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Becky Saletan

@beckela.bsky.social
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Editorial director, Riverhead Books. Activist, Indivisible Harlem.

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Errol Louis @errollouis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
While a number of political leaders have pledged support for Mamdani, a significant faction is in full panic at the idea of a young Muslim democratic socialist taking control of City Hall without its help or permission. My latest in @nymag.com
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Who’s Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
The panic within the city Establishment is overblown.
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
As always, the crystal clarity we need, right when we most need it. Thank you @mashagessen.bsky.social
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
So mad I forgot to include her numbers! (212) 688-6262 (202) 224-4451
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Lander is a good egg
As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”
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Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on a bold, hard-fought win. New Yorkers want leaders who challenge the status quo. I look forward to working with him to make our city more affordable, equitable, and just—for everyone who calls it home.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“Protest is the new brunch”— a friend back in 2016
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Evidently a prank (just checked). And a good one!
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“We encourage people of color and ethnic groups to sign up for maximum perception control.” That is some serious Orwell shit.
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Yes here we are again, @indvsblharlem.bsky.social stomping for @nywfp.bsky.social and the excellent #RankTheSlate candidates for mayor. It’s a month to the primary, 3 weeks till early voting. Get your dance cards ready for these 4 — +1 more? (But #NoMoCuomo!)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/05/2025
I’m on the Senate floor right now urging my colleagues to vote no on the GENIUS Act. There is no excuse for Congress to pass a crypto bill that will turbocharge Trump’s corruption and undermine national security, consumer protection, and our financial stability.
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Senator Warren remarks on GENIUS Act
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hitting the Columbia greenmarket bright and early with @indvsblharlem.bsky.social for @nywfp.bsky.social and #RankTheSlate! Lots of great energy (but not for C***o)!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/05/2025
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social is right. The GENIUS Act, without serious fixes, rubber-stamps the President’s corruption. Democrats should not be helping the President cash in.
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Sophie EG @egsophie.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Too many New Yorkers are under the impression that Cuomo would stand up to Trump because he, too, is a blustering, abusive person. But in reality, Cuomo is being backed by Trump donors. Trump recently said he likes him. Cuomo has avoided criticizing Trump or his authoritarian takeover.
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Fantastic morning talking to voters at the Morningside Park Greenmarket about the @workingfamilies.org mayoral slate with fellow @indvsblharlem.bsky.social members. Lots of interest in #RankTheVote and lots of anti-Cuomo sentiment!
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Every administration official should be grilled like this, every time. Think like you're creating a record for future Nuremberg Trials. youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...
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Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hey New Yorkers, Montana (of all places) has a reverse IDC! Some of us were just talking about how we need this in Congress. www.hcn.org/articles/a-n... @juliegoldberg.bsky.social @beckela.bsky.social @gabriellers.bsky.social @inwoodactivist.bsky.social
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A new Montana majority defangs the far right - High Country News
Disaffected Republicans and resurgent Democrats just took over the Montana Legislature and spent big on education and health care.
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My @indvsblharlem.bsky.social friends and I had a great time today talking to Harlem voters about the upcoming NYC mayor’s race, #RankedChoiceVoting and the @workingfamilies.org slate. Oh and #DontRankCuomo!
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Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Few writers have nailed the interpersonal thriller better than @katiekitamura.bsky.social." (@nytimes.com) The day is finally here — AUDITION is OUT NOW! Start reading the novel "worthy of a standing ovation" (@peoplemag.bsky.social) today: bit.ly/3XdCjYn
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Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
👏 HUUUUUUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of THE EMPUSIUM by Olga Tokarczuk, for being a @penamerica.bsky.social Translation Prize Finalist!!! 👏
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
From Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos to the Australian MMA coach to the El Salvador gulag, we see the cruelty, stupidity & lawlessness of Trump’s war on immigrants. The immigration issue can’t be ducked. It’s the beating heart of Trumpism. Confronting Trumpism means defending immigrants & immigration.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
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Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#HandsOff Great Barrington MA
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Max Rivlin-Nadler @maxrn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My favorites: CUCK: Cuomo Upset? Could be Kool! ACHOO: Andrew Cuomo? Have Other Options GROPER: Go Reject Old Perverts Evading Responsibility But honestly, these are all gold. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-n...
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New Anti-Cuomo Acronyms to Feed the DREAM
Changing political times call for changing political slogans. Hell Gate is here to help.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
With tariffs, Trump is trading a strong economy for one run on loyalty and retribution. Tariffs scale his weaponization of government across the entire economy, with waivers for loyalists. But history shows that an economy run on favors is ultimately a poor one. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s tariffs give him a new way to dole out reward and punishment
The president's latest power grab will devastate America's economy—and its democracy.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My statement on today’s announcement by our disgraced Mayor.
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M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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Empire State Indivisible @esindivisible.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you @booker.senate.gov. Now let us all go get in good trouble.
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Best April Fools ever! Maybe @riverheadbooks.bsky.social should go all type/solid background on this one!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/03/2025
Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you. So much for lowering costs.
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Empire State Indivisible @esindivisible.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“…what (Schumer) did is aid this administration…to dismantle our government…” Empire State Indivisible Co-leader Shannon Stagman on Inside City Hall lays out why Senator Schumer’s support of the GOP spending bill is a “betrayal” & why we call on him to step aside as U.S. Senate Minority Leader. ⏬
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New York progressive org asks Schumer to step down from leadership role
Shannon Stagman joined “Inside City Hall.”
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…
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Empire State Indivisible @esindivisible.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Today we said NO CUTS! NO CUTS to Medicaid. NO CUTS to SNAP. NO CUTS to healthcare. NO CUTS to education. NO CUTS to housing. NO CUTS to USAID NO CUTS to disability benefits. NO CUTS to child care. NO CUTS to workers. NO CUTS to our communities! And certainly NO TAX CUTS for billionaires!
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Empire State Indivisible @esindivisible.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2025 Empire State Indivisible calls on Senator Chuck Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader Cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @indivisible.org 1/
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Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Part of my survival strategy rn is always to have my head in a book from another century but they have a sneaky way of commenting on the present. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
These rights are not conditional. They are fundamental. And when they are violated for one person, they are threatened for all of us. We uphold the Constitution. That is why we speak up.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/03/2025
Click here to be connected with your Democratic senator. 👇
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CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power. Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
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Empire State Indivisible @esindivisible.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚀JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT JOINT MEETING! With Indivisible Harlem, Inwood Indivisible & Markers for Democracy. On Monday, March 31st at 7pm on zoom. We hope to see you. www.mobilize.us/indivisibleh...
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JOINT MEETING: ESI, IH, InIn, & MFD! · Indivisible Harlem
## Join Empire State Indivisible, Indivisible Harlem, Inwood Indivisible, & Markers for Democracy for a meeting of all of our groups to strategize, organize, and socialize! _NOTE: If you are running...
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Empire State Indivisible @esindivisible.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
On Monday, our joint meeting w/ Indivisible Harlem, Inwood Indivisible & Markers for Democracy was packed. We don’t need to hear trump’s speech to know that we must hold our elected leaders to account to protect our communities from his agenda. Here’s a🧵of how you can join us to hold to account!
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please don't say that no one is doing anything. We're waiting for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to catch up with their constituents.
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