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Journalist. Essayist. Author. Teacher. Mom. Socialist. Union member.
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David Palumbo-Liu
3 days ago
Always great to chat with
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
and
@doughenwood.bsky.social
Great episode on
#Zohran
#Mamdani
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We had such a great time chatting with
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Nathaniel Stinnett
3 days ago
"Assessing the Democrats’ victory this week, some key Republicans told Politico that the Democrats had dominated them on the energy affordability issue—an issue for which they have no solutions." –
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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Democrats Just Realized They Have a Winning Climate Message
Energy affordability propelled Mikie Sherrill and several others to victory on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202838/democrats-just-realized-winning-climate-message
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Wondering why Tuesday was so great for Democrats all over?
@environmentalvoter.bsky.social
has some data -- and did some organizing -- that offers a clue.
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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Democrats Just Realized They Have a Winning Climate Message
Energy affordability propelled Mikie Sherrill and several others to victory on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202838/democrats-just-realized-winning-climate-message
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 days ago
We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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Strangely enough, blocking offshore wind and spreading misinformation about green energy, as Trump has been doing, isn’t helping a single voter pay her utility bill. That's one reason Democrats won big this week.
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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Democrats Just Realized They Have a Winning Climate Message
Energy affordability propelled Mikie Sherrill and several others to victory on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202838/democrats-just-realized-winning-climate-message
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
4 days ago
Wednesday, Nov. 12: a reading & conversation to celebrate the launch of Celina Su's new book, "Budget Justice," which shows how communities can solve our cities' most pressing problems. With
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
and Kesi Foster. Register for this free event!
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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The Center for Humanities
4 days ago
Finally, the election is over! Let's get to work... Next week!
centerforthehumanities.org/event/budget...
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It doesn’t have to be this way, and it turns out that when Democrats say so, they can win.
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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Democrats Just Realized They Have a Winning Climate Message
Energy affordability propelled Mikie Sherrill and several others to victory on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202838/democrats-just-realized-winning-climate-message
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Jacobin
6 days ago
If you want to chart the rise of Zohran Mamdani from his 2020 election to state assembly to his likely election as New York City mayor today and everywhere he’s been in between, you can — through Jacobin’s extensive coverage of Mamdani.
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Jacobin Has Charted Zohran Mamdani’s Rise From the Beginning
From our first interview immediately after he won his state assembly election in 2020 through profiles, op-eds, interviews, and speeches, Jacobin has closely covered Zohran Mamdani’s political career rooted in the socialist movement since its start.
http://jacobin.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-jacobin-adams-cuomo?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_ctevxtvmfl
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jamelle
12 days ago
oh just straight up gutter racism!
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Michael Pollak
16 days ago
Great & timely article by
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
. Her description of cancel culture is perfectly put, and the distinction between that what going on now is key
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
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Trump’s Crusade Against Critics Is So Much Worse Than “Cancel Culture”
The liberal cancel culture of yesteryear is indeed regrettable. But let’s not succumb to bothsidesism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202205/trump-cancel-culture-state-repression
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I was not a fan of cancel culture. At the time I called it "You're Fired" liberalism, arguing that it was Trumpian, unworthy of the left. That said, what Trump is doing now is much worse and it's not even close:
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
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This Is Not “Cancel Culture.” This Is Organized State Repression.
The Trump administration’s onslaught against MAGA critics doesn’t belong in the same conversation as the liberal online mobs of yesteryear.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202205/trump-cancel-culture-state-repression
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Cancel culture was a bad vibe and probably did drive many to the right, I wrote
@newrepublic.com
. But what Trump is doing now is not "cancel culture."
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
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This Is Not “Cancel Culture.” This Is Organized State Repression.
The Trump administration’s onslaught against MAGA critics doesn’t belong in the same conversation as the liberal online mobs of yesteryear.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202205/trump-cancel-culture-state-repression
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Quinta Jurecic
17 days ago
approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine.
www.ft.com/content/1377...
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The Center for Humanities
19 days ago
After the polls close and the election is over, New Yorkers will still need to organize for the city they deserve. Join us for a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of Budget Justice: a bold vision that empowers communities. Register!
centerforthehumanities.org/event/budget...
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yes, i am confused about why Trump posting that video is not the top story across all platforms. Violent, juvenile, stupid and utterly lacking in class. Seems like something people should know about.
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NY Renews
24 days ago
Thanks to
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
for the sharp piece on the blue state governors who have gone weak on climate policy.
@nyrenews.bsky.social
ED Stephan Edel said Hochul has "embraced the Republican narrative that climate policy and affordability are at odds."
newrepublic.com/article/2017...
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The Blue-State Governors Who’ve Gone Weak on Climate Policy
They make a big show of standing up to Trump. But what about standing up for the planet?
https://newrepublic.com/article/201766/democrat-governors-weak-climate-hochul-newsom
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Ted Hamm
24 days ago
Here's my convo about Run Zohran Run! last night w/ the great
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/yBA5roq...
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The people go wild for blue state governors showing the slightest bit of spine. So on climate, why aren't they doing it? thanks for insight and good info from
@nyrenews.bsky.social
:
newrepublic.com/article/2017...
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The Blue-State Governors Who’ve Gone Weak on Climate Policy
They make a big show of standing up to Trump. But what about standing up for the planet?
https://newrepublic.com/article/201766/democrat-governors-weak-climate-hochul-newsom
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Jacob Soboroff
about 1 month ago
Michigan Avenue right now.
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I’m not hearing a downside
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter
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Alissa Quart
about 2 months ago
Excited about next week’s nearly daylong
@economichardship.bsky.social
event at
@columbiajournalism.bsky.social
starring
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
,
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
,
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
Ray Suarez and others!
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I got to interview
@omarfatehmn.bsky.social
for
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
Asked what democratic socialism means to him, Fateh, whose first child was born last month, had a straightforward answer. “It’s pretty clear-cut,” he said. “You want to take care of everyone.”
jacobin.com/2025/09/omar...
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Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh on His Run for Mayor
What does democratic socialism mean to Omar Fateh, Minneapolis mayoral candidate? “It’s pretty clear cut: you want to take care of everyone.”
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/omar-fateh-minneapolis-dsa-mayoral-election
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Clara Jeffery
about 2 months ago
He still thinks/claims that “asylum seekers” come from insane asylums
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Laura Tanenbaum
about 2 months ago
Wow this campaign keeps outdoing itself. A history lesson tied to the present and connected to one of my favorite badass history ladies rolled into one???
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Phil Lewis
about 2 months ago
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 2 months ago
We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend. There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
about 2 months ago
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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The New Republic
about 2 months ago
Why am I yawning? Because this plan sounds so safe and poll-tested. Because it is essentially playing defense (again). And mostly because Donald Trump is not merely a threat to the health care subsidies of a comparatively small minority of Americans—he’s a threat to our way of life.
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It’s a real firehose of lies out here.
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Nicholas Grossman
about 2 months ago
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸
about 2 months ago
Not good for Kash! 😬
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JW Mason
about 2 months ago
I appreciate that Liza ends the piece with a question, which she doesn't try to resolve. I feel like a lot of political writing could be improved by simply trying to clarify what the questions are, without necessarily taking a side.
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JW Mason
about 2 months ago
A lot of wisdom in
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
's latest piece on NY governor Kathy Hochul - someone who's hardly been a leader, but who has repeatedly been willing to tack left when that's what the prevailing winds seems to favor.
jacobin.com/2025/09/hoch...
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Many right wing Silicon Valley billionaires are sick freaks who welcome human extinction because they want AI to take over. Their influence explains why Trump 2.0 is such a terrible time to be alive:
newrepublic.com/article/2003...
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Under Trump, It’s Much Better to Be a Bot Than a Human
The current administration seems much more favorably predisposed to machines than it is toward living things.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200344/trump-ai-machines-big-tech
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What a time to be alive! Actually quite the opposite, thanks to Trump's policies, but it's a fabulous time to be a bot:
newrepublic.com/article/2003...
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Under Trump, It’s Much Better to Be a Bot Than a Human
The current administration seems much more favorably predisposed to machines than it is toward living things.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200344/trump-ai-machines-big-tech
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🍁🦃 momo (turkily good bad) 🦃🍁
about 2 months ago
happy bolsonaro is going to jail day to all who celebrate
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...the Joe Biden playbook: build renewables while also building fossil fuel infrastructure at the same time, ensuring that we make no meaningful climate progress. Better than Trump’s atavistic death drive of an environmental policy, but that doesn’t make it any less daft.
jacobin.com/2025/09/hoch...
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What Can We Do About Kathy Hochul?
Despite her anti-Trump posturing, New York governor Kathy Hochul is hardly a paragon of progressivism. But winning her over on at least some key issues is crucial for a socialist mayoralty’s success. ...
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/hochul-nyc-mamdani-centrist-democrats
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Jacobin
about 2 months ago
Despite her anti-Trump posturing, New York governor Kathy Hochul is hardly a paragon of progressivism. But winning her over on at least some key issues is crucial for a socialist mayoralty’s success. Does the Left have any leverage over Hochul?
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What Can We Do About Kathy Hochul?
Despite her anti-Trump posturing, New York governor Kathy Hochul is hardly a paragon of progressivism. But winning her over on at least some key issues is crucial for a socialist mayoralty’s success. Does the Left have any leverage over Hochul?
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/hochul-nyc-mamdani-centrist-democrats?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_un2flesuua
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Public Power NY
about 2 months ago
On climate,
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
writes that Hochul and Trump "appear to be BFFs." New Yorkers deserve better.
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ElieNYC
2 months ago
You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA
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Florida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk Shooting
A reporter with a popular Florida political website was suspended after angering a Republican congressman with a question he texted in the wake of Charlie Kirk being shot.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-reporter-suspended-after-texting-maga-congressman-to-ask-if-he-still-supports-campus-carry-after-kirk-shooting/
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Drew Harwell
2 months ago
A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm"
@alexhorton.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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National Guard documents show public ‘fear,’ troops’ ‘shame’ over D.C. presence
Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/10/national-guard-trump-dc/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
2 months ago
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
2 months ago
Here is the
@uaw.org
statement on the arrests at Hyundai (h/t
@lfelizleon.bsky.social
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jamelle
2 months ago
it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.
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Peter Sterne
2 months ago
Zohran Mamdani’s general election campaign has reached its fundraising cap ($8 million) and no longer needs to raise any money. He released a new video telling people to stop donating.
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Bright D Limm 임대중
2 months ago
@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social
's piece communicates the very dream that committed me to the practice of politics: The dream of a collective life in which all of us have enough time to do the things we enjoy, to do things other than work. Two decades later, this dream still inspires commitment.
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Bright D Limm 임대중
2 months ago
And here's
@phara4assembly.bsky.social
's sibling bill to create a pilot project in New York State for private-sector employers to implement a four-day workweek.
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
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NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A5454
Establishes the New York smart work week pilot program to promote, incentivize and support the use of a four-day work week by qualifying employers and to study the benefits and impacts of such work ar...
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A5454
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Bright D Limm 임대중
2 months ago
One stepping stone to realizing this dream is instituting a four-day workweek. As Liza notes, when it comes to making the impossible possible, it's socialists who usually lead the way; here, it's
@phara4assembly.bsky.social
. Here's Phara's bill for state employees:
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
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NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A5423
Establishes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees; requires the division of the budget and the state department of civil service to identify state agencies or other jobs in the perform...
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A5423
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