Our friends Wings and Aji up in northern New Mexico need some help distributing grocery gift cards for people in their area who lost SNAP. I'm sending $50. I'm going to make and post a fruit or vegetable drawing of choice for the first 10 people who match my donation.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

I would encourage trans folks especially, but LGBTQ+ folks more broadly, to understand: We are going to *lose* (maybe even a lot) as cases move up to SCOTUS. *and* Every delay & pause, even temporary, is a win. And we will ultimately win. Care for yourself. Care for community. Keep organizing.

THE MAYOR-ELECT HAS OPENED A PORTAL

Fun fact: the art the NY Post used for the illustration of Mamdani is from a 1962 Soviet poster: Glory! to the Soviet People, the Pioneers of Space! by Vadim Volikov.

hi orion, i missed you

"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of a victim has ceased to become a victim: he or she becomes a threat." —James Baldwin

Africana Studies has taken over NYC and I literally love to see it

Steve and his crew killing the map game as always!

congratulations to cuomo's 13 (probably more) survivors on getting to watch this man get humiliated so thoroughly in front of the entire world yet again

City of Sickos

My brother, we are in City Hall now.

I do not think the era of Islamophobia or anti Arab racism is over but I do think this book ends a particular era of a particular kind of Democratic politics and opens up a new one

addressing trump: "to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

I don’t want your hope I want your ACTION

"in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light "whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community one of the many black women that donald trump who has fired from her job... your struggle is ours too"

We take care of PEOPLE And I learned that shit in NEW YORK CITY

Beating a guy in an election and quoting his dad in your victory speech is a FLEX.

And there will be free childcare for those kids!

My favorite gay club is playing Last Friday Night while Cuomo concedes on a giant screen… heaven is a place on earth

once more 🙂‍↕️

The NYC mayoral election was also a HUGE loss for racist "A.i." slop. Fuck that garbage forever.

roses are red big laughs are hearty

let this be a lesson that sexual predators can eat shit. we do not forget.

Mamdani campaign crosses the finish line with the flair and smarts that got it there.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

And that’s a resounding NO on putting sexual predators back into positions of power!

May the islamophobes who crawled out of the woodwork on both left and right cry hard tonight.

I don't like Curtis Sliwa and think his policies are awful but I respect his integrity, his love for NYC and his enduring, incandescent hatred of Andrew Cuomo.

according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race

Special champagne and sparkling cider sips to the two Mamdani volunteers who came to my place in East Harlem in FEBRUARY of 2025 and helped me get on board with Mamdani since the primary. You two made a difference, I got my two roomies and a parent to vote for Mamdani, too!

THEY'RE PLAYING NOT LIKE US AT THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN RALLY

THE PROPHESY HAS BEEN FULFILLED DAYENU

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

since all my dreams are coming true I fully expect to learn first thing tomorrow that james carville has retired

Thank you so much, NYC. Grateful for the new mayor and the community effort that supported him. Thank you to everyone who volunteered, donated, knocked on doors, phone banked, talked to friends, talked to strangers. Thank you so so much.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

I hope Cuomo is crying. I hope we get to see him crying.

Also a special toast to the blue neighborhoods of Northern Staten Island! I see you and I was really proud of the Mamdani volunteers in Staten! Couldn't have been easy work but this is your victory, too ❤️

You love to see it. Congrats to New Yorkers, especially Mamdani volunteers and workers!

[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this

*taps sign*

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

I hope Mamdani's victory speech is simply "AND STAY MAD, BITCH" *cue Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar*

A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti

NYC polls close in 10 minutes. nauseously optimistic.