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New Yorkers deserve better than a disgraced sex pest for mayor.

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Alicia Stoller @aliciastoller.bsky.social · 13h
A reminder that babies cannot be vaccinated against measles until they are 12-15 months old. Ensuring that your own vaccine is still effective protects you and it protects babies!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We serve everybody. Policymakers can afford to skip the library [+ don't think abt what] other ppl are doing inside: getting respite from the 🥵 or 🥶, using the 🚽, occupying their kid for a half-hr, applying for a job, resting. It’s 🌏-making work + the people that we make those worlds for matter."
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say.
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation" -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...
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'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
Immigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.
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Universal Childcare Now @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sean O’Brien is such a little turd
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Marshall cosponsored the National Right to Work Act and has a 14% lifetime voting score for the AFL-CIO aflcio.org/scorecard/le...
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Sen. Roger Marshall | AFL-CIO
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
School music programs are getting absolutely bodied by tariffs, per @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
The effective tariff rate on instruments in June was about 13 percent, said Cullen Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That was down from a peak of nearly 24 percent last September but more than twice as high as before Mr. Trump’s second term.
Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest, he said. In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50 percent. Brass instruments fell 43 percent.

“It’s hitting the horns, it’s hitting the strings, it’s hitting the percussion,” Mr. Hendrix said. “All of those things combined are kind of sapping the available pool of tools that we can provide these children to begin their journey.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Casey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I will once again note that this fella was held up by Cuomo’s camp as a bold truth-seeker when the boss was on the ropes five years ago.
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The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 02/10/2026
oh shi
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 01/10/2026
Thank you @actionlabny.bsky.social for inviting my colleagues and I to the NYS Childcare Alignment Table. This powerful event convened childcare providers, workers, parents, and unions to align on a vision for universal childcare that includes dignified wages and workplace conditions!
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the judge rules in the landlords' favor, his decision could upend the rent freeze for around 2 million New Yorkers who live in rent-stabilized apartments—and knock down one of Mamdani's key achievements. But it's not the RGB's first rodeo. hellgatenyc.com/rent-freeze-...
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The Rent Freeze Starts Thursday. Landlords Think a Search of Mamdani's Texts Could Overturn It
The landlords allege the rent freeze was predetermined by the mayor and his allies, and are asking the judge to nullify it.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Park Slope Food Coop news, a bit more than 1% of the members left after it adopted the BDS resolution and because there's a 3,000 person wait list to join there was no effect on the finances
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I also keep thinking about how 57 sets of parents failed to raise good sons.
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Brooklyn Can't Wait coalition’s goal is not just to unseat the current party chair, it is to build a party that listens to voters and fights Republicans. Changing the rules to override the voters, handpick a successor, and keep the same clique of insiders in control would takes us backwards.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tragic. “”None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The learning curve among doctors, he said, is “very steep.””
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.
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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool
The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.
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Universal Childcare Now @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The glowing profiles may not mention these things but the centrist pundits and operatives who adore him do so not in spite of but because of how he governed Chicago with brutality, neglect, and pure disdain.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"One meticulous study of a New York school outbreak in 1974 found that a second-grader with measles infected 28 other students in 14 classrooms because measles can spread through ventilation systems."
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Crazy that Big media reporters and pundits aren't doing their homework before churning out these Rahm features. They should be talking to people like Heather Cherone, a respected Chicago reporter who knows a thing or two about Rahm's terms as Mayor.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026
Mamdani was out there racking up photo ops with prime ministers like he was collecting pokemon.
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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sometimes i think about how google launched these major "art and culture" partnerships with archives and museums all over the world, which supporting large scale scanning, digitization, cultural access. and then it all just got dumped into their proprietary ai chum bucket
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a god-awful headline to describe the situation. Only Rodneyse and Frank were going to lose power. The reformers were about to gain it. They’re all Democrats in a county party - not just the ones who are trying to steal power
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Universal Childcare Now @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I used to work for someone with signs of dementia and he was being particularly belligerent I would just distract him by bringing up something I knew he loved to talk about and it always worked 🤷‍♀️
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The tri-state region has its eyes on this season’s first nor'easter. John Davitt, chief meteorologist for @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social, tells us about the conditions to expect, what makes it a "nor’easter," and how to prepare. Listen: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
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How to Prepare for the Nor’easter | WNYC
The tri-state region has its eyes on this season’s first nor'easter.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nikole Hannah Jones will be interviewed by her daughter for an episode of “This American Life” airing on September 27 at 7pm CT
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The Argument - This American Life
Ten years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote an essay about her decision to send her daughter to a segregated, low-income school. The essay was influential on parents and policymakers, and Nikole spent a ...
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026
Samantha Rijkers, Campaign Director for Rep Your Block. You can sign up to be a county committee member through Rep Your Block here: www.repyourblock.com I did that! Was proud to try! But at the meeting, Bichotte Hermelyn's faction invalidated my appointment (and those of a bunch of others).
Samantha Rijkers, Campaign Director for Rep Your Block, holding up a sign reading "Back off Bichotte Heremelyn." Person behind her is holding a sign reading "Defend Democracy / No Trumpian Power Grabs for Brooklyn Dems"
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026
The @newkingsdems.bsky.social held a rally before the meeting with @jumaane.bsky.social and other Brooklyn electeds. Highly recommend following the @newkingsdems.bsky.social if you care about reforming the Brooklyn Democratic Party.
Jumaane Williams speaks before New Kings Democrats and other reformers. People are holding signs like "Back off Bichotte Hermelyn" and "No Kings for Dems"
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026
This Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee meeting was an anti-democratic disgrace. Shame on the leaders of the party, who ignored legitimate questions from reformers, tried to get the cops to eject people, insulted dissenters, and pushed through Bichotte-Hermelyn's power grab. 📷🧵
Rob Robinson, Anthony Beckford, Renee Collymore, and Alan Rokoff presiding over the Brooklyn Democrats meeting. Banner on their table reads "Brooklyn Democrats / Kings County Democratic County Committee"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026
The committee that makes up the Brooklyn Democratic Party held a chaotic meeting Wednesday to elect its leadership team using controversial new voting rules, as an appeals court deliberated on the legality of their actions mere blocks away. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've seen it myself at 201 Varick Street where, at Miller’s directive, young children are separated from their families, denied lawyers, and pushed toward deportation. Next Congress, we must — we will — hold Miller and his cronies accountable for these illegal, barbaric acts of cruelty.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In news that will surprise no one, Stephen Miller is the driving force behind unprecedented mass detentions & deportations of immigrant children. This administration operates without any regard for the rule of law or the humanity of these kids.
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Driverless cars would be great for seniors in rural communities, for example. But tech companies aren't going to make a lot of money catering to those people. The money is only going to be made in cities and by catering to wealthy people. That will most certainly come at the expense of transit.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
$131.5 million: the largest labor settlement in NYC’s history — and the largest resulting from any law I authored (so far).
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‘We Screwed Up’: DoorDash to Pay $131.5 Million to Stiffed NYC Delivery Workers
The settlement is the largest of its kind in New York City history.
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