Great piece! On the money (pardon me🙏🏻), as always! I’m hopeful. 🫶NYC 🍎

I've been to New York many times, last time 2015 for obvious reasons. I miss it. I can feel this article.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

Love this! "That was when I decided to leave. I took a souvenir: my Daily News co-worker, who I married after we quit."

This is exceptional. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is a must read.

⬇️⬇️ “”Whether (his respect for New Yorkers) translates into policy remains to be seen, but it translated into votes — and, hopefully, into a cultural shift that that goes far beyond one politician.”

…New Yorkers paid the price in both freedom and in cash, as prices rose to reflect the white-collar crime economy. The New York I loved was vanishing. It was destroyed not in a day by the 9/11 attacks, but over years by post-9/11 greed: the soaring costs of rent, public services, entertainment...

“I want Mamdani to be the man they believe he is. I want New Yorkers to be the people they dream of being. I can picture a better world even if I am uncertain. I pack that vision away with my mementos too…because I want to keep it safe. What is New York’s past, if not possibility?” I love this.

Sarah nails the post-9/11 changes in NYC perfectly. "I still explored the city. But now subway signs told me to report on strangers, to view New Yorkers not with curiosity but suspicion. I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city."

Sums up my feelings about this election and New York, I lived there during 9/11, and the aftermath. I see the death of Cheney 🎉 and the win by Mamdani as a hopeful sign for this city I loved at the time and that yes, we can have good things.

"I learned the hard way, through Obama and 'The Squad' and every other charismatic sell-out, that actions matter more than words. Election Day is but a day. The structural stranglehold of the mafia state can undo the will of the people. When Mamdani is in office, I will judge him by his deeds."

"But mostly I want New Yorkers to get what’s theirs: affordable housing, accessible food, free transportation, and respect."

Wow, this line from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s latest really hits me where it hurts. “I know what it’s like to dream and what it’s like to be betrayed.”

New article! I wrote about Mamdani's win and the NYC I once lived in and loved: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

Senate Democratic Minority Leader Schumer’s decision not to endorse Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race “was driven in large part…by his self-conception as a guardian of Israel, something he considers a core part of his personal and political identity.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

People forgot what happened in the first term. A big reason why is that nearly all media outlets started paywalling their articles in 2021. Trump's Twitter account was also deleted in 2021, and scores of digital media outlets went under from 2021-2024 -- erasing recent history in the process.

THIS

We all have to stop worrying about legacy media and create/fund new sources. It’s not 1998 anymore, the emperor has no clothes.

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

"When you're a star, they let you do it." 🤞

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

The dangerous alliance between the criminal Kushner and Netanyahu families goes back decades. An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:

Trump believes New Yorkers have no choice in Cuomo becoming mayor because Cuomo is on the legal team representing Netanyahu against war crimes. They need him in the mayoral position, just like they needed Giuliani. Netanyahu is why Trump himself lacks choices in certain aspects of his life.

Get their thieving asses

Dick Cheney was a cruel bureaucrat who made corrupt institutions more abusive. Officials in those institutions then surrendered what was left of their morals to accommodate his evil vision. In time, those institutions became even more corrupt. What politicians say today will be revealing of the rot.

People like @sarahkendzior.bsky.social who writes an amazing substack: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

For anyone unclear on why this shutdown is still going, or why it’s not just affecting social services like SNAP but all the military branches too (which is unprecedented)

Yes, and an additional reminder that there are no "red" or "blue" states. There are only purple states. "Purple like a bruise," in the words of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Reminds me of Douglas Adams’ “Last Chance to See,” where he traveled around the world after creatures bound for extinction. The US can stop its own destruction, though. I think.

If you have not yet read Sarah Kendzior’s book ‘They Knew’ buy the book or borrow the book from your library. Just READ the book now ! I read it a few years ago and am going to re-read again. Give her a follow also.

From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.

In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides. Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

Sarah Kendzior has some interesting tidbits in The Last American Road Trip about Garland and his boss/mentor in the 1990's.

When I pointed out that, after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first thing Machado did was to thank Trump and request US military intervention toward the goal of regime change in Venezuela, my post went viral because people became furious with me. It was very clear where this was headed.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

Read www.powells.com/book/they-kn.... @sarahkendzior.bsky.social laid it all out years ago.

2023 - "The DOJ Industrial Propaganda Complex that emerges when any critique of Garland is made insists that justice is imminent. They bleat that Garland is merely 'dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s'. Which he is, in the word COMPLICIT. ...

My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil society institutions that should be resisting them. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/civi... #Palestine #Israel

This wins Halloween

This part is particular really spoke to me. The idea that we really haven't had a functioning for the majority of my adult life. It's something I find myself thinking about a lot these days.

Agents of the White Lodge (knowingly and unknowingly) ponder their next move. #TwinPeaks

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

For this quote alone, it merits inclusion:

‪ #Files 31 Days of #Halloween Oct 31st Sarah Kendzior — NYT bestselling author of THEY KNEW & other books @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and arguably the scariest person I know — recommends “731” (S3E10): “The episode most notable for the present crises is probably ‘731.’” Happy Halloween and thanks!

Getting my "Children of the Corn" Halloween house ready. This is only the beginning. He Who Walks Behind the Rows will be pleased!