Footnote from an employment lawyer: the landmark case in the Second Circuit allowing workers to sue corporate owners personally for wage violations was against Catsimatidis, whose actions were so egregious that the Court found it unconscionable that he could avoid personal liability.

Eric Adams literally appeared on stage with Louis Farrakhan in the 1990's, and defended the Nation of Islam to then-Mayor David Dinkins, and the ADL did not talk about it this much.

Goldman joined with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian American member of Congress—for speaking out against the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza. So it's pretty fucking rich for him to whine about someone "attacking their own" now.

Update: @nywfp.bsky.social's Working Families Guarantee Mass Call will now be on Wed, Jan 21 @ 6pm. On this date we'll see the governor's Executive Budget and know if her rhetoric as universal childcare ally is real... ...by seeing if she proposes taxing the rich. www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

You either believe in representative democracy or you don't. Incumbents are not entitled to hold a seat unchallenged for as long as they choose, and if a significant percentage of their district feels they are being poorly represented by them, they have a right to vote for someone else. Very simple!

New York, this moment belongs to you. Please join us for the Inauguration of a New Era on January 1, 2026.

Inbox: Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on the steps of City Hall at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1 with Mark Levine and Jumaane Williams. In addition to the City Hall ceremony, Mamdani's team says there'll be a "public block party" on Broadway with space for tens of thousands more to gather.

To win the affordable future that Astoria and Long Island City deserve, we need your support. Can you help us reach our end-of-year goal by donating $36 for Assembly District 36? secure.actblue.com/donate/diana...

2026 will be the year we deliver universal childcare, defend our immigrant neighbors, and usher in a new era of dignity for the working class of Queens and NYC. Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for entrusting me with the great responsibility of representing Assembly District 36.

In an attempt to thwart Zohran's plan to freeze the rent next year, Eric Adams is stacking the RGB deck with these folks: 1️⃣ Alex Armlovich 2️⃣ Arpit Gupta 3️⃣ Christina Smyth 4️⃣ Lliam Finn 5️⃣ Sagar Sharma Learn these names—and get ready to fight back by getting in formation with @tenantbloc.bsky.social.

I am beyond grateful for all our volunteers who joined us today to announce Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s endorsement (and helped us knock almost 500 doors after)! Together, we will continue the movement he started. Muchísimas gracias, mi alcalde, for your endorsement. 🌹

Zohran Mamdani endorses his “friend and fellow DSA member” Diana Moreno for Assembly District 36.

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is in Astoria today, where he’s expected to endorse Diana Moreno, the DSA candidate who’s running for his old Assembly seat.

A Chinese father and son who were arrested by ICE and separated inside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan last month have been reunited — and then swiftly deported to China.

This really is how these people should be dealt with. At this point, there's no reason to expect anyone willing to do something like this isn't going to do everything in their power to make it seem they were correct. The right will good governance to prove a point.

Alexa Avilés is a progressive champion, a fierce defender of immigrants & working class families, and an amazing rep for our community. In this race, she’s showing powerful solidarity by unifying progressives, so we can win together. I’m immensely grateful for her support.

Child care is unaffordable for 80 percent of New York City parents. “We have reached a crisis point,” says Grace Rauh, the executive director of Citizens Union.

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I witnessed this insanity today. 7 cases I observed in a row went as follows: 1) Russian Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 2) Pakistani Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 1/

Our Thursday night volunteers brought us close to 3,000 doors in less than 2 weeks! There's still time to knock doors. Join us Saturday or Sunday for our final two canvasses of the year ⬇️

This took 30 seconds to do. Send a letter to your legislators.

This bitch

my goal as a journalist is to report carefully on the best, most practical social policy ideas that can change the world, and this is easily the most exciting one I’ve had the opportunity to cover this year 🧵↓ www.vox.com/policy/46963...

One day after being appointed as Zohran Mamdani's City Hall director of appointments, Cat Almonte Da Costa has tendered her resignation in response to her offensive tweets about Jewish people surfacing. Statement from her and Mamdani:

Make that an $11b deficit to keep subsidized housing production at current levels if the Council gets its way today — bsky.app/profile/ndha...

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

"Inside the Fight to Keep Mamdani’s Promise of 200,000 Affordable Homes: As Zohran Mamdani prepares to take over as mayor of New York, his team and allies have been pushing back against proposals that could make it more difficult to build new homes in the city." -- www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/n...

A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.

It's so unbelievable that Mamdani is gonna be mayor of New York City. He's been arrested a bunch of times for protesting and he went on hunger strike for taxi drivers, like. How did we manage this. Unprecedented W. I can't fully accept it honestly

>> The CDC also reported another child death from flu during last year’s season, bringing the total to 288 – the deadliest pediatric flu season on record outside of a pandemic. Widely available vaccines are a public health miracle that RFK Jr. wants to destroy. He wants more dead kids.

Update: New York pension fund trustees on Wednesday tabled Comptroller Brad Lander’s proposal to rebid a contract with BlackRock, leaving the potential $42 billion move up to his successor. nysfocus.com/2025/12/15/b...

NEW: Rep. Nydia Velázquez's retirement has spawned an open primary for NY7, the most left-leaning Congressional District in the nation. The race is the frontier of the Democratic Party: Young, Millennial, Renter, Left-Leaning. But only one can prevail: open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

“I want to continue [Zohran's] legacy of expanding our political imagination beyond what we think is possible.” Great to speak with @jacobinmag.bsky.social about our unapologetically democratic socialist campaign to succeed Zohran in the State Assembly! jacobin.com/2025/12/more...

Pretty concise summary of modern life

We are so proud to announce @votejgr.bsky.social as Queens’ FIRST endorsed candidate of the 2026 cycle!!

“We kept yelling, ‘She is pregnant, she’s pregnant,’” resident Tonika Deutch told Murphy. “They put their knees on her. We kept telling them, ‘She can’t breathe, let her up, let her up.’”

We’re proud to endorse @votejgr.bsky.social for State Senate District 13. Jessica is a proven working families champion. In Albany, she has delivered on universal school meals, fighting for immigrant New Yorkers, and advancing reproductive justice in Albany. We’re all in on Jessica.

People support the idea. The issue is whether people will organize to make it happen. Hochul does not want to tax the rich and that's how universal childcare can happen.

A new poll released today by me found: • 9 in 10 voters canvassed last Sunday in Forest Hills support universal child care • 7 of 9 supporters support taxing the rich and signed a letter to their NYS reps on the spot in 25-degree weather You too can conduct your own poll: act.ourtime.nyc/sign-up

Vickie Paladino’s call to expel, sanction & denaturalize Muslims is vile, unconstitutional, and dangerous. This is blatant Islamophobia. Muslim New Yorkers belong here—full stop. Someone who promotes hate like this has no place on the City Council and must be censured immediately

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If Paladino had said that Jews amounted to a fifth column and should be removed from the country, Menin would be one of many in elected office calling for her to be expelled from the Council. That it was about Muslims is just as heinous, yet all we get is this lukewarm response.

It’s probably not great to have a presumptive city council leader who‘s banking on the support of one of the most vile racists in all of American politics.

Menin has completely failed the “would your reaction have been as weak if Paladino had said ‘Jews,’ ‘Hispanics’ or ‘Black people’ instead?” test. It’s disqualifying really.

Paladino should be expelled from the Council, not given a fake-stern talking to. If Menin fails this test, she isn’t up for being Speaker.

Is “a liberal moderate” a euphemism for “former republican” now?