What an honor to be included with this crew of strong, brilliant women in City&State's 2025 Women's Power 100! Congratulations to @leaderasc.bsky.social @lizkrueger.bsky.social @shelleybmayer.bsky.social @sengonzalezny.bsky.social @michellehinchey.bsky.social @juliasalazar.bsky.social.

So beautiful to see the community rally around those who are under threat; so infuriating that we have to do it, day after day. Monday night we rallied for two workers at Upstate hospital who were taken, Tuesday we came together for Jeremy & Rick. Let's make it stop! www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...

How on earth does this make us "great"? A family torn apart, a business shuttered, pillars of the community terrorized, all for what? Rick and Jeremy will lose everything they've built here, and we will lose them. If it can happen to them, it can happen to anyone. centralcurrent.org/before-the-d...

I met with a group of Israeli students last month. 1 asked why white people face so much discrimination in the US, another insisted Harris lost b/c she didn’t support Israel enough. They seemed more brainwashed than MAGA zealots. It was scary and sad, for a country with a rich intellectual history.

Onondaga County (NY) voters flipped the County legislature from a GOP supermajority to a Dem majority. Judge races spanning 6, mostly rural, counties, went heavily to Dems in a major change from the past. The Colossus has awakened - we just need to keep it awake!

Here in central NY the Rs are blaming Trump and their “brand” for big losses. They need to own the part every one of them has played in helping build that brand by refusing to hold the corrupt, cruel incompetents and would-be fascists accountable.

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

I'm seeing a massive efflorescence of anti-Zohran trolling in the last 24 hours and can only wonder whose big money is behind it. I hope NYC voters see right through it.

When a court has to order your government to follow the law and keep people from starving, and the ruling party would rather they starve... it is high time for a new government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Once again this DoJ shows itself to be undermining justice and twisting the legal system for its vindictive purposes. They are also inadvertently showcasing the courage & strength of AG James and her extraordinary generosity to her family. I stand with Tish.

Let me get this straight: Attorney General Tish James is being prosecuted for doing a kindness for her niece? I condemn this baseless act of retaliation, but isn't DOJ inadvertently lifting up a strong, courageous woman and showing the world how generous she is? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

You know why Mamdani has captivated so many voters? Because he doesn't do this wishy-washy doublespeak. Also "in advance of early voting"? That only leaves you a few hours.

New Yorkers! Get ready to vote! And if you need to register, there’s still time. Local elections matter. A lot. Here in Onondaga County the Legislature is sorely unrepresentative of our demographics and they manage almost $2b of your money. Please end the GOP supermajority.

The Guardian pulling no punches: Trump/GOP is using the shutdown to promote both "gangster weapons" and child malnutrition. America today.

Yesterday was also the 250th anniversary of the brutal British Navy bombardment of Falmouth, MA. They thought it would break the resistance, but it only made the patriots more resolved, and ultimately it helped end the siege of Boston. Resistance builds resistance! "No Kings" was powerful.

And they want to say WE are un-American? Every single person who ever served this country should be nauseated by this video.

Syracuse showing up today!

Vance doesn’t “want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke …is cause to ruin their lives.” But he’s fine with a country where showing up for an immigration hearing, school band, school pickup, or peaceful protest is cause to ruin many, many lives.

In 1991 I knew 3 families in Moscow. Each night a dad from 1 and a mom from another went out to the mass protests against the Soviet regime, rotating among the 6 adults. That way they knew the kids would still have at least 1 parent alive if the tanks came. We have no excuse for staying home.

I'm trying to work on legislation to promote the urban canopy, including non-living shade structures, as a public health and climate resiliency measure. Welcome any ideas for what that should look like.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

Banned Books Week! Still hoping the Gov will sign my Freedom To Read Act. The ALA tracked 821 censorship attempts in 2024, 3/4 of which originated with outside pressure groups. Only 4% came from library patrons and 16% from parents. We need to protect librarians and kids’ freedom to read.

I stand with Tish. She has been unflinching in pursuit of justice and defense of democratic values. This indictment serves neither. It is a sad day when the DOJ abandons its mandate and stoops to personal retribution. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

The argument: Trump is lucky that A.I. cap expenditures may =2% of GDP in 2025, masking the disasters his policies create. What's unspoken: ratepayers are on the hook for huge energy buildouts to support the AI boom. These will also boost GDP while making us poorer. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

“The whole thing of Trump bringing jobs back to America is completely running in reverse for us,” Allcott said. “It’s just killing us.” "He said employment at the plant ... has dropped from 152 to 113 people in recent months." www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Who enforces this? Can state AGs? Can individuals sue? Is there any way state legislatures can push enforcement?

Rode the beautiful Seneca Chief through Lock 24 and about 10 miles on the Erie Canal to mark the canal’s 200th anniversary.

🧵1/2 Every elected and law enforcement official, from village clerk, beat cop or local magistrate to Congress and SCOTUS, takes an oath to defend or support the Constitution. If they are not calling for impeachment of POTUS for declaring war on US citizens, ask them why.

We need a symbol of resistance. Something we can print/sew/knit/stamp, make into ribbons and tie it to every tree and lamppost. Wear as armbands. I'm not a graphic designer but I'd like to get the idea rolling. My opening suggestion is blue with gray stars (Union colors) with Lady Liberty's torch.

In Trump's America, masked men can break down your door and drag your children naked into the street without explanation, and our tax dollars reward them for it.

At a senior fair in the red part of my district last week, at least 100 people came to our table and nearly all were there to rage against the big ICE raid on a rural factory in the county. This all-out assault on human rights is backfiring among the base.

Thrilled to receive the 2025 Friend of World Language Award from the Language Educators of CNY. As a former Russian teacher I know how much dedication language teachers bring to their work and how profoundly important it is to help Americans learn to communicate across cultures.

Want to stop being called a Nazi? Stop acting like one. Your ICE sent 50 agents with masks, guns, dogs, to break into a factory in my district. Singled out the Hispanic workers, disappeared them into prisons or summarily deported them. How does that differ from the way Nazis treated Jews in the 30s?

Stephen Miller:”Our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities.” So…your ancestors were enslaved? And why do you hate cities so much? This guy lives in a deranged white supremacist fever dream. Mussolini would be proud.

YES! They are blatantly breaking the law and relying on how slowly challenges move through the courts. Victims are shackled, abused in detention centers, & deported before their lawyers even find them. They target not "violent criminals" but those pursuing legal paths, b/c they're easier to find.

They’re overlooking the likelihood that we may all need to speak Russian soon.

It’s great to cancel subscriptions to corrupt businesses. But what we really need is to cancel every single GOP elected official who doesn’t have the courage, patriotism or honor to stop this madness. They swore to defend the Constitution and they are all breaking their oaths.

Thank goodness other countries can still do political comedy about ours.

Genius

Charter schools are funded by taxpayers. This action amounts to a publicly funded political rally, staged to influence an election. At minimum they need to reimburse NYC and NYS for the cost of a day of instruction. abc7ny.com/post/rally-m...

I studied in the USSR in 1977 and then researched and taught about censorship and its impact on Soviet society. Here are some lessons from that experience. #1: RESIST. For now, they cannot silence all of us & don't yet have a network of informers everywhere, so being loud is our superpower.

So proud of my colleagues for standing up in this way.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

I choose to believe the flags are lowered today in memory of Robert Redford. RIP

YIMBYtown 2025 has been phenomenal. Learning now about the kinds of expertise we need for good transportation planning. Good, experienced engineers pay for themselves 5x in efficiency. But the real experts are the single moms with 3 kids who navigate broken transportation systems daily.

Our local Syracuse paper is really showing moral courage. Gives me hope in a time of general media cowardice. www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

It may be scary to do so, but now is the time to be louder than ever about what's really going on. If we stay silent out of fear of repercussions, we've already lost our right to speak. #beloudforamerica

"Historians say the lessons of this particular time will depend on Americans themselves, and what kind of a nation they want it to be." In the annals of vapid NYT subheadings, this (about the legacy of this latest assassination) has got to be up there near the top.

This is subscriber only, but I'll try to summarize: the US Attorney and every damn person in immigration enforcement couldn't care less about following the law. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

We should all be leaping to support Zohran. He knows how to inspire people to act - to speak up, volunteer, vote, - especially young people. That is rare & more important than experience, connections or focus-group messaging. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...