Mamdani: "While only action can change minds, I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn along side you, and not for a second hide from you."

.. also and this is where I toss this to actual psychs ( might be a part of my masters) but the need to create a villain in every interpersonal relationship CAN be from trauma and self recrimination…. It’s also a signal of problematic even abusive relationship habits

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

2025 took a toll on the world’s journalists. "Worldwide, the 126 media industry people killed in 2025 by early December matched the number of deaths in all of 2024.... The [CPJ] estimates there are at least 323 journalists imprisoned worldwide." www.courthousenews.com/a-rough-year...

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

I think @bylinetimes.bsky.social are onto something with their investigation of links between Epstein and Farage.

Right now I wouldn't encourage any non citizen to come to the United States unless absolutely necessary this administration will not welcome you & their is a good chance you'll be harassed or arrested because of how you look or your politics

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

I’ll never ever believe that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost their elections and Jack Smith’s damning testimony only helps to cement that for me.

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.

Russia conducted a false-flag attack on Putin's residence and forgot the "flag" part. The CIA confirms that Putin is lying and Russia is full of sh*t.

Off to a good start

Many non-MAGA Republicans are waking up. We don’t need all of them-we just need enough. And enough will be enough. MAGA alone doesn’t have the numbers. Not when we show up...and others vote the way I believe many will

Happy New Year to Democracy Defenders! Protecting democracy in 2026 starts now! Defend the vote. Call out lies. Register voters. Hold leaders accountable to the law. Defend a free press. Stand up to corruption & fascism. Participate, organize local rallies! We can do this! #DefendersOfDemocracy

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Former President George W. Bush's silence through all of this is deafening. Whatever his policies and presidency amounted to, he was never anti-democracy. He knows what Trump is doing is wrong and dangerous. He should be speaking out.

Delay delay delay has always been Trump's M.O. He delays and usually things go away. NOT THIS TIME. Fight. Trump must be tried for his crimes and the death penalty needs to be on the table. Treason. Rape. So much more Trump must be removed.

Trump is prolonging the inevitable.

POTUS is a convicted felon and was indicted for abusing power to overthrow a legal election, and we have Supreme Court justices who openly accept lavish gifts from people with interests before the court and its really weird to me that most people are…at most casually annoyed? And mostly w/ inflation

#nowwatching for my first film of 2026 I am almost finished with Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Pretty much lived up to the hype! #filmsky 🎥

We'll continue to march and call and write our congress reps and send $ to candidates but also took small additional step today. My wife made black-eyed peas and greens for supper. Traditional fare to bring good luck and wealth for the New Year. Figured it couldn't hurt.

He'd be a great one!

My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

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

Hardworking Americans will be sent into crippling medical debt, emptying their savings to see a doctor. Others will be forced to live without the life-saving coverage they need. Untold tens of thousands will die from preventable causes.”

President Trump has vetoed a bill that would expand the territory of a small Native American tribe in the Everglades because they didn’t support his “Alligator Alcatraz” plans. trib.al/FUam1Ko

Trump trying to "pardon" Tina Peters on state convictions is one of the stupidest things he could do. No way the Governor of Colorado will release her and possibly set a precedent that the Fuhrer can pardon state convictions.

Ironic that a nation founded by a declaration which stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident.." is routinely lied to by its administration and whose citizens largely can't or won't recognise them as lies even when contradicted by overwhelming evidence.

It's going to be a great year for defending democracy. Let's go!

“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.

Putin lies (& so does the sociopathic felon pedophile squatter in the Whitehouse).

Being a Christian Nationalist is anti American. It stands for fascism.

Final broadcast of ABC News Tonight for 2025. I hope every rep and senator saw it. Millions are being forced to cancel health insurance because it’s unaffordable. That pressure doesn’t stop with them; it spreads. When people drop coverage, everyone’s rates go up. Call your Rep and Senators.

Trump isn’t loyal to his base or the Republican Party. He’s loyal to Trump. His goal is to keep his name in the headlines and monetize it for as long as possible. Anyone who expected him to deliver on promises misunderstood who he’s always been.

I feel for all the kids who have to suffer for the crime of being born to stupid parents.

This is not making America healthy again. This is sheer lunacy.

I'm hoping every politician has taken on a new year's resolution to represent those that vote them in, not who pay them the most back handers. Bring back morals and public decency into politics.

Donald Trump is neckgina deep in the Epstein files and the GOP is just going to allow him to attack Venezuela without Congress or even an explanation to the American people?

Ha! 🤣🤣 I’m STILL not going to see anyone perform at the Kennedy Center as long as the asshole’s name is on the building.

It’s 25F in NYC and crowds are waiting in line to get to see Mayor Mamdani get sworn in

#GVerse Jack Smith says that he does not understand why #Shit4Brains would pardon people who assaulted law enforcement. He says the people who defended the Capitol that day are heroes. #Repost Do you agree with Jack?

No way should we have to be governed by this fucking criminal regime! Fuck the corrupt, criminal SCOTUS and GOP!

BBC Two 1/1/2026 10.15am A great start to the year from Vienna. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

My team said we were reading hate mail today. Instead it was thank-you letters from all of you. Full reaction video up on my YouTube: https://youtu.be/uKG1HKk7Oh8

Happy New Year, Minnesota!

Flip the Script: People Want More Democracy, Not Less open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

Release the Epstein Files!