If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

The majority of mass shooters have a history of violence against women. Learning this about the Manchester attacker was not surprising to me. Sexual violence should garner much more outrage. Because victims deserve that and public safety depends on it. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/w...

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

The best way to depress democratic hope and enthusiasm and get progressive voters to stay home is to give the appearance that both parties are the same

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

That is, unless their speech is about Palestine, because Barnard will expel students in a heartbeat for that grievous offense.

“I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions…What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media — a historical pattern as dangerous as it is shameful — and tragic.”

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

“...ordinary voters who merely wonder why they should be made to feel like unwelcome outsiders in parts of their own country..." This rhetorical tic kills me as a Black person living in the United States.

The term antisemitism is not a “diversionary tactic”—but this kind of gotcha reply is! Term was popularized in 1880s w the founding of the League of Antisemites. It specifically means opposition to Jews as a people. We can oppose genocide w/o erasing this history or denying reality of antisemitism

Newsom is an alternate Trump not an alternative to Trump.

The thing is, the situation was never “a minority is right by virtue of their identity” It has always been and still is that you are responsible for being attentive to how power dynamics shape what you notice and don’t notice, how you interpret tone, what you weight as important or devalue, etc

ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same

Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL said on TV today that Zohran Mamdani did not visit a single synagogue in NYC during the campaign. That is, to put it bluntly, a lie. forward.com/news/763210/...

Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law

But yeah, this is why spending the last five years embracing policing as a common-sense bipartisan institution, with critics being attributed to the result of some mass hysteria, was always going to end poorly. Because the police weren’t changing, and the violence never stopped.

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

Please consider giving to the Astoria Food Pantry, which serves immigrants in Queens, many of whom have been prevented from going to work because of fear of ICE raids. The line of those waiting for food was down the block when I passed by today. www.astoriafoodpantry.com/donate-money...

This was never the purpose, and it's obscene to keep repeating the lie this far into a premeditated atrocity. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

@egsophie.bsky.social We are surrounded by fear and loss. Your support could bring us peace. 🥲 Every meal, every blanket, every smile is a gift. Thank you. Every act of kindness is a shield for our children. 🙏 https://kutt.it/Help_my_child

Please share this widely. We need as many people to submit comments supporting access to this care as possible.

This is very hard to read. But it’s powerful testimony and much needed. I wish that people who still support the war would read it www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

It's true; it's not antisemitic to be critical of a nation-state. It is, however, deeply antisemitic to post an image attempting to draw connections between an imagined cabal of tangentially linked public figures purely on the basis of most of them (not even all) being Jewish.

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

It’s as if the aid sites set up by the U.S./Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ exist to herd famished civilians into shooting galleries. Revolting.

That story only makes sense in the context of Mamdani trying to "cheat" the system by "pretending" he's Black and that only makes sense of you believe that Black people get stuff just for being Black, to which i say, I wish.

whoa, are there any theories that could help people think about race more critically?

worth noting the pipeline here: * Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data * Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data * NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign * Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story

"When you have a 'feeling' that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you...and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – his words, his record, his associations – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism." – @attackerman.bsky.social

Current in the zoom for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social membership assembly and... I'm just amazed by what this organization has accomplished this year. And of the community JFREJ has been building for years. Also JFREJ is so good at communicating inwardly and outwardly! @egsophie.bsky.social is GOAT

Imagine if the media covered, and got as worked up about, Donald Trump and MAGA’s actual and open antisemitism as they do about Zohran Mamdani’s non-existent and made-up antisemitism. 🤷🏽‍♂️

just to be absolutely clear, "self-hating Jew" is an antisemitic trope. This person is claiming to speak for Jews and being an antisemitic asshole. (don't know if they're Jewish or not; the "your people" thing makes me think no.)

I have yet to see @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social condemn the Dreyfus Affair and I think that’s absolutely shameful. Will someone please ask them about that repeatedly until they clear up if they are pro- or against? Because they need to clarify.

Perhaps congressional democrats should spend their time on network TV making sure Americans understand that the GOP is trying to slash Medicaid, instead of using that time to smear one of their party’s most popular & inspiring rising stars, who is currently facing an onslaught of MAGA racism.

He literally hasn’t even said it but great job adding to the disgusting anti-Muslim bigotry and hate that your colleagues have been spewing instead of supporting your party’s nominee

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

If a politician never discusses Islamophobia or anti-Blackness, I can’t take their takes on anti-Semitism seriously.

Lander: "I want a mayor who will keep Jews and all New Yorkers safe, and I would not be supporting Zohran Mamdani if I wasn't confident that he would."

It is incredibly gratifying to see a respected Jewish leader on national television saying what so many of us feel, calling out blatant racism and efforts to divide Jews & Muslims. This is who @bradlander.bsky.social has always been. It is so good that the world is seeing it & hearing him.

Chris Cuomo had a meltdown on his NewsNation show over his brother losing the NYC mayoral primary. This chyron has me laughing, though: DEVELOPING STORY: CHRIS' FATHER IS FMR. NY GOV. MARIO CUOMO

Jewish New Yorkers are just like other New Yorkers: we also want affordable housing & childcare, and excellent public transit, and for this city to be a place where we can build a future...That's what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ran on, and that's why NYers—Jewish & non-Jewish alike—voted for him.

Honored to be quoted in this excellent @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social piece, besides heroes of our people like @egsophie.bsky.social & @simonerzim.bsky.social and also beside the psychotic Rabbi Schneider, who chose to come out the gate sounding anti-democratic notes!