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They so badly want to wonder about how she will dress, as a Muslim woman who does not wear a hijab. Like to me that is so much of this subtext

I have never heard anyone talk about a mayor this way

Drinking a boulevardier from the coupe glass Boy #2 got me for the holidays while making albondigas en chipotle for dinner. 🥰🥰 Happy new year! 🎆

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Jumaane Williams captivated the crowd when he was sworn in as New York City’s public advocate during Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony on Thursday. Williams broke into tears after taking the oath for a third term, addressing a portion of his remarks to his younger self.

I love that so many people pinged me on this. City Hall Station plays an integral role in the Great Cities duology for the same reason -- it's a beautifully-preserved homage to the city's resilience and hidden beauty. Great choice, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

2025 RECAP: It was a long, tough year—but we have to remember that Trump is not all powerful. Your voice and your vote MATTERS. And when we all speak out and fight back, we CAN make a difference.  Let's keep up the fight.

Happy New Year, friends! I have some ~personal news~, which is that the Bluesky team is generously giving me some contract work (which could possibly turn into a job) welcoming more indie media and local govt to Bsky and supporting those already here. Excited to take my amateur Bsky boosterism pro!

26 degrees out and snow on the ground? No matter. First job accomplished for 2026 was putting up the hammock in the family room. Panacea for existential stress.

I wrote this in a dark moment after Trump’s 2nd inauguration to signal hope. It aged well. Those rays are getting brighter. And I have an even better feeling about 2026.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons) Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out gofund.me/5cbfe22fe

It's so fucking refreshing, and so fucking cool, to see a politician that loves the city he lives in and represents. Cities are the Real America. Both in practice and in the ideal.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes. Good.

Kim is a phenomenal historian, equally well versed in political history and NYC’s history. Listen to her.

Stuff of parenting dreams right here.

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

🥰🥰🥰

Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?

Inject it into my veins

Yes and-ing this to say, I absolutely love that his speeches do not sound like he studied Barack Obama recordings as if they were the zapruder or game film. He talks good but does it in his own way.

I am so ready for the Reagan era to finally end

Greetings and salutations to everyone who cracked open that brand new planner today!

Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji is visibly emotional as Mamdani shouts her out

changed my mind. new years resolution is to make more soup. inspired by @mathewlreyes.bsky.social need recommendations for soups that could be made vegetarian or already are vegetarian. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com you conquered bread but do you know soup???

This is a little orgasmic, I won’t lie.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

The Grammy-winning singer Lucy Dacus performed “Bread & Roses,” whose political slogan began amid the women’s suffrage and labor movements, at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor of New York City on Thursday.

If you really feelin’ good/ Spin a track for your Nani/

Ad I’ve said before, Democrats could really learn a thing or three from Mamdani and his team. Ideas are good! People like policy.

It’s 2026 which means I have a book coming out this year!!!!!! It’s for everyone who is curious about the cosmos 🙏🏽 Please preorder (from indies!) because it helps authors a lot — some places are having a sale right now like @loyaltybooks.bsky.social (code CHILL10) as well as your physical B&N 🌈 💙📚

This type of discourse is so prevalent & often works because we have for some reason For Years Now agreed to debate the merits of socialism from a starting position so intentionally disingenuous that we aren't ever even discussing what socialism actually is. A testament to our engineered ignorance.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Yes. We can.

“If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor.” This Mamdani speech—his entire inauguration—feels like a firm rebuke—in style and content—to the tone set by the last year of the Trump administration.

"thank you to my parents, mama and baba!"

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

you absolutely need to develop armor to exist as a woman of color in public. you do. you also really need actual people who care about you who offer you soft places to land.

New director of FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has "no expertise...no apparent experience in drug development, regulation or management..doesn’t seem to have any of the qualifications for running the drug-regulation department" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"He appears to want a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists." Excellent @victorerikray.bsky.social piece. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

If more people understood that socialism doesn't eliminate personal wealth we might be so much further along as a society

A very, very short blogpost about my favourite photos of the year occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

A final punt for this before getting down to the serious business of 2026…

Bernie Wagenblast, best known as the “please stand away from the closing doors” voice is the announcer for Mamdani’s inauguration.