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Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP

I don't want to talk too much, but between the rule breaking of the BK Dems in previous years, r/ banning talking about ZM, using shady rules to stop Fateh in MN, and many establishment Dems still not talking about the race, it's clear there is a lot of work ahead still.

I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network. A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.

. @brandonwestnyc.bsky.social—President of the Park Slope Food Coop and member of @bkcb6.bsky.social—presented a CB6 proclamation to Joe Holtz, founding member of the Coop, honoring 50 years of leadership. Joe’s legacy is a cornerstone of our great community. Thank you, Joe! 

I 💖 this headline. I 💖 @jfrejnyc.bsky.social I 💖 Hellgate.

GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

Lest you think white people can’t get the business too

UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator: “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”

Pretty much how I feel after reading anything about what Trump is doing at the global level.

At JFREJ, we make endorsements under the cheeky name The Jewish Vote. We're thrilled to announce that #TheJewishVote endorses Council Member @shahanafrombk.bsky.social for reelection in district 39! Join #JewsForShahana: add your name to a letter of support here! ➡ bit.ly/J4SLetter

I hate that I’m on Twitter more because the Mayor stuff is moving so fast and it’s all over there.

Musk’s team of DOGE incels will show up when the doors open on Monday to take over the government’s central accounting system. There needs to be vigorous pushback on the ground. I sincerely hope there will be. But let’s talk about protests for a second. 🧵

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

Audre Lorde’s powerful words “Despair is a tool of our enemies”. We were inspired by Audre Lorde’s words on our notebook collab with @prisonculture.bsky.social that raised funds for REBUILD a couple months ago. So we added another sticker to our #inspiringwomen series

He wants to create his own whites-only Dubai

Don't use identity politics as a justification for abandoning people who cant escape the rise of proto-fascism in the US.

Two conservative groups are targeting companies' DEI policies. Costco shareholders destroyed an anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR, voting 98-2 percent to uphold DEI initiatives. Now, 19 Republican attorneys general demanded Costco repeal its DEI policies, giving the company 30 days to respond.

Why is what’s happening in the MN legislature not even making a blip in the media?

When City Sponge presented to our @bkcb6.bsky.social Environmental Committee, we were impressed with their emphasis and eagerness to help renters who certainly deal with the flooding! 📸 cred to @brandonwestnyc.bsky.social again! More info @ thecitysponge.com

a tale of two cities... both of these districts were planned and built in the last 20 years. one has a ton of social housing. one has very little. one has open space. one has very little. the building heights? also similar... 6-10 stories.

While there is a clear reality that the organized left is drifting towards impotency in NY, this is not an inevitability. And this isn't reflected in many polls on the popularity of specific issues. This is an organizing challenge, frankly. But things are going to be much worse than 2016.

Whatever political response we have from a Trump administration, if the Dems maintain that the country is largely ok, and only needs small changes or reforms, the left will lose ground the far right and endanger all of our futures.

Yesterday I saw two things. One, people flaunting their ability to ignore or isolate themselves from current events, and two, people convinced they had all the ideas and wanted to create some new org or thing to fix everything. History has shown that both impulses have clear drawbacks.

Hey I called it

Seeing a HCBU show up at Trump's inauguration, and perform "Before I Let Go" to boot.

Thinking about this weekend, it’s clear to me that all impulses are to create a smaller community in times of crisis. I see people already doing it. You might be ok if you do that. But the only way to know for sure is we build the biggest community around us as possible. Solidarity forever.

In too many states, donors and organizers built infrastructure for one-off conversations instead of investing in issue campaigns that could have done more. inthesetimes.com/article/we-k...

When life is hard, and we choose to make our community smaller, we endanger us all and make us more vulnerable to fascism and a tumultuous future. When corporations make antidemocratic threats rather than change, they are choosing a corporate solidarity "community". www.salon.com/2024/08/14/e...

Bleak. “Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took,” Sergeant Livelsberger said in one of the notes, according to the police. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...

Bad things are happening with bird flu. We can all worry about how RFK or Trump will handle it, but the situation is beginning on Joe Biden's watch and we have not taken the same precautions as other countries. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A whole lot of folks were arrested at the state capitol in protests that led to this bill getting passed. Thank you to the organizers for their years of work!!!

I think we need to rebrand Kwanzaa.

Weirdest holiday season by far.

Such a sad state of affairs... "Inside ‘Sesame Street’ as it fights to survive---With a lucrative HBO deal ending, the show tackles emotional well-being and remakes itself to win over a new generation."

"When you enter Gaza, you are God": Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes / Prof. Yoel Elizur

Solidarity.

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

happy Spotify Wrapped day! I need your behavioral metadata, stop bogarting that behavioral metadata bro! I need to quantify where you are and how you’re feeling right now so I can feed you slop made in a death drone laboratory in Stockholm it’s all vibes bro, it’s all love bro

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

Mitch McConnell ran a playbook of total opposition after the 2008 election and it resulted in Republicans flipping 6 senate seats and 63 house seats two years after the biggest Dem victory since LBJ what the fuck are you people doing

"Study points to link between COVID and shingles, but more research is needed to understand the connection." Study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Source: archive.md/PpMtO

The New York Times Ignored Source’s Doubts About Hamas Docs Provided by Israel www.dropsitenews.com/p/new-york-t...

Fascinating murder data from the Real Time Crime Index: * NYC murders down 8% year-to-date * San Francisco down 37% * DC down 32% * Philadelphia down 41% * Atlanta down 10% * Baltimore down 28% * Detroit down 14% * New Orleans down 37% * Cleveland down 30% Etc. realtimecrimeindex.com

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.