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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
the sister of the race science "academic" quoted by the New York Times in their shameless hit piece on Zohran Mamdani seems like a lovely person and is insisting her brother was never awarded his PhD and is just pretending to be a professional academic
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025
MY LATEST: SCOTUS's decisions in the book ban case (Mahmoud) and the porn case (Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton) are part of a larger effort to erase queer people from civic life. SCOTUS is basically speedrunning Project 2025's goal of sidelining queer folks and calling LGBTQ content "porn."
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SCOTUS Gives Project 2025 Two Big Anti-LGBTQ+ Wins
Analysis: The Court's decisions in Mahmoud v. Taylor and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton are part of the conservative legal movement's broader effort to shove queer people back in the closet.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I used to think of vice signaling as a minor point about political communication. now I wonder if we need to develop it as a core aspect of political theory, at least as far as the Americas are concerned
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. 

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. 

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. 

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- 
Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- 

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q:  They're not really. 

A: Those are like different genres. 

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. 

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
They're inventing lies about Mamdani not because they're afraid he's gonna be a bad mayor but because they're afraid he's gonna be a good one
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I’m a Jew who lived in NYC for a decade and decided to leave due to affordability issues. The idea that Zohran doesn’t take Jewish safety seriously is ridiculous and racist. It’s so harmful to conflate support for Jewish supremacy in Israel with concern for Jewish safety in the United States.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hey what do you know about this very obvious thing; do you think treating the very existence of a viable Muslim candidate as de facto antisemitic might be a white supremacist op, or www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
scientificamerican.com
The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews
Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends
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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 24/06/2025
Meta will pocket $15 billion from one new tax break in Trump's budget. "By the way, that is more than the federal government spends annually on childcare." - @warren.senate.gov
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue. The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected. If it looks big and serious, it is.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/06/2025
Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city. The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/border-immigrat...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I wrote about Zohran Mamdani and the revolt of the Democratic base. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zohran Mamdani has struck a blow to the Democratic party's passivity | Moira Donegan
Democrats’ actions have not matched the passions of its energized voters. You can only antagonize your base for so long
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
From @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social's Cup of Coffee newsletter this morning, the glorious dismantling of fascist chuds by the Durham Bulls social media. Fuck yeah, Durham. This is the way.
The Durham Bulls Twitter account posting about Pride Night and then demolishing all of the homophobes in the replies.The Durham Bulls Twitter account posting about Pride Night and then demolishing all of the homophobes in the replies.The Durham Bulls Twitter account posting about Pride Night and then demolishing all of the homophobes in the replies.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.
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Tropical Bird • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 26/06/2025
Black americans, for the millionth time, THIS IS OUR BUSINESS. some of our family members don’t have complete birth certificates, if any. should someone seek your ancestry before 1900 as proof of citizenship, you very well may be fucked.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Mamdani wins the primary with hearty support from the Jewish left, cross-endorses with Brad Lander, wins the Upper West Side, wins Dan Goldman's district, gets Jerry Nadler's endorsement The NYT:
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 26/06/2025
Women who reported former Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment expressed relief after hearing about his stunning election loss. “I said a prayer of gratitude because I just felt like it was poetic justice.”
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Women Who Alleged Harassment by Cuomo Celebrate ‘Poetic Justice’ of His Primary Defeat
Women who reported harassment express relief, after getting ensnared in the former governor’s costly legal gauntlet.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/06/2025
I'm so old I remember when Zohran Mamdani's policies were mainstream Democratic positions & not 'socialism' The party has been pulled so far right in Reagan's wake it views the simple idea of helping people as something to be suspicious of and hostile toward
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I wrote about shitty elites rallying behind a truly shitty elite in the NYC mayoral election and the promise and possibility of an ending. defector.com/andrew-cuomo...
defector.com
Andrew Cuomo Is A Future Of The Democratic Party | Defector
There is a specific and lacerating shame that comes with talking about New York City politics in places where people who do not live in New York City can hear you. This is not just because the people ...
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"Cuomo, in many ways, is a Democratic Trump: he is loud, vulgar, ill-informed, resentful, vengeful, contemptuous of his constituents, and accused of being abusive toward women," @moiradonegan.bsky.social writes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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With Andrew Cuomo, Democrats are doing a disastrous imitation of Trump | Moira Donegan
The former governor, now a New York City mayoral candidate, marks the party’s drift into boorishness and cruelty
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Why Mamdani-Cuomo in NYC is huge. A Dem gerontocracy is spending millions on consultants to find a "Joe Rogan of the left," but when a real-life candidate energizes Gen Z, party elites try to crush him The future is bleak for Dems if creepy Cuomo wins. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
inquirer.com
NYC race reveals what’s awful about elite Dems | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, how Trump is already threatening to ruin sports.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 24/06/2025
"[W]earables are key to the MAHA agenda...every American [using one[ within 4 years." So the MAHA/MAGA vision is total surveillance down to your personal biorhythms, and if you deviate you're not "healthy". Eugenics and tech going hand in hand w/ total survellance. Will Palantir hold that data? ‪
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"When people liked Cuomo’s press conferences, it felt fucked up for them not to know the truth. There were bodies being carried out of here left and right while people were complimenting this man on doing a good job." www.welcometohellworld.com/how-do-you-s...
welcometohellworld.com
How do you sleep at night?
LeVar “Var” Lawrence is a resident of Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, a public nursing home on Roosevelt Island in New York City. On March 13, 2020, as coronavirus spread through the cit...
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Our government is absolutely 100% doing an illegal war using the justification of WMDs that don't exist *again*, and this time, they're not even telling us. I feel fucking sick.
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David Lammy refuses to say if UK supported US strikes on Iran nuclear facilities
UK foreign secretary also sidesteps questions on legality of strikes and Donald Trump’s ‘regime change’ post
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/06/2025
💗 @bradlander.bsky.social
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/06/2025
Lander is great.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/06/2025
“This is just the beginning of the end—the beginning of the end of the US complicity and the genocide in Gaza, the US unconditional support to the genocidal state of Israel." Mahmoud Khalil, finally free, speaks out.
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Mahmoud Khalil, finally free, speaks out
"There isn't any shred of evidence that what I did or said is wrong," he told a rally near Columbia University celebrating his release from ICE.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 23/06/2025
Yeah, we should get rid of everybody who voted for his crypto bill!
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The purpose of representational democracy is to protect us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they king or oligarch. Everything else is wainscoting.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
black people: do NOT, under any circumstances, rank Cuomo. Clyburn has brought disaster before and he’s trying to do so again
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Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The dead have no rights so why should people be upset if the state uses their corpse to incubate a likely doomed pregnancy. That's Liz's take I need to go run into the mountains and scream brb
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Dave @davemn80.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."
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Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings
Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.
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Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I worked with @cbo.bsky.social on a piece about the return of zines. (Huge thank you to @prisonculture.bsky.social for insight on this one.) www.wired.com/story/zines-...
wired.com
Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 16/06/2025
if the fascist bootlickers and transphobes at the nyt don't want mamdani in power, that's an excellent reason to vote for him
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Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Am I the only one who remembers Cuomo gleefully siphoning off MTA funds for an upstate ski resort and that summer we had at least one train lose power including AC DURING A HEAT WAVE nearly killing hundreds of passengers!?! Cuomo couldnt have cared less being the cause of it all.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 16/06/2025
not the main point but it’s irresponsible, ahistorical for the NYT to claim “Rahm Emanuel oversaw educational progress in the 2010s.” This links to a study/press release on test scores from 09-14. He was elected in 11 and closed 50 CPS schools in 13, decimating Black and brown communities.
At his best, Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor from 2002 to 2013, used this approach. Houston's two mayors from 2010 through 2023, Annise Parker and Sylvester Turner, used to reduce homelessness sharply. In Chicago, Rahm Emanuel oversaw educational progress in the 2010s that was the mirror image of New York's regression. The current first-term mayors of Denver, Mike Johnston, and San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, have adopted similar pragmatism. It is possible to govern both liberally and successfully.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse
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We spent four days talking about Waymos but there were two political assassinations in MN and it’s crickets

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/06/2025
welp i’m officially down to back anyone primarying @congressmannion.bsky.social who has turned out to be a fascist collaborator. cc: @indivisibleononcty.bsky.social
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