Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"

Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

This is some very, very scary food for thought. open.substack.com/pub/politics...

#TrumpSteinFiles Release them all…

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

the longer the establishment DNC cronies refuse to accept systemic change, the longer they will continue to lose. mamdani is just the beginning, and yes, they SHOULD be scared

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.”

As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you

Lies, distractions, fake drama, staged assassination attempts, corporate overlords, and oligarchs. Let’s start the process of leaving it all behind in 2026! #Midterms #voteblue

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Mamdani will be sworn in at a New Year’s Day City Hall ceremony, with AOC introducing him— “For the many New Yorkers who have long felt betrayed by a broken status quo, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embodies a new kind of politics that puts working people at the heart of it” —Mamdani

Boycott the games. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Watching my daughter grow up without evangelical religious trauma is breathtaking. She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains. Thankyou NASA ☺️

Who decides whose lives count? Slaughtering unarmed men, women, and children as they flee is written off as history. The US has a long record of racialized state violence. That’s what racism looks like. Not just hatred, but selective memory. And history echoes.

Merry Christmas, from our family to yours!

Real change is coming. 2026 is the year we really turn things around. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...

"Recent polling shows a broad public turn toward progressive populism: the kind that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and to make life’s necessities affordable for the majority of the American people." #TaxJustice

They solved it:

Great read. Spread it far and wide. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Sores coming out as smoke

New York, this moment belongs to you. Please join us for the Inauguration of a New Era on January 1, 2026.

Close up photo of algae on the surface of small pools of water created by ocean waves. The photo looks like a scanning electron microscope pic, but this was taken with a simple point n click camera. Photo of the pools/environment is in the comments. NL, Canada. #algae #fungifriends

Bondi Beach Attack Is Weaponized to Suppress Palestine Solidarity in Australia truthout.org/articles/bon...

In a stunning moment, Nancy Pelosi just completely exposed Donald Trump’s cognitive decline. This is a must watch.

NEVER FORGIVE ISRAEL!!

Venezuela denouncing Israel at the UN: "Israel has become a death machine that must be stopped immediately."

Previously on Bylines Scotland...

🇨🇦BREAKING: Mark Carney Just Shut Down All Trade Talks With Trump — Until Washington “Stabilizes” open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

And when the colossal mound of shit dries and hardens we can name it Mount Trump

I’m unflinching in my belief in the right to strike but there surely has to be a line when it comes to cancelling people’s chemotherapy and radiotherapy. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy. #BarackObama

Met police agree to pay £7,500 to woman arrested over Gaza protest placard Exclusive: Force to pay damages to Aisha Jung, who was put into a police van and held until 4am www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What a dirty cunt. The worst human from Scotland gave birth to a paedophile www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Inequality of wealth and power has hit crisis levels, and is at the root of the #climatecrisis. Time to #TaxTheSuperRich www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... #TaxTheRich

Zionist’s TALIBAN. Israeli ISIS.

Never A Fan Of Kiss or Chump.....

Beautiful

TRUMP AND ELON HAVE STOLEN BILLIONS STOP GENOCIDE TAX BILLIONAIRES!!! STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS ELON GTFOH!!! CC THE BRUTAL BRAND NEW MISERY INDEX CC THE APARTHEID BILLIONAIRE JIGSAW CREEP STATE

Tis' the Season 🎅🔭

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Freakin Chump.......