Zohran seems to be making moves to avoid expending political capital but this is definitely making me wary. Meanwhile he's also meeting with Trump? hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-dodg...

I assume this will get the same amount of attention as Jussie Smollet, right?

"In any other administration, at any other time in American history, this level of corruption would be a political disaster — a scandal that could bring down the administration. For the Trump administration, it is a Tuesday."

Another lesson Alice taught me: interdependence > independence

Violence against clinics has been on the rise since the end of Roe. Yet one of Trump's first acts was to pardon two dozen anti-abortion extremists and direct the DOJ to no longer enforce the FACE Act—the federal law that prohibits violence against clinics. jessica.substack.com/p/god-demand...

I think Elizabeth Warren would've been a great president.

politicians and executives know that unnecessary everyday chemicals are leading to death and suffering for millions of us with loved ones who get cancer and parkinson’s. journalists don’t treat it as an urgent “public safety” issue like they treat shoplifting by poor people.

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

Long-term suspensions dropped considerably. But Black students and those with disabilities are still disproportionately suspended in NYC schools.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

There’s a decent number of people who seem to judge success for Dems as their ability to piss off progressives. I’m obviously biased but this seems flawed

Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

Call for Art via @justseeds.bsky.social: Abolish ICE / ICE Out of Everywhere. The deadline to submit work is Thursday, November 20, 2025. justseeds.org/call-for-art...

I regularly think about how supposedly serious people anointed this man the future of the Democratic party www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

a lot of our press and political sphere horribly over accounted for how right wing they think everything is or will get or remain (and as such needs them to be) and they look bought as fuck but i'm excited for the future bc more and more people can tell

I wish her the best in private life

OK, I have a day long convening today so gotta bounce. If you live in NYC, don't stop organizing. This is a beginning and each of us needs to work with others to bring about a better city that actually works for all of us. I'm looking forward to continuing to focus on our libraries & more.

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

One key way I believe @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social‘s win will be different from Obama’s win is that Zohran (and the organized left) understand that we have to stay organized and fighting to make his campaign promises a reality

NYC voters turned out in record numbers in support of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org and an ambitious working class agenda. Now the elites will do everything they can to stop us dead in our tracks. We can’t let them.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

As bad as it must feel to sell your soul for power, selling your soul and getting nothing in return... Lmao lol

The last New York City mayoral candidate to secure over 1 million votes was John Lindsay in 1969. Zohran Mamdani will be the seventh New York City mayor ever to receive more than 1 million votes.

many of the worst people in the world are having a Bad Time right now, and for that i am thankful

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

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

Bittersweet to have to retire this classic headline from the onion

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

"Thus the paper’s entire opinion section has taken on the discomforting character of a drunken middle-aged man trying to hit on a self-possessed college student by lecturing her on why she shouldn’t believe all the communist crap they teach in school." www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

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

New at @thenation.com I trace Nick Fuentes' half-decade campaign to push the MAGA envelope, dragging the conservative movement kicking and streaming closer towards outright neo-fascism www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Does no one ask what Yglesias's "political expertise" is based on? What has he DONE? Has he run a campaign? Has he worked on specific policy change? Has he run a general organizing campaign to pass any legislation? Has he been part of a community-based organization? What's the source of expertise?

Cuomo would hand the city over to the fascists at the Federal level. THAT's what he means when he says only he can stop them... Hope some who are acting ridiculous use your brains.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Sherrill is barely out polling a terrible GOP candidate in NEW JERSEY and we have to hear from these people consistently that "moderates" are who the public clamors for...

People in KY seem to like their Dem Governor and he's not throwing everyone under the bus. Why aren't the very serious people flocking to him to ask what his secret is?

I would have a lot more faith in Ezra Klein's analysis if he showed more curiosity toward members of the left that could challenge his conclusions. Talk to Andy Beshear, talk to Zohran's campaign manager, talk to tenant organizers and climate organizers in Florida and other red states.

What's deeply frustrating is THIS IS ALWAYS WHO HE WAS and some of us were begging people not to be bamboozled during the height of COVID in 2020.

#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712...

On #DiadelosMuertos the UFW wants to honor the martyrs of La Causa who gave us the most precious gift they possessed — their very lives. Nan, Nagi, Juan, Rufino, and René are very special human beings. We will never let the sacrifice they made for us be forgotten.

Neither Douthat nor the New York Times is actually concerned with helping Democrats win. It’s not a mistake, it’s a con.

👇🏿NEVER FORGET👇🏿

This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.