they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

Yet another example of the structural oppression still faced by the Bedumptrucked Man Community™

The newsfeed feature on Venmo is so funny. Where else are you gonna find out that your landlord from 2014 went out for ribs with his buddies last night

Absolutely wild what people are willing to put in writing!

quick tip to toddlers: standing in the middle of a room and saying "I'm hiding" is not actually an effective way to hide.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

A little back of the napkin math here: If you had been working for the current federal minimum wage since the day the dinosaurs went extinct, and never spent a single penny, you'd still be about two million years of labor shy of having earned a trillion dollars.

The solution is clear: tax the most wealthy corporations in the city. Alders just need to find the courage to stand up to the rich and their lobbyists.

Hey Johnboy, just curious, to which nation did you pledge devotion when you took your path of office?

Just saw a post where someone (not for nothing, Andrew Cuomo's digital director) called Greta Thunberg "the world's leading antisemite" and I really must ask: do these nudniks hear themselves?

Sages: treat everyone with hospitality! me: YES! Sages: treat the poor like members of your family! me: YESS! Sages: and don't talk to women! me: Y-wait what? Sages: Women are EVIL! Sages: Women DISTRACT YOU FROM TORAH Sages: Sages: I am so lonely

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

Only the Senate Dems could look at election results from around the country last week showing that principled, forceful rejection of Trump's fascist agenda is popular and politically powerful, and decide to capitulate to the GOP harder.

They are so fucking useless smdh.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Mamdani is going to implement Chandrila Law, following in the footsteps of Mon Mothma in using elected office to combat rising fascism.

The Free Synagogue, where Hirsch is the rabbi, describes itself as a "catalyst for progressive Jewish thought." But all I see here is reactionary, racist fear-mongering and support for oppressive structures of power

I genuinely can't imagine what it would be like to live your life constantly inventing guys to be scared of

I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.

If there's one thing we know about Rahm Emanuel it's that he loves dead kids.

Imagine making a point of going to court with the goal of starving children. That’s what everyone involved in requesting this emergency stay is doing. Ghoulish.

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

i feel confident saying that zohran mamdani has likely never said or done anything as remotely antisemitic in his life as the horrifyingly islamophobic things being said and done right now by people in positions of power and authority in the jewish community in reaction to him

Greenblatt is a shanda and y’all gotta stop acting like he’s an important voice of Jews when in fact he is just a self-serving selfish powerful rich white man who weaponizes identity for his own ends.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

Unspeakably horrifying. A daycare teacher. A fucking daycare teacher. Just heartbroken for this teacher and the kids and the families. Terrified for my kid and her teachers and the families at our daycare.

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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

JFC these racist fucks are crashing out so hard

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Andrew Cuomo received the light of democratic socialism and unhesitatingly sang the Internationale. Even now he looks down on Bushwick from the gardens of Astoria. Truly there is no god but DSA, and Zohran is his prophet!

this goes so fucking hard lmao

Shove it up your equivocating ass, Charles

The race has barely been called for half an hour and that thumb-faced dipshit is already declaring war on the Mayor-elect

American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful

I hope that everybody celebratorily hooks up tonight

Broke: Winsome Earle-Sears Woke: The winsome smile of Zohran K. Mamdani

LET'S, and I cannot stress this enough, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

someone holler if apartments start going up on the market in Brooklyn for a good price from people fleeing :-)

As someone with a strong connection to his Jewish heritage, I am thrilled with this result and I look forward to seeing New Yorkers come together for the common good and against the Trump overreach in cities and around the country.

It Happened to Me: Tripped and Fell and Cracked My Phone on the Sidewalk Because I Was Waving at a Baby

Lots of people miss the point of Gatsby and somehow admire Jay's ostentatious displays of wealth amid suffering, but missing the very simple plot points whereby a little party very much does kill multiple people is impressive

The cruelty, as always, is the point.

Good morning to everybody except people mad at Manny’s for offering a SNAP discount. (Get a life.)

Ope

"Polymarket" as the name of a platform is really wasted on a betting site

One might think that after Amnesty, B'Tselem, the UN and the International Association of Genocide Scholars have accused Israel of genocide, rabbis would feel some need to answer their arguments. Instead, they simply waive them away.