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Great points. The Democrats focus grouped empty platitudes and technocratic talking points couldn't be further from what voters respond to in this modern media environment.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

"Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel... The surge in complaints has been in part the work of a small group of pro-Israel actors" @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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So struck by the case Mamdani's triumph makes for the value of Africana/post-colonial studies. His moral vision & approach to politics clearly shaped by both lived experience as an African/S. Asian immigrant & by a theory of that experience—ideas central to his parents' work too ofc. Education, man

“Taxis will be replaced by camels”—baller Mayor Mamdani, please make this happen? @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Every Democratic mayor and governor should say this. Should have been said for months. ICE AGENTS will be held ACCOUNTABLE.

the cope, it's so beautiful

100 percent accurate

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide. The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists. Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

🚨REAL ESTATE ALERT!!🚨 UWS apt, possibly classic six but not sure, coming on market as huge moron skips town

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED

I wrote this in June and the disgusting way since then that Cuomo and the oligarchs have been willing to tear the social fabric of the city apart to stop him has only made it more true and Zohran’s victory more thunderous. Next we stop ICE.

What do I win if I hit the target?

Really really want all the people who vowed to leave town to keep their promise. Dozens of flights out every hour & the reno'ed LGA is really nice, some top tier coffee options etc.

This is beauty & truth

Truly wild sequence of nouns, verbs, & adjectives here

It's not "exclusively because of his background" though. It's because Mamdani supports both a populist economic agenda and Palestinian self-determination, and Schumer, like nearly all the elites in the party he leads, is owned—mind, body, and soul—by corporate donors and AIPAC.

Seems telling how instead of taking policy neutral lessons from Mamdani--e.g., people like big ideas, politicians who project integrity, retail politics still matters, etc.--centrists are bending themselves into pretzels trying to argue there is nothing to see here at all

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

... I think I can guess.

Wow. 2025 NYC mayoral turnout has already exceeded total 2021 turnout BEFORE NOON.

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

David Brooks has written many, many uninformed things about art, but equating Marcel Duchamp's 1917 "Fountain"—an ordinary urinal presented as a work of art—with Republicans praising Hitler in a group chat definitively qualifies him for a gold medal in stupidity www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

Again, it's encouraging to see middle-aged white men screaming in the faces of these thugs.

These agents told me repeatedly that my first amendment rights did not matter, all while not reading me my Miranda rights. I will be suing them.

this is the telling thing about all the billionaire hysteria they would literally rather set more money on fire propping up the most uncharismatic sex pest who ever lived than they’d pay in additional taxes these are not serious people

Just hearing the news. Can’t process. Rest in Peace to a mighty musical force

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

they are scum and anyone cooperating with them is complicit

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network.

We don't have to live like this

this is a GOOD speech

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

In Announcing Full Fascism, Questions Linger Whether This Could Have Been An Email

I know this is the old battle but the attempts to normalize this shit is exactly why it was good to yell at everyone involved with Tom Cotton's oped in 2020

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Every now & then a song corresponds so precisely to your personal tastes 'n' predilections that it feels like you dreamt it into existence. E.g. when the credits read "Skillibeng ft. Vybz Kartel & Françoise Hardy."

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle, p. 11

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

I am deeply honored to receive the endorsement of @bendthearc.bsky.social, , their first ever in a mayoral election. “We are really very excited about Zohran and his platform not in spite of our commitment to Jewish values but because of them.”

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