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Mara Gay

@maragay.bsky.social
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American. Journalist. New York Times Opinion writer and MS Now political analyst.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How a Family of 5 Lives on $30,000 a Year in the Bronx www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @elizashapiro.bsky.social
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How a Family of 5 Lives on $30,000 a Year in the Bronx (Gift Article)
To help his family, Germel Younger has become a professional caregiver, but the pay barely covers their expenses.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“My goal has been to win..to win — to protect the Smithsonian — there were times I would fight, make clear what the red lines were. And there were other times I let things go.” Dr. Lonnie Bunch www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lovely piece abcnews.com/US/meet-new-...
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Meet the New York City chefs who kept Ground Zero workers fueled after the 9/11 attacks
In the weeks after the World Trade Center was destroyed, city chefs and thousands of New Yorkers banded together to help feed Ground Zero workers around the clock.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“I suspect that all they cared about was getting Wall Street reopened, and they didn’t give a damn about the health of the people down there.” - Congressman Jerry Nadler www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)
The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nice reminder of the inportance of local independent news, which has been gutted across America www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/n...
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Inside Mamdani’s Private Army of Public Influencers (Gift Article)
Zohran Mamdani is seen as a social media wizard. Some of his popularity stems from an influencer operation run by the mayor’s office.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Christian Women Say They’re Not Political. Their Living Rooms Disagree. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
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Opinion | The Political Power of Christian Kitsch (Gift Article)
Precious Moments figurines and Christian romance novels aren’t overtly political, but they shape how Christian women see themselves and the world.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/nationa...
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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
The autopsy report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts by law enforcement.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Truth and Reconciliation 2028
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.ms.now/morning-joe/...
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What Black Georgia voters think of Trump, Democrats and the DSA
New York Times opinion writer Mara Gay joins Morning Joe to share some of her discussions with Black Georgia voters for the latest installment of the NYT Opinion series talking to voters across the co...
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
More context newrepublic.com/article/2144...
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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What do Black voters in Georgia want? I went ahead and asked them www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | ‘I Just Want to See America Love Me’
In Georgia, Mara Gay sat down with Black voters to hear how they think America is doing — and what they make of the Democratic Party today. “Messy. All over the place,” Jarrett Willis, an entrepreneur...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And she won by a lot
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Notable that the same tactics were used on Black Americans and our allies during the Civil Rights Movement, and on Muslim Americans after 9/11 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is very funny www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
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Opinion | Gen Z-ers Dress Like They’ve Never Worn Clothes Before (Gift Article)
It used to be that you could tell goths from preps by the look of them.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is not great, folks www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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Trump Orders Pentagon to Curtail Military Exercises With Ally South Korea (Gift Article)
In a social media post, the president scolded South Korea for not helping denuclearize Iran, and also praised North Korea and its leader.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Bro is a term casually applied just as often to women these days, Mr. Mamdani’s colleagues emphasized, noting that the mayor refers to both men and women in his administration as ‘brother.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/n...
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Mamdani’s ‘Bro’ Culture in City Hall: Sports, Memes, Nicknames for All
As much as Zohran Mamdani’s team runs on leftist idealism and social media hits, its style of governing also relies on humor, sports references and pop culture.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2026
A man in Utah was indicted on a federal hate crime charge after he rode a scooter to a mall, bought a knife and repeatedly stabbed a Muslim man selling wares at a kiosk, the authorities said on Wednesday.
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Federal Hate Crime Charge Filed in Stabbing of Muslim Man in Utah
The attack left the victim with at least a dozen wounds as several bystanders rushed to intervene.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The @kentucker.bsky.social gives us the scoop on Kentucky-based Complaint Technologies, the electric glove company. The article has a link to a public demonstration of the gloves. I've added the video below.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Mamdani now wants to use thermal energy to cool and heat subway stations and city buildings. This would apparently involve capturing heat in “boreholes” 500-600 feet underground and installing a system of circulating pumps. Very nerdy. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-eye...
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New York City eyes first US transit thermal energy network to fight subway heat
NYC launches study to cool subway stations plagued by extreme heat. The congestion pricing-funded project would explore ways to lower platform temperatures and recycle excess heat.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We traveled to Georgia - with a diner booth - to talk to Black voters about their relationship with the Democratic Party. Many of the tired assumptions about what Black voters want are wrong. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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After Michigan Loss, AIPAC Weighs a Second Effort to Defeat El-Sayed (Gift Article)
The pro-Israel organization spent $32 million in an unsuccessful effort to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. It might try again in the general election.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A Black democratic socialist has won a primary in Detroit and the Grosse Pointe suburbs…. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary (Gift Article)
Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
really important conversation @maragay.bsky.social is on it
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Are Republicans going to let the Heritage Foundation destroy Head Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
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Ohio Senator Calls Former Son-in-Law Accused of Abuse Unfit for Office
Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio, broke his silence about allegations of domestic abuse his daughter has made against Representative Max Miller.
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Kathleen Rubenstein @kbrnyc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yes and Steve Banks, who also resigned and went on lead NYC's law department. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
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Top Pro Bono Leader Resigns from Paul Weiss, a Firm Hit in Trump’s Crackdown on Big Law (Published 2025)
Steven Banks, who once ran New York’s social services department, said he wanted to return to helping the homeless. He leaves within weeks of the elite firm striking a deal with President Trump.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
One point of contrast is Damian Williams - the first Black American to serve as attorney for the Southern District of New York - who quit Paul Weiss last year after the firm struck a deal with Trump.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A story of late-capitalism and cowardice www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
just a devastating dispatch from @nysfocus.com about the acceleration of kids having to argue for asylum alone, without an attorney, and then most of them getting deported nysfocus.com/2026/07/31/t...
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NY Lawyers Fear Trump Blitz Will Speed Up Child Deportations
The Trump administration is accelerating asylum proceedings as legal aid funding expires, leaving immigrant children less time to prepare.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Goodbye and thank you to Betye Saar, a giant and a favorite www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...
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Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 (Gift Article)
Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mamdani Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Criminal’ and Calls on U.S. to Arrest Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/n...
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Mamdani Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Criminal’ and Calls on U.S. to Arrest Him
Mayor Zohran Mamdani challenged the United States to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, which New York itself cannot do.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Americans are using oatmeal to stretch their food and dreaming about robbing grocery stores while Republicans use government to make their rich friends richer. There are many words for this. Like plunder. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (Gift Article)
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
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Opinion | The Second Home Tax Is a Win for New York (Gift Article)
The recent debate over the new pied-à-terre tax in the city offers a useful case study.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/07/2026
Rev. Ed King, one of the last surviving founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and a longtime ally of Black Mississippians throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, died on Saturday, July 4, at age 89.
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Vicksburg Native Rev. Ed King: Lifetime Civil-Rights Ally for Black Mississippians
Rev. Ed King, a longtime ally of Black Mississippians throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, died earlier this month at age 89.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/07/2026
The administration is keeping immigrant kids separated from parents for months and months, often only releasing them after courts intervene. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/07/2026
This is one of the more honest conversations I’ve seen on cable news in a while. Mara Gay explains why many voters are angry that their tax dollars are funding the war in Gaza while Americans struggle here at home. She argues it’s about what our government chooses to prioritize. 1/2
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are interviewing voters in battleground counties on camera, to understand what they want to see from politicians and from democracy itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/o...
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Opinion | ‘It’s Chaos’: What New York’s Suburbs Can Tell Us About the Mood of the Country (Gift Article)
The midterms are looming. We asked people in New York City’s suburbs how they feel about the state of America.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The cautious centrists and center-left politicians who have dominated the Democratic Party for so long have failed. Voters see this, which is why the uprising within the Democratic Party is unlikely to be contained. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Is Finally Getting the Reckoning It Deserves (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party needs shaking up.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Took a quick dip before the sharks return.
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“The British did not take it well,” Mayor Mamdani says in his Independence Day speech, maybe the most millennial language ever used to describe the American Revolution youtu.be/XcxRUkGAM-w
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Mayor Mamdani Delivers Address Marking America’s 250th Birthday
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2026
my essay this week was, icymi, on the people who wielded the declaration as a weapon against bondage (gift link)
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Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court is one vote away from undoing the 14th Amendment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record
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