Siddhartha Mitter
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okra eater.
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Koyo Kouoh 1967 - 2025 A loss beyond loss.
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Mamdani’s approach to Trump reminds me of Lula’s approach to Trump. Politicians who instinctively know how to politics.
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Prisonculture
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I scream-laughed
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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Jumma Mubarak
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Heterodox.
apnews.com/article/pope...
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Pontifical secret revealed: Pope Leo XIV changes his Wordle start word each day
Pope Leo XIV has revealed a closely held secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day. Leo divulged his strategy playing the popular New York Times online game during an online encounter wit...
https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-xiv-wordle-fadaa8a2dad675d06bd57d2990a9f505
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The grotesque.
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The grotesque.
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The grotesque.
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Chi, my council member, has a shot, but if you analyze the district, it's clearly a long shot. I'll gladly vote for him if he runs, but Mamdani's playing this right.
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Dart Adams
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HAITI AND CAPE VERDE BOTH QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP? LORD GOD, PLEASE LET THEM BOTH PLAY IN BOSTON.
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Laurent Dubois
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HAITI IS GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!!!! 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹
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Julia Carrie Wong
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/mahmood-mamdani-father-interview-zohran
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It only makes sense that the two countries that inflicted on the world what has come to be known as neoliberalism should also be in a race to perfect the new fascism of the 21st century.
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The US seems further down the road to fascism than the UK, but the UK now seems to be moving that way at a higher speed.
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Prof Dynarski
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Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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Ana Marie Cox
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Bill de Blasio has a busy social life.
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There go my dreams of occupying a 10,000-sq. foot Park Avenue apartment and turning it into an anarcho-syndicalist autonomous zone
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Devastating and damning investigation by
@lattif.bsky.social
and Justin Scheck. One horrific quote after another.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
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Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/world/europe/kenya-president-saudi-arabia-maids.html
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Luke O'Neil
8 days ago
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
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Daniel Trilling
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I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
https://www.equator.org/articles/inside-the-bbc-s-gaza-fiasco
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Penn Station, perfect summation of the US's abdication of infrastructure. A good piece that lays out issues and history. It's clear that the regional system needs true integration (esp. with NJ); and most of all, Madison Square Garden needs to go.
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Why Is It So Hard to Fix Penn Station?
The nation’s busiest transit hub stands as a symbol of a condition that afflicts so many attempts to get big things done in America: inertia.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/12/nyregion/inertia-penn-station-trump.html
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Their quasi-incoherent staccato truncated style is a tic of power and arrogance. It says, “I’m so busy and so important that I have no time to compose sentences, it’s your job to decipher my utterances.”
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Andres Serrano, eh?
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The. Gro. Tesque.
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Yo this shit is disgusting
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The GROTESQUE.
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#okra
#okrosoup
#okrapolitan
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Na wa o
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Puff the Magic Hater
13 days ago
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-we-run-toward-danger-together/
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A very good listen. Strong, substantive conversation with Patrick Gaspard, preceded by a summing-up of the campaign by Katie Honan, Harry Siegel and Christina Greer.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/07/p...
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https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/07/patrick-gaspard-zohran-mamdani-city-hall-free-for-all-faqnyc-podcast/
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Liz Ryerson
15 days ago
broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now
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Mamdani would be entirely justified in suing BHL for libel (“diffamation” in French) in French courts.
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Excellent transition team (no surprise there). And lovely choice of venue to introduce them Zohran and team have such a keen instinct for invoking (and teaching!) NYC’s progressive, cosmopolitan and working-class histories
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For real though: the Zohran organizing and field operation was legendary. Absolutely setting the bar. Extraordinary work that can be learned from and emulated by any campaign with an actual theory of change.
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But also : “RAMASWAMY : GOP NEEDS TO FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY” Like Dylan said, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
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The two people next to me on this flight out of LGA are getting their Fox News on — SOCIALISM! FAR-LEFT 34-YEAR OLD! Ads for pain medication and weird pyramid schemes! — and I’m just sitting here chuckling.
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