Chuck Schumer's inability to say whether he voted for the Democratic nominee in a general election in his city is the final straw for @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...

"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."

Last night, Zohran Mamdani told his victory party, “Let the words we’ve spoken together, the dreams we’ve dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together.” @lfelizleon.bsky.social writes on how New Yorkers toppled a political dynasty, electing Democratic Socialist Mamdani as mayor.

“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor; palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars; knuckles scarred with kitchen burns—these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” Mamdani said at his victory party in Brooklyn, @lfelizleon.bsky.social reported 1/2

“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.” labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr...

Breaking: Multiracial working-class coalitions powered Zohran Mamdani’s stunning mayoral victory. Now they’ll need to build worker power to pry city governance from the stranglehold of billionaires to make the lives of working people better. labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr...

I’ll be covering tonight’s big news. Follow for updates.

Zohran Mamdani spent the final nights before Election Day meeting with NYC’s night-shift workers—taxi drivers, nurses, and food service staff—across Queens. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports on how the mayoral candidate returned to his multiracial working-class base: inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

“When yellow cabbie Kuber Sancho-Persad..sees Mamdani, he offers him a bear hug, lifting the…candidate into the air. Sancho-Persad tells me he can only stay for a few minutes to not miss curfew at the family-shelter. …Part of his high costs he blames on Cuomo” inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

“We need new people who are going to bring change,” said Mohammed, the 54-year-old Bangladeshi Uber driver who brought me to the airport and voted early for Zohran Mamdani. “He cares about the people, the poor people.” Story and video by @lfelizleon.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

If you’ve read my @inthesetimes.com story about Zohran Mamdani talking to night-shift workers across Queens in the stretch of the election contest, here’s another about the 15-day hunger strike by yellow cabbies in the @thebaffler.com. thebaffler.com/latest/taxis...

You love to see it. (Former second job night shift worker. This is especially awesome, in an already awesome campaign.)

I loved this article.

As the clock runs out before Election Day, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani canvassed night-shift taxi drivers at LaGuardia Airport and nurses at Elmhurst Hospital. Will NYC’s working class carry him to victory ? inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

As Election Day nears, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate, returns to his base among New York City’s multiracial working class. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reporting from NYC. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

DSA, DRUM Beats, CAAAV Voice, and NYCC were Zohran's day-1 endorsers and the base-building foundation of his campaign. But next year, as we take the fight to Albany to fund Zohran's agenda, I believe that @1199seiu.org will prove to be one of the most important members of his governing coalition.

Zohran Mamdani is canvassing across working-class Queens tonight. An airport worker stops him, so he can say hi to his family.#ZohranOnTheNightShift

“Mr. Hamdi appeared to be the latest person to have an American visa revoked over political speech. Other cases have raised questions about First Amendment protections.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

Big news

Breaking: Volkswagen Chattanooga auto workers have voted to authorize their elected UAW bargaining committee to call for a strike, if one becomes necessary in their fight to secure a contract. vw.uaw.org/updates#last...

“Federal agents are terrorizing immigrants and citizens, and racially profiling us Latinos for kidnapping and detention. If ever there was a time to stand up to a boss and declare that an injury to one is an injury to all, it’s now,” writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social

Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: “We have to be good or ICE will get us,” referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. apnews.com/article/chic...

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days. Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

“Because the ICE agents rarely had warrants these days, the guidance was simple, really. If you could make it to a bathroom, or a supply closet, or lock yourself behind any sort of barrier, you would be fine.” slate.com/business/202...

This video, obtained by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social, is from the morning after the federal raid on the South Shore apt complex. It shows 5 units tagged with tape reading ​“PC.” All of those units were raided by agents, while unmarked units were not raided. Story here. inthesetimes.com/article/evic...

"A federal agent blatantly violated a court order against using excessive force against journalists and protesters last Thursday by pointing a gun in a veteran’s face, saying 'Bang, bang' and 'You’re dead, liberal.'"

A perfect story for our times. Nebraska is getting its own immigrant detention center like Florida's Alligator Alcatraz. But people are upset because the center is replacing a work camp that provides the local economy with cheap prison labor. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Scheisskrieg: a German compound word, “shit-war.” open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "If you have knocked a door, turn your flashlight on."

Publishing should be like performing an exorcism. I’m possessed by an idea and I want to get it out on the page as fast as possible. Writing is a compulsion. I know I’m not writing a masterpiece, so all I want is to get that demon off me. Who wants to be my publishing priest ?

"In Chicago, neighbors guard school entrances, blow whistles when they spot ICE agents, and even chase them away. When agents launched tear gas near an elementary school, a @ctulocal1.bsky.social delegate mobilized people to offer safe passage to kids walking home." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

It’s a synthesis that builds on insights from Beating Apathy in the Labor Notes book Secrets of a Successful Organizer. Apathy isn’t real. People don’t turnout because we haven’t found what matters to them. Alyssa Battistoni goes further to say: we often think we don’t matter. Great essay!

very rare to see someone say out loud what i suspect, which is that there are plenty of people evaluate my work based on my profile picture and not the actual words i use

Great thread. This is also true about that Jacobin article criticizing the turnout for the No Kings march. As someone who covered both demonstrations in June and October, I saw a few unions trying to pull together largest unions into organize contingents. Here’s a more rooted analysis. 1/3

The Wu-Tang Clan had C.R.E.A.M. We have scheisskrieg. It’s a German compound word, “shit-war.” Trump shits on everything around us. #NoKings open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...

After many years I've finally paid for a subscription to @labornotes.bsky.social and really recommend it. Getting a print copy with stories like this is great labornotes.org/2025/09/well...

ICYMI: New Zealand is being rocked by coordinated strikes involving 100,000 workers across five different unions. Teachers, nurses and public employees unions are on the march. Are we next? labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

"Good: Wearing your union T-shirt to the protest. Better: Bringing a big group in union shirts, with your union banner. Better still: Getting your union to publicize the protest and turn members out." @lfelizleon.bsky.social and our editor Al Bradbury report on workers' reflections on No Kings

New: Pull up. We’re building a movement. Solidarity is what unions are all about. Here are a few reasons why it’s a great idea to bring your union identity—and your union—to the struggle. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

News: News: Volkswagen Workers in Chattanooga to Vote on Strike Authorization

Correction: Oct. 28 and 29. vw.uaw.org/updates#last...

Breaking: Volkswagen UAW members will be holding a strike authorization vote October 21 & 22.

Best journalistic piece I've read so far on how Zohran should aim to govern the NYPD. The thesis is simple: Don't attempt to appease opposing parties and end up pleasing neither; define a position and stick to it. The piece's careful recounting of de Blasio's record backs this thesis up.

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

Millions of people took to the streets nationwide Oct 18 as part of a pro-democracy movement rising up in peaceful resistance against President Trump’s authoritarian rule. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports on the #NoKingsDay marches & the power felt in the streets. inthesetimes.com/article/no-k...

If you are a union member in NYC or elsewhere who turned out with your fellow unionists for No Kings protests, what next steps did you discuss post-rally ? It’s for a Labor Notes article.

seems like you could be minimally fit, join ICE for the signing bonus, and then just not do the job

Mass politics means translating Antonio Gramsci into evocative images. “Trump isn’t an anomaly in U.S. history. He’s like a piece of shit traveling down sewer pipes and becoming denser as he’s agglomerated sediments of other excrement.” inthesetimes.com/article/no-k...

There's been a huge outpouring of support for Willian. He is known as an advocate for day laborers and was in the middle of suing off-duty cops for harassing workers in the Home Depot parking lot. His Sept 12 abduction rattled his community. He's now speaking out from ICE custody.