Mamdani: We will transform City Hall from one of "no" to one of "how" "I was elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist"

I try not to get overly emotionally attached to politicians, and god knows I have criticisms of both Bernie and Mamdani, but this is a genuinely cool moment. Bernie passing on the torch.

"There will be Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge who will no longer have to contend with a politics of universalism and then makes them the exception" receives ovation.

In 1945 billionaires in the USA would have to pay 94% tax on almost all their earnings. In the UK it was 98%. We can tax rich people, the rich people have just decided we can't.

In Latin America, people’s movements are democracy’s last defence www.opendemocracy.net/en/latin-ame...

The new mayor of the largest city in the United States specifically mentioned in his inaugural address doing away with a politics of self-proclaimed universalism that makes Palestinians the exception.

thehill.com/opinion/whit... Trump blames others, but never himself, for America’s problems

Protect The Wild's New Year's Resolution

The liberal consensus for years was that Palestinians existed outside of liberalism and human rights frameworks and Mamdani, among others, are the byproduct of the underlying shifts in public opinion and the opinion of liberal institutions.

a politician able to use proper words and reasonably complex sentences instead of sounding like GenAI trying to communicate with primary school children

This 73 year old cartoon by Yuliy Ganf called "At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served," is as true today as it ever was.

Israeli forces’ systemic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian child prisoners amounts to arbitrary detention #nowaytotreatachild nwttac.dci-palestine.org/arbitrary_by... Write to your MP: No Way to Treat a Child

Unironically, America fuck yeah.

Labour, just like the Conservatives before them, want to make a British born citizen no longer British just because they disagree with her politics Even putting aside the obvious safeguarding and grooming issues, this should really scare you www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel is accusing these organisations, that work in Gaza, of having links to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad – without providing any evidence.

It feels like ages since we’ve heard anyone in elected office with any real command of the old American art of rhetoric. In my lifetime, I think Obama is probably the only other prominent example.

We need socially progressive success stories. Let’s hope he is one!!

Yes, but. It should support him & celebrate energetic, visionary young leaders. (That’d be a big step for Dem leadership.) But pol’s have to actually make their constituents lives better. If Mayor Mamdani pulls off big things in NYC he deserves a national leadership role. Let’s see what happens.

Exactly. Get big money out of our politics. I no longer donate to the DNC but rather to individual campaigns only, none of which are or ever will be Republican candidates.

And that new generation does not take AIPAC donations or any other corporate money. They disavow establishment/corporate Dems and the DNC who continue to push status quo candidates and politicians.

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party know that they are likely to be voted out of power in November 2026. The tools they are counting on to prevent this are the same ones being deployed by the largest technology companies: big data sets and vast computing power.

If you don’t like cold weather you’re going to hate the outlook. Europe is locked in for the foreseeable in height of winter with winter missing in 🇺🇸 is it finally Europe’s time to shine? I’m inclined to believe so.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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With local elections around the corner, voters should consider voting for candidates that stand for more than just ambition  | Nick Kemp

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

#OtD 1 Jan 1882 the Sarnmelpunkt der freisinnigen Deutschen (Meeting Place of Free Germans) was formally inaugurated in Buenos Aires. It was formed by German socialists as a mutual society. The group grew to 150 members and published a newspaper. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7701...

#OtD 1 Jan 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, not for anti-racism but simply to undermine Confederacy: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white & Black races" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8064...

Everything Streeting says subtly piles blame onto NHS staff. He never acknowledges the pressure staff work under due to chronic understaffing & underfunding. The subtle implication of what he says is that NHS staff go to work to harm patients rather than struggle to provide a service for patients

Change doesn’t happen overnight, but is a continuous process #HopeIsHere

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!! 🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!! TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Only 0.9% of pubs close despite economic pressures - is an alternative headline to this one bit.ly/3YEbpJP

When Labour dipshits go: the govt are complicit in genocide, it’s shit like this which very much shows you where they are at on the issue

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft. Know the truth.

It turns out that if everyone has to spend all their money on rent and electricity they don't have much money left for shopping.

This is what they’re comfortable doing on camera, not enough people internalizing that part.

Lush's soap most of the money from which goes to funding Medical Services for Palestinians in Gaza. Let everybody know.

Greta Thunberg should have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead of Trump's warmongering oil stealing puppet.

It’s considered bad manners to speak ill of the dead, so make sure that you post copious criticisms of Trump before he croaks. It’s what he would have wanted.

That boot is worn by the billionaires.

Crick in the Snow (Bannau Brycheiniog, Brecon Beacons), Wales, 2013, painting by Emma Cownie.

Good stuff from Zack! Please watch if you haven't already 🎄

"The real theft has been ongoing for decades: the United States and multinational oil companies extracting profit from Venezuelan natural resources under conditions of unequal exchange." The 47th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

#Longread The Metropole: Closer to a prison than a holiday for asylum seekers blackpool.thelead.uk/p/the-metrop...

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days. They are at serious risk of death. They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide. The Home Secretary must intervene.

If I were running for president I'd mention in every speech and debate that I intend to seize every asset owned by the Trump family and use it on restarting USAID and immigrant/asylum-seeker protection and naturalization programs, just to see if I can make that fucker so mad his head pops.