actually win.

“His biggest issue, in my opinion, is going to be the extreme recalcitrance and push back from the rank-and-file members of the department and their union leaders to change and to reform."

Trump's concentration camps are exactly like they always are

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

This is a bit like saying opening an umbrella likely means it will rain. Lander is running for Congress in part because he doesn't have a job in the Mamdani administration, not the other way around. www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...

"He’s going to run and knows he’s got the best shot at defeating Goldman," one person who's spoken with Brad Lander recently told me, adding that both Lander and City Council Member Alexa Avilés (who is likely to be endorsed by DSA) are strong candidates. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

SCOOP: Brad Lander is telling allies he's planning to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

Every generation of New York politics has had its immigrant realignment. The Irish built Tammany, Jewish socialists built labor, Italians powered La Guardia--and now Mamdani is building something new out of bodegas, cabstands, and delivery apps. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-long-a...

While many in NYC politics are in Puerto Rico today for SOMOS, Mayor Adams is going to DC to meet with the president of Uzbekistan "to discuss new opportunities for trade and investment between" that country and the U.S.

i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read

"What stood out were the words of power, of the willingness to fight, of revolution." @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech, filled with the "inspiring hope-and-change flavor of Obama, but it was all gripped in a fist."

I wrote the newsletter on the value of standing firm in your beliefs when the culture shifts, but I almost want to throw it out and write about why it's important to vet journalists, but also important to be willing to talk to good ones and respect the power of the press. Maybe next week!

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.