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Indivisible LES/Lower Manhattan, NYC @indivisible-les.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some of our members giving out information about early voting this week! They also helped folks check their registration status, register to vote, and find their polling places! We'll be outside Tompkins Sq Park on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays throughout October! #VoteEarly #NYC

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Grand Street Democrats @grandstreetdems.nyc · 08/10/2026

Please join us on Thurs. Oct. 15 at 7:00 pm in the Seward Park Community Room (266 E. Broadway) for our monthly general meeting. Both Assemblymember Grace Lee and AD65 candidate Illapa Sairitupac will join us along with representatives from the Lower East Side Business Improvement District.

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GSD General Meeting October 15th. Open for Ballot Proposal Info

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The voting is now open in the Lower East Side's first ever kids' "I VOTED" sticker contest. The jury selected nine finalists from over 110 amazing entries. Anyone worldwide can vote for their favorites. Check out the amazing array of local talent and make your voice heard! bit.ly/IVotedStickerAD65

Vote for your favorite "I VOTED" sticker!
Sticker voting is open through midnight on Oct. 16

The graphic depicts three kids: on the left, an Asian kid on whose T-shirt are the letters "LES"; in the middle is a White kid with a striped shirt, and on the right is an African-American girl with a topshirt and her hair in a bun.

Below all three is a table with the nine finalists in the sticker contest.

On the right side of the image is a QR code that links to the contest voting platform.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's just a few days left for kids to submit their designs in the 2026 Lower East Side Kids' "I VOTED" Sticker Contest! Winning stickers will be chosen in grades 3-7 and 8-12 and distributed outside one of the local early voting sites. Entries can be submitted until midnight Thurs. Sept. 24!

"I VOTED" Student Sticker Design Conetest
Deadline Sept. 24th
Grades 3-12 may submit!
more information at bit.ly/IVotedStickerAD65
Nonpartisan! Fun! Get Drawing Now!

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thanks to Cat Cullen for helping register voters at today's 2nd Annual Carnival del Pueblo Dominican Heritage Celebration! Thank you to @chrismartenyc.bsky.social and Grauven Olivares for organizing and sponsoring this neighborhood festival.

Two people sit behind a table ready to help neighbors register to vote. A sign in front of the table notes the date of the midterm election (Nov. 3) and the fact that 16- and 17-year olds can pre-register to vote. Behind them is the flag of the Dominican Republic.

Dominican folklorico dancers in front of Gybram B y su Swing band.

Traditional Dominican devils make a special appearance on the Lower East Side. Four figures in elaborate costumes decorated with feather-like flags including those of the Dominican Republic and Brazil. The second figure from the left has an elaborate headdress of imitation bull horns while the third has a headdress of multicolored balloons. On the far left behind them is a large flag of the Dominican Republic.

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Indivisible LES/Lower Manhattan, NYC @indivisible-les.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some of our members spent the weekend @henrystreet.bsky.social Abrons Art Center working to Get Out the Vote and talk to the community about our upcoming #ElectionProtection workshop (Aug 20) Are you registered to vote? #NYC #NYCvotes

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

interesting to see the tone of this coverage and response in the context of people losing SNAP and healthcare benefits due to increased recertification/eligibility paperwork burdens

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/07/2026

Nicholas knows this but to put a fine point on it: to assuage and exploit the insecurities of people who weren’t successful but won’t blame themselves.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.

More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.

As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 02/07/2026

we should have hung lee

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

at some point it’s just adopting prime ministers and feeding them to the cat

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Below is a really fantastic and accessible overview of how property taxes manifest across NYC.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 13/06/2026

Yeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...

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In Rare Move, D.S.A Rebukes Mamdani Over Police Plans

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Universal Childcare Now @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When you call your senator's office and it just rings and rings and rings, just remember they're busy posing for national seersucker day with their pals who are locking up little babies in disease-ridden camps and shooting mothers dead in the street.

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Kirsten Gillibrand is one of 23 Senate Democrats who felt Sean Duffy was qualified to serve as Secretary of Transportation and voted in favor of his confirmation.

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U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If we don’t have the moral clarity to see second-tier villains like Giuliani as they are — the ones who have spent their considerable power and social credit propping up monsters — how will we ever deal with the thousands of garden-variety sociopaths in the third tier, e.g., every MAGA legislator?

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Dan Goldman is quick to express outrage over the weaponization of Federal agencies when the target is someone in his social circle. When it was students being abducted from their dorm rooms his reaction was "let's let this play out in the courts."

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Congressman Dan Goldman Virtual Town Hall

YouTube video by Congressman Dan Goldman

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Oh well! www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup...

Partial screen capture of PAC donations from Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, name checked in Mamdani's video as the owner of a $238 million New York City penthouse.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I call this "the Andrew Cuomo maxim".

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I saw this several years ago when we were planning a trip and it really is worth a watch.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🥳🥳🥳

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Danielle Welch has stepped up to primary Tom Suozzi, who recently voted in favor of deporting folks without due process (HR1958). She's a public defender offering folks in #NY03 a better alternative.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Nowhere in this article is mention made that the American Institute of Architects awarded Shalom Baranes Fellow status or that the organization has made no effort at disciplinary action against him.

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President Trump’s Ballroom Architect, Roasting in the Hot Seat

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Also imagine if Andrew Cuomo had somehow won the election in NYC. There would be a major ICE operation running full tilt with Cuomo saying there was nothing he could do about it

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired. Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The lesson the NY Times should learn from this reporting is that the White House lies--all the time. That their reporters and editors fail to learn this lesson demonstrates that they cannot be relied on to accurately collect and sort the information citizens need to make smart decisions.

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White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

There's a lot going on today but, as regards the debates over the ACA, this shouldn't get lost in the mix.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

As a dual-citizen Italian-American I recognize Andrew Cuomo's gutter racism as an extension of the same racism my family faced after arriving in the U.S. I just called Senators Gillibrand (212/688-6262) and Schumer (212/486-4430) to ask if they also question dual-citizens' loyalty to the U.S.

"The Unrestricted Dumping Ground" racist cartoon depicting incoming Italian immigrants as thieving rats.

Racist cartoon from The Mascot, a popular newspaper published in New Orleans noting that the proper way to deal with the Italian population is to arrest them and drown them at sea.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dan Goldman, TV Lawyer, can't make a declarative statement that serial sexual harassment is disqualifying for public office.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

What a fantastic and effective message. It centers the humanity of trans New Yorkers, it reminds us of the debt we owe for not adequately supporting those that came before us, and clearly identifies steps we can take in the short term to provide that support to current and future generations.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This took less than two minutes and the person answering the call seemed to genuinely register the positive comment. My impression is that they are tallying feedback.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Looking forward to all the titans of industry and "respected leaders" calling out the Republican party's attack on New York City. @nybuildingcongress.bsky.social, the ball is in your court.

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

One concrete thing folks can do that are outraged by this is to call @governor.ny.gov Hochul at 518-474-8390 and demand she recall the legislature to pass the New York for All Act (A3506/S2235) that would prevent state and local agencies across the state from coordinating with ICE.

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Take Action: New York for All - NYC, Long Island, New York State | New York Immigration Coalition - Revision

Help Us Pass New York for All

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It sounds like there's really no need then to for Democrats to participate in budget negotiations if the President can nullify any agreement he wants after the fact. @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should pull their caucuses away and let the Republicans pass their budget.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2025

I don't know how to make it clearer to Dems that the more you waffle on this and invite debate, the more it's a political vulnerability. The more Dems equivocate the more they invite these types of heinous ads. You either stand up for trans folks proudly or you get hit with these ads.

Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by Terry Schilling (@Schilling1776) attacking Rep. Mikie Sherrill. The post claims she wants to protect “violent They/Them trans radicals instead of your children,” followed by questions: “How many more innocent school children by trans radicals? How many more Charlie Kirk’s?” The attached video still shows Mikie Sherrill’s face with large red glitch-text reading “THEY / THEM INSTEAD OF YOUR CHILDREN.” A reply from user Dex (@NbcuniDex) says, “this shoulda been a midterm ad,” to which Schilling responds, “My friend. Plans have been made.” Timestamp: 9:46 PM, Sept 25, 2025, with 25 views.

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce New York’s involvement in the initiative on Thursday morning. The effort is similar to the West Coast Health Alliance — a bloc of four Democratic-controlled Western states, including California — that issued its own vaccine guidance this week.

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New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trump’s Policies

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Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Coming soon in the Chronicle: "Len Gutkin's exclusive dialogue with Secretary Linda MacMahon on the pros and cons of faculty being rendered without trial to El Salvador's CECOT or merely detained indefinitely in Alligator Alcatraz."

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