the anti Morris Katz sentiment is interesting because I don't necessarily think campaign staff are fully responsive for everything a candidate does but perhaps if you live by the "I'm a whiz kid politico genius doing interviews to build up my personal brand thing" then you do kinda have to die by it

Israel must release pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held without charge for 18 months and now faces an imminent threat to his life from torture. Israel must end the targeting of health workers and the inhumane treatment of Palestinians in arbitrary detention.

These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.

In a fun note, Mike Elk used to email me off the clock to tell me that his girlfriend asking him to pay for his half of the abortion was the same as sexual assault, and telling me that he liked to "break evil women" like me. This was because I asked him to stop yelling at women at work.

Hahahahahahaahahhaahaha

@bradlander.bsky.social built his campaign on rejecting money from corporations and AIPAC, investing in people here at home instead of bombs abroad, and guaranteeing healthcare for all. I'm honored to receive his support, and I look forward to working with him in Congress.

I first met @abdulelsayed.bsky.social through our dear friend Ady Barkan, who died of ALS while courageously crusading for Medicare for All, and there is no one who will work harder than Abdul to win that fight. (1/4)

It was an honor to join a home-based providers round-table at Xiomara Family Day Care in the Bronx.   While Wall Street execs make $1,796/hr, child care workers earn a median of $6/hr — a reflection not of their value, but of a system that has failed to value care itself. We're changing that system.

This isn’t funny but it is hilarious. I’m so sorry to everyone who had to go to school with this guy.

I wrote about the rise and fall of Graham Platner, a candidate whose political appeal rested on him looking like exactly what he turned out to be. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New York “charities” are funding Israeli settler organizations that ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes. Our state is complicit. But the tide is turning. Last month, 26 supporters of the Not On Our Dime! Act won their primaries. We have an obligation to pass this bill next session.

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Daniel Moraff from her campaign over sexual misconduct complaints that Lee received about Moraff. Moraff is being ridiculed for not properly vetting Platner, but our investigation shows Moraff was hiding his own sexual misconduct issues

Anyway…

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

Someone should really ask him what he’s disappointed in.

This is absolutely devastating and infuriating. ICE officers in an unmarked car shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three, on his way to work. Then the smear machine immediately kicked in. Read the words of his son, and demand accountability: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"For months, a 2024 Facebook post cautioning women against dating Platner, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Maine, had been circulating among the political class in the state and in Washington, DC. The post was written by one of Platner’s former romantic partners, and her name was attached."

Not only did Lillian Roberts lead a strike of nurses at Creedmoor Hospital and go to jail (in NY, strikes by public employees are illegal) Under her leadership, DC 37 also endorsed John Liu for mayor and Charles Barron for Congress. She was an exceptional, exemplary labor leader. 🙏

Extremely telling detail from this WSJ piece about Platner's demise: "Women on the campaign told Platner he was being managed by advisers who treated them unfairly and didn’t value their ideas," with one telling him point-blank "Hey, you have a very sexist, misogynistic staff."

In June, the One Fair Price Act passed the legislature in New York! Once this bill becomes law, shoppers will be able to trust that the price they pay is not dictated by their web browsing history, income, race, or zip code.

I would love if the donations I make to DSA candidates wouldn’t go to pay this asshole who threatened to smear a former staffer in defense of an accused rapist and who will likely keep us from winning the senate

the fact that this absolute shambles of a campaign operation drove the incumbent governor out of the race and won the primary with 73 percent should be a category 5 Red Alert for the establishment tbh

The women who’d pointed out Graham Platner’s unfitness for office long before he was accused of rape were painted as nagging hags. They were right all along.

I am not joking

folks, we’re never getting rid of this guy. there’s a right wing grievance machine that’s going to scoop him up. he’ll be headlining grifter events for a few years. there will be podcasts. the only good news is that the machinery of all that seems to be stunted post-Orban.

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

Closing out the campaign by railing against a conspiracy of (((media elites))) who stabbed him in the back is a nice way to once again confirm the totenkopf wasn’t a random mistake.

I never reported my rapist but if he ran for federal office you can bet your ass I'd come forward. Many such cases. And there would inevitably be men talking about "due process" and "convenient timing"

He’s not being fucking executed! He‘s not going to prison! He’s not facing any actual punishment for his crimes! He’s not going to be one of the 100 most powerful people in the country because he raped someone and she came forward! I cannot stand this man.

On top of everything else, Platner's video just now is horrible. He suggested something was nefarious about these allegations hitting before just the primary, then the drop-out deadline. It's perfectly rational that an abusive person's victims don't want that person to wield a huge amount of power

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

They want as broad-based and public a process as possible, for at least three reasons: 1. Get eyeballs on, and visibility for, the ultimate nominee. 2. Achieve the fact and/or the perception of an inclusive process. 3. Deprive Platner of a pretext for staying in.

Congratulations, Platner supporters. This is where it was always headed.

Truly this has been baffling.

This is what happens when you nominate someone whose core ethos is narcissistic belligerence. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

A lot of leftist men were — and seemingly still are — willing to accept Graham Platner's many many faults because they have a sneering, condescending belief that working people in this country are white townie oafs who will only listen to other white townie oafs. www.garbageday.email/p/the-curdli...

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

And what I don’t think women understand is that men face so few consequences for rape, and experience their own raping as so smoothly continuous with the rest of their sex lives, that it’s not so much that these guys gamble that they’ll get away with it as that they simply never think of it again.

Today is a very important day for those of us who fought for reparations for Chicago police torture survivors. We were told not to use the word 'reparations' because it would "alienate" people. We were told that the City of Chicago would never admit fault or apologize for the torture. Many people+

The number of people lining up to vote for Rahm for president you can count on one hand.

may all the so called journalists trying to poke holes in racicot's story and coming up with stuff like "her door was unlocked" never ever live this down

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

ICE murdered another person.

We are going to win 0.5% of the NYC expense budget for our public libraries because we are not going to stop fighting to make it so.

there are men on the left who will see right wing men as their allies above left wing women because in their eyes the former confirms masculinity and the latter conveys weakness

Imagine if you allowed yourself to feel the full weight and consequence of every sexual assault you have ever experienced. Imagine what would happen to you if you tried to get them recognized by others as serious and meaningful. Lol. Lmao.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls after first being radicalized as an abolitionist, and seeing the men running an international abolitionist conference in London refuse to seat the women who had been elected as delegates.

A few years before that, women left the Civil Rights Movement after Stokely Carmichael, asked about the position of women in the movement, proclaimed, “The position of women in the movement is prone.”

Second wave radicals like Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis knew they had to break off from the anti-war movement and start independent feminist groups when women tried to speak at an anti-Nixon protest, and men in the crowd yelled “Take her off the stage and fuck her.”